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 24, 2017
James K. Polk’s body has been buried in three places. Lawmakers are now considering moving it again, to the site of a Polk family home and museum in Columbia, Tenn.
Source: Harvard Gazette
March 23, 2017
Graham Allison, Niall Ferguson, and Samantha Power assess chances of future conflict.
Source: New Historian
March 21, 2017
Named the tomb of the Fregerslev Viking, the grave contains the remains of a high-status individual as well as several priceless grave goods.
Source: BBC
March 23, 2017
“He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”
Source: National Security Archive
March 23, 2017
President Park Chung-hee reportedly instructed South Korean scientists to build nuclear bombs by 1977. The US convinced South Korea not to follow through.
Source: Slate
March 22, 2017
The FBI has had a role in investigating several post-Watergate scandals involving the White House.
Source: Time Magazine
March 21, 2017
They hated each other.
Source: Slate
March 22, 2017
How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.
Source: The Guardian
March 22, 2017
Only two presidents in history have been impeached, but murmurs continue to surround Trump.
Source: NYT
March 21, 2017
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is one of several museums making changes to engage and educate younger people about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.
Source: NYT
March 17, 2017
Thousands of films showing U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 have been declassified.
Source: Roll Call
March 21, 2017
Congressional support among the last barriers after 20-year dispute.
Source: Inside Higher ED
March 20, 2017
Howard University is investigating an alleged incident in which a white professor asked his class to engage in a mock slave auction.
Source: NYT
March 19, 2017
A wave of nationalist victories, including Donald Trump's, has made Europe's most extreme right-wing parties more hopeful about their future.
Source: The Daily Beast
March 16, 2017
It was from Steve Bannon.
Source: Forward
March 17, 2017
Decades after officials worried they might be sheltering the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, members of the Mennonite sect in Paraguay are coming to terms with their historical ties with the Third Reich.
Source: NYT
March 16, 2017
The four-acre park on the southern tip of the island was designed more than four decades ago by the renowned architect Louis Kahn, before the A.D.A. took effect.
Source: BBC
March 16, 2017
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC.
Source: Newsweek
March 17, 2017
He drapes everything in gold. He orders his steaks well-done. He uses Scotch tape to hold his ties together. But as a prominent member of New York City's social elite (more or less) over the past 30-plus years, it's been impossible for him to avoid the art world.
Source: NYT
March 16, 2017
When Mr. Pence was a toddler, overshadowed by talkative older brothers, his grandfather taught him to recite “Humpty Dumpty” in Gaelic.
