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 Conversation
12/3/2019
by Robert Gudmestad
Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an abolitionist. What I find most fascinating, as a historian of American slavery, is how belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges.
Source: Washington Post
11/27/2019
The project has also faced years of stiff resistance from critics who said its benefits were hardly worth the cost to local communities and from historians, archaeologists and others who say the preservation of Turkey’s cultural heritage is a global concern.
Source: The Washington Post
November 27, 2019
by Kayla Epstein and Alex Horton
More than 900 medals were purged in 1918 for not meeting the criteria. But it did not include the 20 Medals of Honor given after Wounded Knee, which one Army general at the time called a “cold-blooded massacre.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 1, 2019
by Brock Read
Student and faculty activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally received on Wednesday an assurance they’d long sought — an email from Kevin Guskiewicz, the interim chancellor, telling them that the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam “will never return to our campus.”
Yet few of those activists were satisfied.
Source: Slate
11/26/19
Many attribute the adage to Winston Churchill, but it turns out he was just rewriting some losers.
Source: The Washington Times
November 30, 2019
by Andrew Blake
Trump may have beaten Lincoln as a "better president" to some GOP members, but 59% of GOP faithful say Reagan still was better than Trump
Source: TIME
12/2/19
by Rachael Bunyan and Suyin Haynes
On Dec. 1, 1919, Nancy Astor took her seat in Parliament — the first woman in British history to do so.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine Online
11/26/19
Eighty years after it was patented, the Crock-Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens.
Source: The New Yorker
Accessed December 3, 2019
by Anthony Lane
The current gin craze knows no bounds, but the British have been imbibing the stuff for hundreds of years, sometimes with disastrous results.
Source: Vulture
11/25/19
Watchmen is a story about history.
Source: Washington Post
November 30, 2019
by Miriam Berger
For centuries Europeans sought out the “unicorn horn” of the arctic-dwelling narwhal whale.
Source: Los Angeles Times
12/2/2019
Poland is the only major former Eastern Bloc country to do nothing to return private property confiscated by Nazis or nationalized by the communist government, according to the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
Source: History.com
11/25/19
Candidate George Washington plied potential voters with 47 gallons of beer, 35 gallons of wine, 2 gallons of cider, 3 1/2 pints of brandy and a whopping 70 gallons of rum punch.
Source: History.com
11/25/19
Since 1972, the Iowa Caucus has been the first—and some argue most important—electoral test on the road to each party’s presidential nomination. But how did it get that way?
Source: NY Times
11/19/19
He worked on fund-raising and voter registration for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Then President Kennedy insisted on his dismissal.
Source: The New Yorker
11/18/19
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
Source: CBS
11/25/19
The divided Congress has been unable to agree on much throughout Mr. Trump's presidency, especially since the House launched an impeachment inquiry against him, but the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act passed with unanimous consent.
Source: NY Times
11/23/19
His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.
Source: NY Times
11/19/19
As in past seasons, the latest installment of Netflix’s show about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II melds fact and fiction. Here’s how The Times covered events depicted this season.
Source: Washington Post
11/20/19
Here’s why that comparison doesn’t work.
