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: Washington Post
8/26/19
The conversation about nominating a delegate has been ongoing in the Cherokee Nation.
Source: Washington Post
8/27/19
Whether we’re considering corking the top of an erupting volcano, erecting a wall to guard against a tornado or pumping water into a fault line to stop an earthquake, humanity’s solutions are often shortsighted and sloppy.
Source: Washington Post
8/27/19
PSL is back, and so is its connection to a centuries old genocide.
Source: Contingent Magazine
8/23/19
by Rebecca Brenner Graham
When Congress gave the Secretary of Labor discretion over any immigrant “likely to become a public charge,” they weren’t expecting someone like Frances Perkins.
Source: NY Times
8/27/19
Greenland officials have rebuffed President Trump’s plan to buy the island, but the United States has a history of purchasing lands from other countries.
Source: Vox
8/26/19
by Cynthia Greenlee
Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.
Source: AHA
Accessed 8/27/19
The statement was endorsed by many other scholarly organizations.
Source: AP
8/25/19
Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of kissing, dancing, tears and gratitude.
Source: Time
8/22/19
New footage detailing the condition of the Titanic has scientists speculating that the shipwreck will have disintegrated entirely within the next 30 years.
Source: Muck Rock
8/21/19
In a formerly SECRET “Dos and Don’ts” regulation for historical officers, Agency suggested “unflattering statements” be avoided.
Source: Washington Post
8/26/19
Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the "story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country." The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.
Source: Hyperallergic
8/19/19
The International Council of Museums will vote on a new definition of museums in September. The proposed change includes language about “social justice, global equality and planetary wellbeing.” Critics say the text is too political for most museums to employ.
Source: National Geographic
8/26/19
Their name is synonymous with destruction, but the group may not deserve such a harsh legacy.
Source: 13 News
8/24/19
Governor Northam signed an executive order establishing the Commission on African American History Education on Saturday, August 24.
Source: Washington Post
8/24/19
The article features the research of Sherri Burr and quotations from Annette Gordon-Reed.
Source: Time
8/23/19
The climate change that TIME in the 1980s warned might be possible has already come to pass, and the damage it causes is starkly plain.
Source: Time
8/23/19
Here’s what to know about Equal Rights Amendment history, what could happen to it next and how it could change American society.
Source: Washington Post
8/25/19
by Gillian Brockell
This is the story of the layers of history that will continue to exist underneath, whether the murals are covered by curtains, panels or paint.
Source: Linn's Stamp News
8/19/19
by Ken Lawrence
Calbraith Perry Rodgers performed one of the greatest feats in early aviation history when he completed the first transcontinental trip by air from Sept. 17 to Nov. 5, 1911.
Source: Net Credit Blog
Accessed 8/22/19
A fun illustrated list of the American towns that have been lived in the longest.
