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
5/14/2020
Historians have accounted for how the influenza pandemic unfolded across the US and the world, but have been less successful accounting for why the disease seems to have been forgotten.
Source: Library of Congress
5/18/2020
On May 18, 1896 the Supreme Court's decision validated the "separate but equal" principle that was used to justify racial apartheid in the United States.
Source: BBC
5/17/2020
One of the last of the famed Bletchley Girls, who worked to break the German Enigma codes, has died.
Source: The Guardian
5/17/2020
The Supreme Court has heard arguments in cases involving "faithless electors" who depart from their state's popular vote when the Electoral College votes to choose the President. The cases evoke troubling prospects for the 2020 election being decided by a small number of electors.
Source: New York Times
5/14/2020
Richard Gilder used his fortune to advance many passion projects, including the refurbishment of New York's Central Park and the preservation of primary documents important to the study of American history.
Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
5/14/2020
This exhibition immerses virtual visitors into a conversation that examines what fighting in the first global war meant for African Americans.
Source: Facing South
5/13/2020
"One of the things that I put in the book is something that was an integral part of my upbringing: My dad always taught me that heroes walk among us."
Source: Slate
5/13/2020
Did Phyllis Schlafly really accept support from the Klan? Was she really hit with a pie? We break down “Bella.”
Source: The Daily Herald
The bodies of the former slave owner and reputed Ku Klux Klan member and his wife remain buried in Memphis, TN, but they could be moved to Columbia, SC.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
5/14/2020
Missouri Western cuts 30 percent of the faculty, along with programs in history, political science, sociology, economics, music and more.
Source: Inverse
5/13/2020
Contemporary comic book writer Gene Luen Yang draws inspiration from vintage anti-Klan comics.
Source: KOB4
5/12/2020
Davis was a businessman and civic leader who supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
5/12/2020
Chancellor Timothy P. White told California State trustees that it would be irresponsible to bring the system’s nearly 500,000 students back to its 23 campuses in the fall.
Source: Al Jazeera
5/13/2020
Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims, report says.
Source: News 3 Las Vegas
5/13/2020
John Gotti allegedly maintained a low-profile skimming operation at an off-strip casino years after Nevada officials believed they had swept the mob out of the gaming business.
Source: University of Chicago Institute of Politics
5/14/2020
Gene Sperling's new book challenges decades of market-oriented economic policy in favor of a standard based on human well-being.
Source: New York Times
5/11/2020
Jerry Stiller mined a rich comedic vein that was rooted in cultural conflict between Jewish immigrants and their American-born children.
Source: Fox Carolina
5/12/2020
Carolyn Reidy helped bring the writings of historians including David Blight and David McCullough to a wide readership.
Source: New York Times
5/12/2020
Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.
Source: Charleston Post and Courier
5/13/2020
Today marks the anniversary of one of the most dramatic episodes in the Civil War--Robert Smalls's escape from slavery in a stolen Confederate naval ship.
