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 Los Angeles Times
March 16, 2017
It began in 1965 as part of the Great Society.
Source: Forward
March 16, 2017
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II.
Source: The Washington Post
March 15, 2017
Presidents receive a salary because the Constitution requires it. It's required so the president never has to face a choice of public duty or private interest. At least, that's the theory.
Source: AHA Today
March 16, 2017
"Because so much is at stake, the AHA asks our members to contact their representatives in Congress as soon as possible to register strong objections to the massive cuts to programs essential to the cultivation of our national heritage and civic culture."
Source: The Tennessean
March 15, 2017
Jackson's populist politics have resonated with Trump. Upon moving into the White House last month, the new president hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office.
Source: The Guardian
March 15, 2017
Benoît Loeuillet, head of FN in Nice, secretly filmed saying ‘there weren’t mass deaths as we’ve been told.’
Source: NYT
March 15, 2017
It was the first time a president has called for ending the endowments, which were created in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Source: Philly.com
March 14, 2017
The union that represents the employees at Independence National Historical Park says the president’s hiring freeze on most federal jobs has forced the closure of several historic buildings and exhibits across the park.
Source: The Conversation
March 14, 2017
by Eric Lohr
Americans are shocked Russia meddled in our election. But there's centuries of precedent – and, at times, it’s been the U.S. meddling.
Source: The Daily Beast
March 14, 2017
Steve Bannon the college senior was a well-liked liberal history buff who adored Arnold Toynbee.
Source: Newsweek
March 14, 2017
The skull bears a mixture of traits—some link it to the Neanderthals, such as a fused brow ridge, while other features are representative of other extinct fossils in Europe, according to the journal Science.
Source: Politico
March 12, 2017
The South couldn’t stop the rumors. Can we?
Source: NYT
March 14, 2017
People with prominent collections and unsettled consciences have stepped forward to investigate what they own.
Source: The Chicago Tribune
March 13, 2017
Prosecutors have asked a court in Lublin to issue an arrest warrant for Michael Karkoc.
Source: Haaretz
March 13, 2017
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reportedly extended the invitation at a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Jerusalem last week.
Source: Tablet
March 14, 2017
by James Kirchick
The book is "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age." The author is James Kirchick, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 1, 2017
Some Minneapolis Park Board members think it’s worth revisiting discussion of the name of Lake Calhoun, also known by the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska, in light of Yale University’s decision to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from a residential college.
Source: New Historian
March 12, 2017
The mysterious disappearance of the Clovis people could be explained by an asteroid impacting the earth thousands of years ago, according to a newly published study.
Source: YouTube
March 10, 2017
Thousands of artifacts had been safely removed before ISIS took over.
Source: NYT
March 13, 2017
The story of one of the slaves sold to help keep Georgetown afloat. (And we have his picture.)
