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: Washington Post
Mar 20, 2019
Many historians were quick to correct and criticize her remarks.
Source: New York Times
Mar 20, 2019
Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History have been amended in a way that allows museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies exhibits often perpetuate.
Source: New York Times
Mar 20, 2019
Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.
Source: CNN
Mar 20, 2019
The Electoral College has been "targeted for reform or abolition some 700 times" over the course of our republic-- more than any other part of the Constitution.
Source: The Smithsonian
Mar 19, 2019
by Kate C. Lemay and Martha S. Jones
The exhibit delves into the complexities and biases of the nature of persistence.
Source: Reuters
Mar 19, 2019
Here is an explanation of some past investigations and how their findings were made public.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 19, 2019
by Clint Smith
Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 19, 2019
by Vivien G. Fryd
The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Mar 19, 2019
For third year in a row, he also seeks to kill National Endowment for the Arts. Congress has rejected those proposals in the past.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 18, 2019
by Sarah Miller Davenport
Sixty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation making Hawaii America’s 50th state.
Source: WAMU
Mar 18, 2019
What was a completely segregated art slowly — and somewhat secretly — began to integrate in the halls of the Turkish Embassy.
Source: New York Review of Books
Mar 18, 2019
by Katherine Franke
From the Civil War to today.
Source: War on the Rocks
Mar 18, 2019
by David I. Goldman
How did John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson handle NATO?
Source: Process
Mar 18, 2019
by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen
Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busy resettling the newly arrived refugees.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 17, 2019
A story uncovering and restoring a piece of Civil War history.
Source: Time
Mar 17, 2019
Historians Ruth Ben-Ghait and Robert O. Paxton help us understand the tragedy through history.
Source: Salon
Mar 17, 2019
33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 16, 2019
Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Mar 13, 2019
Diplomats accurately forecast many setbacks: sectarian violence, attacks on U.S. troops, Iranian intervention and long road to structural change.
Source: New York Times
Mar 13, 2019
Sunk in 1942, a team of wreck hunters set out to find the U.S.S. Wasp.
