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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: Washington Post
  5/22/19
  

  Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her

  She escaped slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, then led hundreds of other people to freedom.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/21/19
  

  Nuremberg Decides to Conserve Nazi Rally Grounds

  Some argued that the site should be left to decay into ruins, but officials have decided to maintain it as a testament to the city’s dark history.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  5/22/19
  

  Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama

  "This finding is also a critical piece of the story of Africatown, which was built by the resilient descendants of America’s last slave ship."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/21/19
  

  Revitalizing Montgomery as It Embraces Its Past

  Two cultural projects that examine the Alabama city’s role in the civil rights movement are drawing throngs of visitors and encouraging a surge of downtown construction.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  5/20/19
  

  The Troubling History of Psychiatry

  Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.

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• SOURCE: KSMU
  5/22/19
  

  Marking The Day The House Voted For Women's Suffrage

  NPR's Cokie Roberts answers questions about women's voting rights and history. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/22/19
  

  Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office, Mnuchin Says

  As a presidential candidate in 2016, Mr. Trump criticized the Obama administration’s plans for the bill.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/23/19
  

  What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019

  If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  Trump administration's spurning of Harriet Tubman opens a new front in the monument wars

  For better or worse, there is no more important monument in any country than its money. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts

  Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/23/19
  

  Recent attempts at reparations show that World War II is not over

  by Timothy Webster

  World War II ended in 1945. But the world has never stopped debating its legacy and how to make restitution for the damage done to the war’s victims. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/22/19
  

  The American GI in WWII, uncensored

  by Edward Gitre

  The novel idea of surveying GIs reflected the growing prestige of opinion polling and social surveying and democratic virtue. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 5/21/19
  

  Oral Histories of Donald Trump's Housing Discrimination Case, the Central Park Five, and More

  His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/18/19
  

  A Stolen Letter Written by Alexander Hamilton in 1780 Resurfaces

  The three-paragraph letter — now valued between $25,000 and $35,000, according to the Virginia auction house — warned Lafayette, the French general who commanded troops in several Revolutionary War battles, of pending danger from the British.

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  5/17/19
  

  ‘It’s art activism’: Charleston artists gather at Calhoun monument, urge its removal

  The Make It Right Campaign helped bring down the Silent Sam Confederate statute in Chapel Hill, N.C., in August, and campaign supporters are eyeing nine more — including Charleston’s Calhoun monument.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/14/19
  

  Chinese Railroad Workers Were Almost Written Out of History. Now They’re Getting Their Due.

  At the 150th anniversary of the golden spike ceremony on Friday, and at associated events held last week in Utah, thousands gathered to recognize a more complete picture of the monumental feat.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/17/19
  

  Mayor and ‘Foreign Minister’: How Bernie Sanders Brought the Cold War to Burlington

  Referendums, rallies, a trip to Nicaragua — all were part of his effort to infuse left-wing activism into local politics.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/20/19
  

  Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya

  by Kenneth Seligson

  While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/19/19
  

  75 Years After D-Day, Planes Fly Off for ‘Never Seen Before’ World War II Commemoration

  The historic aircraft are part of the “D-Day Squadron” that left Sunday for a weeklong, trans-Atlantic flight in preparation for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/18/19
  

  Asian Americans push for Smithsonian gallery of their own

  “Museums preserve what’s important to society. They tell our stories, give historical context to contemporary issues and help us imagine a better future."