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: Politifact
6/20/19
The historical origins of the term and how some historians interpreted her statement.
Source: WUSA9
6/23/19
With the debates getting underway on Wednesday, take a look back at some of the biggest gaffes in debate history.
Source: History Channel
June 24, 2019
by Erin Blakemore
The sweeping bill promised prosperity to veterans. So why didn’t black Americans benefit?
Source: Vox
June 20, 2019
by Ranjani Chakraborty
The hidden history of a North Carolina coup.
Source: The Conversation
June 24, 2019
by Jason Miller
Find out revealing details from David Garrow's new article on Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: Frieze
June 24, 2019
by Bryony White
Vital indigenous perspectives are highlighted in an exhibition of art and activism at the Oakland Museum, which spans the state’s colonial past to the present.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
June 20, 2019
by Meilan Solly
The newly opened underground network features a brick oven once used to heat the baths’ caldarium, as well as a contemporary video art installation.
Source: Process: a blog for American history
6/3/2019
by Marc Stein
Contrary to what many people believe, the Stonewall rebellion was not unprecedented and it was not the first time that LGBT people fought back.
Source: Time
6/23/2019
As the 50th anniversary of Judy Garland’s death and of the uprising both approach, many hope those milestones will be a chance to make sure the equal rights movement continues, but not the Garland myth.
Source: Time
6/21/2019
by Robert Rosenberg
It’s still eye-opening to discover that our LGBT identities, communities and political struggles — well developed today and with many major victories — have deep roots in the past.
Source: Time
6/24/2019
While there is broad agreement that something seismic happened at the Stonewall Inn one fateful night in 1969, there is little consensus on anything else — including how people should talk about it.
Source: Smithsonian.com
6/19/2019
A new display explores gay life beyond the historic riots at the National Museum of American History
5/25/19
by Ralph Seliger
How the Japanese-American organizers of a museum exhibit at Ellis Island entitled “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience” came to an amicable agreement with the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
Source: Before the Quagmire
6/18/19
Written by William J. Rust, The Mask of Neutrality: The United States and Decolonization in Indonesia, 1942–1950 examines three periods of America’s evolving engagement with Indonesia and the groups battling for control there.
Source: California Historical Society
6/17/19
by Alison Rose Jefferson
Before, during and after the transcontinental line’s construction, in southern states, thousands of enslaved and then freedmen worked on the railroads grading lines, building bridges, and blasting tunnels.
Source: Richard Nixon Foundation
6/18/19
by Jeffrey B. Morris
The Burger Court was, on the whole, a pragmatic, flexible court, no more likely that its predecessor to be overly restrained by precedent.
Source: NY Times
6/18/19
“It’s legislation that we think has finally reached its moment,” said Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, the chief sponsor of the measure.
Source: Time
6/18/19
by Arica L. Coleman
The debate about reparations for slavery is not a new one — and the history of the idea shows just how many roadblocks there are to a meaningful conversation about the topic.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
6/19/19
"The reparations conversation is much more layered and much more nuanced than people realize," Daina Ramey Berry said.
Source: NY Times
6/19/19
With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?
