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: Politico Magazine
2/24/19
Some Democrats are talking about adding justices to the bench. But the revelations show almost no one understands what really happened back in the 1930s.
Source: NY Times
2/23/19
“This is a stronger and more damning account of Dickens’s behavior than any other."
Source: NY Times
2/22/19
The governor’s statement comes as racially insensitive photographs in old yearbooks have increasingly raised demands for accountability and explanation from the prominent individuals associated with them.
Source: The Atlantic
2/22/19
by Adam Sewer
Timothy Thomas Fortune isn’t a household name, but he had a profound influence on the struggle for civil rights.
Source: NY Times
2/21/19
A Tufts University project seeks to make “history more visible” — from slavery to Black Lives Matter — with a map of historic African-American sites in Boston and beyond.
Source: NY Times
2/20/19
He walked into a store and it changed civil rights. That crumbling store has come to symbolize the struggle to address the nation’s racial violence.
Source: Washington Post
2/21/19
“It’s unacceptable, and it undermines the community and the education that our children receive.”
Source: Time
2/21/19
Historians say this marks a new era of hyperpartisanship that will likely erode trust in traditionally independent law enforcement agencies.
Source: Smithsonian.com
2/21/19
The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts
Source: Time
2/21/19
The Young Lincoln statue first made its splashy debut at the New York World’s Fair in 1939.
Source: National Security Archive
2/22/19
by Tom Blanton and Nate Jones
Oscar-worthy Documents on the Dark Side, from Cheyenne to Baghdad
Source: NY Times
2/19/19
The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.
Source: New Yorker
2/21/19
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of many black leaders of the civil-rights movement who spoke with Robert Penn Warren in a series of interviews about race and America in the sixties.
Source: USA Today
2/21/19
In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.
Source: Washington Post
2/21/19
Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded Wednesday to a now-viral video of an unaired interview in which he swore at a guest, calling him a “moron” and a “tiny brain."
Source: NPR
2/21/19
"There has never been historic preservation off our planet. It's a really difficult subject."
Source: NY Times Magazine
2/20/19
President Obama unveiled the plans for the Obama Presidential Center in May 2017. He said he wanted a place that “looked forward, not backward, and would provide a place to train future leaders.”
Source: Smithsonian.com
Accessed 2/21/19
Artifacts from the National Museum of American History.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Accessed 2/21/19
A recent study broke down each state’s educational standards to see whose ‘herstory’ was missing
Source: The Atlantic
2/19/19
The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?
