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: NYT
Jan 3, 2018
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's accusation resonates for many Iranians, whose country has long been subject to outside interference.
Source: NYT
Jan 3, 2018
The second-oldest human genome ever found in North America, it sheds new light on how people — among them the ancestors of living Native Americans — first arrived in the Western Hemisphere.
Source: Pacific Standard
Jan 2, 2018
Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Jan 2, 2018
Three hundred years after the founding of a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texans are grappling with post-statehood histories that put white male settlers front and center. A new generation of historians seeks a more diverse set of characters.
Source: The News & Observer
Jan 1, 2018
The North Carolina government is officially recognizing what historians call the only successful coup d’etat in American history, when white supremacists overthrew the Reconstruction-era government in Wilmington in 1898.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 1, 2018
When Alan Shane Dillingham, a historian at Spring Hill College in Alabama, lectures on the 1960s he starts by displaying a timeline of the decade’s most iconic, tumultuous year — 1968.
Source: NYT
Jan 1, 2018
It also helped set the tone for Soviet-American rivalry during the Cold War, profoundly shaping the world we live in today, historians said.
Source: NYT
Dec 31, 2017
In ways that were once unimaginable, President Trump has discarded the conventions and norms established by his predecessors. Will that change the institution permanently?
Source: NYT
Dec 30, 2017
The sporadic release of documents from Britain’s National Archives gives a glimpse into the country’s inner workings.
Source: The State
Dec 30, 2017
Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederate soldiers. But records show the state never accepted nor recognized armed African-American soldiers during the Civil War.
Source: NYT
Dec 29, 2017
He isn’t the first president to understand the power of television. But he is alone in not grasping its limits.
Source: Reuters
Dec 29, 2017
Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling.
Source: NYT
Dec 28, 2017
Mr. Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 28, 2017
by Newton N. Minow
Nixon withdrew the think tank’s security clearance.
Source: WSJ
Dec 28, 2017
Administration’s 34% first-year turnover rate is twice that of Reagan’s 17% in 1981—the next-highest in the past 40 years
Source: Slate
Dec 27, 2017
Instead, it will then begin to “acquire tweets on a selective basis.”
Source: NYT
Dec 27, 2017
The conclusions threaten the 2015 agreement over so-called comfort women, forced to work in brothels for the Japanese military from the 1930s until 1945.
Source: NYT
Dec 27, 2017
The history of pleasures and frightened silences buried in photo albums.
Source: History channel
Dec 27, 2017
As the crowd counted down the final fleeting seconds of 1907, workers used ropes and pulleys to slowly lower the 700-pound ball down the flagpole crowning New York’s second-tallest building.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 2017
An analysis by GovTrack, a website that tracks bills in Congress, shows that Trump has signed the fewest bills into law at this point than any president in more than 60 years, back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
