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: AP
7/5/2019
Grants, provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are given across four categories: capacity building, project planning, capital, and programming and interpretation.
Source: National Geographic
7/5/2019
Swashbuckling Begum Samru commanded armies, took a litany of lovers, and dubbed herself Joanna, after Joan of Arc.
Source: Washington Post
7/8/2019
While Ocasio-Cortez may catch heat from the American left for giving Evita a platform, the Argentine first lady’s legacy is as strong as ever in her own country.
Source: New York Times
7/6/2019
A feature film. A monument. Tattoos in her honor. People looking for a hero have found one in this one-woman precursor to today’s progressive politics.
Source: The New York Times
July 7, 2019
A small African-American community has existed less than 10 miles from the president’s former plantation for generations. Only recently has the full extent of their relationship been revealed.
Source: NBC News
7/5/2019
Rev. Carl Schlegel, a German immigrant, spoke on behalf of people attracted to the same sex in the early 1900s.
Source: The Daily Beast
July 5, 2019
A historian finds Catholic iconography with women performing acts that only men are allowed to do today—and that the works were covered up. Others aren’t convinced.
Source: Black Perspectives
July 3, 2019
by Denise Lynn
Read about the "Trenton Six" and their similar story to the Central Park Five.
Source: Washington Post
7/8/2019
Japan’s colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula ended more than seven decades ago yet that legacy still roils everyday politics on both sides of the strait.
Source: The Washington Post
July 4, 2019
A rare female icon of the Revolutionary War, she is credited with creating the first American flag.
Source: The Washington Post
July 5
How accurate was Trump's "Salute to America" speech?
Source: Chris Riback's Conversations
6/28/2019
On his podcast, Chris Riback's Conversations, Riback and Cohen discuss Cohen's new book, “Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America,” which looks at the “eight men [who] succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history.”
Source: Time
7/3/2019
Douglass’ message — about America struggling to live up to the lofty goals it set for itself at the founding — continues to be relevant.
Source: History
7/3/2019
The Independence Day tradition dates nearly as far back as the country's beginning and was proposed by one of the Founding Fathers.
Source: Newsweek
7/2/2019
An American flag featuring a 13-star circle was at the epicenter of controversy after Nike decided to stop the release of a sneaker featuring the symbol.
Source: Harvard Business Review
7/2/2019
Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, an expert in business history, discusses the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. (now Chiquita Brands International).
Source: Share America
7/3/2019
Ethnic Mongolians in Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in China, are facing increased pressure from the Chinese Communist Party.
Source: Jezebel
6/3/2019
Jezebel spoke with Brett Gadsden, a history professor at Northwestern University and the author of Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism about how to understand Biden’s position as part of white backlash to desegregation efforts, the ongoing resegregation of American life, and the reality that, as he put it, “racial segregation is the norm, not the exception.”
Source: Nursing Clio
6/26/2019
What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by nearly four centuries of history, and yet remarkably alike.
Source: Eurasia Review
7/1/2019
Survivors showed a significantly decreased volume of grey matter in the brain compared with controls of a similar age who had not been directly exposed via personal or family history to the Holocaust.
