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: CBS
Nov 25, 2019
The divided Congress has been unable to agree on much throughout Mr. Trump's presidency, especially since the House launched an impeachment inquiry against him, but the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act passed with unanimous consent.
Source: NY Times
Nov 23, 2019
His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 20, 2019
Here’s why that comparison doesn’t work.
Source: NY Times
Nov 20, 2019
The statue’s removal came after months of “high emotions, division and even violence” in the small town of Pittsboro, a county official said.
Source: NY Times
Nov 19, 2019
He worked on fund-raising and voter registration for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Then President Kennedy insisted on his dismissal.
Source: NY Times
Nov 19, 2019
As in past seasons, the latest installment of Netflix’s show about the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II melds fact and fiction. Here’s how The Times covered events depicted this season.
Source: The New Yorker
Nov 18, 2019
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 18, 2019
by Paul W. Posner
After weeks of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has relented to demands to rewrite the Chilean Constitution. The protesters say they want a new constitution to address Chile’s severe social and economic inequities.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 18, 2019
In keeping with the show’s gripping use of history to personalize the queen and other royals, the episode exposes rumors and fears of betrayal among British government officials and leaders, including Winston Churchill.
Source: NPR
Nov 18, 2019
Even more than 230 years ago, the Founders were eerily prescient in fearing how the impeachment process could play out: beset by partisanship and broken down by factions.
Nov 17, 2019
by Matthew Crawford
Historians give much-needed context on the recent California wildfires and climate change.
Source: NY Times
Nov 16, 2019
Boasting a proud literary pedigree, Trieste is populated with statues. But none has provoked passions like that of Gabriele d’Annunzio, who inspired Fascism and briefly ruled his own state last century.
Source: TIME
Nov 16, 2019
by Kathy McCormack
Werner Gustav Doehner, the last among 62 passengers and crew who escaped the May 6, 1937, fire, was 90.
Source: Time
Nov 16, 2019
by Andy Kopsa
The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia had been long in the making before protests erupted 30 years ago.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 16, 2019
Researchers plan to comb through available court documents, particularly from trials for those prosecuted under sodomy laws, as well as uncover other clues that can be found in letters or in poetry and art.
Source: History.com
Nov 15, 2019
The idea was to show the royal family in their day-to-day lives. The results were mixed.
Source: History.com
Nov 15, 2019
by Becky Little
In 1900, newspapers and politicians claimed the doctor trying to stop the plague had made the whole thing up.
Source: The New Republic
Nov 14, 2019
by Nick Martin
The case has it all: white-centrism, the "school choice" debate, and the obscene way in which North Carolina is failing its students.
Source: NY Times
Nov 13, 2019
Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to the Third Reich.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Nov 13, 2019
A brief history of the long battle to pass what would now be the 28th Amendment
