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
9-2-17
In a backyard in Berlin, a ramshackle house that was once a haven for the civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is preparing for its third life — back in the United States.
Source: Wired
9-3-17
FEMA was the result of Jimmy Carter’s efforts to restore some primacy to civil defense planning, bringing it back into the spotlight after years of diminishing budgets.
Source: Newsday
8-31-17
His name is J. Marion Sims. Should he be remembered as the father of modern gynecology or for his experiments on black slaves?
Source: Time Magazine
8-29-17
The idea of a leader forgiving the crimes of citizens has deep roots.
Source: Time Magazine
8-31-17
It is conceivable that he could become the least popular president in modern history.
Source: The Post and Courier
8-31-17
Mayor John Tecklenburg's latest strategy to amend some Confederate-related monuments and add some new ones recognizing African-American history has been met with a range of reactions so far from Charleston residents, historians and community leaders.
Source: National Security Archive
8-30-17
The Atomic Energy Commission initiated studies to consider the ecological impact of nuclear war in the early 1960s, a time when the writings of natural scientist Rachel Carson were starting to inspire the modern environmental movement.
Source: NYT
8-30-17
Foreign powers have tried to control Afghanistan
for three centuries. It has not gone well
for them. Now the U.S. is digging back in.
Source: CPR
8-22-17
Colorado had that debate decades ago.
Source: AP
8-22-17
An advocacy group is calling for a renaming of the building built for Boston by a slave trader.
Source: NPR
8-22-27
He reread a portion of his Saturday, Aug. 12, statement on the violence in Charlottesville, and mocked criticism that he didn't respond quickly enough.
Source: NYT
8-22-17
Georgetown University's Jacques Berlinerblau says a gap between how professors are trained, what they aspire to and what they are rewarded for, and the day-to-day work of an academic job.
Source: Jackson Free Press
8-21-17
by Robert Luckett and Otis W. Pickett
“We object in the strongest possible terms to perpetuating a symbol of racial terror on a flag that is supposed to represent the people of Mississippi.”
Source: NYT
8-22-17
Even within the family of Robert E. Lee, there are divisions over what should be done about Confederate monuments and what their ancestor stands for now.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
8-22-17
It’s chronicling Confederate monuments on college campuses – and wants your help.
Source: Time Magazine
8-22-17
He told Fox & Friends "what we have to walk away from is a desire by some to erase parts of our history just in the name of some contemporary political cause."
Source: The Hill
8-17-17
A majority of Americans, 83 percent, said holding neo-Nazi views is unacceptable, the poll found.
Source: The Irish Times
8-20-17
It fell into the hands of the German government in a forced sale by its Jewish owner in 1933.
Source: The Hill
8-20-17
by Mike Purdy
Many other presidents have thought about it.
Source: Newsweek
8-19-17
Even if he doesn’t indict Trump on the theory that you can’t indict a president, he can make his findings public.
