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: Time Magazine
Aug 29, 2017
The idea of a leader forgiving the crimes of citizens has deep roots.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 28, 2017
History textbooks used in New York City during the president’s childhood called the Klan “patriotic,” and downplayed the role of slavery in “the War Between the States.”
Source: CPR
Aug 22, 2017
Colorado had that debate decades ago.
Source: AP
Aug 22, 2017
An advocacy group is calling for a renaming of the building built for Boston by a slave trader.
Source: NYT
Aug 22, 2017
Georgetown University's Jacques Berlinerblau says a gap between how professors are trained, what they aspire to and what they are rewarded for, and the day-to-day work of an academic job.
Source: NYT
Aug 22, 2017
Even within the family of Robert E. Lee, there are divisions over what should be done about Confederate monuments and what their ancestor stands for now.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Aug 22, 2017
It’s chronicling Confederate monuments on college campuses – and wants your help.
Source: Time Magazine
Aug 22, 2017
He told Fox & Friends "what we have to walk away from is a desire by some to erase parts of our history just in the name of some contemporary political cause."
Source: Jackson Free Press
Aug 21, 2017
by Robert Luckett and Otis W. Pickett
“We object in the strongest possible terms to perpetuating a symbol of racial terror on a flag that is supposed to represent the people of Mississippi.”
Source: NYT
Aug 21, 2017
One of the world’s leading academic publishers, Cambridge University Press, on Monday abruptly reversed its decision to bow to censorship of a leading journal on contemporary China, after its agreement to remove offending papers from its website in China ignited condemnation from academics.
Source: The Irish Times
Aug 20, 2017
It fell into the hands of the German government in a forced sale by its Jewish owner in 1933.
Source: The Hill
Aug 20, 2017
by Mike Purdy
Many other presidents have thought about it.
Source: NYT
Aug 20, 2017
In the 72 years since the Indianapolis, a United States Navy cruiser, sank about 12 minutes after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, the disaster has inspired controversy, dozens of books, a play and a famous scene in “Jaws.”
Source: Newsweek
Aug 19, 2017
Even if he doesn’t indict Trump on the theory that you can’t indict a president, he can make his findings public.
Source: CNN
Aug 19, 2017
Several historians who have studied the presidency extensively said they are concerned that Trump seems to view his lack of interest in reading as a badge of honor.
Source: NYT
Aug 18, 2017
Many said that even though they fiercely oppose President Trump and his defense of Confederate statues, they saw the removal of the monuments as precipitous and argued that the widening effort to eliminate them could have troubling implications for artistic expression.
Source: NYT
Aug 18, 2017
The man who would become the top Confederate general was trying to set the record straight about the slaves on his wife’s estate in Virginia.
Source: The Hill
Aug 17, 2017
A majority of Americans, 83 percent, said holding neo-Nazi views is unacceptable, the poll found.
Source: AP
Aug 17, 2017
The International Criminal court ruled Thursday that a Muslim radical found guilty of destroying World Heritage cultural sites in the Malian city of Timbuktu must pay 2.7 million euros ($3.2 million) in reparations.
Source: NYT
Aug 17, 2017
Recent episodes of rage and bloodshed over the removal of Confederate statues in the United States have a familiar ring for Europeans, who have been battling over their historical narratives and tearing down statues of noxious former leaders since the Bronze Age — and probably before.
