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: Philadelphia Inquirer
9/22/19
For the Oneida people, the heartbreak and wounds of the past remain vivid in their memories and stories.
Source: Washington Post
9/21/19
President Trump said he would revoke California’s ability to set its own auto emissions standards, a provision that gave the most populous state significant sway over the car industry.
Source: History.com
9/20/19
by Tera W. Hunter
Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.
Source: The Atlantic
9/20/19
Scandalous images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau don’t just tarnish his image—they also point to the hidden history of racism and minstrelsy in his country.
Source: BBC
9/22/19
These identifiers are nothing new and have actually been used throughout the history of literature.
Source: Quartz
9/23/19
Thomas Cook was born with a railway journey that took place in 1841—the same year that Hong Kong was ceded to Britain, then at the peak of its imperial power.
Source: The Hill
9/19/19
The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.
Source: Boston Review
9/12/19
by Eric Loomis
Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated.
Source: Washigton Post
9/18/19
Douglass sat for scores of pictures to normalize the idea of black excellence and equality, and Warren’s thousands of selfies with supporters could do the same for a female president.
Source: NY Times
9/17/19
Tours through Harlem and Wall Street, along with a new exhibition in Brooklyn, tell all-but-forgotten stories.
Source: The Atlantic
9/19/19
by Asher Price
Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.
Source: Time
9/17/19
Long before Citizenship Day was made official, there was “I Am An American Day.” Its initial conception was a sign of its times, and its evolution has been significant too.
Source: History.com
9/17/19
The historical precedent to this week's GM United Auto Workers union strike.
Source: Real Clear Investigations
9/17/19
Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.
Source: Washington Post
9/16/19
The Senate Historical Office offers insight into the only Supreme Court Justice impeachment in U.S. History.
Source: Wbur.org
September 12, 2019
by Robin Young and Allison Hagan
A Maryland commission empowered to investigate at least 40 lynchings that occurred between 1854 and 1933 will have its public launch Thursday night.
Source: The Intercept
9/17/19
by David Stein
The Intercept reveals the untold story of how Joe Biden pushed Ronald Reagan to ramp up incarceration — not the other way around.
Source: New Yorker
9/16/19
The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.
Source: The Washington Post
September 15, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of people have watched the riveting 1965 debate between the two writers — one white, the other black — on YouTube.
Source: History.com
9/16/19
The 18-karat gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on September 14 - only two days after the palace installed it as part of an art exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
