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 17, 2017
Is it 1861 or 2016?
Source: Newsweek
Aug 16, 2017
The memoir is by Prudence Bushnell, the American ambassador to Kenya when the embassy came under attack.
Source: CNN
Aug 16, 2017
There are two distinct spikes: one around the turn of the 20th century, and one during the height of the civil rights movement.
Source: NYT
Aug 16, 2017
Local and state officials in states like North Carolina, Texas and Tennessee are facing the outrage of liberal and African-American constituencies, who say the statues should have never gone up in the first place.
Source: NYT
Aug 16, 2017
Beginning soon after midnight on Wednesday, a crew, which included a large crane and a contingent of police officers, began making rounds of the city’s parks and public squares, tearing the monuments from their pedestals and carting them out of town.
Source: NYT
Aug 15, 2017
Mr. Trump’s comments drew strongly negative reactions on Twitter from many historians, who condemned his “false equivalence” between the white nationalists and the counterprotesters.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Aug 15, 2017
Since 1925, the 6-foot monument has stood in the Confederate section of the cemetery, where more than 30 Confederate veterans, along with their families, are buried.
Source: CNN
Aug 15, 2017
The monument, dedicated in 1924, depicts a soldier holding a gun on top of a concrete pillar. The pillar is engraved "In memory of the boys who wore gray."
Source: Time Magazine
Aug 14, 2017
Soon after the end of World War II, the Germans banned swastikas and other Nazi emblems, and the German people, not to mention the police, do not tend to react well when the symbols of that era are put on display.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Aug 13, 2017
Trump’s is weaker.
Source: AP
Aug 12, 2017
As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed to do: secede from the Union.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 12, 2017
At issue: the only coup d’état ever to take place on American soil.
Source: Newsweek
Aug 12, 2017
Long a haven for racists – it was the last town in America to desegregate schools following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown v. Board of Education – Charlottesville turned liberal and this spring voted to remove a Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee.
Source: National Review
Aug 11, 2017
The school recently decided to cover up a musket held by a Puritan that’s aimed at the head of an Indian.
Source: NYT
Aug 11, 2017
The debate over the statue began about a year and a half ago, when an African-American high school student here started a petition to have it removed.
Source: NYT
Aug 10, 2017
Mr. Trump’s supporters have said that a strike, should there be one, would be legally justified as an act of self-defense by the United States against a dangerous and irrational adversary. Others disagree.
Source: NYT
Aug 10, 2017
Researchers have found a zigzag pattern on a human arm bone that might have been engraved as part of a cannibalistic funeral ritual 15,000 years ago.
Source: NYT
Aug 10, 2017
The standoff with North Korea is dangerous, but not without precedent. The United States encountered a similar situation with China in the 1960s.
Source: Smithsonian
Aug 9, 2017
For design ideas and funding, the National Museum of the American Indian turns to its community.
Source: Time Magazine
Aug 9, 2017
Despite the rhetorical similarities between the "rain of ruin" and the "fire and fury," presidential historians like Michael Beschloss say Trump's language has been unusually harsh considering the context.
