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: NY Times
1/23/20
The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted in 1897. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them.
Source: NY Times
1/25/20
Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that the horrific lessons of the death camp are being lost.
Source: Washington Times (AP)
1/25/20
Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and history professor C. Sade Turnipseed.
Source: Time
1/21/20
The world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic, will be more rigorously protected under an international agreement, the U.K.’s Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani confirmed ahead of a Tuesday visit to Belfast, where the ship was built.
Source: Washignton Post
1/21/20
A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”
Source: Washington Post
1/21/20
“It shows us they had a high level of technical skill, understanding of physics and of the natural environment.”
Source: Smithsonian Mag
1/15/20
by Ai Hisano
A business historian explains America’s commitment to regulating the appearance of everything from margarine to canned peas.
Source: Smithsonian Mag
1/17/20
by James Delle
The archaeological excavation of an empty field yielded clues and reminders of an incredible uprising long buried from history.
Source: AP
1/22/20
Featuring historians Rachel Shelden, Jeffrey Engel, and David Stewart.
Source: History.com
1/21/20
The first U.S. president’s celebrated military career actually started out quite poorly, in the French and Indian War.
Source: BBC History Extra
1/21/20
by David Charlwood
Violent uprisings in the Middle East and a populist US president vowing to put “America First”. Historian David Charlwood looks back 100 years to the global situation of 1920 and finds remarkable parallels with the present.
Source: BBC History Extra
1/21/20
by Adam I P Smith
Which presidents in US history have been impeached? How does impeachment work? And what might impeachment proceedings mean for President Donald Trump?
Source: Nieman Reports
1/21/20
How the Philadelpia Inquirer teamed up with Villanova University’s Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest and the Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships to research three issues--infrastructure, immigration, and the opioid crisis--that could benefit from a historical perspective.
Source: LawFare
1/21/20
by David V. Gioe
The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy
Source: The Conversation
1/20/20
by Wyatt Oswald, David R. Foster, and Elizabeth Chilton
Our new research, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, tests this human-centric view of the past using interdisciplinary, retrospective science. The data we collected suggest, in New England, this assumption is erroneous.
Source: PBS
Accessed 1/21/20
“The Poison Squad reminds us that our current concerns about food safety have a long history."
Source: Time
1/17/20
by Olivia B. Waxman
The civil-rights leader’s personal political party affiliation remains a mystery.
Source: Time
1/17/20
by Vincent Brown
Wager, also known by his African name, Apongo, was a leader of the largest slave rebellion in the 18th century British Empire. But long before taking his part in the great Jamaican insurrection of 1760– 1761, commonly called Tacky’s Revolt, he had been on a remarkable odyssey.
Source: Washigton Post
1/17/20
A photo history of America’s ban on alcohol
Source: Washigton Post
1/19/20
Even without gun training, Doris Miller jumped behind one of the unmanned Brownings, swung it skyward and fired until his belt was empty and crew members were ordered to abandon ship.
