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
September 4, 2015
by Scott Lilenfeld and Ashley Watts
Social scientists say most successful presidents have been narcissists.
Source: NYT
September 4, 2015
Hungary's chief rabbi: "It was horrifying when I saw those images of police putting numbers on people’s arms,”
Source: Pew Research Center
September 3, 2015
Only Baby Boomers by in large think of themselves as members of a certain generation.
Source: The Independent
September 3, 2015
A Lebanese-French archaeologist tells Robert Fisk about her unique answer to a unique crime
Source: BBC
September 3, 2015
China has held a lavish parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two, showcasing its military might on an unprecedented scale.
Source: WaPo
August 30, 2015
Long forgotten, after Brown, most were shuttered. Often consisting of just two or three classrooms, the schools were the heart of their communities, cradles of pride built on land often donated by black farmers.
Source: The Wichita Eagle
August 10, 2015
A nearly 100-year-old movie, which showcases 300 Kiowa and Comanche people from Kansas and Oklahoma, is now showing on Netflix.
Source: The Herald Journal
August 29, 2015
Archaeologists are now trying to find out.
Source: San Francisco Magazine
August 24, 2015
Only one consequence of l’affaire Serra is agreed upon by all parties as a positive: It has opened up discussion of a tragic chapter in California history, one of which even many educated people are ignorant.
Source: The Guardian
September 1, 2015
Temple of Bel, the most important site in Palmyra, reduced to rubble as jihadis continue to wreck Syria’s cultural heritage
Source: University Press of Kansas blog
September 1, 2015 (accessed)
by Lewis Gould
The answer is yes. But the Ohio members of Congress are wrong to think the mountain was named in honor of the slain president. The naming took place before he was even nominated.
Source: The Root
September 1, 2015
Stanley Nelson’s timely documentary brings some clarity to the murky history of one of the civil rights era’s most militant groups.
Source: WSJ
August 31, 2015
Aftershocks from that year’s presidential election are being felt in this year’s surprising campaign
Source: AP
August 31, 2015
Around 500,000 to 1 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were pushed out of the country during the 1930s repatriation, as the removal is sometimes called.
Source: Politico
August 27, 2015
Politico Magazine asked a handful of historians to weigh in on the historical figures to which Trump has been compared.
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal
August 30, 2015
by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
The bones of 115 Koreans brought to Japan as laborers during the Asia-Pacific War will be carried along a route of remembrance to their final resting place in Korea.
Source: thelocla.fr
August 28, 2015
A feminist organization has changed the street signs of a Paris neighbourhood so that they bear women's names instead, protesting the lack of streets in the city named after famous female figures.
Source: NYT
August 29, 2015
Decades before Caitlyn Jenner, Phyllis Frye was grappling with bias, scorn and personal pain, and helping the transgender movement take shape.
Source: Newsweek
August 26, 2015
The Central Intelligence Agency is set to release 2,500 previously top-secret briefings it gave to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s.
Source: KSTY
August 26, 2015
South Dakota Board of Education approved new guidelines that do not require high schools to teach U.S. history beginning next year.
