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
Oct 2, 2018
Long before Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, there was President Warren G. Harding, whose sexual dalliances made history.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 2, 2018
Turns out he's related to the slave used as a model in a famous Lincoln/slave statue.
Source: National Security Archive
Oct 2, 2018
The documents show Clinton believed backing Yeltsin personally was necessary to ensure Russian stability and market reform, which he privileged over the development of democracy.
Source: NYT
Oct 1, 2018
Mexico’s student movement erupted so suddenly in the summer of 1968 that it seemed to catch even its followers by surprise.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 30, 2018
Appropriation row comes as councils scrap the Black History Month name in favor of celebrations of all different ethnicities.
Source: Time
Sep 30, 2018
The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Sep 29, 2018
by Kevin Gannon
Here's the answer historian Kevin Gannon provided on Twitter.
Source: Smithsonian
Sep 28, 2018
In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.
Source: Haaretz
Sep 28, 2018
A new annotated and critical edition of the manifesto is stirring controversy, with Dutch booksellers reluctant to even display ‘Mijn Strijd’.
Source: The News & Observer
Sep 27, 2018
In announcing the app at a news conference, African-American Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the New Orleans Slave Trade Marker and App Project "will let us honor the lives and dignity of those ancestors who were undoubtedly bought and sold here."
Source: Weatherford Democrat
Sep 27, 2018
The state education board approved a new course in Mexican American Studies.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 27, 2018
New technology allows scientists to visualize ancient Maya cities like never before.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 27, 2018
by Jeff South
In the debate over Confederate symbols in the U.S., the 10 Army bases named after Confederate generals who fought for the South during the Civil War have largely escaped scrutiny.
Source: Newsweek
Sep 26, 2018
"If we brought George Washington here, and we say this is George Washington, the Democrats would vote against him," Trump said. "He may have had a bad past. Who knows?”
Source: The Forward
Sep 25, 2018
Stephen Kantrowitz, now an award-winning history professor at the University of Wisconsin, remembered him differently at Yale.
Source: Smithsonian
Sep 25, 2018
The Italian Old Master had a notoriously mercurial temperament and was forced to flee Rome in 1606 after killing his rival in a duel.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
Sep 25, 2018
At least 44 men in Maryland lost their lives to lynchings. Now activists are shining a light on the gruesome practice.
Source: National Security Archive
Sep 25, 2018
Possibly for the first time in U.S. diplomatic history, the “Nuclear Football” became a subject of a heads-of-state discussion when Russian President Boris Yeltsin proposed getting “rid” of it during a meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton in September 1994.
Source: Smithsonian
Sep 25, 2018
Fearing repercussions of his groundbreaking scientific claims, which flew in the face of church doctrine, the famed astronomer fibbed.
Source: NYT
Sep 25, 2018
Engineers and archaeologists working together to save an ancient riverside temple in Egypt have discovered rare treasures, including a sphinx.
