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
September 25, 2018
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
September 25, 2018
Fearing repercussions of his groundbreaking scientific claims, which flew in the face of church doctrine, the famed astronomer fibbed.
Source: NYT
September 25, 2018
Engineers and archaeologists working together to save an ancient riverside temple in Egypt have discovered rare treasures, including a sphinx.
Source: The Washington Post
September 25, 2018
How Clarence Thomas’s fury saved his Supreme Court nomination
Source: Time Magazine
September 24, 2018
But It Did Affect Election Results
Source: NYT
September 23, 2018
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
September 22, 2018
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
September 21, 2018
A forgotten slice of history about courageous African-American high school students and the journalists who covered them.
Source: NYT
September 22, 2018
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
September 20, 2018
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
September 20, 2018
Archives shed light on incidents of racial discrimination and the country’s civil rights pioneers.
Source: The Washington Post
September 20, 2018
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
September 20, 2018
by Donna Bahorich
She wrote an op ed for the WaPo. Here’s her explanation.
Source: The Kansas City Star
September 20, 2018
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
September 19, 2018
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
September 18, 2018
The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.
Source: The Morning Call
September 19, 2018
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
September 18, 2018
Glasgow University has announced a program of "reparative justice," and will create a center for the study of slavery as well as a memorial.
