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 Washington Post
4-18-18
Barbara Bush described the death of her daughter and the grief that followed as an agony made more bearable by her relationship with her husband.
Source: The Guardian
4-16-18
Sixty years ago, Belgium set up a live display of people from Congo for the 1958 world fair. Now the country is rethinking that legacy.
Source: Longview News-Journal
4-17-18
Last year the city of Memphis, which is majority black, was able to find a legal loophole to get rid of two Confederate statues and a bust by selling city parks to a nonprofit.
Source: New York Post
4-18-18
The two met at a Christmas dance. She was 17. He was 18. The future president was a naval aviator in training.
Source: The Hill
4-17-18
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) released a campaign ad touting an act she signed last year to protect Confederate monuments in the state.
Source: NYT
4-15-18
Maralinga, a barren stretch of land in South Australia’s remote western desert, is the country’s only former nuclear test site open to tourists.
Source: NYT
4-16-18
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 1942 executive order that sent more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps.
Source: NYT
4-16-18
The new National Memorial Hall for fallen soldiers seeks consensus in a divided society by paring down commemoration to its bare essentials.
Source: NYT
4-16-18
A statue of J. Marion Sims, an 19th century surgical pioneer who experimented on female slaves, will be moved to the Brooklyn cemetery where he is buried.
Source: Bloomberg
4-15-18
“Without the bomb, North Korea is Albania.”
Source: The Richmond-Times Dispatch
4-15-18
The textbook said slaves were happy, often referring to them as servants.
Source: WSJ
Twitter feed, book, walking tour, panel discussion look back at student occupation and protest that ended in hundreds of arrests.
Source: Lincoln and Mexico Project
4-11-18
Where was the original border between Mexico and the United States after Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821? Most are shocked to learn.
Source: NYT
4-15-18
A fight is brewing in Kansas City over whether choosing a boulevard on the mainly black East Side to name for Martin Luther King Jr. would honor his legacy or reinforce the segregation he fought.
Source: NYT
4-14-18
Nine minutes of newly found footage, restored from an aging film reel that was revealed publicly this weekend, shows the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906.
Source: Fox5
4-13-18
The video was being shared on Facebook showed second-graders at an Atlanta charter school performing a black history play while holding blackface masks.
Source: The Conversation
4/13/18
by Rachel Caufield
Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, just announced his retirement, and the race to replace him started before his announcement. What is the speaker's role? How has it changed over history?
Source: The Conversation
4-13-18
by Monte Mills
A Supreme Court case deals with the narrow issue of tribal salmon fishing rights in the Northwest, but raises fundamental questions about justice for American Indians.
Source: Newsweek
4-12-18
Years after the Holocaust, the Mossad learned that Egypt was working with German scientists on weapons of mass destruction.
Source: The Hill
4/12/18
Wendy Vitter, President Trump's nominee to serve as a federal judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, on Wednesday declined to say whether she believes a Supreme Court ruling ending school segregation was "correctly decided."
