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 Conversation
1/22/19
by Julia Kindt
The Pythia may have trailblazed the knowledge economy millennia before the arrival of “big data” and the invention of the internet.
Source: Denver Post
1/21/19
According to the NAACP’s history of lynchings, nearly 73 percent of the 4,800 people lynched from 1882 until 1968 were black.
Source: Seattle Times
1/18/19
The Seattle General Strike lasted six days, with not a single shot fired nor a single striker arrested.
Source: Washington Post
1/22/19
Forty-seven years ago this week, Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) announced she was seeking the Democratic 1972 nomination, becoming the first woman and first African American to run for a major political party’s presidential ticket.
Source: Washington Post
1/21/19
Descendants of two Confederate generals appeared in the Virginia Senate on Monday to show their support for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who days earlier sat out a Republican senator’s ode to Robert E. Lee.
Source: The Conversation
1/22/19
by Bradley W. Hart
Two campaigns, in 1940 and 1960, featured bold attempts by hostile foreign powers to put their preferred candidates in the Oval Office.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
1/21/19
“Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard."
Source: New York Times
1/20/19
Almost 154 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still quarreling — in state capitols and courtrooms, on college campuses and around town squares — over how, or whether, to commemorate the side that lost.
Source: NPR
1/18/19
The day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, a lesser known moment in civil rights history was unfolding in southern Georgia.
Source: Wall Street Journal
1/17/19
The history, which totals more than 1,300 pages, now is posted on the U.S. Army War College website, along with more than 1,000 declassified documents that were used in the research.
Source: Bustle
1/18/19
Three past protests in particular opened up opportunities for movements like the Women's March to take place: the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913, the Silent Parade of 1917, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Source: History.com
1/18/19
Despite criticisms from politicians, many scientists and others that the SDI was impractical, expensive and dangerous, the concept was developed during a frightening era.
Source: New York Times
1/18/19
For many Latvians. the appearance of their names, code names and dates of recruitment in a recently released K.G.B. archive has come as a traumatic surprise.
Source: Time
1/19/19
It had been a year of assassinations and police riots and defeats that had led, for Hunter Thompson, to the most unthinkable outcome of all: Richard Nixon’s victory march to the White House lawn.
Source: New York Times
1/17/19
What is forward-moving about reiterating an error in an effort to correct for it?
Source: Seattle Times
1/21/19
The number of students studying the humanities at the University of Washington is shrinking, with some majors down as much as 50 percent in a decade. It's having a financial impact, and also affecting the breadth of the university's expertise.
Source: Time
1/17/19
The civil rights power broker talks about his new memoir and working with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon.
Source: Time
1/17/19
Many of America’s ski resorts were started by soldiers who skied during World War II — a group that played a key role in the sport’s popularity in the United States.
Source: Washington Post
1/15/19
A look at the civil rights leader’s childhood name change
Source: Washington Post
1/16/19
Postponing a State of the Union speech is not unprecedented.
