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: Harvard Gazette
Feb 12, 2015
It’s a difficult exhibition to explore, but one that its organizers hope will promote a deeper understanding of America’s brutal history of slavery, segregation, and racism, and their legacy.
Source: National Journal
Feb 12, 2015
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, we take a look at the monument-turned-landmark that was built for him.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 11, 2015
Before the Census was mailed to every household in America, it was gathered by counters walking door-to-door who collected along the way an inadvertent historical record not just of who we were in 1880 or 1940, but who we lived next to.
Source: New Historian
Feb 11, 2015
Along with the fragmentary codebreaking documents found in the roof were parts of an atlas, a pinboard and a fashion article from a magazine.
Source: WSJ
Feb 11, 2015
Western Intelligence Officials Say Looting Is Islamic State’s Second-Largest Source of Finance
Source: The Nation
Feb 10, 2015
It begins with the Memphis riots of 1866 and ends with the first anti-lynching conference, in New York City, in 1919.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
Feb 10, 2015
Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Feb 10, 2015
A push by Japan to correct perceived bias in accounts of the country’s wartime past is creating a row that risks muddling the positive message in a mammoth public relations campaign to win friends abroad.
Source: NPR
Feb 10, 2015
Russian lawmakers are considering a bill that says Crimea was illegally given to Ukraine in 1954 and should have been part of Russia all along.
Source: Jackson Free Press
Feb 10, 2015
The construction began in December 2013 on the site of what was once called LeFleur's Bluff in downtown Jackson and is on track to be completed for its opening in December 2017.
Source: Slate
Feb 10, 2015
by Stefan Fatsis
But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like? (And do we even need one?)
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 10, 2015
As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill grapples with striking a balance between history and sensitivity to students, similar debates are roiling universities across the country, particularly in the South.
Source: NYT
Feb 10, 2015
After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.
Source: New Historian
Feb 10, 2015
The researchers found that as time progressed, the skeltons' jawbones shrank, but their tooth size was unaffected.
Source: Salon
Feb 9, 2015
Humans have been spewing pollution into the atmosphere for a long, long time
Source: New Historian
Feb 9, 2015
New research published on Friday in the Journal of Human Evolution indicates that Neanderthals may have disappeared 45,000 years ago.
Source: The Atlantic
Feb 9, 2015
Every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years has been indexed.
Source: Metro
Feb 8, 2015
An edition of the Magna Carta which could be worth up to £10 million has been found after it lay forgotten in a council’s archives.
Source: Politico
Feb 8, 2015
Serious presidential contenders used to run multiple times; today they can't. This is why.
Source: CBS News
Feb 8, 2015
For the interview, DuVernay returned to Selma to tour filming locations and visit with family members who were a part of the Civil Rights movement in the 1965.
