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: History
7/12/2019
Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.
Source: ABC News
7/13/2019
The filming of "Bisbee '17," a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production filmed exactly 100 years later that weds documentary and collective performance.
Source: NPR
7/15/2019
It will include a quote from Turing: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be."
Source: CNN
7/14/2019
Frank Bowman III, a law professor at the University of Missouri, is out with the definitive history of impeachment in his new book, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors; A History of Impeachment for the Age Of Trump."
Source: Wall Street Journal
7/14/2019
Before the statue and long before the brand-new museum, there were pirates, real-estate ventures and public executions
Source: CNN
7/14/2019
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation officially declaring July 13 "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day," thus honoring the former Confederate general, slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Source: History Channel
July 12, 2019
Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.
Source: The Washington Post
July 13, 2019
Ted Cruz took to criticizing Tenessee for celebration of a Confederate general and KKK Grand Wizard.
Source: Politico Magazine
July 11, 2019
by Bruce Ackerman
We owe Congress’ control of the Census not just to the Constitution, but to Republicans doing the right thing in the 1920s. Now Trump wants to roll it all back.
Source: Reuters
7/8/19
The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of “comfort women”, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
Source: The Conversation
7/9/19
by William Hauk
Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of U.S. trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name.
Source: NY Times
7/9/19
For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”
Source: Time
7/9/19
Ross Perot, the self-made Texas billionaire and one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in U.S. history, died on Tuesday. He was 89.
Source: NY Times
7/8/19
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” said the principal of a high school in Boca Raton, Fla.
Source: NY Times
7/6/19
Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what’s really at stake.
Source: Yahoo News
7/9/19
“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living is responsible for, is a good idea,” McConnell said.
Source: The Atlantic
7/9/19
Perhaps, the theory was, just by existing, Gay-Straight Alliance groups could make gay kids feel less alone, and that itself could reduce suicide risk, which was common among gay teens at the time.
Source: Perspectives on History
7/9/19
by Alison Miller
The archive’s unquestionable historical value means there’s more than money at stake in the process of finding a new home for it.
Source: NBC News
7/8/19
No news articles were found in which McConnell has previously spoken of his ancestors being slave owners.
Source: Wall Street Journal
7/5/2019
Council’s vote to stop celebrating Founding Father’s birthday is latest twist
