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 Baltimore Sun
9-25-18
At least 44 men in Maryland lost their lives to lynchings. Now activists are shining a light on the gruesome practice.
Source: National Security Archive
9/25/18
Possibly for the first time in U.S. diplomatic history, the “Nuclear Football” became a subject of a heads-of-state discussion when Russian President Boris Yeltsin proposed getting “rid” of it during a meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in September 1994.
Source: Smithsonian
9-25-18
Fearing repercussions of his groundbreaking scientific claims, which flew in the face of church doctrine, the famed astronomer fibbed.
Source: NYT
9-25-18
Engineers and archaeologists working together to save an ancient riverside temple in Egypt have discovered rare treasures, including a sphinx.
Source: The Washington Post
9-25-18
How Clarence Thomas’s fury saved his Supreme Court nomination
Source: Time Magazine
9-24-18
But It Did Affect Election Results
Source: NYT
9-23-18
Over the last five years, the nonprofit, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, has commissioned studies by the F.B.I. and independent historians to determine whether the hat genuinely belonged to Lincoln.
Source: National Security Archive
9/24/18
Contrary to the popular impression documents show that Republican presidents have pushed for the US to be an environmental leader.
Source: The Hill
9-22-18
The prospector imagery represents California's gold rush, during which indigenous Americans often endured violence from and were enslaved by settlers in order to build Christian missions.
Source: NYT
9-21-18
A forgotten slice of history about courageous African-American high school students and the journalists who covered them.
Source: NYT
9-22-18
If the Columbian city cannot bury the memory of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, it at least wants to control how and where his story gets told.
Source: The Weekly Standard
9-20-18
After 10 years and 20 films, Marvel Studios has finally unveiled the trailer for Captain Marvel, its first movie starring a woman as the sole lead.
Source: The Guardian
9-20-18
Archives shed light on incidents of racial discrimination and the country’s civil rights pioneers.
Source: The Washington Post
9-20-18
On Nov. 17, 1991, more than 1,600 African American women, outraged by the Senate’s mistreatment of Anita Hill, took out an ad in the New York Times with the headline: “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves.”
Source: The Washington Post
9-20-18
by Donna Bahorich
She wrote an op ed for the WaPo. Here’s her explanation.
Source: The Kansas City Star
9-20-18
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Fink-Whitman said she was surprised to learn teachers weren’t required to teach about the Holocaust.
Source: NYT
9-19-18
The discovery has stirred hope that the remains could be excavated in time for the planned celebrations in 2020 of the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia.
Source: The Washington Post
9-18-18
The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.
Source: The Morning Call
9-19-18
Tallman said his bill would forbid public school teachers from endorsing, supporting or opposing candidates or incumbents for local, state and federal offices while in the classroom.
Source: CGTN
9-18-18
Glasgow University has announced a program of "reparative justice," and will create a center for the study of slavery as well as a memorial.
