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: The Guardian
Apr 16, 2018
Sixty years ago, Belgium set up a live display of people from Congo for the 1958 world fair. Now the country is rethinking that legacy.
Source: NYT
Apr 16, 2018
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 1942 executive order that sent more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps.
Source: NYT
Apr 16, 2018
The new National Memorial Hall for fallen soldiers seeks consensus in a divided society by paring down commemoration to its bare essentials.
Source: NYT
Apr 16, 2018
A statue of J. Marion Sims, an 19th century surgical pioneer who experimented on female slaves, will be moved to the Brooklyn cemetery where he is buried.
Source: WSJ
Apr 16, 2018
Twitter feed, book, walking tour, panel discussion look back at student occupation and protest that ended in hundreds of arrests.
Source: NYT
Apr 15, 2018
Maralinga, a barren stretch of land in South Australia’s remote western desert, is the country’s only former nuclear test site open to tourists.
Source: Bloomberg
Apr 15, 2018
“Without the bomb, North Korea is Albania.”
Source: The Richmond-Times Dispatch
Apr 15, 2018
The textbook said slaves were happy, often referring to them as servants.
Source: NYT
Apr 15, 2018
A fight is brewing in Kansas City over whether choosing a boulevard on the mainly black East Side to name for Martin Luther King Jr. would honor his legacy or reinforce the segregation he fought.
Source: NYT
Apr 14, 2018
Nine minutes of newly found footage, restored from an aging film reel that was revealed publicly this weekend, shows the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906.
Source: Fox5
Apr 13, 2018
The video was being shared on Facebook showed second-graders at an Atlanta charter school performing a black history play while holding blackface masks.
Source: The Conversation
Apr 13, 2018
by Monte Mills
A Supreme Court case deals with the narrow issue of tribal salmon fishing rights in the Northwest, but raises fundamental questions about justice for American Indians.
Source: The Conversation
Apr 13, 2018
by Rachel Caufield
Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, just announced his retirement, and the race to replace him started before his announcement. What is the speaker's role? How has it changed over history?
Source: Newsweek
Apr 12, 2018
Years after the Holocaust, the Mossad learned that Egypt was working with German scientists on weapons of mass destruction.
Source: The Hill
Apr 12, 2018
Wendy Vitter, President Trump's nominee to serve as a federal judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, on Wednesday declined to say whether she believes a Supreme Court ruling ending school segregation was "correctly decided."
Source: The Times of Israel
Apr 12, 2018
Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was.
Source: Lincoln and Mexico Project
Apr 11, 2018
Where was the original border between Mexico and the United States after Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821? Most are shocked to learn.
Source: The Conversation
Apr 11, 2018
by Steven Lubet
President Trump’s difficulty finding lawyers who will represent him in his current legal troubles tells us much about his leadership style and the advice he is willing to accept.
Source: Haaretz
Apr 11, 2018
In the past week, Breitbart’s Wikipedia page has become the scene of an epic battle, with alt-right trolls descending en masse to change its content.
Apr 10, 2018
Illinois senators advanced a plan requiring public schools to teach a unit on the role and societal contributions of gays, lesbians and other LGBT individuals.
