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 Pennsylvanian
2/19/20
Du Bois, a writer, activist, and scholar, was known for being one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which continues to promote equal rights today.
Source: Time
2/24/20
Parasite was in fact the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture, but Hamlet, starring Laurence Olivier, was the first non-American film to win Best Picture, in 1949.
Source: The Conversation
2/24/20
by Joel Christensen
Persuading others – or even yourself – what is true is not a challenge unique to the modern era. Even the ancient Greeks had to confront different realities.
Source: Washington Post
2/24/20
Mrs. Johnson, who died Feb. 24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon.
Source: Miami Herald
2/19/20
Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously approved renaming the county’s “Dixie” highways after Harriet Tubman.
Source: NY Times
2/18/20
Nearly 80 years after Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps, the State Assembly plans to formally apologize for its role in the detention.
Source: NY Times
2/19/20
by Alexis Clark
Thousands of African-American troops were sent to a defeated Germany to promote democracy, even as they were confined to the social order of Jim Crow.
Source: Time
2/18/20
As low-density suburbs arose on the edge of every city, low-cost houses with abundant space and creature comforts became a singular symbol of progress and proof that the American way was winning.
Source: The Conversation
2/19/20
by Joel Berger and Jon Beckmann
Today most of our nation’s prairies are covered with the amber waves of grain that Katharine Lee Bates lauded in “America the Beautiful,” written in 1895. But scientists know surprisingly little about today’s remnant biodiversity in the grasslands.
Source: Washignton Post
2/19/20
The Walker archive — 100,000 photographs, negatives and transparencies capturing life on the streets of Harlem from 1963 to now — will be the library’s first full archive of work by an African American photographer accessible to the public.
Source: Washington Post
2/18/20
The Japanese soldiers came out of their concrete “pill box” with bayonets fixed, determined to get the Marine who had been killing them all afternoon with a flamethrower.
Source: Washington Post
2/18/20
“The defacement of these symbols of Plymouth’s history, or any public property for that matter, is unfathomable and unconscionable,” Town Manager Melissa Arrighi said in a statement posted to Facebook.
Source: Washington Post
2/17/20
A new online exhibit by the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit that sits across the street from the White House, explores that untold history.
Source: LA Times
2/17/20
Rating presidents has long been an American obsession.
Source: Haaretz
2/18/20
by Arie M. Dubnov
The Holocaust was an impulsive rebellion by 'polytheistic instincts' against the 'noble tyranny' of Jewish monotheism, claimed Jewish American essayist and literary critic George Steiner, who passed away this month, aged 90.
Source: Washington Post
2/16/20
Alexis Coe argues in “You Never Forget Your First” that the male gaze has distorted our impressions of the first president.
Source: National Interest
2/15/20
by Lawrence J. Korb
The last thing our military personnel and the country needs is another Vietnam or another unwinnable war in the Middle East.
Source: NPR
2/14/20
Featuring historian and professor from Georgetown University, Marcia Chatelain, about how American universities are confronting their legacies of slavery.
Source: Washington Post
2/14/20
In the late 1950s, the CIA took over the land in Langley, Va., to build a headquarters that could accommodate its fast-growing operations.
Source: The Conversation
2/13/20
by Greg Wilsbacher
When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point.
