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 Atlantic
6/3/19
Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world.
Source: The Atlantic
5/2/2019
by Elizabeth Hinton
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why the hysteria surrounding the 1989 case caused more children to stand trial as adults than at any other time in U.S. history.
Source: Washington Post
6/3/19
The story we remember this week — celebrating the 100th anniversary of Congress passing the suffrage amendment — ignores women of color and their contribution to the movement’s success.
Source: NY Times
6/3/19
One of President Trump’s earliest memories, one he routinely recounts to journalists and biographers, is of watching his mother watch television, so enthralled that she barely moved for hours, on the day in 1953 that Queen Elizabeth was crowned.
Source: Politico Magazine
6/4/19
by David Greenberg
A new trove of FBI records has become yet another political weapon in our hyper-partisan age. That doesn’t mean we should ignore it.
Source: NY Times
6/4/19
David Garrow found F.B.I. documents alleging King stood by during a rape. But some scholars question whether to trust records created as part of a smear campaign.
Source: NY Times
6/3/19
Three decades after the Chinese Army crushed demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square, “Tank Man” — the person who boldly confronted a convoy of tanks barreling down a Beijing avenue — is as much a mystery as ever.
Source: National Security Archive
6/4/19
Declassified Records Describe Attacks by Chinese Troops, Internal Official Debates, and U.S. Attempts to Keep U.S.-China Relations on Track.
Source: Foreign Affairs
5/30/19
by Andrew J. Nathan
Inside the Secret Meeting That Changed China.
Source: NY Times
5/30/19
After three decades, Jian Liu decided to reveal images he took of the hopeful 1989 student movement and its bloody aftermath.
Source: History.com
6/3/19
Days before the invasion, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was told by a top strategist that paratrooper casualties alone could be as high as 75 percent.
Source: The Conversation
6/3/19
by Colin Flint
When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a bold invasion of Nazi-held territory that helped tip the balance of World War II – they were using a remarkable and entirely untested technology: artificial ports.
Source: AP
6/2/19
International leaders will gather again this week to honor the dwindling number of D-Day veterans.
Source: Time
6/4/19
Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.
Source: Capital Gazette
6/2/19
Seventy-five years later, the ranks have thinned of those who braved machine gun fire on French beaches that were marked on their maps with American names like Utah and Omaha.
Source: Washington Post
6/2/19
Pointe du Hoc’s importance as a military objective has become the subject of heated debate as the 75th anniversary of the invasion approaches.
Source: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
5/31/19
The FBI allegations chronicled by Garrow could trigger a new examination of the civil rights hero’s personal life.
Source: The Conversation
5/30/19
by Trevor Griffey
An article just published by the U.K.-based Standpoint Magazine alleges that civil rights icon Martin Luther King witnessed and even celebrated a woman’s rape.
Source: Washington Post
5/30/19
The Pulitzer Prize-winning King biographer says he doesn’t believe his reputation will suffer.
Source: Washington Post
5/22/19
The three young men, dubbed the Silver Spring Three, poured blood on draft cards in suburban Maryland.
