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: NBC News
January 6, 2018
With hundreds of paintings, statues and historical artifacts at their disposal, the New York Historical Society is using the power of visual aids to help students better absorb the facts and dates.
December 12, 2017
California’s inclusive curriculum raises questions on the ethics of teaching about sexual orientation.
Source: Time Magazine
January 5, 2018
The framers of the Constitution left voters to be the final check and balance on the president on this kind of decision.
Source: History channel
January 5, 2018
It’s not clear who Edgar Degas used as the model for the 1879 painting, L’Etoile, that depicts that tense moment. But it’s likely that she was a prostitute.
Source: The Hill
January 4, 2018
Jill Wine-Banks told MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" that she believes she could bring a successful case against Trump, adding that there is "so much evidence" that Trump meant to obstruct the investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia by firing Comey.
Source: NYT
January 3, 2018
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's accusation resonates for many Iranians, whose country has long been subject to outside interference.
Source: NYT
January 3, 2018
The second-oldest human genome ever found in North America, it sheds new light on how people — among them the ancestors of living Native Americans — first arrived in the Western Hemisphere.
Source: History channel
January 3, 2017
Since John F. Kennedy, every president has had an officer that follows him around with the so-called “nuclear football,” a briefcase that can be used to launch a nuclear attack (it got its nickname from a nuclear war plan called “dropkick”).
Source: Pacific Standard
January 2, 2018
Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
January 2, 2018
Three hundred years after the founding of a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texans are grappling with post-statehood histories that put white male settlers front and center. A new generation of historians seeks a more diverse set of characters.
Source: New Republic
January 2, 2017
In 1947, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa set out to introduce America to Soviet life. Seventy years later, two journalists retraced their steps.
Source: The News & Observer
January 1, 2018
The North Carolina government is officially recognizing what historians call the only successful coup d’etat in American history, when white supremacists overthrew the Reconstruction-era government in Wilmington in 1898.
Source: The Roanoke Times
December 16, 2017
Now they are being restored.
Source: The Post and Courier
December 23, 2017
The man's name was Abraham. In a grainy 1889 photo of the plantation home belonging to Furman University's namesake family, he appears standing by the portico with his face obscured in foliage and shadows.
Source: NYT
December 30, 2017
The sporadic release of documents from Britain’s National Archives gives a glimpse into the country’s inner workings.
Source: NYT
December 29, 2017
He isn’t the first president to understand the power of television. But he is alone in not grasping its limits.
Source: NYT
December 31, 2017
In ways that were once unimaginable, President Trump has discarded the conventions and norms established by his predecessors. Will that change the institution permanently?
Source: The Washington Post
January 1, 2018
When Alan Shane Dillingham, a historian at Spring Hill College in Alabama, lectures on the 1960s he starts by displaying a timeline of the decade’s most iconic, tumultuous year — 1968.
Source: The State
December 30, 2017
Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederate soldiers. But records show the state never accepted nor recognized armed African-American soldiers during the Civil War.
Source: NYT
January 1, 2018
It also helped set the tone for Soviet-American rivalry during the Cold War, profoundly shaping the world we live in today, historians said.
