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: Smithsonian.com
5/7/19
The site was recently listed as part of the NPS’ Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
Source: The Conversation
5/8/19
by Ken Hughes
“Why, we’ll just let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell,” Nixon said.
Source: The Conversation
5/9/19
by Dave Tell
As Till’s story has been passed down through the generations and taken up by a range of memorials, its plot has been shaped by forces like poverty as much as by fidelity to historical fact.
Source: Quarts
5/8/19
The reasons that Western societies have devised for barring women from covering each leg individually have often fallen back on appeals to tradition and values.
Source: NY Times
5/8/19
A Navy seaplane flew from Queens to the Azores in 1919, eight years before the Spirit of St. Louis. It took three weeks. It was not nonstop.
Source: Smithsonian.com
5/3/19
But the legal fight to remove the city’s statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson may not be over.
Source: Smithsonian.com
5/2/19
The Polish government has taken over ownership of the one-time nerve center of the Third Reich, ridding the site of paintball and pottery classes.
Source: The Conversation
5/6/19
by Jordan Brasher
How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil?
Source: Washington Post
5/3/19
Used as a potentially deadly chemical agent during World War I, mustard gas can burn victims’ skin, respiratory tract and eyes.
Source: U.S. News
5/3/19
On Thursday, Colorado lawmakers voted to mandate LGBTQ curriculum for K-12 public school students.
Source: The North Star
5/7/19
A bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced a bill to establish the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC.
Source: Time
5/4/19
The new photos were taken by John Filo and Howard Ruffner, two students at the university.
Source: Time
5/3/19
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet authorities reportedly trained beluga wales, dolphins, sea lions and fur seals to search for underwater mines and other objects.
Source: NY Times
5/5/19
Since the 2016 presidential election, scholars have hotly debated the best way to counter the “weaponization” of the Middle Ages by a rising tide of far-right extremists.
Source: NY Times
5/6/19
In 1864, riding a wave of nationalism, another former colonial power, Denmark, became engulfed in a doomed military conflict against Prussian and Austrian forces, experiencing a crushing loss that led to the surrender of around a third of its territory.
Source: High Country News
4/29/19
Some believe the Golden State is ignoring a history of violence against Native Americans.
Source: NY Times
4/30/19
Eva’s Instagram account, based on a diary kept by the real Eva Heyman in 1944, goes live Wednesday afternoon for the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
Source: NY Times
4/29/19
The May 4, 1919, protest against Western colonialism had inflamed Chinese nationalism and helped spread a wave of ideas rejecting Chinese tradition and hierarchy.
Source: Time
5/1/19
by Katrina Gulliver
On April 30, the Evening World ran an extra edition that, under the headline “NATION-WIDE TERRORIST PLOT,” described the “infernal machines” as part of a conspiracy.
Source: Time
5/2/19
by Olivia B. Waxman
Though it was just one of the half-dozen Nazi camps that scholars identify as “killing centers,” there’s a reason Auschwitz has become the focus of the history of the Holocaust.
