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
Nov 21, 2018
The deal has been deeply unpopular among South Koreans, including some of the surviving victims, who say it fell short of official reparations and a declaration of legal responsibility on Japan’s part.
Source: Pew Research Center
Nov 21, 2018
Black history museums and historic sites are flourishing across the South, riding a wave of interest in African-American history that has made a stunning success of the two-year-old National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital.
Source: NYT
Nov 20, 2018
The ring was discovered in the late 1960s, but it was not until recently that researchers, analyzing those objects with advanced photography, were able to decipher the ring’s inscription.
Source: NYT
Nov 20, 2018
Throughout World War II, the Dutch art dealers Benjamin and Nathan Katz sold art they owned, but three generations of the Katz family have argued that their actions were made under duress and have fought for decades to regain possession of scores of works transferred during the war.
Source: Vox
Nov 19, 2018
The 1923 speaker election illustrated the power of a majority party faction to bargain for reform and drive a speaker from power.
Source: Time Magazine
Nov 16, 2018
Many at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the “Kindertransport” in London drew comparisons between the welcome extended to Kindertransport children back in 1938, and the general hostility toward migrants now, no matter how deserving they might be.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 16, 2018
A Han Dynasty-era pit includes 300 soldiers, guard towers, farm animals and everything else a noble might need in the afterlife,
Source: NPR
Nov 16, 2018
The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.
Source: Time Magazine
Nov 16, 2018
An international criminal tribunal convicted two former Khmer Rouge leaders of atrocities including genocide in a historic ruling.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 16, 2018
by Rebecca Moore
It’s to remember the victims for their shared vision and not just their deaths.
Source: Slate
Nov 15, 2018
Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.
Source: NYT
Nov 15, 2018
No recent prime ministers have been willing to commit the tens of millions of dollars it would take to make the stone house habitable again.
Source: History channel
Nov 14, 2018
Ancient modern humans had just as many head injuries as Neanderthals.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 14, 2018
Fifty years ago, on Nov. 14, 1968, then-Yale President Kingman Brewster announced female undergraduates would be admitted for the first time.
Source: BBC
Nov 14, 2018
A pearl and diamond pendant that belonged to ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette has been sold for $36m (£28m) in what Sotheby's auction house says is a world record for a pearl.
Source: The Hill
Nov 14, 2018
The board voted 12-2 to keep Clinton in the curriculum, with Republicans Pat Hardy and Geraldine Miller opposing the proposal.
Source: The Harvard Gazette
Nov 14, 2018
“If we, as an institution, don’t find the way to find that middle, we stand a chance of going the way that our other branches of government have gone, and losing the respect that is at the core of our institution.”
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 13, 2018
The Greek Culture Ministry said archaeologists have located the first tangible remains of the city.
Source: NYT
Nov 13, 2018
That is because the Constitution says that the ultimate arbiter of who gets a Senate seat is the Senate itself — not election officials or the courts.
Nov 13, 2018
"It's important to understand, first of all, that this is not simply a one-off or a joke in bad taste."
