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 Hill
Jun 11, 2018
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was recently pardoned by President Trump, is making comparisons for his next film between the Democratic resistance to Trump and how Democrats didn’t accept President Lincoln’s reelection during the Civil War.
Source: Brisbane Times
Jun 11, 2018
Dictators have scored presidential face time before.
Source: NYT
Jun 10, 2018
Home to the largest population of Jews in Europe before the war, Poland has more property that was stolen during the war and nationalized in its aftermath than any other nation.
Source: Politico
Jun 10, 2018
The president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 9, 2018
Who was the man whose likeness is captured in the figurine, and what did he mean to the people of Abel?
Source: NYT
Jun 8, 2018
Written 2,300 years ago, it is a Chinese version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with text that swirls like the stars through the firmament and describes the relationship between humans and heaven.
Source: Snopes
Jun 8, 2018
The answer is yes.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jun 8, 2018
One of Donald Trump’s longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
Source: Boston1775 (blog)
Jun 7, 2018
Two new databases of English writing from the founding era confirm that “bear arms” is a military term.
Source: Medium
Jun 7, 2018
by Ben Blum
A French academic and filmmaker, plumbing newly-released documents from Philip Zimbardo’s archives at Stanford, show he did not allow participants to leave.
Source: Fortune
Jun 7, 2018
No, Eisenhower's probably was.
Source: We're History
Jun 7, 2018
National parks are not just places of natural beauty and wildlife. National parks are also places of great significance to American history—both the triumphant and the controversial.
Source: Snopes
Jun 6, 2018
Neither the Constitution nor hundreds of years of Supreme Court rulings have directly answered the legality of this question.
Source: WRAL
Jun 6, 2018
Peter Faneuil, one of the richest merchants in 18th century New England, was a slave owner. And he traded not only in sugar, molasses and timber, but in humans.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 6, 2018
The lyrics have a storied history — one deeply entwined with America’s ever-uneasy relationship between religion and politics.
Source: CNN
Jun 6, 2018
The problem with Trump's comments to Trudeau is that British troops burned down the White House during the War of 1812, not Canada.
Source: NYT
Jun 5, 2018
Tests results and surveys show that students’ — and most Americans’ — knowledge of their history and the structure of their government is abysmal.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 5, 2018
The bad ones include Yalta and Vienna.
Source: NYT
Jun 5, 2018
To understand how deeply the name Macedonia is embedded in the Greek psyche, look no further than Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki.
Source: NYT
Jun 5, 2018
In a letter released on Tuesday, the Treasury Department praised Harriet Tubman, a former slave and abolitionist, but made no commitment on whether she would one day be the face of the $20 bill.
