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: Black Perspectives
Jan 16, 2019
by Karen Cook Bell
Emboldened by their war time experiences and conscious of the transnational nature of the struggle against racism, African Americans challenged white Americans’ attempt to cast Blacks stationed in Japan as trouble makers.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 15, 2019
A look at the civil rights leader’s childhood name change
Source: Time
Jan 15, 2019
The 10-page ruling issued late Monday by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo said a 2017 state law barring the removal or alteration of historical monuments wrongly violated the free speech rights of local communities.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 15, 2019
by Jeffrey Miller
For better or worse, Prohibition changed the way Americans drank, and its cultural impact has never really gone away.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 14, 2019
by Ingrid Sharp and Corinne Painter
There were other women who played an active role in the German revolution in cities across the country.
Source: Literary Hub
Jan 14, 2019
by Jennifer Traig
For most of history, authors have used their words to render children speechless.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 14, 2019
by David Gunderman
Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.
Source: New Republic
Jan 14, 2019
How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama.
Source: USA Today
Jan 14, 2019
They say ‘a wall is medieval.’ Well, so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall," Trump said.
Source: Tom Dispatch
Jan 13, 2019
A Timeline of Border Fortification
Source: Politico
Jan 13, 2019
by Mark Lawrence Schrad
One hundred years later, it's time to challenge a long-held bias.
Source: New York Times
Jan 13, 2019
“The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda” targets “Hamilton,” the play, and “Hamilton,” the best-selling biography by Ron Chernow, which inspired Mr. Miranda.
Source: New York Times
Jan 12, 2019
“The higher-ed climate has changed profoundly and it’s not going back to the old normal.”
Source: AP
Jan 11, 2019
“Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”
Source: Smithsonian.com
Jan 10, 2019
Cromwell is alternately lauded as the “heroic military and political leader” who defended Parliament and vilified as a ruthless war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Catholics.
Source: Salon
Jan 10, 2019
Trump's televised address was reportedly written by aide Stephen Miller, known for his hardline immigration views.
Source: New York Times
Jan 10, 2019
As President Vladimir V. Putin promotes Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as a cornerstone of nationalist fervor, he has a pressing need for the T-34, which became a symbol of Soviet might.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 10, 2019
President Trump’s visit to the border to demand $5.7 billion for a wall marks another chapter in the boundary’s tortured history
Source: Time
Jan 10, 2019
There were more than 1,000 such strikes involving more than 823,000 teachers from July 1960 to June 1974.
Source: Richard Norton
Jan 10, 2019
Although it is not a documentary film, much of its history about lesbianism in the court of Queen Anne is fairly accurate – or at least accurately reflects contemporary views about Queen Anne.
