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: The Boston Globe
6/6/2019
“I’d like to see there be not another Ken Burns but maybe 10 other Ken Burnses."
Source: The Washington Post
06/08/2019
by Associated Press
Redocumenting and recreating civil rights history in Montgomery, Alabama.
Source: Process History
06/03/2019
by Marc Stein
Understand the background of the Stonewall Rebellion before its fiftieth anniversary.
Source: Baltimore Post Examiner
6/9/2019
Authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch offer insight into a little known chapter in the saga of America’s finest son.
Source: CBS News
6/9/2019
David Eisenhower's grandfather commanded the greatest military operation of history's most terrible war.
Source: Euro News
6/10/2019
A new dam being built on the River Tigris is believed to responsible for potentially displacing around 50 thousand people from the area, and the historical losses are incalculable.
Source: Smithsonian.com
6/3/19
by David Kindy
Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults that was vital to victory on D-Day.
Source: Yale News
5/25/19
by Wayne Willis
“Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"
Source: The Daily Tar Heel
6/4/19
Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said the task force is currently inactive as he game-plans its future.
Source: NY Times
6/4/19
China has made efforts to quash public mentions of the day when tanks and troops moved into the Beijing plaza and crushed student-led protests.
Source: Washington Post
6/6/19
Dozens of American veterans of D-Day were among other veterans and their families on a stage erected within the semicircular stone memorial at the Normandy American Cemetery.
Source: NY Times
6/3/19
The widespread killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls in Canada are a “genocide” for which Canada itself is responsible, a national inquiry concluded in its final report on Monday.
Source: Powell Tribune
6/4/2019
It’s important to preserve the history of Native tribes in the Yellowstone region.
Source: History.com
6/5/2019
World War I helped women around the world get the vote.
Source: CBS News
6/4/2019
Since the 19th Amendment's passage, women have helped inaugurate a new era of American politics.
Source: Yahoo News
6/4/2019
For Charles Norman Shay, commemorating his people's sacrifice will never replace the friends he lost on D-Day.
Source: Greenwich Time
6/5/2019
Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France were painting a "false" picture of who was responsible for winning World War II.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
5/31/2019
A retrospective on the black odyssey in America is scheduled for later this month at the National Archives at Atlanta.
Source: Newsweek
6/1/19
The LGBTQ Community is a vital part of American history.
Source: NY Times
5/30/19
New York City museums and public spaces celebrate Stonewall and the movement’s charismatic personalities in a handful of timely shows.
