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: Vox
Mar 20, 2018
If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 19, 2018
U.S. forces invaded the country 15 years ago this week—and left behind a booming trade in looted artifacts.
Source: CNN
Mar 19, 2018
The FBI is now investigating.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 19, 2018
A statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith will be replaced with one of Mary McLeod Bethune, who founded a school that would eventually become historically black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Source: Pew Research Center
Mar 19, 2018
While both Republicans and Democrats were more supportive of the war initially than they are today, the partisan gap is roughly the same as it was then.
Source: Huffington Post
Mar 17, 2018
It’s hard to teach history that isn’t quite history yet.
Source: NYT
Mar 17, 2018
An Indian publisher came under fire this week for including Hitler in a children’s book about world leaders who have “devoted their lives for the betterment of their country and people.”
Source: NYT
Mar 17, 2018
Pagans, Neo-Nazis and Advertisers Tussle Over Symbols
Source: Smithsonian
Mar 16, 2018
Sheila Minor was not, as some suggested, “support staff.” She was a biological research technician who went on to a 35-year-long scientific career.
Source: Time Magazine
Mar 16, 2018
This Is what it was like to cover his trial.
Source: National Security Archive
Mar 16, 2018
The documents released by the National Security Archive reveal that he was led to think that the Partnership for Peace was the alternative to NATO.
Source: Middle East Eye
Mar 15, 2018
Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned in the chaos of 2003, but one of its libraries escaped this fate and a historic collection survived.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 15, 2018
A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.
Source: National Security Archive
Mar 15, 2018
Dozens of messages, together with responses by the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, were posted today by the National Security Archive.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Mar 15, 2018
Investigation documents how an early president of the college harassed and assaulted numerous women. Board strips his name from two buildings and revokes his honorary degree.
Source: The Spectator
Mar 14, 2018
by Nicholas Farrell
Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 14, 2018
The genomes of the long dead are turning up all sorts of unexpected and controversial findings.
Source: NYT
Mar 14, 2018
As other cities tear down Confederate monuments, the Tennessee capital wants to preserve land for a city park near Fort Negley, which thousands of former slaves built.
Source: NYT
Mar 13, 2018
The 120-year-old magazine invited a history professor to critique its past coverage of race, and showed little defensiveness in accepting his findings.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 13, 2018
The CIA from its earliest days has acknowledged the gender inequities and has attempted to remedy them.
