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
Jul 31, 2018
Are we all at peace with that?
Source: NYT
Jul 31, 2018
Three years before Roe v. Wade established a constitutional right to abortion, New York legalized the procedure in 1970, turning the state into a magnet for women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies.
Source: Tablet Magazine
Jul 31, 2018
It’s a tale of ducks, hens, and sexually voracious crows. The author? George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 31, 2018
by Mark McKinty
The story of Spain during the 20th century is a complex one.
Source: Bloomberg
Jul 30, 2018
“The problem is that young people get used to hate speech. Some people don’t like chips, some people hate Coca-Cola—and some people hate the Jews.”
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 29, 2018
The signs for Confederate Avenue and Dixie Drive may come down, but will Austin really consider changing its name amid national upheaval to jettison Confederate symbols?
Source: NYT
Jul 28, 2018
The 155th anniversary Gettysburg re-enactment was a snapshot of a hobby with dwindling ranks.
Source: NYT
Jul 28, 2018
A historic cemetery was discovered on the construction site of a new school outside Houston.
Source: AP
Jul 27, 2018
A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 27, 2018
"He is honest — but smart as hell.”
Source: NYT
Jul 26, 2018
by T.J. Stiles
Before the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected almost no one.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 26, 2018
The history you need to know to put the Cohen recordings in context.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 26, 2018
Most puzzling to tourists: The memorial to MLK.
Source: NYT
Jul 26, 2018
The unpublished material, or at least some of it, has suddenly emerged and was offered for sale at a Manhattan auction house, along with another artifact that scholars have never seen: the manuscript for the published book, which bears dense traces of Mr. Haley’s and Malcolm X’s complex negotiations over the finished text.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 26, 2018
by Thomas Alan Schwartz
It was 50 years ago that he got Vanderbilt to start recording the evening network newscasts.
Source: American Historical Association
Jul 25, 2018
"The AHA is dismayed by threats to the preservation of records relating to the treatment of immigrants by the US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 25, 2018
The former secretary of state pushed one president to use China to isolate the Soviet Union. These days, he’s counseling almost the reverse—and officials are listening.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 24, 2018
by Douglas M. Charles
In the first and second world wars, the FBI effectively uprooted foreign influence campaigns. Today, the agency faces an uphill battle.
Source: Twitter
Jul 24, 2018
The announcement was made by Google.
Source: National Security Archive
Jul 24, 2018
The Clinton administration sought to preserve close ties to the Indonesian Armed Forces as President Suharto’s rule came to an end in May 1998, even as the Army carried out significant human rights abuses.
