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 Bulwark
4/6/2020
The pandemic makes a mockery of Trump’s core principle.
Source: CNN
3/8/2020
"I want to educate the world about our great culture," Ron Lewis wrote on the museum's website. "How we do this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics say we ain't supposed to be."
Source: Washington Post
4/5/2020
Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis has cemented him as the worst president in American history, argues historian Max Boot.
Source: NPR
4/5/2020
It's changing the way we work, we live, we communicate, what we expect from our governments. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Yuval Noah Harari about what happens once COVID-19 is beaten.
Source: The Times
4/6/2020
The scandal-prone poet came from a family mired in cuckoldry, cowardice and killing.
Source: Observer
4/5/2020
Many of the world's greatest landmarks and artworks are just a click away.
Source: BBC
4/5/2020
A new Netflix series tells the story of Madam CJ Walker - a trail-blazing black female entrepreneur in the early 20th century.
Source: The New York Times
4/6/2020
The obsession with office “face time” hurts women. When the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, let’s not return to it.
Source: Perspectives on History
4/1/2020
As the dictionary’s staff wrote in explaining their pick, “English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun... and as a consequence ‘they’ has been used for this purpose for over 600 years.”
Source: New York Times
4/5/2020
The hull of a ship that surfaces every few years on a Maine beach may have been the Defiance, a sloop built in 1754.
Source: Washington Post
4/2/2020
In 1918, with a different virus, masks didn’t help.
Source: New York Times
4/6/2020
In a new book, the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor celebrates the places that have fed New York’s craving for blintzes, matzo brei and other delicacies.
Source: Nature
4/6/2020
Up close, the all too human business of doing science is messy.
Source: Washington Monthly
4/7/2020
How one improbable legal case drove the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases.
Source: New York Times
4/6/2020
by Michael Ignatieff
A white liberal progressive confronts the issue of race in America with beliefs that make it difficult to face a reality that their fellow citizens of black or Hispanic origin take for granted.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
4/7/2020
Critics of Self Made could not contain their indignation over Walker’s life narrative being twisted into a colorism-fueled cat fight, an early 1900s Real Housewives.
Source: American Historical Association
4/6/2020
Like our colleagues in related disciplines, historians can also explore the challenges public health authorities, governments, and nonprofit institutions face.
Source: Wall Street Journal
4/4/2020
Once used to fuel extraordinary acts of worship and creativity, coffee has become a necessity we rely on to meet the everyday demands of modern capitalism.
Source: 1843 Magazine
4/2/2020
For two-and-a-half years, Benjamin Israel, an African-American Orthodox Jew, attended every meeting of the city council in Hollywood, Florida, to talk about street names.
Source: The Undefeated
4/1/2020
Race and ethnicity have been, and continue to be, enormous factors in determining whether people will receive medical attention when they become ill, and the sort of attention they will receive.
