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: The Hill
4/15/2020
But the clarity of the law, as experts like Claire Finkelstein of the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law see it, does not necessarily stop the president from taking action as part of a political strategy.
Source: Washington Post
4/15/2020
Ms. Goodacre's Vietnam Women’s Memorial, a 6-foot-8 bronze sculpture of three uniformed women and a wounded serviceman, honors the roughly 265,000 military women of the Vietnam era, about 10,000 of whom served in Vietnam itself.
Source: The Week
4/16/2020
Trailblazing aviator Harriet Quimby has never received the level of recognition she deserves in the American pantheon, despite her extraordinary life.
Source: Crosscut
4/15/2020
The impulse to separate and redefine the region is as old as the Euro-American settlement of the Northwest, and has roots in so-called “rural values” and racial exclusion that date back to before, during and after the Civil War.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4/15/2020
James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, noted that older academics are both the bridges and the glue of not just institutions, but all sorts of identification that people have, and can hold an institution and people together.
Source: Harvard Crimson
4/15/2020
Posts falsely claiming that a Harvard professor was arrested for creating and selling the novel coronavirus have been shared more than 79,000 times on Facebook as of April 7, according to Reuters.
Source: The Guardian
4/16/2020
Protests against stay-at-home coronavirus rules have gained support from rightwing politicians and media groups in recent days, setting up a battle with scientists and public health leaders who say restrictions are necessary.
Source: Smithsonian
4/15/2020
In the new miniseries, feminist history, dramatic storytelling and an all-star-cast bring the Equal Rights Amendment back into the spotlight.
Source: The Hill
4/14/2020
The 2018 midterms and 2020 primaries showed just how critical the turnout of women—Democrat, independent and moderate Republican will be this November.
Source: Washington Post
4/14/2020
There’s no mistaking that “Mrs. America” is Schlafly’s show, giving her everything she lacked as a media caricature: shape, complexity and even some empathy for her personal struggles and her own experiences (whether she acknowledges them or not) of being discriminated against as a woman.
Source: History.com
4/13/2020
From shouting candidates' names, to hanging chads to electronic scanning, the nature of voting has a long, sometimes bumpy history in the United States.
Source: Huffington Post
4/14/2020
The war metaphor is not only inapt to apply to a viral pandemic, it is dangerous.
Source: Washington Post
4/14/2020
“You won’t find that written in the Federalist Papers anywhere,” Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Washington Post.
Source: The Atlantic
4/13/2020
If Joe Biden wins the election in November, he will likely be sworn in—perhaps virtually—under the most challenging circumstances since Harry Truman became president in 1945.
Source: New York Times
4/11/2020
Her experience fleeing the Nazis on the doomed “Voyage of the Damned” informed her faith in democracy as head of the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
Source: Los Angeles Times
4/13/2020
How did a son of Republicans Ronald and Nancy Reagan become an “unabashed atheist”? And how did the parents take that?
Source: New York Times
4/10/2020
“Pandemics as a social shock do give workers more leverage to demand things,” said Patrick Wyman, a historian and host of the Tides of History podcast.
Source: IndieWire
4/13/2020
Credited with bringing Gospel music to the mainstream, the five Clark sisters overcame humble beginnings in Detroit to achieve international fame as icons of the Gospel music industry.
Source: Washington Post
4/13/2020
The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials.
Source: Common Dreams
4/12/2020
"Now, more than ever, we need a strong and vibrant postal system to deliver mail 6-days a week," tweeted Sanders. "Congress must act now to save it."
