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: The Atlantic
May 9, 2017
A Nixon biographer on two big differences between 1973 and 2017.
Source: NYT
May 9, 2017
Not since Watergate has a president dismissed the person leading an investigation bearing on him, and the dismissal drew instant comparisons to the Saturday Night Massacre.
Source: AHA
May 9, 2017 (accessed)
by Andrew K. Koch
Race, family income levels, gender, and status as a first-generation college student are the best predictors of who will or will not succeed.
Source: The Washington Post
April 9, 2017
Homo naledi, a strange new species of human cousin found in South Africa two years ago, was unlike anything scientists had ever seen.
Source: Harvard Gazette
May 9, 2017
Centennial exhibit includes earliest known recording of future president’s voice.
Source: Huffington Post
May 8, 2017
In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.
Source: National Coalition for History
May 4, 2017
On May 4, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that will fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2017.
Source: NY Daily News
May 8, 2017
“When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it’s a bad thing,” Rice said.
Source: The Washington Post
May 8, 2017
More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.
Source: NYT
May 7, 2017
About 260 feet tall and topped by a cross, the Xingsha Church is bigger even than the biggest statue of Mao Zedong in China, less than 10 miles west of here.
Source: NPR
May 7, 2017
In the northwestern German city of Hanover, 50,0000 people have been evacuated from their homes while experts defused three British bombs dropped during World War II.
Source: The Atlantic
April 26, 2017
A new report identifies some 1,500 memorials to the Civil War’s losing cause, from schools to state holidays, ranging from the Deep South to the Pacific Northwest.
Source: fedscoop
May 3, 2017
Instead of building a presidential library for Barack Obama, the 44th president’s foundation will help fund a more-accessible digital archive of his records. This is the new model.
Source: New York Magazine
May 5, 2017
The answer has to do with our high levels of immigration.
Source: CBS News
May 7, 2017
Ben Ferencz was 29 when he led the prosecution of the Nazis behind Einsatzgruppen – anti-Semitic death squads which murdered more than a million people by shooting them.
Source: This American Life
April 28, 2017
Buchanan says he’s delighted even though he hasn’t gotten the credit.
Source: NPR
May 5, 2017
Twenty-five years ago, the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified nearly two centuries after it was written – thanks to the determination of a college student.
Source: The Conversation
April 30, 2017
by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
A new book by historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez reveals that for most of American history immigrants could enter the United States without official permission and not fear criminal prosecution by the federal government. That changed in 1929.
Source: The New Yorker
May 5, 2017
Is it an illness?
Source: NYT
May 7, 2017
The city has already taken down one monument, but crane companies in the region are receiving threats over the removal of three others.
