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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: USA Today
  10/17/19
  

  USA Today Publishes New Articles As Part Of Series, "1619: Searching for Answers"

  The articles explore the different ways the legacy of slavery has shaped America. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/17/19
  

  Washington doesn't have a Latino history museum. These people are hoping to change that

  How does a Smithsonian museum get established? The process involves a lot of time and a lot of legislation.

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• SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
  10/16/19
  

  A history of key United Auto Workers strikes against GM

  General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract deal Wednesday.

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• SOURCE: Politifact
  10/16/19
  

  Fact-checking Andrew Yang on history of universal basic income

  Andrew Yang says giving adult $1,000 a month is a "deeply American idea" dating back centuries.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  10/16/19
  

  Hobby Lobby Will Return Biblical Antiquities Allegedly Stolen by Oxford Professor

  The Museum of the Bible, founded by the owners of arts-and-crafts store chain Hobby Lobby, will turn over biblical fragments it had acquired from an Oxford professor.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  A white mob attacked Elijah Cummings for integrating a swimming pool. He was 11.

  by Gillian Brockell

  The Maryland congressman, who died Thursday, had a scar on his face for the rest of his life.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/14/19
  

  How the US stole thousands of Native American children

  The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man.”

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• SOURCE: Yahoo! News
  10/11/19
  

  A history of selling out the Kurds, people with 'no friends but the mountains'

  It has been a constant theme in the history of the Kurds, an ethnic group indigenous to parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/8/19
  

  9 Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Shaped LGBTQ Rights in America

  Regardless of how the justices rule in the cases, the court’s decisions would not be the first time that the Supreme Court made major decisions impacting LGBTQ people’s civil rights in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/15/19
  

  A newspaper accused the president’s family of profiting from a foreign deal. The president sued.

  No, not Trump. Teddy Roosevelt.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/10/19
  

  Could Trump Lose the Republican Nomination? Here's the History of Primary Challenges to Incumbent Presidents

  by Olivia Waxman

  While an incumbent President has never lost a primary nomination in modern U.S. history, these five challengers put up a serious fight.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/19
  

  Military Leaders Fear They’ve Seen This Before. It Ended in the Iraq War.

  The last time the United States abandoned allies in the Middle East, military officials say, it helped lead to the Iraq war.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  10/10/19
  

  The Feminist History of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’

  by Anna Laymon

  The song was written as Jack Norworth’s ode to his girlfriend, the progressive and outspoken Trixie Friganza, a famous vaudeville actress and suffragist.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/12
  

  Trump Says the Kurds ‘Didn’t Help’ at Normandy. Here’s the History.

  Kurds may not have been present at the D-Day landings, but there is evidence some fought for the Allies during World War II.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/10
  

  Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decadeslong effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Rudy Giuliani comparing impeachment to the Salem witch trials is a little right and a lot wrong, expert says

  Featuring historian Emerson W. Baker. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/8/19
  

  U.N. Report Bolsters Theory That Hammarskjold Plane Was Downed

  The crash is one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of the United Nations.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/19
  

  Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

  by S. Kyle Johnson

  Panama’s “Festival del Cristo Negro,” the festival of the “Black Christ,” is an important religious holiday for local Catholics. It honors a dark, life-sized wooden statue of Jesus, “Cristo Negro” – also known as “El Nazaraeno,” or “The Nazarene.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/19
  

  Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right

  by William Trollinger

  Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.