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: UVA Today
6/18/19
Renowned Southern historian Paul Gaston, who grew to appreciate wine, “was wonderful and wonderfully complicated,” said UVA associate professor of history John Edwin Mason.
Source: Power Technology
6/10/19
Chernobyl has been a critical success on HBO, we spoke to experts in the nuclear industry about how accurate the show actually was.
Source: Washington Post
6/15/2019
For years, Mr. Price wrote reviews of crime fiction and military history before combining the two interests in his novels.
Source: Washington Post
6/15/19
Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.
Source: CBC
6/15/2019
Documents fell short of the legal threshold for retention
Source: PR Newswire
6/13/2019
Over $23 million has been raised to date in support of new exhibits, programs, and education.
Source: Architectural Digest
6/14/2019
There's a wealth of information left for fans of the award-winning musical to explore.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
6/15/2019
The flag is the only surviving example of 11 similar flags painted by David Bustill Bowser, a Philadelphia sign-painter, portraitist and anti-slavery activist.
Source: Smithsonian.com
6/13/2019
Weir acknowledges the claim, which pulls on previously unexplored evidence, is “inconclusive and speculative” but says it might make readers think.
Source: New Statesman
6/17/2019
Billed as a place to look at historic photographs, a clutch of history-themed Facebook groups are hosting offensive posts and conversations.
Source: New York Times
6/17/2019
Mr. Brinkley’s work spanned the full spectrum of the last century’s seminal events and influential characters, including the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
Source: Smithsonian
6/10/2019
Grape seeds dating back to medieval and Roman periods share many similarities with the wine grapes we enjoy today.
Source: The American Interest
6/5/19
by Allis Radosh
Frederick Douglass: America’s Prophet by D.H. Dilbeck, Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur, and Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight all offer a different interpretation of Douglass.
Source: AP
6/10/2019
Especially in times of deep political divide, music has reflected the nation’s conflicts.
Source: Time
6/6/19
Demand for “counter-textbooks” has been fueled by factors including student desire for more diverse stories and requirements like the California law that now mandates LGBT-inclusive social-studies curriculums.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
6/7/2019
Fang Zhou’s comments are the latest made by faculty members and students at Georgia’s public colleges and universities to come under fire.
Source: New York Times
6/9/2019
The museum still houses things ‘that are nowhere else in the world.’
Source: The Guardian
6/6/2019
Teachers trying to educate about fascism hit by service’s new policy on hate speech.
Source: Huffington Post
6/9/2019
His latest book, “Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt And The First Clash Over The New Deal” ― is an engaging, character-driven tour through the philosophical debates and political knife-fighting at the nadir of the Great Depression.
Source: BESA Center
6/10/2019
The display at the Documentation Center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, a museum in Nuremberg, give an indication of the ways in which the German people choose to remember the Holocaust and the era of Nazi rule.
