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: AJC.com
August 6, 2018
Wesleyan College officials announced they are abolishing Wesleyan’s use of its four class names over concerns they link directly back to the most menacing parts of the institution’s history.
Source: The Hill
August 7, 2018
President Trump first used the characterization for the news media in a tweet less than a month into his term, proclaiming that various media outlets are “not my enemy," but the "enemy of the American People!”
Source: NPR
August 5, 2018
In many cases, they remain hidden in storage while municipalities decide their fate.
Source: CNN
August 7, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it's a "traditional exercise" of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional, as he defended the controversial practice of signing statements prevalent in George W. Bush's White House.
Source: Smithsonian
August 6, 2018
The monument features 12 bronze statues and a wall etched with 400 additional names of women who played an important role in shaping Virginia’s history.
Source: CNN
August 6, 2018
He argued that morality and integrity to the office of the presidency were vital.
Source: NYT
August 5, 2018
The act of vandalism occurred months after Romania’s Parliament passed a law in June to prevent and combat episodes of anti-Semitism.
Source: The Washington Post
August 4, 2018
106 years later, the pro-Trump online conspiracy-theory group QAnon has made Morgan the villain of a wildly implausible story.
Source: Newsweek
August 6, 2018
As of March 2017, more than 160,000 hibakusha, the Japanese name for atomic bomb survivors, were still alive.
Source: Political Research Associates
8/6/18 (date accessed)
by Margaret Power
Here's what a historian found when she began interviewing them.
Source: The Washington Post
August 5, 2018
At the spot marking where Till’s body was pulled from the river, it took just 35 days since installation for a replacement sign to be pierced by gunfire. Again.
Source: Salon
August 6, 2018
by Chauncey DeVega
"I do think there's certainly a very strong possibility that it's not going to end well”
Source: NYT
August 2, 2018
Amazon removed items sold on its site by other retailers, including a baby onesie and Nazi patches, after nonprofits and lawmakers called attention to them.
Source: NBC News
August 6, 2018
"If we’re not doing it, if we’re not going to do it, I don’t think anyone else will.”
Source: Time Magazine
August 2, 2018
Here are 5 companies that did it earlier.
Source: The Hill
August 2, 2018
"You see the Nazi platform from the early 1930s ... and you look at it compared to the DNC platform of today, you're saying, 'Man, those things are awfully similar' to a point where it's actually scary."
Source: Time Magazine
August 1, 2018
Though an 3D-printed plastic “Liberator” may sound like something out of a futuristic story, its name has a long history.
Source: The Washington Post
August 2, 2018
They couldn’t top Teddy Roosevelt’s, anyway.
Source: The Washington Post
July 31, 2018
Are we all at peace with that?
Source: The Washington Post
August 1, 2018
The films were donated last year by the family of Marguerite A. “Missy” LeHand, a largely forgotten figure who was FDR’s longtime aide, rumored lover and the woman behind the camera in many of the shots.
