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: Vox
8/2/2022
The application of the 14th Amendment to extend broad guarantees of individual rights is recent; the history of the doctrine of substantive due process has more frequently been used to protect the interests of corporations and the powerful. It's time for a new legal approach.
Source: Washington Post
7/25/2022
A series of attacks on the Jersey Shore in 1916 sparked a wave of sensationalism and a national "war on sharks" that continues today.
Source: Washington Post
7/26/2022
The study ran for 40 years, as nearly 400 Black men were diagnosed with syphilis but denied care so that scientists could study the progression of the disease, even after penicillin was available as an effective and safe treatment.
Source: The Atlantic
7/25/2022
by Ryan Busse
Aiming at a clientele of isolated, insecure young men, the gun industry began to advertise the killing power of its products and encouraging buyers to see this power as a key to their masculine patriotic identities.
Source: NPR
7/26/2022
The common objectives and concerns that engaged the Central Intelligence Agency at its 1947 founding are familiar to the intelligence community today, showing the continuity of American involvement in other nations' affairs.
Source: Seattle Times
6/26/2022
“The shameful legacy of the real John James Audubon, not the mythologized version, is antithetical to the mission of this organization and its values,” said Claire Catania, executive director of the Seattle chapter, in a statement.
Source: Axios
7/26/2022
"I am deeply sorry, sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the Indigenous peoples," Francis said.
Source: The Atlantic
7/19/2022
by Eve Fairbanks
"Sometimes I like to tell people that South Africa, very loosely, collapses hundreds of years of American history—from the antebellum period, through the end of Jim Crow, and well into our future—into about 50."
Source: Texas Observer
7/21/2022
The ideas and conspiratorial mindset central to Bircherism have become part of mainstream conservatism, with booming popularity in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Historian Edward H. Miller explains the group's ideas have been more tenacious than the organization itself.
Source: Washington Post
7/24/2022
Without a recognized privacy right to reproductive freedom, legal precedents like the Buck v. Bell decision could allow states to resume forcibly sterilizing women they deem unfit for motherhood.
Source: Associated Press
7/25/2022
Fifty years ago, Jean Heller revealed the horrifying truth that the US government had been denying hundreds of Black men treatment so they could study the progress of the disease.
Source: Politico
7/22/2022
Jim Byron, the CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation, is the unofficial guardian of the former president's legacy, having worked his way up in the organization after starting as a teenaged summer intern.
Source: Texas Tribune
7/24/2022
The hard right turn of state politics has caused many gay Republicans in Texas to scale back their goals for acceptance in the party.
Source: The Atlantic
7/20/2022
by David H. Gans
"This is a Court that insists it is following history and tradition where they lead, while cherry-picking the history it cares about to reach conservative results."
Source: Washington Post
7/20/2022
by Carlo Rotella
Although he came on the scene as a guitar hotshot, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's artistic ambitions go beyond the bombastic soloing of the blues-rock genre and incorporate more of the traditional breadth of the blues as African American music.
Source: Washington Post
7/15/2022
Ann McLean called secession legally valid and compared the Union army to the Russian forces invading Ukraine, while lamenting that Confederate monuments would no longer "tell the true story of the American South to people 500 years from now."
Source: PEN America
7/20/2022
A panel including historian Tara Y. White will discuss the connection between First Amendment rights and the struggle for Black freedom.
Source: In These Times
7/14/2022
By starving the NLRB and other agencies that enforce the terms of union contracts and labor laws, the right wing is daring workers to take more militant action outside the system, says labor writer Hamilton Nolan.
Source: Washington Post
7/17/2022
Efforts to recover artifacts from a small Massachusetts museum highlight the historical trade in looted items and trophies of conquest.
Source: New York Times
7/17/2022
In a newly-discovered unpublished memoir, the woman who accused Emmett Till of making sexual advances presents a self-serving account of her role in the events that led to his murder.
