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: Trib Live
2-6-18
What is treason?
Source: The Washington Post
2-6-18
Nicole Persley of Boca Raton, Fla. says a genetic test validated what she had dug up about her family's heritage.
Source: NY Review of Books
2-7-18
From their very beginnings, the American university and American slavery have been intertwined, but only recently are we beginning to understand how deeply.
Source: OSU
2-6-18
Study shows how they aided southern blacks during Reconstruction
Source: The Washington Post
2-6-18
But what about the Jedwabne massacre?
Source: The Daily Beast
2-6-18
A group of students who invaded the Blighty café in North London, which houses a statue of Winston Churchill, say they were decrying the wartime British prime minister’s racism.
Source: NYT
1-31-18
Babies born during the Dutch Hunger Winter became adults with higher rates of health problems. Now researchers may have found the genetic switches that made it happen.
Source: The Washington Post
2-4-18
The history of racism in the U.S. military goes back to before the United States was established, with black people defending a country that didn't protect them.
Source: Time Magazine
2-5-18
Viewers were taken aback. It didn’t take long for social media users to inquire whether King’s family approved of the company appropriating the civil rights leader’s words as a marketing tool.
Source: The Greenville News
2-1-18
“I think it’s important to note that my family didn’t fight because we had slaves. My family fought because the federal government was trying to tell us how to live.”
Source: Time Magazine
2-2-18
An interview with Loch K. Johnson, a veteran one the Church Committee hearings and author of the new book "Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States."
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
2-4-18
Arthur Jones — an outspoken Holocaust denier, activist anti-Semite and white supremacist — is poised to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat representing parts of Chicago and nearby suburbs.
Source: Newsweek
2-3-18
The tomb is thought to have belonged to “Hetpet,” a high-ranking female official.
Source: The Times and Democrat
2-4-18
It’s been 50 years since the South Carolina Highway Patrolmen fired their weapons into a crowd of black students protesting on the front of the campus of South Carolina State College.
Source: National Security Archive
2/2/18
The president privately threatened that he would consider “hauling out” U.S. forces from Western Europe if West Germany reneged on its 1954 pledge not to produce nuclear weapons.
Source: Newsweek
2-2-18
Vladimir Putin marks Russia's bloodiest battle with the Nazis.
Source: History channel
2-1-18
Standing at 6 feet 2 inches, with proficient shooting skills from his time in the Civil War and his knowledge of the terrain and language, Bass Reeves became the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi. As deputy marshal, Bass is said to have arrested more than 3,000 people and killed 14 outlaws, all without sustaining a single gun wound.
Source: Politico
2-1-18
The brief history of a shopworn cliché that deserves to die.
Source: The Atlantic
2-1-18
A new report finds that the topic is mistaught and often sentimentalized—and students are alarmingly misinformed as a result.
Source: NYT
2-1-18
Now the second line of the anthem, which gained official status only in 1980, will soon become “True patriot love in all of us command” rather than “in all thy sons command.”
