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 Washington Post
Nov 13, 2019
by Michael E. Ruane
Newly digitized copies of audio, film and pictures from the Nuremberg trials detail the breadth and depravity of the Holocaust.
Source: Time
Nov 12, 2019
Today, many Roma communities are still marginalized, but the Holocaust represents an ugly peak in that history of persecution.
Source: AP
Nov 12, 2019
There are consistencies in the process — televised hearings, partisan rancor and memorable speeches — but each impeachment process also stands alone as a reflection of the president, the Congress and the times.
Source: Time
Nov 11, 2019
by Olivia B. Waxman
Montgomery, Alabama elects its first African American Mayor.
Source: Politico Magazine
Nov 11, 2019
Almost every four years, there’s a last-minute panic candidate for the presidency. They never win.
Source: Reuters
Nov 11, 2019
Many Poles still refuse to accept research showing that thousands of Poles participated in the Holocaust in addition to the thousands who risked their lives to help the Jews.
Source: NY Times
Nov 11, 2019
Oleg Sokolov, a Russian historian who made a career studying and impersonating Napoleon Bonaparte, liked to be called “Sire.” He also had a long history of seducing and being violent toward female students at a prestigious university.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 11, 2019
by Todd Lookingbill and Peter Smallwood
The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.
Source: NY Times
Nov 10, 2019
Private explorers found the U.S.S. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 10, 2019
The violence in 1899 left Kentucky on the brink of a civil war.
Source: Time
Nov 10, 2019
by Olivia B. Waxman
New services are making it easier for families to learn about their ancestors’ military service.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 9, 2019
by Robert McCartney
Thirty years ago, East German officials abruptly announced it would open its border, ending 28 years of separation between East and West Berlin. This story ran on the front page of The Washington Post the next morning.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 8, 2019
by Mike Conway
In the summer of 1962, the two networks were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 8, 2019
Attacks on Jewish homes have often been a neglected aspect of "the Night of Broken Glass", until now.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 8, 2019
by Michael E. Ruane
Two sunken Japanese aircraft carriers were found weeks before the movie about the World War II battle opens
Source: History.com
Nov 8, 2019
by Sarah Pruitt
The mighty clash between Japanese and U.S. Naval forces in June 1942 ended in a stunning— and surprising—Allied victory.
Source: National Geographic
Nov 7, 2019
Using hyperprecise LiDAR data, a cartographer maps the river’s bends and channels over time with mesmerizing results.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 7, 2019
Germany's minister on health is trying to ban conversion therapy.
Source: Time
Nov 7, 2019
by Albinko Hasic
The story of the Berlin Wall is one of division and repression, but also of the yearning for freedom — and the events that led up to its toppling are no exception.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 6, 2019
Voters agreed to remove Martin Luther King's name from city street signs.
