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: Seattle Times
3/2/2020
The deletion was condemned by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which called the act “tantamount to agreement with the hate speech of decades past.”
Source: TIME
2/27/2020
“I hope the younger students understand they can do something about conditions they don’t think should exist,” Ladner says. “There’s an activist in all of us if you tap into it.”
Source: Washington Post
3/2/2020
by James Kirchick
While Trump’s appointment of Grenell can be criticized on other grounds, the appointment of an openly gay man to head an institution once closed to gays and lesbians is a milestone.
Source: The Atlantic
2/28/2020
by James C. Phillips and Josh Blackman
Even with the help of powerful 21st-century linguistic databases, the phrase “keep and bear arms” remains debatable.
Source: The New Yorker
3/2/2020
The self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders’s rise in a time of political upheaval, the historian Michael Kazin argues, is less shocking than people think.
Source: Washington Post
2/29/2020
“I think the No. 1 lesson that came out of the experience is that if you want to prevent panic, you tell the truth.”
Source: New York Times
2/29/2020
by Tess Taylor
As I visited encampments, internment centers and small agricultural towns, I used Ms. Lange’s images and words as a lens to help refract the messy complexity of California’s present.
Source: Washington Post
February 26, 2020
Though some critics may dismiss it as pandering, a promise like this has a proven track record. Ronald Reagan vowed to put a woman on the Supreme Court; it was a key part of his campaign for president in 1980.
Source: Time
2/26/20
Sotheby’s announced Wednesday that it is auctioning off a 1794 land deed for the first location of the African Free School in lower Manhattan, one of the first educational institutions founded to prepare free people of color and the children of enslaved people for life after slavery.
Source: Nursing Clio
2/25/20
by Evan P. Sullivan
Americans enjoy near unity in resorting to eugenic terms for political purposes.
Source: Contingent Magazine
2/23/20
by Karin Falcone Krieger
Started by Heyward and Blanche Cirker in their apartment in post-war Queens, Dover Publications produced 10,000 book titles over the course of 80 years.
Source: History.com
2/26/20
Having a single candidate by the time of a party's convention has been a key stepping stone for victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.
Source: NY Times
2/26/20
Since 1900, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass a bill making lynching a federal crime. Now the legislation could be on its way to the Oval Office.
Source: NY Times
2/25/20
A review of THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.
Source: Hyperallergic
2/26/20
The series, entitled It's All in Me: Black Heroines, runs through March 5 at MoMA.
Source: Time
2/24/20
The register’s written entries on the plantations tend to say almost nothing about the enslaved people.
Source: NY Times
2/24/20
From 1776 to 1807, women in New Jersey had equal voting rights. Newly surfaced documents illuminate how that happened — and the origins of the messy, imperfect democracy we have today.
Source: History.com
2/20/20
Even after the Black Power movement’s decline in the late 1970s, its impact would continue to be felt for generations to come.
Source: Oxford University Press Blog
2/19/20
It is impossible to fully grasp American history without black history.
Source: NY Times
2/23/20
A rare ceremony at an ancient synagogue brought 180 Jews back to Egypt, decades after they were pressured to leave. But few Egyptians knew about it, highlighting government ambivalence.
