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: Quartz
June 19, 2017
Trump’s win has broken through an apathy barrier of sorts. People who’d become disengaged with politics suddenly started paying attention again.
Source: CBS New York
June 18, 2017
The grant will ensure that the story of the people who were at the Stonewall uprising 48 years ago is told.
Source: Independant
June 18, 2017
Newly discovered diaries reveal horror of siege.
Source: Nola
June 15, 2017
Congressional members have been attacked at least 21 other times since 1789, according to a report compiled in 2011 by the Congressional Research Service.
Source: Live Science
June 16, 2017
At an ancient site of human sacrifice in China, war captives may have been kept as slaves for years before they were killed, a new study finds.
Source: The Washington Times
June 15, 2017
The hub of U.S. cybersecurity, Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, remains the game-changer in defense that it has been since its inception.
Source: NYT Editorial
June 17, 2017
His name is David Rubenstein. He founded the Carlyle Group and is giving away a billion dollars.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
June 16, 2017
The GOP’s secretive process marks a sharp departure from the traditional way the Senate has developed large, complex bills.
Source: NBC News
June 18, 2017
Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Source: Time Magazine
June 14, 2017
It was in 1828 when a journalist, stung by criticism, slapped the president’s son in the capitol in hopes of providing a duel.
Source: Time Magazine
June 14, 2017
70 years after its publication and her death, the story is being commemorated in a new edition published by LIFE.
Source: National Security Archive
June 15, 2017
Long-awaited volume supplements earlier publication that whitewashed U.S., British Roles.
Source: Star Telegram
June 15, 2017
Every June 19 in Texas, communities celebrate with prayer, family gatherings and a strong dose of history. That was the day in 1865 that a union general arrived in Galveston with an order informing Texas that all slaves were freed.
Source: The Guardian
May 31, 2017
The number of slaves worldwide is estimated at 45.8 million. Australia is now trying to put a stop to it.
Source: The Oneida Daily Dispatch
May 16, 2017
“Most people believe that slavery was a southern thing, it was mostly southern states,” he said, but most do not know New York City had more slaves than any city in the U.S. beside Charleston, S.C
Source: NYT
June 13, 2017
It’s happened before.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
June 14, 2017
The teacher argued that slave families mainly remained intact before the Civil War. Her student said that that’s racist.
Source: Twitter
June 13, 2017
by Kevin M. Kruse
Trump's rating is lower than any of these presidents: FDR, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama.
Source: USA Today
June 13, 2017
A groundbreaking study on lynching published 2 years ago can now be examined in detail thanks to Google.
Source: The Washington Post
June 12, 2017
It was in 1874. The couple? Andrew Kinney, a black man, and Mahala Miller, a white woman.
