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: NYT
May 29, 2018
The date was Aug. 17, 1998. President Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury. Twenty years later, people in the room and those waiting nearby share their memories.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 29, 2018
When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated.
Source: NYT
May 28, 2018
Yale's David Blight traces the holiday to a series of commemorations that freed black Americans held in the spring of 1865, after Union soldiers, including members of the 21st United States Colored Infantry, liberated the port city of Charleston, S.C.
Source: Capital News
May 27, 2018
From London to Berlin, Europe’s museums are packed with hundreds of thousands of colonial-era items. Increasingly, they are facing the awkward question of whether they should be there at all.
Source: The Economist
May 26, 2018
Why hasn’t it worked out so well?
Source: The Washington Post
May 26, 2018
His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.
Source: The Conversation
May 25, 2018
by Kevin Stagg
The issue is in the news as the government decides what to do about a donation made in 1927 to pay off the national debt.
Source: South China Morning Post
May 25, 2018
Supporters of move say it would help students better understand city’s national connections while critics fear important but controversial events may be conveniently left out.
Source: The Guardian
May 25, 2018
The Trump administration is quietly seeking to create more African American monuments. For some, it’s been a long wait.
Source: National Security Archive
May 25, 2018
A Colombian senator told the U.S. Embassy in 1993 that the founders of the Medellín drug cartel “financed” the election campaign of then-senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive.
Source: Time Magazine
May 24, 2018
That Outlook Has a Disturbing History
Source: Times Higher Education
May 24, 2018
While the Sorbonne was at the epicentre of the 1968 protests, the shock waves were felt far beyond France, with students occupying Peking and UC Berkeley at the same time. A group of academics revisit the spirit of soixante-huit and consider its legacy.
Source: NYT
May 24, 2018
Decades after Johnson was convicted under the Mann Act, his case drew significant attention as a gross miscarriage of justice and a symbol of the depths of racism in the American justice system.
Source: NBC affiliate Miami
May 24, 2018
The ship sank to the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago and was found with the help of an underwater autonomous vehicle.
Source: BBC News
May 23, 2018
A man who said he witnessed the unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme 30 years ago has himself been linked to the killing.
Source: Time Magazine
May 23, 2018
Here's how one player protested.
Source: NYT
May 23, 2018
There are several potential outcomes while Mr. Trump is president.
Source: Newsweek
May 23, 2018
“If you look at the policies of Donald Trump, OK, anybody—Martin Luther King would be proud of him and what he's done for the black and hispanic community for jobs.”
Source: The Conversation
May 23, 2018
by Alan Marcus
The reason is that we will soon not be able to rely on witness testimonies.
Source: Politico
May 22, 2018
Trump’s allegations about FBI surveillance may be baseless. But it actually happened to Barry Goldwater.
