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: Time Magazine
Jan 31, 2018
The Complicated History of African Americans in the Military
Source: the way of improvement leads home
Jan 31, 2018
by John Fea
Young people believe that Americans are more divided over politics than race or religion.
Source: NYT
Jan 30, 2018
A century ago, the war to end war came to an end. At the same time, Russia endured a vicious civil war, and the flu killed more people than all the battlefields of World War I.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 29, 2018
In Benin, where the government plans to build two museums devoted to the slave trade in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, slavery is an embattled subject.
Source: Iowa State Daily
Jan 29, 2018
It wasn’t intended to be partisan.
Source: NYT
Jan 29, 2018
It took two eagle-eyed historians to track down the plane that led hundreds of Allied aircraft into Normandy during World War II.
Source: Bloomberg
Jan 29, 2018
History, demographics and the national mood are pointing to one conclusion about the 2018 congressional races: Democrats are well-positioned to bring one-party government in Washington under Donald Trump’s presidency to a screeching halt.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 28, 2018
Leaving mementos at the Wall has been a tradition since the polished stone memorial bearing the names of the 58,000 Vietnam War dead was dedicated in 1982.
Source: Newsweek
Jan 28, 2018
Speaking on the official government podcast, Angela Merkel stressed the importance of highlighting intolerance because of a recent rise in anti-Jewish and other hate crimes.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 28, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Source: NYT
Jan 28, 2018
The revelations have not only prompted personal reckonings but also fueled a larger debate on Hispanic and Native American identity.
Source: CBS News
Jan 27, 2018
A simple meeting in a Naples synagogue was more than 70-years in the making.
Source: National Post
Jan 26, 2018
How repulsive was Lyndon B. Johnson? Contact with him put one at risk of encountering a profane spectacle of burping, farting and crotch-scratching.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 26, 2018
Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book.
Source: Fox News
Jan 25, 2018
An amateur historian says he's discovered a lengthy stretch of the original Berlin Wall in a wooded area of the German capital.
Source: NPR
Jan 25, 2018
A new report from the National Hurricane Center takes stock of exactly how big, damaging and deadly Hurricane Harvey really was.
Source: NYT
Jan 25, 2018
The proposed visit to the port of Danang comes amid heightened tensions over China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, including to islands claimed by Vietnam.
Source: NYT
Jan 25, 2018
“So many people said that it didn’t really happen that way, that we made the story up,” one woman said of the boat that brought her great-great-grandfather to America.
Source: NYT
Jan 25, 2018
The discovery could rewrite the migration story of our species, pushing back by about 50,000 years when Homo sapiens were thought to have first left Africa.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 25, 2018
To call the world nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger — and its immediacy.
