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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.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/16/19
  

  The Surprisingly Complex Link Between Prohibition and Women’s Rights

  One of Prohibition's legacies is how, a century before the MeToo movement, it succeeded in making issues that women cared about part of the national conversation.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  Accessed 1/16/19
  

  Snopes: Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?

  The quote spread across the Internet, stripped of its context and in meme form, prompting some readers to query whether the quote and its description were real.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/16/19
  

  Race and Service in the Pacific During World War II

  by Karen Cook Bell

  Emboldened by their war time experiences and conscious of the transnational nature of the struggle against racism, African Americans challenged white Americans’ attempt to cast Blacks stationed in Japan as trouble makers.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/15/19
  

  Judge Overturns Alabama Law Preventing Removal of Confederate Monuments

  The 10-page ruling issued late Monday by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo said a 2017 state law barring the removal or alteration of historical monuments wrongly violated the free speech rights of local communities.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/19
  

  Beyond Rosa Luxemburg: five more women of the German revolution you need to know about

  by Ingrid Sharp and Corinne Painter

  There were other women who played an active role in the German revolution in cities across the country. 

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• SOURCE: Literary Hub
  1/14/19
  

  A Brief History of Children's Literature: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

  by Jennifer Traig

  For most of history, authors have used their words to render children speechless.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/15/19
  

  The Prohibition-era origins of the modern craft cocktail movement

  by Jeffrey Miller

  For better or worse, Prohibition changed the way Americans drank, and its cultural impact has never really gone away.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/19
  

  How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses

  by David Gunderman

  Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/13/19
  

  How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”

  A Timeline of Border Fortification

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  1/14/19
  

  What’s So Controversial About a Medieval Nun’s Teeth?

  How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1/13/19
  

  Why Do We Blame Women for Prohibition?

  by Mark Lawrence Schrad

  One hundred years later, it's time to challenge a long-held bias. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/10/19
  

  Why British Lawmakers Are Fighting Over a Bust of Oliver Cromwell

  Cromwell is alternately lauded as the “heroic military and political leader” who defended Parliament and vilified as a ruthless war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Catholics.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1/10/19
  

  Presidential historian Jon Meacham links Donald Trump's border wall rhetoric to Ku Klux Klan

  Trump's televised address was reportedly written by aide Stephen Miller, known for his hardline immigration views.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/12/19
  

  Students in Rural America Ask, ‘What Is a University Without a History Major?’

  “The higher-ed climate has changed profoundly and it’s not going back to the old normal.”

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1/14/19
  

  President Trump claims a wheel is older than a wall in plea for border wall. Is he right?

  They say ‘a wall is medieval.’ Well, so is a wheel. A wheel is older than a wall," Trump said.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/10/19
  

  Russia Is Running Low on World War II Soviet Tanks. It Found Help in Laos.

  As President Vladimir V. Putin promotes Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as a cornerstone of nationalist fervor, he has a pressing need for the T-34, which became a symbol of Soviet might.

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• SOURCE: AP
  1/11/19
  

  Texas set to remove Confederate plaque from state Capitol

  “Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/13/19
  

  Did ‘Hamilton’ Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So

  “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda” targets “Hamilton,” the play, and “Hamilton,” the best-selling biography by Ron Chernow, which inspired Mr. Miranda.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/8/19
  

  The U.S. Has Been in a Constant State of National Emergency Since 1979. Here’s Why

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Not only are national emergencies more common than most Americans probably realize, they can also go on for decades.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/19
  

  Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The U.S.-Mexico border wall’s wild origins

  President Trump’s visit to the border to demand $5.7 billion for a wall marks another chapter in the boundary’s tortured history