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: US Department of Defense
December 3, 2017
During a speech to the Reagan National Defense Forum yesterday, President Donald J. Trump’s national security advisor gave hints on what the president’s national security strategy will contain.
Source: The Chicago Maroon
November 30, 2017
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) held a “Rally for Reparations” in front of Levi Hall, the University’s main administrative building, urging the University to make amends for what they view as “its founding ties to slavery,” according to Kamm Howard, national male co-chair of N’COBRA.
Source: National Security Archive
November 30, 2017
With growing international concern today over the possible resort to nuclear means in connection with tensions over North Korea’s growing capabilities, it is instructive to look at the record of the Cold War and immediate post-Cold War period to see how U.S. presidents and senior government officials thought about the problem.
Source: NPR
November 30, 2017
By studying the bones of ancient women in Europe, archaeologists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a hidden history of women's manual labor, from the early days of farming about 7,500 years ago up until about 2,000 years ago.
Source: Snopes
November 29, 2017
How wishing people "Happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" came to be regarded as an act of war.
Source: Newsweek
November 29, 2017
Archaeologists working in Russia’s Ural Mountains have uncovered a Paleolithic painting of a two-humped camel they believe could be up to 40,000 years old and may hold the secrets to early human migratory patterns.
Source: Slate
November 27, 2017
The history of America has been written by normal white racists living in normal towns.
Source: Crosscut
November 29, 2017
People are debating whether to replace the statue in Congress of missionary Marcus Whitman.
Source: National Geographic
November 28, 2017
Construction materials date to Roman times, suggesting the original holy site's legacy has survived despite its destruction 1,000 years ago.
Source: NYT
November 28, 2017
The government program, which lasted for more than 30 years and ended only in the 1990s, caused thousands to lose their jobs and sometimes face prosecution because of their sexual orientation.
Source: New Historian
November 26, 2017
The plague likely entered Europe during the Neolithic era with a large-scale migration of people from the Eurasian Steppe.
Source: The Washington Post
November 27, 2017
Some historians suspect that Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III who bore the king 15 children, was of African descent.
Source: Business Insider
November 28, 2017
"Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and died at about the age of 21.
Source: The Washington Post
November 28, 2017
The prominent placement of an Andrew Jackson portrait during an event meant to honor a group of Native Americans at the Oval Office on Monday has raised questions about the White House’s message.
Source: The Guardian
November 25, 2017
Topics overlap: slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow laws, the Delta blues. The result is a sweeping view of Mississippi’s history that puts the civil rights movement into context.
Source: The Times-Picayune
November 24, 2017
Atlanta is among several cities -- including New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas and Richmond, Virginia -- that have been reviewing Confederate symbols.
Source: BBC
November 25, 2017
It's almost 100 years since 19 African-American soldiers were executed following a violent mutiny in Texas. Why is the US only now coming to terms with what happened?
Source: NYT
November 25, 2017
He scoured the world for evidence to make his case, but a scholar now finds his government reluctant to challenge Beijing, its powerful rival.
Source: The Atlantic
November 23, 2017
How a beloved song with origins in 16th-century Europe captures both a holiday’s spirit of unity and a country’s legacy of exclusion.
Source: LATimes
November 22, 2017
In the run-up to the Civil War, there was strong resistance in the South toward Thanksgiving itself.
