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: Daily Beast
8/10/2020
President Donald Trump suggested Monday evening that the “1917” influenza pandemic ended World War II, wrongly citing both the year that the pandemic occurred and the year that World War II ended.
Source: The New Yorker
8/6/2020
by Jeffrey Toobin
The noted legal analyst argues that the Senate filibuster must end.
Source: Flatland (Kansas City)
8/6/2020
For a decade, Harry Truman's oldest grandson has engaged in dialogue with the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Source: New York Times
8/6/2020
by Jim Tankersley
Citing recent economic research, the author argues that fighting employment discrimination and ending the idea that white men have a privileged claim on good jobs will be a potent engine for economic growth if and when America recovers from the pandemic.
Source: Vinepair
In Florence, the need for bars and restaurants to serve food and drinks in a socially distanced manner has seen a medieval architectural oddity revived.
Source: Reason
8/6/2020
Reason columnist Robby Soave questions why a speaker whose books renounce family and community histories of white supremacy would spark outrage by antiracist student activists.
Source: The New Yorker
8/2/2020
Read John Hersey's influential 1946 account of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, along with related articles from The New Yorker.
Source: Washington Post
8/4/2020
For decades, there has been only anecdotal evidence that any women actually used this right.
Source: Scalawag
8/3/2020
John Lewis lived to see the birth and dismantling of voting rights that he fought and bled for.
Source: WAMC
8/4/2020
The symbols include a portrait of Robert E. Lee, several locations named after Lee and a road named after Sontewall Jackson.
Source: Hyperallergic
8/5/2020
Carl Juste’s double portrait of father and son presents an extraordinarily intimate experience on the usually busy public plaza surrounding the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami.
Source: USA Today
8/6/2020
Women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster are not acknowledged for their efforts during the 1960s.
Source: The New York Times
8/6/2020
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima 75 years ago this month, has used the power of her personal story to try to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Source: Library of Congress
8/6/2020
Today marks the anniversary of baseball legend Cy Young's first professional game.
Source: New York Times
8/6/2020
Photographs commissioned by Japanese newspapers in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were suppressed by American occupation authorities in both countries. A new book offers Americans a new opportunity to grasp the physical and human toll of nuclear weapons.
Source: CNN
8/4/2020
Douglas Macgregor described the German cultural concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which seeks to "cope with the past" and confront the atrocities the country committed in World War II, as a "sick mentality" and he downplayed the country's Nazi history.
Source: Forbes
8/5/2020
A subculture of Lego and military history enthusiasts has achieved notoriety for posting stop-motion videos of historic battles, despite the official non-violence policy of the building toy company.
Source: Nature
8/4/2020
The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States.
Source: American Historical Association
8/5/2020
Here, historians who have resources useful for remote teaching can share them, and those racing to adapt courses can search for materials instead of working from scratch.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
8/5/2020
Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 mandated curb cuts at all street corners, 30 years ago this summer, disabled people had pointed to the design of the street as a key locus of their political rights — the sidewalk that stands for being in public space, and therefore in the public sphere.
