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: Baltimore Sun
12/7/2020
The long-serving Marylander is remembered as a "Stealth Senator" who preferred effectiveness to publicity while championing financial regulation, investigating Watergate and Iran-Contra, and protecting the Chesapeake Bay.
Source: The Atlantic
12/3/2020
Two new comedy series revisit the trope of the American abroad; one works because it looks critically, if humorously, at the idea of American exceptionalism.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
12/4/2020
The killing of a social studies teacher has opened French academics to accusations of supporting radical Islamists and undermining France's policy of national secularism; those who turn a critical lens to French colonialism and racism in contemporary France have received sharp criticism from nationalist and center-right politicians.
Source: New York Times
12/6/2020
Canadians are debating whether a documentary released at the fiftieth anniversary of a campaign of political violence by Quebecois separatists valorizes terrorism and ignores peaceful progress toward a bicultural Canada; the filmmaker is the son of one of the convicted conspirators.
Source: New York Times
12/6/2020
The late author's family has issued an apology for the impact of Roald Dahl's public antisemitic comments, suggesting that for good and ill Dahl's life shows the need to be aware of the power of words.
Source: Washington Post
12/2/2020
Deb Price's columns were at the forefront of gay and lesbian journalists working openly in the news media and news outlets covering issues concerning LGBTQ Americans and communities with depth and nuance.
Source: Washington Post
12/3/2020
The proposed museums would follow the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016.
Source: The Guardian
12/2/2020
One of the founders of the American Indian Movement has died. Eddie Benton-Banai came to focus his activism more on education and the preservation of indigenous heritage than the militant tactics of other AIM leaders, but was key to the movement's growth.
Source: New York Times
12/3/2020
A group of more than 30 artists and academics have signed a letter asking institutions like the Museum of Modern Art to excise the influential architect’s name from their spaces.
Source: NPR
12/7/2020
WWII veteran Robert Madison remembers both the segregation of the military and moments of recognition by white officers of his cohort's service.
Source: New York Times
12/4/2020
A look back at the ongoing work of the Feminist Press and the legacy of founder Florence Howe, who saved the work of many women authors from obscurity and helped support the emerging study of literature by women.
Source: The Atlantic
12/7/2020
Atlantic writer Zeynep Tufekci argues that Americans should take no sense of security from the seeming collapse of Trump's efforts to stay in power; the next attempt may be competently managed.
Source: New York Times
12/3/2020
"As the generation who lived through the war fades away, Japan’s opposing political sides are vying to reinterpret the kamikaze for a public still divided over the conflict’s legacy."
Source: New York Times
12/3/2020
Can you ace the new test for becoming a naturalized US Citizen?
Source: New York Times
12/2/2020
Trump would join several one-term presidents who sought a non-consecutive second term. The effort ended badly for most of them.
Source: Washington Post
12/1/2020
"Since 1937, Election Day and Inauguration Day have been about 75 days apart — not much time to set up a new administration, but plenty of time for things to go wrong."
Source: The Hill
12/2/2020
The proposal would eliminate a loophole written into the 13th Amendment that allows involuntary servitude to be imposed on persons convicted of a crime. Some recent scholars have argued that this exemption is a foundation of the current system of mass incarceration.
Source: University of Virginia
12/1/2020
by Marc Selverstone
Taped recordings from the Lyndon Johnson White House reveal the conflict between LBJ and Richard Nixon over the degree to which a president-elect could expect to influence policy before being inaugurated.
Source: WGBH
11/27/2020
An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discusses the contributions of the late MIT urban studies professor Tunney Lee to historic preservation and the relationship of immigrant communities to urban environments.
Source: The Guardian
11/30/2020
A plan to tunnel underneath the site of Stonehenge to expand a British highway is controversial and reflects different understandings of preservation.
