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
6-19-17
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
6-18-17
The grant will ensure that the story of the people who were at the Stonewall uprising 48 years ago is told.
Source: Independant
6-18-17
Newly discovered diaries reveal horror of siege.
Source: Nola
6-15-17
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
6-16-17
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
6-15-17
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
6-17-17
His name is David Rubenstein. He founded the Carlyle Group and is giving away a billion dollars.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
6-16-17
The GOP’s secretive process marks a sharp departure from the traditional way the Senate has developed large, complex bills.
Source: NBC News
6-18-17
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
6-14-17
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
6-14-17
70 years after its publication and her death, the story is being commemorated in a new edition published by LIFE.
Source: National Security Archive
6-15-17
Long-awaited volume supplements earlier publication that whitewashed U.S., British Roles.
Source: Star Telegram
6-15-17
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
5-31-17
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
5-16-17
“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
6-13-17
It’s happened before.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6-14-17
The teacher argued that slave families mainly remained intact before the Civil War. Her student said that that’s racist.
Source: Twitter
6-13-17
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
6-13-17
A groundbreaking study on lynching published 2 years ago can now be examined in detail thanks to Google.
Source: The Washington Post
6-12-17
It was in 1874. The couple? Andrew Kinney, a black man, and Mahala Miller, a white woman.
