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 Smithsonian
3/19/19
by Kate C. Lemay and Martha S. Jones
The exhibit delves into the complexities and biases of the nature of persistence.
Source: Washington Post
3/20/19
Many historians were quick to correct and criticize her remarks.
Source: Reuters
3/19/19
Here is an explanation of some past investigations and how their findings were made public.
Source: New York Times
3/20/19
Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History have been amended in a way that allows museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies exhibits often perpetuate.
Source: New York Times
3/20/19
Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.
Source: NPR
3/21/19
"Truly, the clock is ticking. We need to meet eyewitnesses as soon as possible, before they are no longer with us."
Source: CNN
3/20/19
The Electoral College has been "targeted for reform or abolition some 700 times" over the course of our republic-- more than any other part of the Constitution.
Source: The Atlantic
3/19/19
by Clint Smith
Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.
Source: Washington Post
3/16/19
Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.
Source: Washington Post
3/17/19
A story uncovering and restoring a piece of Civil War history.
Source: The Conversation
3/19/19
by Vivien G. Fryd
The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
3/19/19
For third year in a row, he also seeks to kill National Endowment for the Arts. Congress has rejected those proposals in the past.
Source: The Conversation
3/18/19
by Sarah Miller Davenport
Sixty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation making Hawaii America’s 50th state.
Source: Time
3/17/19
Historians Ruth Ben-Ghait and Robert O. Paxton help us understand the tragedy through history.
Source: WAMU
3/18/19
What was a completely segregated art slowly — and somewhat secretly — began to integrate in the halls of the Turkish Embassy.
Source: New York Review of Books
3/18/19
by Katherine Franke
From the Civil War to today.
Source: Salon
3/17/19
33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism.
Source: War on the Rocks
3/18/19
by David I. Goldman
How did John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson handle NATO?
Source: Process
3/18/19
by Ulrike Elisabeth Stockhausen
Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busy resettling the newly arrived refugees.
Source: Wall Street Journal
3/13/19
Diplomats accurately forecast many setbacks: sectarian violence, attacks on U.S. troops, Iranian intervention and long road to structural change.
