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: Mother Jones
Sep 12, 2021
"That year in the 1960s, several thousand American women were treated in emergency rooms for botched abortions, and there were at least 200 known deaths.Comparing my story with others from the pre-Roe era, what impresses me is how close I veered to mortal danger."
Source: New York Times
Sep 12, 2021
American hospitals by the 1950s formed "therapeutic abortion committees" to rule whether individual women needed abortions to protect their lives. Those committees' decisions reflected religious morality, class and racial prejudice, and other subjective perceptions of a patient's worthiness.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 12, 2021
“This is where we live, and if you don’t think it’s important, we surely do,” said Ron Chase, 70, who is director of the Gum Springs Historical Society. He was a teenager during his first march along Richmond Highway to protest the road’s conditions.
Source: New York Times
Sep 10, 2021
The Buffalo Soldiers held a confounding position in the military, teaching cavalry skills to white cadets at West Point while housed in segregated barracks, and fighting white supremacy within the army while also taking part in the military campaign of conquest against Native Americans.
Source: Foreign Policy
Sep 8, 2021
A group of foreign policy experts including historian Stephen Wertheim explain how the United States has changed since the 9/11 attacks.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 8, 2021
"People with power and money in such tribal regions can retain their hold on their ways — and their communities — for a long time. But corruption never strays far from the prideful and the powerful, especially among those who inherit privilege."
Source: The Baffler
Sep 8, 2021
Novelist Zinzi Clemmons looks to the history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania to consider, with help from historian Lara Putnam, the implications of Democrats' pursuit of the elusive suburban voter.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Sep 8, 2021
"That two of Yamasaki’s major buildings would end up as rubble, one by politics, one by terrorists, seemed like the last word. And yet critics’ and historians’ views of the towers, as well as views of Yamasaki’s reputation, have also undergone a series of transformations."
Source: Bitter Southerner
Sep 7, 2021
A long read examines the social disruption that ensues when coal companies close shop and abandon the communities that have grown around mining work for decades and generations.
Source: Wired
Sep 7, 2021
A downside of Wikipedia's culture of consensus and openness means that articles on Nazism often conceal, soft-peddle, or otherwise diminish the scope of Nazi crimes, frequently relying on dubious sources, deceptive quotations, or falsification.
Source: New York Times
Sep 7, 2021
"Universities are caught between the demands of their faculty for greater safety precautions, and the fear of losing students, and the revenue they bring, if schools return to another year of online education."
Source: New York Times
Sep 7, 2021
"Rather than addressing maternal mortality, Texas lawmakers have instead spent years decimating access to basic preventive health care. Those who suffer most from Texas’ reproductive health policies are its most vulnerable."
Source: NPR
Sep 7, 2021
"'Conservation never gets old,' says conservator Laura Hartman. There's always an aha! moment.' In this one, when the painting was turned horizontally, x-rays showed another composition underneath. Two draped figures in a landscape."
Source: New York Times
Sep 6, 2021
"Public schools have long been an irresistible battleground for America’s culture warriors."
Source: New York Times
Sep 6, 2021
"In episodic chapters that read like self-contained short stories woven together into a whole, Turner seeks to understand how three Black girls with very similar aspirations ended up with wildly divergent fates."
Source: EdSurge
Sep 6, 2021
"More than a decade after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Moses realized that the next frontier was economic justice, and that fluency in math and science was the springboard for peoples of color and low-income whites to be full citizens, fully enfranchised—the civil rights issue of the 21st century."
Source: CNN
Sep 5, 2021
Robert Carter III's manumission of 500 of his slaves in 1791 was a rebuke to his fellows who publicly abhorred slavery but insisted it couldn't be practically abolished.
Source: Washington Post
Sep 5, 2021
Attorney General Merrick Garland has the legal authority, established in laws to fight the KKK, to punish private citizens who interfere with access to constitutionally protected healthcare.
Source: ABC News
Sep 5, 2021
Both Portland's current image as a progressive city and Oregon's historical origins as an explicitly white supremacist state make the city a focal point for far right groups and white nationalists.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Sep 5, 2021
It's difficult to swallow the idea that Progressive era governor Hiram Johnson would have countenanced the idea that the recall system he championed could allow a minority of voters to throw out a governor who recently was elected with 62 percent of the votes cast.
