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: Dallas Morning News
10-24-18
by Gregg Jones
It was based on Michael Beschloss’s new book.
Source: Insider
10-25-18 (accessed)
It has a history of being used to mock African-Americans and exclude black actors from the entertainment industry.
Source: Smithsonian
10-25-18 (accessed)
Two newly translated diaries by young women murdered in the Holocaust cry out to us about the evils of the past and the dangers of the present.
Source: The Washington Post
10-23-18
A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs said he removed a portrait of the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard from his Washington, D.C., office after offended employees began signing a petition to present to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
Source: Smithsonian
10-24-18
More than 4 million people voted, securing top honors for Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in the Great American Read initiative.
Source: NYT
10-23-18
The National Screening Room is something of a time capsule: The videos cover the period from 1890 through 1999, capturing a broad range of American life.
Source: The Washington Post
10-24-18
76 percent of self-identified Republicans are satisfied with American democracy, compared with just 44 percent of Democrats and 39 percent of independents.
Source: The Washington Post
10-22-18
Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10-22-18
The British-born Faurisson was a staunch defender of Marshal Philippe Petain, the French leader who collaborated with Nazi occupiers of the country during World War II, and whose government is named for its former seat of Vichy.
Source: The National Constitution Center
10-22-18
The Posse Comitatus Act dates back to the Rutherford B. Hayes era in Washington after federal troops left formerly rebellious states as part of the pact that ended the Reconstruction era.
Source: Time Magazine
10-22-18
History shows that doesn't always make a difference.
Source: NYT
10-21-18
Paula Wright’s great-great-great grandmother, Kittie Simkins, was a black woman born into slavery in South Carolina. Ms. Simkins married a former Confederate soldier.
Source: NPR
10-23-18
After independent analysis, the Museum of the Bible said on Monday that five of its Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake.
Source: The Guardian
10-22-18
Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years.
Source: Shadowproof
10-18-18
A historian’s testimony showed how the system was motivated by racial discrimination.
Source: AP
10-15-18
The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent nearly $3 million on Confederate cemetery security since August 2017, records obtained by the AP show.
Source: Time Magazine
10-19-18
She became “Jackie O.,” a nickname that first appeared in the pages of TIME, a few months after marrying Aristotle Onassis.
Source: The New Yorker
10-22-18 (accessed)
But he anticipated much about our current political moment.
Source: Smithsonian
10-19-18
Women who consorted with Nazi soldiers were attacked, shunned and deported after the war.
Source: NYT
10-18-18
A gathering at Stone Mountain Park, just east of Atlanta, was organized by a group called the OneRace Movement, whose leaders sought to “depoliticize and bring restoration and healing” to the place.
