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: NYT
May 30, 2018
The ringleaders had been expelled and others reprimanded.
Source: Smithsonian
May 30, 2018
In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.
Source: NYT
May 29, 2018
The date was Aug. 17, 1998. President Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury. Twenty years later, people in the room and those waiting nearby share their memories.
Source: NYT
May 30, 2018
Archaeologists in Italy found the skeleton of a man protruding from a huge block of stone, almost 2,000 years after he died.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 29, 2018
When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated.
Source: NYT
5/28/18
Yale's David Blight traces the holiday to a series of commemorations that freed black Americans held in the spring of 1865, after Union soldiers, including members of the 21st United States Colored Infantry, liberated the port city of Charleston, S.C.
Source: The Economist
May 26, 2018
Why hasn’t it worked out so well?
Source: Time Magazine
May 24, 2018
That Outlook Has a Disturbing History
Source: The Conversation
May 25, 2018
by Kevin Stagg
The issue is in the news as the government decides what to do about a donation made in 1927 to pay off the national debt.
Source: Capital News
May 27, 2018
From London to Berlin, Europe’s museums are packed with hundreds of thousands of colonial-era items. Increasingly, they are facing the awkward question of whether they should be there at all.
Source: South China Morning Post
May 25, 2018
Supporters of move say it would help students better understand city’s national connections while critics fear important but controversial events may be conveniently left out.
Source: The Guardian
May 25, 2018
The Trump administration is quietly seeking to create more African American monuments. For some, it’s been a long wait.
Source: BBC News
May 23, 2018
A man who said he witnessed the unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme 30 years ago has himself been linked to the killing.
Source: The Washington Post
May 26, 2018
His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.
Source: National Security Archive
5/25/18
A Colombian senator told the U.S. Embassy in 1993 that the founders of the Medellín drug cartel “financed” the election campaign of then-senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive.
Source: Philly.com
May 21, 2018
A library representative said that she was shocked by the find — and that the Quakers will offer to return the remains, to conduct a burial, or take any action that Indian leaders may desire.
Source: Times Higher Education
May 24, 2018
While the Sorbonne was at the epicentre of the 1968 protests, the shock waves were felt far beyond France, with students occupying Peking and UC Berkeley at the same time. A group of academics revisit the spirit of soixante-huit and consider its legacy.
Source: NYT
5/24/18
Decades after Johnson was convicted under the Mann Act, his case drew significant attention as a gross miscarriage of justice and a symbol of the depths of racism in the American justice system.
Source: NBC affiliate Miami
5/24/18
The ship sank to the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago and was found with the help of an underwater autonomous vehicle.
Source: Time Magazine
May 23, 2018
Here's how one player protested.
