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 Daily Beast
Nov 13, 2018
He says the U.S. had to rescue them.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 12, 2018
Memoirs by first ladies often outsell those of their husbands. But that wasn’t the case in 1899.
Source: Newsweek
Nov 11, 2018
Le Monde report says he accused confused leaders of starting Yugoslav wars.
Source: NYT
Nov 10, 2018
As leaders commemorate the end of WWI, some of the same forces that threatened democracy and peace 100 years ago are resurgent today.
Source: CNN
Nov 10, 2018
Whitaker, whom President Donald Trump announced as acting attorney general on Wednesday after he fired Jeff Sessions, made the comments during a failed 2014 run for the Republican Senate nomination in Iowa.
Source: NYT
Nov 9, 2018
Amid a resurgence of xenophobia that has reshaped Germany’s political landscape, the nation’s leaders warned that Germans must defend democracy to ensure that hate crimes like Kristallnacht, the Nazi-led burning of synagogues and plundering of Jewish shops 80 years ago, “never again” take place.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 9, 2018
The move came after a campaign called Time for Inclusive Education presented a series of suggestions to the Scottish government.
Source: NYT
Nov 8, 2018
Seventy-five years after the artist's "Four Freedoms" series ran in The Saturday Evening Post, a number of artists are reinterpreting it to include today's more diverse culture.
Source: The Economist
Nov 8, 2018
Democracy and peace are linked, but the relationship is complex.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 8, 2018
Ruth Barnett and her brother were helped by the Quakers to get to the UK from Berlin. But, four years after the war, she was forced to return to Germany by her mother.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 8, 2018
Measured against the strength of the economy, the GOP’s losses in the House mark the worst midterm results for a president's own party in at least a century, per Michael Cembalest, JPMorgan Asset Management’s chairman of market and investment strategy.
Source: NYT
Nov 8, 2018
Three new genetic analyses lend detail, and mystery, to the migration of prehistoric humans throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Source: The Guardian
Nov 8, 2018
Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel was executed in Poland days after her 18th birthday. Decades after her diary resurfaced in America, it is finally set to be read by the world.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 8, 2018
In 1917 Jeanette Rankin joined the chamber as its first and only female member.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 8, 2018
Our first president offered asylum as one of America’s assets. Repeatedly.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 7, 2018
Initial finds include hunter-gatherer site on outskirts of London, Wars of the Roses battlefield, Industrial Revolution burial guard.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 7, 2018
In 1868, Congress had just forced Florida to rewrite its constitution to allow every man the right to vote, but adding thousands of newly eligible black residents to the rolls would abruptly make whites a voting minority. Combined with postwar laws that made it easy to saddle black residents with criminal records, a lifetime voting ban on anyone with a felony conviction legislators knew they could suppress black votes indefinitely.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 7, 2018
The American Indian Museum puts the 150-year-old Fort Laramie Treaty on view in its “Nation to Nation” exhibition.
Source: Snopes
Nov 7, 2018
Jewish students in Berlin on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
Source: The Hill
Nov 7, 2018
Critics have expressed concern that the new language will make it unconstitutional for incarcerated individuals to work in prisons, Colorado Public Radio reported.
