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: Undark
2/17/20
As anti-Asian sentiment surges amid the growing coronavirus crisis, experts point to history & warn of consequences.
Source: NY Times
2/13/20
Mourning all of the war’s victims has been central to Germany’s remembrance efforts since reunification in 1990.
Source: The Jerusalem Report
2/11/20
by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Israel and the Russian-Polish War of Narratives: How the contest for control of post-WWII Poland intersected with the struggle for Jewish statehood as two early arenas of the Cold War.
Source: Washington Post
2/13/20
The “Pledge of Allegiance” was written by a Christian socialist in 1892. Eugene V. Debs ran for president on a socialist ticket five times; in 1912, he got nearly a million votes.
Source: Washington Post
2/12/20
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve the creation of a national women’s history museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s network of museums in Washington.
Source: NY Times
2/12/20
by Anne C. Bailey and Dannielle Bowman
A powerful photoessay that is the latest article from the 1619 Project.
Source: NY Times
2/11/20
The New York Times reviews OVERGROUND RAILROAD: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor and DRIVING WHILE BLACK: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin.
Source: Time
2/12/20
Sanders’ success in both Iowa and New Hampshire may signal that a version of American socialism is again on the rise.
Source: The Conversation
2/13/20
by Rob Ruck
After World War II, Jackie Robinson hurdled baseball’s racial divide. But while integration – baseball’s great experiment – was a resounding success on the field, at the gates and in changing racial attitudes, Negro League teams soon lost all of their stars and struggled to retain fans.
Source: The Conversation
2/13/20
by Michael C. Weisenburg
Grounded in artistic and narrative realism, romance comics were remarkably different from their superhero and sci-fi peers. While the post-war popularity of romance comics only lasted a few years, these love stories ended up actually having a strong influence on other genres.
Source: Washington Post
2/11/20
“This is called reparations, as far as I’m concerned,” he said when asked if he was willing to go to jail.
Source: Food and Wine
2/6/20
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Source: NY Times
2/9/20
The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover.
Source: Linn’s Stamp News
Accessed 2/10/20
by Ken Lawrence
Learning about the exceptional life and tragic death of David T. Latimer, the brave lad who built America’s oldest surviving stamp collection.
Source: The Conversation
2/10/10
by Malcolm Brian Foley
Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people.
Source: Washington Post
2/6/20
Total time speaking for the usually long-winded Clinton: One minute and 36 seconds. Thursday for Trump: One hour and two minutes.
Source: Washington Post
2/9/20
The “Canuck letter” was part of the dirty-tricks campaign waged by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President and helped turn the 1972 race for the Democratic nomination upside down.
Source: NY Times
2/6/20
The feature includes images from all of the 17 African countries that gained independence in 1960 and reflections of creative people of African descent to give their personal reactions to these images.
Source: History.com
2/7/20
The comic book that helped spark a generation of young civil rights protestors did not feature superheroes, but a 42-year-old seamstress and a 26-year-old Baptist pastor.
Source: USA Today
2/8/20
by Nsenga K. Burton
Featuring historians Jennifer D. Williams, Michelle Duster
