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: Daily Beast
Jan 4, 2019
by Marc Wortman
In the last decade, the number of students majoring in history at the nation’s colleges has plummeted, and it seemingly has nothing to do with the job market.
Source: Mother Jones
Jan 4, 2019
A new book explores congressional violence in the decades leading up to the Civil War
Source: Mother Jones
Jan 3, 2019
by Pema Levy
It didn't start with Donald Trump.
Source: Smithsonian.com
Jan 3, 2019
While the rituals associated with the site may not be entirely clear, identifying the ruins of a temple to the deity Xipe Tóte is an important discovery
Source: The Conversation
Jan 3, 2019
by Vasile Ersek
The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East echo over millennia to the present day.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 3, 2019
After Nancy Pelosi was elected House speaker Thursday, she was given a wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered.
Source: Salon
Jan 3, 2019
by Tony Platt
A decade from now under the First Step Act, expect that incarceration will be not so much reduced as diversified.
Source: New York Review of Books
Jan 3, 2019
by Stephen Wertheim
Today, neoconservatives are riding high once more, in the White House, on Capitol Hill, in the most prominent organs of opinion. Why?
Source: Smithsonian.com
Jan 2, 2019
They held on for as long as they could, but now the Smithsonian and other Washington museums are closed.
Source: Pacific Standard
Jan 2, 2019
by Katy Reckdahl
Tate plans to open an educational center in the New Orleans school she attended as one of only three black students in 1960.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 2, 2019
by Brooks D. Simpson
As the 116th Congress convenes this week, how can American political history help us anticipate what political shifts might occur?
Source: NYT
Jan 2, 2019
A German family has the artwork, and refuses to give it back. The Italian museum has mounted a publicity campaign in an effort to get German authorities to intervene.
Source: Common Dreams
Jan 2, 2019
by Lawrence Wittner
The United States is first in war, but trailing in crucial aspects of modern civilizaiton.
Source: Foreign Affairs
Jan 1, 2019
by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
Since WWII, the United States has put deterrence at the core of its defense strategy. Now technological and geographical changes might change that.
Source: New York Times
Jan 1, 2019
by Amy Qin
The photographer Li Zhensheng is on a mission to make his fellow Chinese remember one of the most turbulent chapters in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party is increasingly determined to whitewash.
Source: NPR
Dec 31, 2018
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion Ledger about his 30-year career in investigative journalism, as well as his upcoming projects.
Source: The Telegraph
Dec 30, 2018
Le Monde insisted that it had not intended to portray Mr Macron as being akin to Hitler.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 29, 2018
by Susan Svrluga
Eight decades after the original student protest, students at the University of North Carolina reclaim the wrenching act to protest Confederate monuments on campus.
Source: NYT
Dec 29, 2018
An error in a design for a stamp to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day — it showed American troops on the wrong beach, in Asia instead of Europe — has spurred an apology to veterans and their families.
Source: NYT
Dec 29, 2018
Most of the city’s so-called “Stalin high-rises” — both residential and government buildings — desperately need renovating. They are stuck in limbo, however, over who will foot the substantial bill.
