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: The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 1, 2016
In an effort to atone for its profit off the sale of 272 slaves almost two centuries ago, Georgetown University will, among other things, give preferential treatment in the admissions process to descendants of those slaves.
Source: NYT
August 29, 2016
New York’s polio epidemic a century ago had many of the problems found in the response to Zika: false rumors, ethnic prejudice and ineffective measures.
Source: Atlanta Black Star
August 30, 2016
A Georgia school is under fire after one of its teachers introduced her students to a “demeaning” slavery education game about the Underground Railroad.
Source: Miami Herald
August 30, 2016
A newly released report sheds light on suspicions surrounding Miamian Eugenio Martinez’s role in the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon.
Source: The Guardian
August 29, 2016
Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken
Source: NYT
August 27, 2016
As Mr. Trump assumed an increasing role in his father’s business, the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented.
Source: New Yorker
August 22, 2016
by Jeffrey Toobin
In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.
Source: Raw Story
August 22, 2016
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) thinks history professors are an extravagant luxury that could be cheaply replaced with video documentaries and Google searches.
Source: My Statesman
August 25, 2016
“It is inappropriate for our goal of diversity and inclusion on campus,” UT President Gregory L.Fenves said.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
August 25, 2016
Even as a youth, Lonnie Bunch was captivated by history.
Source: PRESS TV
August 17, 2016
Greece has asked Germany to pay reparations for the losses the Nazi war machine inflicted on the South European nation during World War II, pledging to exhaust diplomatic and, if necessary, legal means in pursuit of its demands.
Source: The Daily Beast
August 22, 2016
For the first time on record, an International Criminal Court defendant has entered a guilty plea to war crimes.
Source: NYT
August 21, 2016
It was an immigrant tale that would make any family proud. But for decades, the Trumps almost never talked about it.
Source: Newsweek
August 22, 2016
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has taken a lot of heat for paid appearances, but she's far from the first politician to accept such invitations.
Source: The Seattle Times
August 21, 2016
“This is an opportunity to take an amazing culture, and understand what it mean to be an American through this lens,” said Lonnie Bunch, as he toured observers around a special sneak peek inside the building.
August 19, 2016
She opened the library in 2013, partly to try to start a conversation about race in her community. She spent about $150,000 on it -- yet almost no one cared or came. So she built a slave cabin.
Source: UPI
August 26, 2016
Silvia Fazio, the German school's director, apologized for the students' behavior.
Source: NYT
August 23, 2016
The vote may be more favorable to Mr. Trump than the worst-case-scenario prognosticators suggest for a very simple reason: Landslides do not really happen in presidential elections anymore.
Source: The Atlantic
August 24, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign manager says he’s actually winning, thanks to “undercover” supporters. Plenty of past presidential hopefuls have mistakenly believed the same.
Source: NYT
August 16, 2016
In the West, Yes. In the World, No.
