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: NYT
March 30, 2017
Onita Estes-Hicks learned that Jesuits who once ran Georgetown University sold some of her ancestors. She is now enrolled in a social justice program aimed at helping her make sense of it all.
Source: Tablet Magazine
March 30, 2017
The Marxist philosopher’s views do not apparently sync with those of Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government.
Source: Time Magazine
March 24, 2017
Here's the history you should know.
Source: NYT
March 30, 2017
The 150th anniversary of Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States was a day of mourning for some hard-right Russian nationalists who see the transaction as a gigantic blunder by the ailing czarist empire.
Source: Tablet Magazine
March 29, 2017
Tiyul-Rihla, a grassroots educational initiative, is bringing together historically clashing neighbors
Source: The Daily Beast
March 29, 2017
Reichsbürger conspiracists have made it their mission to “reactivate” the German Reich with the borders it had before World War II.
Source: Shmoop
March 30, 2017 (accessed)
Between 8 March and 16 June, in what later became known as the "First Hundred Days," Congress followed Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills.
Source: AmeriForce
March 29, 2017
His tweet celebrated the veterans, who President Obama had said were often blamed for the war.
Source: The New Yorker
March 28, 2017
Could Ronald Reagan’s 1982 meeting with Tip O’Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House, provide inspiration for Donald Trump following the demise of the House Republican health-care bill?
Source: Politico
March 29, 2017
‘It’s sort of frightening,’ one presidential historian says about the president’s shallow interest in his predecessors.
Source: NYT
March 29, 2017
The collection includes 26 letters from Susan B. Anthony, 10 from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and dozens from other suffragists.
Source: The Conversation
March 27, 2017
It turns out, both critics and supporters of the new membership policies can claim ownership of Boy Scout heritage.
Source: New Historian
March 27, 2017
Whether one believes we live in the Anthropocene or not, mankind has undoubtedly left a dramatic mark on the delicate ecosystems and environment of the planet.
Source: CBS News
March 28, 2017
Letters between former first lady Jackie Kennedy and Ormsby Gore, the former British ambassador to Washington, wrote love letters to each other after each was widowed, and before Kennedy decided to marry Aristotle Onassis.
Source: VOA
March 26, 2017
The underground Crossrail project to connect Heathrow airport to the financial district has unearthed over 10,000 artifacts.
Source: Gant News
March 27, 2017
Some are calling it ‘A slap in the face of history’
Source: The Root
March 25, 2017
“Now I work here—to realize that this is my history, this is my story, blows me away,” said Alexander, an executive assistant in Georgetown’s office of technology commercialization. “I have been really emotional as I learned about my ties to the university.”
Source: NYT
March 24, 2017
Sixty years after the treaty that led to its founding, the European Union is under fundamental stress — divided and divergent, anxious that it no longer represents the future but the past, and that it may be incapable of handling the serious challenges of this already-turbulent century.
Source: PSYBLOG
March 24, 2017 (accessed)
What would you do if repeatedly ordered to give a strong electric shock to a helpless stranger?
Source: NYT
March 24, 2017
by Gregory Cowles
The book is by military historian Nicholas Reynolds, who decided to investigate Hemingway’s past after curating an exhibit on the CIA.
