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
11/20/19
The statue’s removal came after months of “high emotions, division and even violence” in the small town of Pittsboro, a county official said.
Source: NY Times
11/13/19
Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to the Third Reich.
Source: NY Times
11/16/19
Boasting a proud literary pedigree, Trieste is populated with statues. But none has provoked passions like that of Gabriele d’Annunzio, who inspired Fascism and briefly ruled his own state last century.
Source: The New Republic
November 14, 2019
by Nick Martin
The case has it all: white-centrism, the "school choice" debate, and the obscene way in which North Carolina is failing its students.
Source: History.com
11/15/19
The idea was to show the royal family in their day-to-day lives. The results were mixed.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
11/13/19
A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment
Source: Origins
November
by Stanley E. Blake
Historian Stanley Blake sketches the long struggle over the Amazon between indigenous peoples and those Brazilians who see it as the key to Brazil's economic future.
Source: The Conversation
11/18/2019
by Paul W. Posner
After weeks of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has relented to demands to rewrite the Chilean Constitution. The protesters say they want a new constitution to address Chile’s severe social and economic inequities.
Source: Washington Post
11/18/19
In keeping with the show’s gripping use of history to personalize the queen and other royals, the episode exposes rumors and fears of betrayal among British government officials and leaders, including Winston Churchill.
Source: TIME
11/16/19
by Kathy McCormack
Werner Gustav Doehner, the last among 62 passengers and crew who escaped the May 6, 1937, fire, was 90.
Source: The Washington Post
November 13, 2019
by Michael E. Ruane
Newly digitized copies of audio, film and pictures from the Nuremberg trials detail the breadth and depravity of the Holocaust.
Source: Time
11/12/19
Today, many Roma communities are still marginalized, but the Holocaust represents an ugly peak in that history of persecution.
Source: Time
11/11/19
by Olivia B. Waxman
Montgomery, Alabama elects its first African American Mayor.
Source: NPR
11/18/19
Even more than 230 years ago, the Founders were eerily prescient in fearing how the impeachment process could play out: beset by partisanship and broken down by factions.
Source: Time
November 16, 2019
by Andy Kopsa
The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia had been long in the making before protests erupted 30 years ago.
Source: Washington Post
11/16/19
Researchers plan to comb through available court documents, particularly from trials for those prosecuted under sodomy laws, as well as uncover other clues that can be found in letters or in poetry and art.
Source: History.com
November 15, 2019
by Becky Little
In 1900, newspapers and politicians claimed the doctor trying to stop the plague had made the whole thing up.
Source: Politico Magazine
11/11/19
Almost every four years, there’s a last-minute panic candidate for the presidency. They never win.
Source: AP
11/12/19
There are consistencies in the process — televised hearings, partisan rancor and memorable speeches — but each impeachment process also stands alone as a reflection of the president, the Congress and the times.
Source: Reuters
11/11/19
Many Poles still refuse to accept research showing that thousands of Poles participated in the Holocaust in addition to the thousands who risked their lives to help the Jews.
