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
Aug 13, 2018
This week, the room is in the news as the surprising scene of the firing of former presidential adviser and reality show foil Omarosa Manigault Newman.
Source: National Security Archive
Aug 13, 2018
Repository of historic human rights evidence faces government crackdown.
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 13, 2018
Herbert Hoover's approach is echoed in the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Source: Crosscut
Aug 13, 2018
But for quirks of colonial competition, the troubles with managing empire, and the shifting fortunes of international commerce, the Pacific Northwest could have been part of the Spanish Empire.
Source: Newsweek
Aug 13, 2018
A recently translated book about the Holocaust has claimed that Italian citizens played a crucial and enthusiastic role in the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Source: The Guardian
Aug 11, 2018
Lawmakers push for ‘constitutional convention’ to restrict federal government – and it’s not as far fetched as it sounds.
Source: The Hill
Aug 11, 2018
A new Marist College poll found that 45 percent rated Trump’s job performance as poor — the same percentage who said Nixon was doing poorly as president in a Harris poll.
Source: Time Magazine
Aug 10, 2018
Here's what to know about the history of that ban.
Source: NYT
Aug 10, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh delivered the advice in a private memorandum made public on Friday by the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Source: CBS News
Aug 10, 2018
"You have some people who are very upset and you know this needs to be something that's under wraps right now."
Source: National Security Archives
Aug 10, 2018
The CIA director described extended sessions of physical violence and waterboarding.
Source: Time Magazine
Aug 9, 2018
Even historians find that they can be tricked.
Source: The Telegraph
Aug 9, 2018
The pioneering scientist was voted in at number one, higher than Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst and the Virgin Mary, according to a reader poll conducted by BBC History Magazine.
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 9, 2018
The story of how such a monument could remain in place a century later offers lessons in just how hard it can be to confront a shared history that still divides a nation.
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 8, 2018
The image of Russia’s “greatness” has been largely sanitized from its legacy of violence.
Source: CNN
Aug 8, 2018
Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat for Virginia, praised in a speech last year Virginia's decision in 1861 to secede from the Union, putting it on par with rebellions during the American Revolution and today.
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 7, 2018
After a five-year plunge into the history of slavery at the University of Virginia, a commission has concluded that slavery played an integral role in the founding, construction and operations of the public university.
Source: The Hill
Aug 7, 2018
President Trump first used the characterization for the news media in a tweet less than a month into his term, proclaiming that various media outlets are “not my enemy," but the "enemy of the American People!”
Source: CNN
Aug 7, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it's a "traditional exercise" of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional, as he defended the controversial practice of signing statements prevalent in George W. Bush's White House.
Source: AJC.com
Aug 6, 2018
Wesleyan College officials announced they are abolishing Wesleyan’s use of its four class names over concerns they link directly back to the most menacing parts of the institution’s history.
