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: New York Times
2/28/2021
"The store, on Sixth Avenue between West 8th and 9th Streets, is in the very center of Greenwich Village. And its landmark interior, which dates to 1902, is wonderfully preserved, with its original tiled floor and oak shelves."
Source: KUNC
3/2/2021
Native American advocates say the Colorado state capitol is an appropriate place for the memorial to the massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho by the US military, but critics question whether it should replace a memorial to the Union Army.
Source: WBRZ
3/2/2021
Churchill painted the scene the day after the January, 1943 Casablanca Conference meeting with Franklin Roosevelt to strategize for the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Source: WHNT
3/4/2021
The 2017 law, which was approved as some cities began taking down Confederate monuments, forbids the removal or alteration of monuments more than 40 years old. Violations carry a $25,000 fine.
Source: Washington Post
3/8/2021
The COVID-19 relief bill contains provisions that may help support African American farmers, who have been systematically harmed by prejudice, market dynamics and federal policy for the past century.
Source: NextCity
3/8/2021
Activist Margaretta Lin reflects on the post-immigration reform history of Asian American communities and argues for rejecting anti-Black framing of recent attacks on Asian Americans.
Source: MSNBC
3/2/2021
"Born Aug. 15, 1935, in Atlanta, Jordan grew up in the segregated South and became an influential leader in the civil rights movement, Washington politics and Wall Street."
Source: The Guardian
3/2/2021
While tribes and environmental groups celebrated the Forest Service announcement, they noted the threat of losing Oak Flat remains.
Source: CNN
3/3/2021
Historian Brian K. Mitchell tells the story of Oscar James Dunn's service as the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction; Kate Masur also comments on Reconstruction era politics.
Source: Public Radio Tulsa
3/2/2021
Board member Pastor Jennettie Marshall expressed enthusiasm about the new lesson plans: "Over these 100 years, for African Americans -- and I can only speak for African Americans -- we have lived in this city, and we have walked around feeling that our pain and our history and, as individuals, we were invisible."
Source: The Ithacan
3/3/2021
by Sandra Steingraber
The vulnerability of non-tenure track faculty to budget cuts and layoffs means that the interdisciplinary expertise universities need to sustain important and innovative initiatives is in jeopardy.
Source: New York Times
3/4/2021
The promotion of Col. Anthony Henderson to Brigadier General raises the possibility that he may eventually be become the first Marine who is not a white man to hold a four-star rank.
Source: New York Times
3/5/2021
by Jamelle Bouie
The Senate filibuster thwarted a bill for federal supervison and certification of state elections, allowing Mississippi to ratify a white supremacist state constitution by suppressing the black vote.
Source: Open Democracy
3/2/2021
In the British debate over the public history of colonialism and empire, are conservative government ministers the ones really engaged in "cancel culture"?
Source: Politico
2/15/2021
by Ellen Feingold
The last hundred years have featured a stable roster of elite portraits on American banknotes. The longer history of paper currency, however, is more flexible and diverse, and should encourage creativity in using money to tell the nation's stories.
Source: The Atlantic
3/6/2021
"In 1903, the two students premiered their song at an annual campus minstrel show, where white musicians performed it in blackface. It became a tradition at subsequent minstrel shows and was soon embedded in the university’s culture. Some people apparently want to keep it there forever."
Source: New York Times
3/3/2021
Thomas Wiggins became a musical sensation in the pre-Civil War era, but never controlled his earnings or legacy. Today, preservationists are working to separate fact from legend and showcase his compositions.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/8/2021
Princeton's Robert George hopes that the new organization Academic Freedom Alliance can influence university administrators to resist online outrage campaigns from the right and left and protect the right of scholars to speak freely on controversial subjects.
Source: Los Angeles Times
3/8/2021
The LA Times won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on Latinos in Southern California. Now this important journalistic primary source is available online.
Source: The New Republic
3/4/2021
The Commitee For a Responsible Federal Budget has lobbied both parties toward austerity policies for decades. Writer Alex Yablon examines the group's origins and impact beginning in the Clinton era.