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
Nov 28, 2017
Two years ago representatives from Southern state tourism departments gathered at Georgia State University to start work on what would become the nation’s first civil rights trail.
Source: National Geographic
Nov 28, 2017
Construction materials date to Roman times, suggesting the original holy site's legacy has survived despite its destruction 1,000 years ago.
Source: NYT
Nov 28, 2017
The government program, which lasted for more than 30 years and ended only in the 1990s, caused thousands to lose their jobs and sometimes face prosecution because of their sexual orientation.
Source: Business Insider
Nov 28, 2017
"Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and died at about the age of 21.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 28, 2017
The prominent placement of an Andrew Jackson portrait during an event meant to honor a group of Native Americans at the Oval Office on Monday has raised questions about the White House’s message.
Source: Slate
Nov 27, 2017
The history of America has been written by normal white racists living in normal towns.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 27, 2017
Some historians suspect that Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III who bore the king 15 children, was of African descent.
Source: New Historian
Nov 26, 2017
The plague likely entered Europe during the Neolithic era with a large-scale migration of people from the Eurasian Steppe.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 25, 2017
Topics overlap: slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow laws, the Delta blues. The result is a sweeping view of Mississippi’s history that puts the civil rights movement into context.
Source: BBC
Nov 25, 2017
It's almost 100 years since 19 African-American soldiers were executed following a violent mutiny in Texas. Why is the US only now coming to terms with what happened?
Source: NYT
Nov 25, 2017
He scoured the world for evidence to make his case, but a scholar now finds his government reluctant to challenge Beijing, its powerful rival.
Source: The Times-Picayune
Nov 24, 2017
Atlanta is among several cities -- including New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas and Richmond, Virginia -- that have been reviewing Confederate symbols.
Source: The Atlantic
Nov 23, 2017
How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday’s spirit of unity and a country’s legacy of exclusion.
Source: NBC
Nov 23, 2017
New textbook rules spark LGBTQ history debate.
Source: LATimes
Nov 22, 2017
In the run-up to the Civil War, there was strong resistance in the South toward Thanksgiving itself.
Source: NYT
Nov 22, 2017
The apology, which will take place next Tuesday in the House of Commons, is another step in a review the prime minister began last year into how to acknowledge the harm bought by what is sometimes called the “gay purge.”
Source: Newsweek
Nov 22, 2017
During the Constitutional Convention he expressly said that impeachment would be called for in the case of a president betraying his trust to a foreign power.
Source: Newsweek
Nov 22, 2017
Digging around the eastern countryside of Denmark’s island of Zealand, archaeologists have unearthed three stone courtyards near the town of Tollerup.
Source: Newsweek
Nov 22, 2017
It's in response to his complaint that Germany's got a Holocaust memorial in the heart of Berlin.
Source: NYT
Nov 22, 2017
Along with Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, who was convicted on similar charges last year, Mr. Mladic was found to have orchestrated a campaign of so-called ethnic cleansing.
