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: Baton Rouge Advocate
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/artic
Martha White's defiance of customary segregation pushed the city's white bus drivers to strike demanding the repeal of a local desegregation ordinance. The ensuing boycott was a model for the Montgomery campaign two years later.
Source: NPR
3/202/2021
Jason Burt, a middle school history teacher and historian, believes this album is the only known recording of a front line band from WWII to have surfaced.
Source: Bitter Southerner
2/18/20201
by Jason Christian
Camp Livingston, deep in the Louisiana pines, used to be the site of a World War II Japanese internment camp. Drawing from the memories of internees, the research of two Louisiana State University librarians and other historians, and the activism of survivors and their descendants, this story uncovers a buried piece of American history.
Source: Acadiana Advocate
1/30/3021
A Louisiana library system is under pressure from conservatives to include "both sides" of the debate over voting rights in its public programming.
Source: The Guardian
11/8//2020
Kamala Harris will be the first woman and woman of color to hold the vice presidency. Her political past offers a complicated picture of the kinds of policies she's likely to advance in that role.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-vo
“I expect the B.O.E. to pull this off — there’s no other option. It’s the most important election of our lifetime,” said Scott Stringer, the city comptroller. “But we shouldn’t have to hold our breath because of their gross incompetence.”
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/vale
Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “SCUM Manifesto,” in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.
Source: Origins
November
by Stanley E. Blake
Historian Stanley Blake sketches the long struggle over the Amazon between indigenous peoples and those Brazilians who see it as the key to Brazil's economic future.
Source: The Conversation
1113/19
by Ken Chitwood
The Islamic State’s caliphate was never widely recognized among the global Muslim community and no longer has significant territory. But the Islamic State still uses the history of the caliphate to push their claims.
Source: The Washington Post
July 5
How accurate was Trump's "Salute to America" speech?
Source: Time
http://time.com/5579971/christopher-st-stonewall-h
by Jason Baumann
Given the tremendous gains made by LGBTQ activists in the intervening years, it can be difficult for people to remember the oppression suffered by LGBTQ people in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/1/9
He was discussing language in a James Baldwin essay. Given the slur's potential to throw learning off course, is it ever worth using in the classroom -- if it ever was?
Source: NPR
August 22, 2027
He reread a portion of his Saturday, Aug. 12, statement on the violence in Charlottesville, and mocked criticism that he didn't respond quickly enough.
Source: CNN
8-1917
Since 2007, John Culpepper had been anticipating this moment: the unveiling of a statue to the common Confederate soldier in his hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia. In November of last year, three days before Donald Trump won the presidency, it became a reality.
Source: Raw Story
9-219-16
Archaeologist and author Rachel Grant wrote on Twitter that she felt physically ill after her daughter brought home a 55-page packet titled “U.S. History Special Victims Unit,” which she described as a “non-white male hit list.”
Source: The Washington Post
4-17-1`6
When Nathan Ross Chapman became the first military casualty to die by enemy fire during the war in Afghanistan, the only American flag available for his casket was a patch torn off the uniform of an airman loading his coffin for the long trip home.
Source: NYT
1-1916
The book is by Robert J. Gordon, a professor of economics at Northwestern University: “The Rise and Fall of American Growth”
Source: NYT
5-27
How does one memorialize a failed war that most people don’t even know about or would rather forget?
Source: NYT
7-3014
“We couldn’t believe that the history of Mosul has disappeared. I wanted to die.”
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
7=29-14
The militants espouse a radical, puritanical strain of Sunni Islam whereby all shrines or holy sites that honour beings lesser than their God are considered apostate.
