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: Quinnipiac
March 7, 2018
Reagan, Obama Top Trump 4-1 As Best President
Source: NYT
March 6, 2018
Why Nuclear Deals With North Korea Don’t Stick
Source: The Seattle Times
March 6, 2018
A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Source: CBS News
March 6, 2018
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 89, is one of two living grandsons of President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, one year after George Washington was sworn in as president.
Source: Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
March 5, 2018
The National Archives said last week that it will gather tens of millions of pages of classified historical records from Presidential Libraries around the country and will bring them to Washington, DC for declassification review.
Source: NYT
March 5, 2018
History is full of movements led by students — albeit usually in college, not high school. Some were successful and others brutally crushed, but even the latter still resonate.
Source: The Washington Post
March 2, 2018
On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons.
Source: The Intercept
March 3, 2018
An effort to refocus attention on Polish suffering, and away from the Holocaust, through a change to Poland’s anti-defamation law — has backfired spectacularly.
Source: The Daily Beast
March 2, 2018
Probably the closest anyone has come to assassinating Queen Elizabeth.
Source: The Conversation
March 2, 2018
What can a modern-day Creole language tell us about its first speakers in the 1600s?
Source: Smithsonian
March 1, 2018
Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.
Source: The Washington Post
March 1, 2018
She fears it will outlive her.
Source: NYT
March 1, 2018
Researchers assembled 5 million family trees using data from the website Geni.com to test several genetic and historical hypotheses.
Source: CNN
March 2, 2018
Remember what happened after Smoot-Hawley?
Source: Time Magazine
March 1, 2018
For the work she did, which led to her becoming the first Chair of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Margaret Dunkle is now one of the trailblazers honored by the National Women’s History Project for exemplifying this year’s Women’s History Month theme of “Nevertheless, She Persisted.”
Source: Hyperallergic
January 18, 2018
There are signs that attendance in many museums across the country is slowly falling, but the reasons why are still to be determined.
Source: Gallup
February 28, 2018
More than one year into Donald Trump's presidency, Americans' satisfaction with their national government shows no signs of improving.
Source: Time Magazine
March 1, 2018
“‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ is really about every woman who really had to use her tenacity and courage to accomplish whatever she set out to accomplish. It’s universal,” said Molly Murphy MacGregor, executive director and co-founder of the National Women’s History Project.
Source: NBC News
March 1, 2018
The move would be the latest in a long string of staff shakeups at the White House over the past year and comes after months of strained relations between the president and McMaster.
Source: Pew Research Center
March 1, 2018
Wide and growing divides in views of racial discrimination
