Breaking News

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: Washington Post
  9/16/19
  

  Samuel Chase: The one Supreme Court justice who has ever been impeached

  The Senate Historical Office offers insight into the only Supreme Court Justice impeachment in U.S. History. 

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• SOURCE: Wbur.org
  September 12, 2019
  

  Maryland Commission Sets Out To Investigate State's Lynching History

  by Robin Young and Allison Hagan

  A Maryland commission empowered to investigate at least 40 lynchings that occurred between 1854 and 1933 will have its public launch Thursday night.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  9/17/19
  

  How Joe Biden has Historically Played a Role in Mass Incarceration in the United States

  by David Stein

  The Intercept reveals the untold story of how Joe Biden pushed Ronald Reagan to ramp up incarceration — not the other way around.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  9/16/19
  

  Crazy Horse Monument to Native American History is Built on Controversy

  The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 15, 2019
  

  William F. Buckley Jr. vs. James Baldwin: A racial showdown on the American dream

  Hundreds of thousands of people have watched the riveting 1965 debate between the two writers — one white, the other black — on YouTube.  

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/16/19
  

  Solid Gold Toilet Stolen From Winston Churchill's Family Palace

  The 18-karat gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on September 14 - only two days after the palace installed it as part of an art exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/13/19
  

  Influential Civil Rights Advocate Juanita Abernathy Dies at 88

  by Chevel Johnson

  Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, has died. 

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9/13/19
  

  The Violence Against Women Act Was Signed 25 Years Ago. Here's How the Law Changed American Culture.

  Joe Biden’s “proudest” legislation during his time in the Senate left an imprint on modern women’s rights discussion.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonianmag.com
  9/10/11
  

  Hurricane Dorian Unearths Civil War Cannonballs at South Carolina Beach

  At first, the couple who discovered the pair of cannonballs thought they’d simply stumbled upon a rock.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  9/10/11
  

  Ms. Monopoly is here. Psst: A woman invented the game in the first place

  The Monopoly game was the brainchild of a woman named Lizzie Magie at the turn of the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/10/19
  

  9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Textbooks are not the go-to resource for learning about 9/11 in 2019.  

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/10/19
  

  Why Don't We Consider Cannabis Part of the American Herbal Renaissance

  by Nick Johnson

  From pill bottles to produce sections, modern medicine and agriculture have effectively distanced our relationship to the plants that matter most to us. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/11/19
  

  A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up. It wasn’t for her emails.

  Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/11/19
  

  What was Trump actually doing on 9/11? An anniversary fact check.

  by Gillian Brockell

  Inconsistencies haven’t stopped Trump from repeating versions of his actions on 9/11.

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• SOURCE: Nordics Info
  9/10/19
  

  Buying Greenland? Trump, Truman and the 'Pearl of the Mediterranean'

  by Thorsten Borring Olesen

  Greenland has been and continues to be a vital strategic asset, not least to the US - and perhaps even more so due to the possible effects of climate change.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/7/19
  

  Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States

  by Gillian Brockell

  Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  9/6/19
  

  How college dorms evolved to fit America’s gender and racial politics

  Ever since the 17th century, educators and architects designed university housing with societal mores in mind.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  

  Why the queen said yes to Boris Johnson’s request to suspend parliament

  by Laura Beers

  So why isn’t the Queen taking more criticism for giving Johnson what he wanted? One answer is that she had no choice.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/6/19
  

  Ownership and Access: The Ebony and Jet Magazines Archive

  by Jessica Parr

  The sale of The Ebony and Jet Magazines have raised concerns among historians, archivists, and the Black community.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  09/09/2019
  

  How the Pentagon's Design Saved Lives on September 11

  On September 11, 2001, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed. The losses were devastating, but it could have been even worse.