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: The Post and Courier
Aug 2, 2017
She made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy" and pledged “we’re not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.
Source: NYT
Aug 1, 2017
Presidents often try to influence senators’ votes with threats of retaliation. Those efforts have often backfired, and have sometimes prompted senators to switch parties.
Source: Vox
Aug 1, 2017
The newly announced series, from "Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder and "Girls Trip" producer Will Packer, envisions a world where freed slaves formed their own nation.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 31, 2017
‘We wrote the book on what not to do’ with Watergate, says John Dean. Trump doesn’t seem to have any knowledge of what’s in that book.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jul 31, 2017
With a bass drum pounding a steady beat, young women in hooded robes and face paint — and nooses around their necks — rounded up her and other first-year students.
Source: Smithsonian
Jul 31, 2017
Researchers are finding animal DNA in the parchment pages as well as genetic fingerprints from humans (like kissing priests).
Source: WaPo
Jul 30, 2017
Different administrations tell very different stories about the past and the present.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 30, 2017
A discovery of skulls in Mexico City was just the latest in our obsession with Mesoamerican human sacrifice. But Native Americans were far from the only practitioners.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 30, 2017
As leak accusations rock the White House, Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump should know that American politics' first major leak came at a formative moment—by a founding father.
Source: Indiana University
Jul 29, 2017
by Lauren Robel
But classes will no longer be held in the room where the mural appears since at first glance it looks like it’s celebrating the Klan.
Jul 29, 2017
The date was August 1619. That's when pirates brought 20 or so black captives to Jamestown and sold them.
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2017
The key to understanding North Korea’s strategy may lie in the recent past of another Asian nuclear state: China.
Source: Smithsonian
Jul 28, 2017
Seized 80 years ago as a ‘degenerate art,’ the heirs of the Paul Klee masterpiece have finally reached a settlement with the city of Munich.
Source: AP
Jul 28, 2017
Old South grandeur, leavened with a cold look at slavery: Stories of the enslaved are a growing part of plantation tours.
Source: Huffington Post
Jul 28, 2017
The anti-lynching protest became known as the first mass demonstration by African Americans.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 27, 2017
How Alice Collins Plebuch’s foray into “recreational genomics” upended a family tree.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 27, 2017
Here's what changed.
Source: NYT
Jul 27, 2017
by William D. Ruckelshaus
Mr. President, don’t worry whether you have the power to pardon yourself. But do consider the wisdom of firing the man charged by your own deputy attorney general with investigating Russian intervention into your election.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 27, 2017
Perhaps the most epic White House feud was the smackdown between Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Jul 27, 2017
A 1963 protest placard in the Smithsonian collections could almost be mistaken for any of the Black Lives Matter marches of today.
