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: Business Insider
Jun 26, 2015
Thomas wrote that there is no "dignity" clause in the US Constitution — and that, even if there was, the government could not bestow it upon a person or take it away.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2015
It isn’t just in South Carolina or Virginia. Cities throughout the South have streets, schools and parks named for other Confederate generals like J. E. B. Stuart, Jubal Early and Stonewall Jackson.
Source: Idaho State Journal
Jun 26, 2015
Former Idaho Attorney General David Leroy is cautious about any plans to remove the murals.
Jun 26, 2015
Few, alas, have taken notice.
Source: Refinery 29
Jun 25, 2015
Until we had a flag, the symbol for our movement was the pink triangle, which was put on us by Hitler and the Nazis.
Source: NPR
Jun 25, 2015
In 1922, seven Western states drew up an agreement on how to divide the waters of the Colorado River. But there was one big problem with the plan: They overestimated how much water the river could provide.
Source: NYT
Jun 25, 2015
It is legal to possess art commissioned by the Nazis, but it can remain in private hands only if the state has no direct claim on it.
Source: The Local
Jun 25, 2015
Several thousand people could now be eligible for compensation, including nationals of Israel and Canada as well as Americans who were deported from France to the death camps some 70 years ago.
Source: WWLTV
Jun 24, 2015
As the debate rages over the confederate flag in parts of the South, Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a forum to talk about race relations in New Orleans and around the country.
Source: Smithsonian
Jun 24, 2015
The Grand Canyon, The Factory and the A.G. Gaston Motel are just a few of the 11 names on the list
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 24, 2015
Historians and others are finding new ways to acknowledge the university’s historic ties to slavery, to give a more complete picture of its foundation and early years, as the school approaches its bicentennial.
Source: NYT
Jun 24, 2015
A count by a research center found that non-Muslim extremists have been far more lethal than Islamic militants on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, running counter to public perception.
Source: AP
Jun 24, 2015
The exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin has been four years in the planning but is opening amid a new debate in Germany over whether to allow full-fledged marriage for same-sex couples.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Jun 23, 2015
After the murder of nine black people in a South Carolina church, memorials of pro-slavery politicians and Confederate battles are facing new scrutiny.
Source: NYT
Jun 23, 2015
The tombs, one of a Shiite saint and another a Sufi scholar, were the first in the Syrian city that Islamic State fighters claimed to have destroyed.
Source: CNN
Jun 23, 2015
Walmart.com currently carries the Confederate flag as well as attire featuring the flag's design, such as T-shirts and belt buckles.
Source: Kickstarter Campaign
Jun 23, 2015
by Alexi Morrissey, artist
Have You Seen Me? transforms the 1980s “kid on the milk carton” advocacy campaign into a memorial for those lost during the Slave Trade.
Source: NY Review of Books
Jun 22, 2015
by Luc Sante
Now the story can be told
Source: NPR
Jun 22, 2015
"It felt like you were on fire."
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 22, 2015
A wide range of innovations from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and Thomas Edison’s light bulb to the early Google servers and Apple’s iPhone have been brought together to tell a broad story of American business history for the first time at the Smithsonian Institution.
