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: Time
9/13/19
by Chevel Johnson
Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, has died.
Source: Time Magazine
9/13/19
Joe Biden’s “proudest” legislation during his time in the Senate left an imprint on modern women’s rights discussion.
Source: Smithsonianmag.com
9/10/11
At first, the couple who discovered the pair of cannonballs thought they’d simply stumbled upon a rock.
Source: LA Times
9/10/11
The Monopoly game was the brainchild of a woman named Lizzie Magie at the turn of the 20th century.
Source: Time
9/10/19
by Olivia B. Waxman
Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.
Source: Nursing Clio
9/10/19
by Nick Johnson
From pill bottles to produce sections, modern medicine and agriculture have effectively distanced our relationship to the plants that matter most to us.
Source: Washington Post
9/11/19
Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.
Source: Washington Post
9/11/19
by Gillian Brockell
Inconsistencies haven’t stopped Trump from repeating versions of his actions on 9/11.
Source: Nordics Info
9/10/19
by Thorsten Borring Olesen
Greenland has been and continues to be a vital strategic asset, not least to the US - and perhaps even more so due to the possible effects of climate change.
Source: Washington Post
9/7/19
by Gillian Brockell
Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
9/6/19
Ever since the 17th century, educators and architects designed university housing with societal mores in mind.
Source: The Conversation
by Laura Beers
So why isn’t the Queen taking more criticism for giving Johnson what he wanted? One answer is that she had no choice.
Source: African American Intellectual History Society
9/6/19
by Jessica Parr
The sale of The Ebony and Jet Magazines have raised concerns among historians, archivists, and the Black community.
Source: History Channel
09/09/2019
On September 11, 2001, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed. The losses were devastating, but it could have been even worse.
Source: Politico Magazine
09/05/2019
What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House, to the fighter pilots prepared to ram the cockpit and to the passengers.
Source: The Atlantic
09/09/19
by Alan Taylor
In April 1904, St. Louis opened its doors to the world for what was officially called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, but was widely known as the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
9/8/19
The presence of newfound artifacts is evidence, archaeologists say, that native people in Northern California carried on their traditions and maintained tribal ties much longer than many historians thought.
Source: National Security Archive
9/9/19
by William Burr
The newly declassified documents reveal the Soviet atomic project posed a major challenge to U.S. intelligence and expands our knowledge of the role of German scientists in advancing the Soviet nuclear program.
Source: NY Times
9/7/19
The debate in Massachusetts comes at a time of reckoning over the nation’s history.
Source: The Conversation
9/9/19
by Kate Clarke Lemay and Martha S. Jones
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story of the women and their contributions to American democracy.
