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 Conversation
April 18, 2017
At its height in the 1930s, the French empire encompassed some 60 million colonial subjects, from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia.
Source: CBS News
April 19, 2017
Documents showing that Adolf Hitler had been indicted as a war criminal for actions by the Nazis during World War II before his death - contrary to longstanding assumptions.
Source: The Washington Post
April 19, 2017
After 68 years, and several previous failed attempts, the state of Florida has finally found the words that justice had been waiting on all this time: “We’re truly sorry.”
Source: Crosscut
April 19, 2017
Secession is in the air on the West Coast.
Source: CBS News
April 18, 2017
They’re called Information Wanted ads. They were written by newly freed slaves looking for lost family members who were sold or ran away.
Source: PRI
April 29, 2017
Slaves in the US famously took the underground railroad north into free states and Canada, but a similar path existed to the south into Mexico.
Source: The Washington Post
April 18, 2017
by Verlan Lewis
The pattern goes back at least to 1900.
Source: NYT
April 18, 2017
President Trump has demonstrated that while he won office on a populist message, he has not consistently governed that way in the nearly 100 days in the White House.
Source: The Conversation
April 17, 2017
A team of medievalists and scientists look back to history – including a 1,000-year-old eyesalve recipe – for clues to new antibiotics.
Source: Independent
April 18, 2017
Archive shows Adolf Hitler was indicted for war crimes in 1944.
Source: The Daily Beast
April 17, 2017
In a crowded Republican field in South Carolina, Sheri Few stands out for all the wrong reasons.
Source: NYT
April 18, 2017
“Judging by the current situation, North Korea is China’s latent enemy and South Korea could be China’s friend,” says China’s best-known historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua.
Source: The Washington Post
April 18, 2017
About 100 men and women whose ancestors were once sold as slaves to fund the nascent Georgetown University gathered at that university Tuesday for an emotional worship service of remembrance and repentance.
Source: The Washington Post
April 11, 2017
Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid.
Source: LA Daily News
April 10, 2017
The Rodney King verdict touched off days of rioting, looting and violence that left more than 55 people dead.
Source: NYT
April 13, 2017
Frédéric Chatillon and Axel Loustau are well-known former members of a violent, far-right student union that fought pitched battles with leftists and took a turn toward Hitler nostalgia in the mid-1990s.
Source: Newsweek
April 14, 2017
Former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley's rise and fall is hardly unique in American politics, where abuse of power, misuse of government funds and, of course, sex scandals are as common as flag pins on lapels.
Source: The Boston Globe
April 13, 2017
In a news conference and a pair of interviews, President Trump gave skewed accounts of US relations over time with Russia, and of health care under his watch.
Source: The News & Observer
April 12, 2017
Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Source: National Security Archive at GW
April 12, 2017
The Ford administration had to use a combination of approaches to keep South Korea’s Park dictatorship from going forward with a suspected nuclear weapons program in the mid-1970s.
