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
Apr 23, 2018
In Nazi Germany, propagandists listed physical characteristics that differentiated Jews from Aryans. While some characteristics were far more often mentioned, such as large noses and curly hair, drooping or “sleepy” eyes occasionally made the list.
Source: Newsweek
Apr 23, 2018
Evolutionary anthropologist David Raichlen and his colleagues from the University of Arizona, examined 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints recently discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, which represent the earliest direct evidence of hominin bipedalism.
Source: NYT
Apr 21, 2018
The Trump administration has made eliminating federal regulations a priority, and an increasing number of environmental rules are under threat.
Source: NYT
Apr 21, 2018
The boxer? Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion in 1908, who was convicted of transporting his white girlfriend across state lines.
Source: CNN
Apr 20, 2018
by Harry Enten
Trump right now is adored by the Republican base.
Source: National Security Archive
Apr 20, 2018
Her name? Lisa Howard, a one-time soap actress who became a leading TV journalist. She became a conduit after interviewing Fidel Castro for ABC News.
Source: WESH
Apr 20, 2018
Great Hearts Monte Vista, a San Antonio, Texas charter school, confirmed an eighth-grade American History class was assigned a worksheet titled "The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View."
Source: USA Today
Apr 19, 2018
According to medical historian Herwig Czech, Asperger directly referred two disabled girls to the notorious Am Spiegelgrund children's clinic in Vienna, where some 800 children were murdered under the Nazi's euthanasia program.
Source: Journal Sentinel
Apr 19, 2018
A Klan group formed as an interfraternity society in 1919 included student body leaders Porter Butts and Fredric March, whose names are prominently displayed in the Memorial Union.
Source: The Daily Beast
Apr 19, 2018
Two years ago this week, the Treasury secretary announced civil rights and women’s icons would be on America’s money. Where are they?
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Apr 19, 2018
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 18, 2018
Trump is no historian.
Source: AP
Apr 18, 2018
Nearly 75 years after the USS Helena was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the waters off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, an expedition backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen reported finding its wreckage.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 18, 2018
Barbara Bush described the death of her daughter and the grief that followed as an agony made more bearable by her relationship with her husband.
Source: New York Post
Apr 18, 2018
The two met at a Christmas dance. She was 17. He was 18. The future president was a naval aviator in training.
Source: NYT
Apr 17, 2018
Digitized records and DNA tests are allowing civilian volunteers to pitch in and help put correct names on unidentified remains in American military cemeteries.
Source: NYT
Apr 17, 2018
Five months after the release of sweeping research into its deep historical connections with slavery, Princeton University announced that it would name two prominent spaces in honor of enslaved people who lived or worked on its campus.
Source: NYT
Apr 17, 2018
Some said the ruckus over Israel's 70th anniversary party was crass and undignified. Others said it was perfectly, quintessentially Israel.
Source: Longview News-Journal
Apr 17, 2018
Last year the city of Memphis, which is majority black, was able to find a legal loophole to get rid of two Confederate statues and a bust by selling city parks to a nonprofit.
Source: The Hill
Apr 17, 2018
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) released a campaign ad touting an act she signed last year to protect Confederate monuments in the state.
