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: AP
2/10/19
Finland’s move contrasts with the attitude of some eastern European nations that have sought to diminish their culpability in the Holocaust.
Source: NY Times
2/9/19
A national search for the original, signed copy of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention has raised awareness of a movement’s history.
Source: NY Times
2/10/19
Forty years ago, Iranians swelled with pride, hope and the expectation of a better future.
Source: New York Magazine
2/9/19
Last February, a rather intense controversy erupted at New York University over the menu offered by one dining hall as part of a Black History Month celebration.
Source: Town and Country
2/8/19
In 1797, he published scandalous details about his own affair.
Source: Lobe Log
2/11/19
by Shervin Malekzadeh
One thing that must be understood about Iran, about living there, is that the Revolution is never officially discussed as a finished event.
Source: Black Perspectives
2/6/19
by Denise Lynn
Ruby McCollum’s case is part of the long history of the carceral state’s heavy-handed and unjust policing of Black women.
Source: NY Times
2/7/19
The torrents of scorn poured on Mr. Yeltsin and his era by the Kremlin’s cheerleaders have given the complex an edgy appeal, helping it attract more than 700,000 visitors since it opened three winters ago.
Source: The Conversation
2/7/19
by Timothy J. Jorgensen
Lise Meitner was left off the publication that eventually led to a Nobel Prize for her colleague.
Source: Smithsonian.com
2/5/19
The legacy left behind by the Philadelphia-based retail chain Wanamaker’s is still felt by shoppers today
Source: NY Times
2/7/19
From “Frog and Toad” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” many of the most enduring 20th-century titles share a secret language of queer compassion.
Source: NPR
2/7/19
The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.
Source: Washington Post
2/6/19
Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States, the commonwealth reckons with the consequences of the system it created.
Source: Washington Post
2/6/19
49 Holocaust survivors are receiving $402,000 each from the French government in reparations for the French trains that deported them to Nazi concentration camps.
Source: Wall Street Journal
2/6/19
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ breaks box-office records
Source: The Conversation
2/6/19
by Steven C. Beda
Remembering the 1919 Seattle General Strike on its 100th anniversary.
Source: Washington Post
2/6/19
The choice has historical significance.
Source: Washington Post
2/5/19
It was very different from the speech President Trump delivered and the political spectacle the event has become.
Source: Time
2/6/19
“I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough!”
Source: NY Times
2/4/19
GWU Professor Hope Harrison is quoted extensively in the piece.
