This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: NY Times
May 17, 2019
Referendums, rallies, a trip to Nicaragua — all were part of his effort to infuse left-wing activism into local politics.
Source: Washington Post
May 16, 2019
Many of these oral history collections are housed in presidential libraries or academic institutions and provide biographers with richly detailed firsthand accounts from which to reconstruct Oval Office narratives.
Source: Informed Comment
May 15, 2019
by Juan Cole
An informative look.
Source: The Atlantic
May 15, 2019
A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.
Source: NY Times
May 14, 2019
At the 150th anniversary of the golden spike ceremony on Friday, and at associated events held last week in Utah, thousands gathered to recognize a more complete picture of the monumental feat.
Source: NPR
May 13, 2019
City police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners.
Source: NY Times
May 13, 2019
“With this, we can give back some of their dignity to those who were murdered.”
Source: NY Times
May 11, 2019
As history has shown with the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, such investigations can gain legitimacy only when members of the president’s own party support them.
Source: Black Perspectives
May 10, 2019
by Adam H. Domby
The search engine functions to hide both slave ownership and enslaved people from the eyes of contemporary genealogists.
Source: NPR
May 10, 2019
"The world is changing much faster than I anticipated," he says.
Source: The Conversation
May 10, 2019
by Rut Diamint
The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the United States.
Source: Time
May 9, 2019
Three members of the Kennedy clan published a piece on Politico declaring that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—son of Bobby Kennedy—has been “tragically wrong” in his years-long crusade against vaccines.
Source: NY Times
May 9, 2019
Artifacts said to have been taken from the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria have been offered for sale on Facebook.
Source: The Conversation
May 9, 2019
by Dave Tell
As Till’s story has been passed down through the generations and taken up by a range of memorials, its plot has been shaped by forces like poverty as much as by fidelity to historical fact.
Source: The Atlantic
May 8, 2019
It’s a relic of a beloved president. But did he ever wear it?
Source: New Yorker
May 8, 2019
"To reduce the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to a mistaken incident in American history, a bad taste in the collective mouth, disagreeable and embarrassing, is to forget the extent to which slavery and thus the very fate of the nation lay behind Johnson’s impeachment.”
Source: The Conversation
May 8, 2019
by Ken Hughes
“Why, we’ll just let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell,” Nixon said.
Source: Quarts
May 8, 2019
The reasons that Western societies have devised for barring women from covering each leg individually have often fallen back on appeals to tradition and values.
Source: NY Times
May 8, 2019
A Navy seaplane flew from Queens to the Azores in 1919, eight years before the Spirit of St. Louis. It took three weeks. It was not nonstop.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Foundation
May 7, 2019
And how we can change it.
