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 Los Angeles Times
The controversial symbol is key to depicting history, they said.
Source: NYT
6-26-15
It isn’t just in South Carolina or Virginia. Cities throughout the South have streets, schools and parks named for other Confederate generals like J. E. B. Stuart, Jubal Early and Stonewall Jackson.
Source: Idaho State Journal
6-26-15
Former Idaho Attorney General David Leroy is cautious about any plans to remove the murals.
Few, alas, have taken notice.
Source: The Local
6-25-15
Several thousand people could now be eligible for compensation, including nationals of Israel and Canada as well as Americans who were deported from France to the death camps some 70 years ago.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
6-23-15
After the murder of nine black people in a South Carolina church, memorials of pro-slavery politicians and Confederate battles are facing new scrutiny.
Source: The Washington Post
6-24-15
Historians and others are finding new ways to acknowledge the university’s historic ties to slavery, to give a more complete picture of its foundation and early years, as the school approaches its bicentennial.
Source: NYT
6-24-15
A count by a research center found that non-Muslim extremists have been far more lethal than Islamic militants on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, running counter to public perception.
Source: AP
6-24-15
The exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin has been four years in the planning but is opening amid a new debate in Germany over whether to allow full-fledged marriage for same-sex couples.
Source: NYT
6-23-15
The tombs, one of a Shiite saint and another a Sufi scholar, were the first in the Syrian city that Islamic State fighters claimed to have destroyed.
Source: NY Review of Books
6-22-15
by Luc Sante
Now the story can be told
Source: NPR
6-22-15
"It felt like you were on fire."
Source: The Washington Post
6-22-15
A wide range of innovations from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and Thomas Edison’s light bulb to the early Google servers and Apple’s iPhone have been brought together to tell a broad story of American business history for the first time at the Smithsonian Institution.
Source: CNN
6-23-15
Walmart.com currently carries the Confederate flag as well as attire featuring the flag's design, such as T-shirts and belt buckles.
Source: The Brookings Institution
6-22-15
by Ben S. Bernanke
"I must admit I was appalled to hear of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's decision last week to demote Alexander Hamilton from his featured position on the ten dollar bill."
Source: The Guardian
6-20-15
A million and a half handwritten records compiled about newly freed slaves in the 1860s will be a treasure trove for those seeking to trace their ancestry
Source: Kickstarter Campaign
6-23-15
by Alexi Morrissey, artist
Have You Seen Me? transforms the 1980s “kid on the milk carton” advocacy campaign into a memorial for those lost during the Slave Trade.
Source: The Scotsman
6-22-15
One of Tony Blair’s closest allies and political friends Lord Falconer has admitted he and Blair think the Iraq war was a mistake.
Source: NYT
6-21-15
At 78, he has advanced legal equality for gays more than any other American jurist, making his friend Mr. Schaber, who died in 1997 — and who was, many who knew him believe, a closeted gay man — look prescient.
Source: Washington Blade
6-18-15
The 30-minute film produced by Yahoo News and its chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff depicts a little-known 1950s-era campaign by the FBI and other federal government agencies to purge gays from the federal workforce.
