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: Yahoo
July 21, 2019
The complicated history of Iranian relations with the United Kingdom.
Source: The Washington Post
July 15, 2019
A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead
Source: The Wall Street Journal
July 19, 2019
An oral history of the ethnic cleansing in Belarus, as remembered by those who should have been far too young to endure such a tragedy.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
July 16, 2019
Did urban settlement spring from the hearts and minds of the people, or from elites’ strategies for increasing their own power?
Source: Chicago Tribune
July 21, 2019
100 years ago riots broke out across Chicago.
Source: Truth Out
July 19, 2019
by Emily Thuma
The story of how women fought to end violence.
Source: The Washington Post
July 20, 2019
The complicated history of the back to Africa movement in connection with President Trump.
Source: The Washington Post
July 22, 2019
Some in Virginia bemoan losing Collingwood, a Potomac River landmark
Source: NPR
July 19, 2019
In light of President Trump's comments about four freshmen lawmakers, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard Professor Khalil Muhammad about the history of dissent in American political life.
Source: The Lily
July 20, 2019
The story of female historians not getting recognition for their work.
Source: History.com
7/17/19
A surprising number of the Apollo spacecraft’s critical parts ended up being crafted and assembled by hand, by a vast battalion of little-known and little-heralded workers back on earth.
Source: Politico Magazine
7/17/19
by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Lawmakers will vote on the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour by 2024. This would be a crucial step toward the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade.
Source: The Conversation
7/16/19
by Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk
I recently conducted a study on ambiguous speech, using Armstrong’s famous quote to try to figure out why and how we successfully understand speech most of the time, but also make the occasional mistake.
Source: Historians for Peace and Democracy
6/14/19
by Van Gosse
Since the Civil War, a series of constitutional amendments, acts of Congress, and Supreme Court decisions have extended the right to vote, but always through negative prohibitions on what a state or locality may do.
Source: Chris Riback’s Conversations
7/5/19
How is today’s polarized, disrupted world one in which Russia can thrive?
Source: History
7/11/2019
In 1969, NASA was spending millions on the Apollo space program. Some argued that money could be better spent.
Source: Washington Post
7/15/2019
From that drive to encourage blacks to go back where they came from to waves of nativist attacks on Catholics, Jews, Asians and Hispanics in nearly every generation that followed, “go home” rhetoric is as American as immigration itself.
Source: New York Times
7/10/2019
When will we finally learn we cannot predict people’s character from their appearance?
Source: Scientific American
7/11/2019
Climate change is already rotting archaeological sites in the Arctic, and Norse Viking-era settlements are at high risk
Source: ZD Net
7/12/2019
Microsoft creates a program that aims to use AI to preserve the world's cultures in the face of globalisation.
