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: New York Times
11/9/2019
"The Warrior Tradition," a new film set to air on PBS, examines the complex history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I and how their service transformed the lives for Native Americans from various tribes.
11/17/19
by Julia Brown
Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.
Source: Chris Riback's Conversations
10/31/19
by Chris Riback
An easy way to listen to and understand history-making testimony as it happens.
Source: Chris Riback's Conversations
10/18/19
by Chris Riback
But it turns out, the immigration story — the historical American experience and the current realities — serves as an incredibly useful way to consider the entire Trump presidency: Obsession, chaos, fear, depravity, and yet – meaningful, important, and potentially-lasting change that has shifted not only how the world views America, but how we view ourselves.
11/7/19
by Orbis Conservation
In what is the most ambitious sculpture conservation project currently taking place in the UK, 14 monumental 19th century naval figureheads have been saved from decay for the nation.
Source: The Atlantic
11/7/19
The article, "What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons, examines all that is still left to do to reunify Germany 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Source: Nursing Clio
11/6/19
by Jaipreet Virdi
"The history of the cigarette does not begin and end with Big Tobacco."
Source: VOA
11/4/19
His decades-long research to expose the scale of the late Communist leader’s terror have met with mounting criticism under Russian President Vladimir Putin and landed him in jail in the Karelian capital of Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia.
Source: Slate
10/31/19
"What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"
Source: The Guardian
11/5/19
The most powerful videos use human beings to personify world actors – such as countries – in major historical events.
Source: The Times of Israel
11/4/19
In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.
Source: Facing South
Accessed 11/5/19
The poisonous Lost Cause lessons were taught to multiple generations of Southerners to uphold institutionalized white supremacy — in part through public school curriculums shaped by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
Source: The New York Times
10/31/19
by Jennifer Szalai
“Homewreckers,” by Aaron Glantz and “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor show what happens when private speculators get buoyed by government largess while non-tycoons are largely left to fend for themselves.
Source: Washington Post
November 1, 2019
by Drew Faust
How slavery warped Jefferson’s vision for the University of Virginia.
Source: Atlas Obscura
10/31/19
by Troy Rondinone
They are haunted, but not by ghosts.
Source: New York Review of Books
11/7/19
by Evan Thomas
Those of a certain age, particularly women, know where they were when they heard that the president was naming a woman to the Supreme Court.
Source: The New York Times
October 29, 2019
by Jiayang Fan
Jung Chang within “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China” lays out the history of the Soong sisters and how they helped formed the modem Chinese Communist Party.
Source: The Guardian
November 3, 2019
by Amanda Holpuch
Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar explains how the abolitionist may be one of the best-known women in US history – but years of her life are usually ‘erased’
Source: The New York Times
November 1, 2019
A review of Matthew Lockwood's book "To begin the world all over again: how the American Revolution devestated the globe".
Source: Washington Post
11/1/19
Historian Janice Hayes-Williams was just starting out as an amateur local historian when she found out Smith Price had been deeply disrespected.
