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: Harvard Law Review
10-11-18
States and voters have been extending voting rights since the birth of the republic when only 6% of Americans were eligible to vote.
Source: The Times of Israel
10-9-18
Soviet secret police covered up its executions by planting trees over killing fields in Moscow’s forested Kommunarka area.
Source: Smithsonian
10-9-18
During the pogrom, a white mob killed an estimated 300 black Tulsans. According to eyewitnesses, the dead are buried in unmarked mass graves in Greenwood.
Source: NYT
10-8-18
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s regime removed infants from families that opposed him.
Source: Time Magazine
10-8-18
One major element turning the tide toward suffrage was the increasing presence of women in the workforce.
Source: The Washington Post
10-8-18
Before Brett M. Kavanaugh, there was Stanley Matthews, whose confirmation was so fraught and divisive that it took a second nomination to cement his place on the Supreme Court.
Source: National Security Archive
10/5/18
Officials refused to implement his plan. He lost and the dictatorship ended.
Source: Politico
10-7-18
A first cousin of the president kept a trove of financial records that appears to have provided evidence for a major investigation of the Trump family business.
Source: The Conversation
10-5-18
by Peter C. Mancall
Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and 'monstrous men' would be awaiting him.
Source: Time Magazine
10-5-18
Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.
Source: NYT
10-7-18
In the centuries since the court was established, about 16 percent of candidates submitted to the Senate never donned the coveted black robe — whether by outright rejection, withdrawal or deferring of the nomination.
Source: The Telegraph
10-6-18
Andrew Roberts says the phrase “black dog” had a different meaning at the beginning of the 20th century and did not refer to mental health.
Source: NYT
10-5-18
A search for a lost masterpiece uncovered a woman’s harrowing account of escaping deportation, and possibly death, while spying on a Nazi at close range.
Source: Forbes
10-6-18
The 50-48 tally continues a trend in which confirmations have devolved into strict party-line votes.
Source: NYT
10-4-18
Decades later, the Troubles “are so burned into our lives that they are part of our DNA,” said Monica McWilliams, a former civil rights marcher, peace activist and feminist leader.
Source: NYT
10/8/18
by NYT Editorial Board
It was the last mass lynching in US history.
Source: CNN
10-4-18
The mayor of Osaka objects to the statue, which memorializes the Korean women exploited by Japanese soldiers in the thirties and forties.
Source: The Jewish Journal
10-4-18
by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Morey Schapira
BART claims the group has a First Amendment right to buy advertising.
Source: Business Insider
9-3-18
"I urged the president to nominate a different individual," Sasse said. "I urged the president to nominate a woman."
Source: The Hill
10-3-18
57 percent did not know how many Justices sit on the Supreme Court.
