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: Newsweek
May 30, 2017
The study found that the genetic material within the mummies was more similar to ancient peoples of the Near East and the Levant (an area of the eastern Mediterranean including Israel and Palestine) than it is to modern Egyptians.
Source: Time Magazine
May 30, 2017
Have a look!
Source: NYT
May 30, 2017 (accessed)
It's part of a series: journalism in 360 degrees.
Source: NBC News
May 29, 2017
Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III gave the keynote speech at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site — JFK's birthplace and childhood home.
Source: Politico
May 30, 2017
by Mike Lee
What the historians forget is "the essential truth that underlies a full understanding of the Constitution: the fact that nearly every founder shared a healthy skepticism of a large federal bureaucracy."
Source: The Washington Post
May 29, 2017
by Valerie Strauss
They come from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, which digitized records relating to his educational experience.
Source: The Times (London)
May 29, 2017
A detained cousin of the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi previously made antisemitic rants on social media and voiced his hatred for the UK.
Source: Politico
May 29, 2017
A growing number of local governments are clamoring for Congress to act against Donald Trump.
Source: NYT
May 29, 2017
The Constitution includes detailed instructions for impeachment. But there’s no clear answer on whether a president may be criminally prosecuted.
Source: The Guardian
May 28, 2017
Following campaigns such as Rhodes must fall, university is to make history syllabus more diverse and less British-focused.
Source: NYT
May 26, 2017
The antimonument activists have a powerful lineup of city officials on their side, including Lyda Krewson, the newly elected mayor of St. Louis, who said that she favored removing the Confederate Memorial from the park permanently.
Source: WaPo
May 27, 2017
by Richard A. Moss
Other presidents have set up back channels too
Source: Political Wire
May 26, 2017
“Donald Trump, in the mid-1980s, aggressively pursued an official government post to the USSR, according to a Nobel Peace Prize winner with whom Trump interacted at the time.”
Source: Time Magazine
May 25, 2017
Eric Foner suggests Beaufort, SC Reconstruction Site.
Source: The Washington Post
May 26, 2017
How did Kennedy celebrate his 46th birthday — the last of his short life? On a boat, with Dom Pérignon, French cuisine and the president chasing the wife of a legendary Washington journalist.
Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
May 24, 2017
As more families from other states move to Bozeman, some parents are surprised or upset to learn that kids here don’t get a holiday from school on Martin Luther King Day.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 25, 2017
But many struggle to decide how far they should go.
Source: The National Coalition for History
May 23, 2017
It includes cuts to federal history and humanities funding including elimination of the (NEH), (NHPRC), K-12 history and civics grants.
Source: Think Progress
May 24, 2017
The state has been relying on a century-old, white supremacist phrase to disenfranchise felons.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
May 24, 2017
Egyptian President Nasser’s aggressive moves along the border.
