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: Time
5/20/19
The history of Henry Cabot Lodge and literacy tests.
Source: NPR
5/20/19
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karissa Haugeberg, assistant professor of history at Tulane University, about what it was like to get an abortion before Roe v. Wade.
Source: Washington Post
5/19/19
Reagan’s legacy on abortion is far more complicated, and antiabortion advocates have long considered his actions a disappointment.
Source: Informed Comment
5/15/19
by Juan Cole
An informative look.
Source: Woodrow Wilson Foundation
5/7/19
And how we can change it.
Source: Washington Post
5/16/19
Many of these oral history collections are housed in presidential libraries or academic institutions and provide biographers with richly detailed firsthand accounts from which to reconstruct Oval Office narratives.
Source: NPR
5/13/19
City police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners.
Source: NY Times
5/13/19
“With this, we can give back some of their dignity to those who were murdered.”
Source: The Atlantic
5/15/19
A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.
Source: Time
5/9/19
Three members of the Kennedy clan published a piece on Politico declaring that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—son of Bobby Kennedy—has been “tragically wrong” in his years-long crusade against vaccines.
Source: NY Times
5/11/19
As history has shown with the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, such investigations can gain legitimacy only when members of the president’s own party support them.
Source: Black Perspectives
5/10/19
by Adam H. Domby
The search engine functions to hide both slave ownership and enslaved people from the eyes of contemporary genealogists.
Source: NPR
5/10/19
"The world is changing much faster than I anticipated," he says.
Source: The Conversation
4/14/19
by John R. Thelin
Though the tradition goes back to colonial times, the validity of valedictorian honor is increasingly being called into question.
Source: NY Times
5/9/19
Artifacts said to have been taken from the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria have been offered for sale on Facebook.
Source: The Conversation
5/10/19
by Rut Diamint
The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the United States.
Source: NY Times
5/6/19
Built for $162 million, the museum features flashy interactive exhibits but also grapples with intelligence failures, out-of-control surveillance and torture.
Source: The Atlantic
5/8/19
It’s a relic of a beloved president. But did he ever wear it?
Source: New Yorker
5/8/19
"To reduce the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to a mistaken incident in American history, a bad taste in the collective mouth, disagreeable and embarrassing, is to forget the extent to which slavery and thus the very fate of the nation lay behind Johnson’s impeachment.”
Source: Washigton Post
5/7/19
The law at issue in the strife over Trump’s taxes arose from a bitter dispute between Mellon and Sen. James Couzens (R-Mich.), a deep-pocketed adversary on Capitol Hill, over the lawmaker’s investigation of the IRS.
