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: Humanities Indicators
Accessed 8/22/19
Read the latest report from Humanities Indicators!
Source: From the Square
8/9/19
by Marc Stein
The overlooked importance of Queens, New York in LGBT history.
Source: NY Times
8/13/19
Researchers estimate that women’s stories make up just 0.5 percent of recorded history.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Accessed 8/22/19
From gorgeous artworks to grimacing corpses, archaeologists are still uncovering the truth about life—and death—in the doomed city.
Source: Slate
8/20/19
by Rebecca Onion
Conservative uproar over the New York Times’ 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a decades-old battle over how we should understand American history.
Source: USA Today
8/21/19
USA TODAY is asking readers to share what they know about their family history with our journalists in 2019.
Source: NY Times Magazine
8/14/19
The powerful collection includes essays by historians, poets, columnists, a variety of academics, and more.
Source: National Security Archive
8/15/19
Declassified documents detail highest-level reactions, cover-ups, critiques using sources never before translated into English.
Source: The Conversation
Accessed 8/17/19
by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.
Source: Huffington Post
8/12/19
The measure is being praised as a “life-saving law” that has placed the state “on the right side of history.”
Source: Hyperallergic
8/13/19
The abolitionist and women’s rights activist will join Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the proposed Central Park sculpture that had previously been accused of racism and whitewashing history.
Source: Washington Post
8/16/19
The NAACP is asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to “eradicate the vestiges of a shameful, racist educational system in Hanover County” by ordering the schools to be renamed.
Source: Wall Street Journal
8/19/19
The notes, taken by former Imperial Household Agency chief Michiji Tajima, were released Monday by public broadcaster NHK, which aired a documentary on the subject Saturday.
Source: The Guardian
8/18/19
100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light.
Source: NY Times
8/15/19
As the 19th Amendment turns 100, three exhibitions in Washington explore the contentious — and unfinished — struggle for voting rights.
Source: The Atlantic
Accessed 8/20/19
by Vann R. Newkirk II
A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.
Source: NY Times
8/15/19
California’s newly proposed model ethnic studies curriculum has led to bitter debate in recent weeks.
Source: Politico Magazine
8/18/19
by Richard Labunski
Gerrymandering very nearly cost us the Bill of Rights and could have plunged the country into chaos from which it would not have recovered.
Source: New York Times
8/5/2019
Statues of so-called comfort women have long been an irritant to Japanese nationalists who dispute that the women were forced into servitude.
Source: The Conversation
8/7/2019
There are lessons that can be learned from examining this election’s parallels with two previous presidential elections – 1860 and 1968 – both of which left America deeply divided.
