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
October 24, 2018
by Gregg Jones
It was based on Michael Beschloss’s new book.
Source: Insider
October 25, 2018 (accessed)
It has a history of being used to mock African-Americans and exclude black actors from the entertainment industry.
Source: Smithsonian
October 25, 2018 (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
October 23, 2018
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
October 24, 2018
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
October 23, 2018
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
October 24, 2018
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
October 22, 2018
Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
October 22, 2018
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
October 22, 2018
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
October 22, 2018
History shows that doesn't always make a difference.
Source: NYT
October 21, 2018
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
October 23, 2018
After independent analysis, the Museum of the Bible said on Monday that five of its Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake.
Source: The Guardian
October 22, 2018
Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years.
Source: Shadowproof
October 18, 2018
A historian’s testimony showed how the system was motivated by racial discrimination.
Source: AP
October 15, 2018
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
October 19, 2018
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
October 22, 2018 (accessed)
But he anticipated much about our current political moment.
Source: Smithsonian
October 19, 2018
Women who consorted with Nazi soldiers were attacked, shunned and deported after the war.
Source: NYT
October 18, 2018
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.
