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 Lily
1/17/19
by Rachel Vogelstein and Rebecca Turkington
Throughout history, women’s movements around the world have translated mass collective action into political, social and economic change.
Source: Time
1/16/19
One of Prohibition's legacies is how, a century before the MeToo movement, it succeeded in making issues that women cared about part of the national conversation.
Source: Snopes
Accessed 1/16/19
The quote spread across the Internet, stripped of its context and in meme form, prompting some readers to query whether the quote and its description were real.
Source: Black Perspectives
1/16/19
by Karen Cook Bell
Emboldened by their war time experiences and conscious of the transnational nature of the struggle against racism, African Americans challenged white Americans’ attempt to cast Blacks stationed in Japan as trouble makers.
Source: Time
1/15/19
The 10-page ruling issued late Monday by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo said a 2017 state law barring the removal or alteration of historical monuments wrongly violated the free speech rights of local communities.
Source: The Conversation
1/14/19
by Ingrid Sharp and Corinne Painter
There were other women who played an active role in the German revolution in cities across the country.
Source: Literary Hub
1/14/19
by Jennifer Traig
For most of history, authors have used their words to render children speechless.
Source: The Conversation
1/15/19
by Jeffrey Miller
For better or worse, Prohibition changed the way Americans drank, and its cultural impact has never really gone away.
Source: The Conversation
1/14/19
by David Gunderman
Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.
Source: Tom Dispatch
1/13/19
A Timeline of Border Fortification
Source: New Republic
1/14/19
How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama.
Source: Politico
1/13/19
by Mark Lawrence Schrad
One hundred years later, it's time to challenge a long-held bias.
Source: Smithsonian.com
1/10/19
Cromwell is alternately lauded as the “heroic military and political leader” who defended Parliament and vilified as a ruthless war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Catholics.
Source: Salon
1/10/19
Trump's televised address was reportedly written by aide Stephen Miller, known for his hardline immigration views.
Source: New York Times
1/12/19
“The higher-ed climate has changed profoundly and it’s not going back to the old normal.”
Source: USA Today
1/14/19
They say ‘a wall is medieval.’ Well, so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall," Trump said.
Source: New York Times
1/10/19
As President Vladimir V. Putin promotes Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as a cornerstone of nationalist fervor, he has a pressing need for the T-34, which became a symbol of Soviet might.
Source: AP
1/11/19
“Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”
Source: New York Times
1/13/19
“The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda” targets “Hamilton,” the play, and “Hamilton,” the best-selling biography by Ron Chernow, which inspired Mr. Miranda.
Source: Time
1/8/19
by Olivia B. Waxman
Not only are national emergencies more common than most Americans probably realize, they can also go on for decades.
