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: Duke Today
Apr 2, 2018
Panelists considered what monuments do and don’t say about our nation’s troubled racial history.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Apr 2, 2018
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds, but Arcata is poised to do just that with a statue of William McKinley.
Source: ABS CBN News
Apr 1, 2018
1968 was a year so eventful that it's become known as "The Year That Changed America."
Source: CBS News
Apr 1, 2018
Scholars believe the damaged scrolls of Herculaneum could contain lost works of Greek philosophy, Roman poetry, or early Christian writings.
Source: NYT
Mar 31, 2018
In Denmark, where most of the public statues represent white men, two artists on Saturday unveiled the striking statue in tribute to a 19th-century rebel queen who had led a fiery revolt against Danish colonial rule in the Caribbean.
Source: PBS Newshour
Mar 31, 2018
The Mormon church made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry.
Source: NYT
Mar 30, 2018
Ancient Egyptian leaders increased their empire’s grain production and crossbred cattle for resilience in an early effort to ward off climate disaster, a study shows.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 30, 2018
His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 30, 2018
An archaeological dig has unearthed physical evidence of ancient human presence: 29 footprints pressed into the shoreline of Calvert Island, part of the First Nations’ traditional territory.
Source: Newsweek
Mar 29, 2018
Kristen Windmuller-Luna is slated to take over managing the museum's African art collection in April.
Source: History channel
Mar 29, 2018
The census, a Constitutionally-mandated survey of the U.S. population taken every decade since 1790, has a long history of being used as a political tool.
Source: Snopes
Mar 28, 2018
Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help freed slaves defend themselves against racist attacks after the Civil War.
Source: NYT
Mar 28, 2018
For millions of African-Americans today, the site is “ground zero,” as the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has put it, for “blackness, black culture, the African experience, the African-American experience, slavery — however you want to slice it.”
Source: Pew Research Center
Mar 28, 2018
Polish attitudes toward Jews are typical of the public’s views in many of the 17 other countries Pew Research Center surveyed in Central and Eastern Europe.
Source: NYT
Mar 28, 2018
The Chilean government said it would start an inquiry into whether the remains of a tiny baby girl were illegally exhumed and smuggled out of the country.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 27, 2018
The coffin, from the 6th century B.C., had been purchased by Sir Charles Nicholson from an Egyptian antiquities market in 1857 or 1858.
Source: The Boston Globe
Mar 27, 2018
The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, created in 1989, is presented annually to public servants “who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences.”
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 27, 2018
In September 1950, a black father took his 7-year-old daughter by the hand and walked briskly for four blocks to an all-white school in their Topeka, Kan., neighborhood.
Source: Newsweek
Mar 27, 2018
The discovery confirmed that up to a million people lived in an area of the Amazon spanning just 7 percent of the basin before the arrival of Europeans.
Source: History channel
Mar 26, 2018
The revelation that a shady political consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica accessed data from 50 million Facebook users without their consent has rekindled debates about privacy and surveillance.
