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: NY Times
Jan 25, 2020
Amid a surge of anti-Semitism and a rise in dehumanizing political rhetoric, there is fear that the horrific lessons of the death camp are being lost.
Source: Washington Times (AP)
Jan 25, 2020
Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and history professor C. Sade Turnipseed.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 24, 2020
None of these women publicly claimed a lesbian identity. Nonetheless, like other leaders in women’s rights, higher education and social reform, all three women had significant same-sex relationships.
Source: NY Times
Jan 23, 2020
The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted in 1897. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them.
Source: AP
Jan 22, 2020
Featuring historians Rachel Shelden, Jeffrey Engel, and David Stewart.
Source: Time
Jan 21, 2020
The world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic, will be more rigorously protected under an international agreement, the U.K.’s Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani confirmed ahead of a Tuesday visit to Belfast, where the ship was built.
Source: Washignton Post
Jan 21, 2020
A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”
Source: Washington Post
Jan 21, 2020
“It shows us they had a high level of technical skill, understanding of physics and of the natural environment.”
Source: History.com
Jan 21, 2020
The first U.S. president’s celebrated military career actually started out quite poorly, in the French and Indian War.
Source: BBC History Extra
Jan 21, 2020
by David Charlwood
Violent uprisings in the Middle East and a populist US president vowing to put “America First”. Historian David Charlwood looks back 100 years to the global situation of 1920 and finds remarkable parallels with the present.
Source: BBC History Extra
Jan 21, 2020
by Adam I P Smith
Which presidents in US history have been impeached? How does impeachment work? And what might impeachment proceedings mean for President Donald Trump?
Source: Nieman Reports
Jan 21, 2020
How the Philadelpia Inquirer teamed up with Villanova University’s Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest and the Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships to research three issues--infrastructure, immigration, and the opioid crisis--that could benefit from a historical perspective.
Source: LawFare
Jan 21, 2020
by David V. Gioe
The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy
Source: PBS
Jan 21, 2020
“The Poison Squad reminds us that our current concerns about food safety have a long history."
Source: Real Clear Investigations
Jan 20, 2020
Since its publication in August, the 1619 Project has been adopted in more than 3,500 classrooms in all 50 states.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 20, 2020
by Wyatt Oswald, David R. Foster, and Elizabeth Chilton
Our new research, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, tests this human-centric view of the past using interdisciplinary, retrospective science. The data we collected suggest, in New England, this assumption is erroneous.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 20, 2020
by Gillian Brockell
King first learned about Gandhi as a seminary student in 1949, just a year after Gandhi had been assassinated. He soon wrote about Gandhi in his schoolwork as a person who “greatly reveal[s] the working of the Spirit of God.”
Source: Washigton Post
Jan 19, 2020
Even without gun training, Doris Miller jumped behind one of the unmanned Brownings, swung it skyward and fired until his belt was empty and crew members were ordered to abandon ship.
Source: The Hill
Jan 18, 2020
by Jonathan Turley
"Past impeachments have shown that senators can indeed transcend petty political instincts when their names are called, not just by the clerk but by history, and rightly so."
Source: Washington Post
Jan 18, 2020
“This photo is not an archival record held by the @usnatarchives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic,” it said in another tweet. “Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.”
