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 Daily Beast
Dec 27, 2017
The document is from the Cold War. But the material it teaches is still being used today by Vladimir Putin’s clandestine cadres.
Source: NYT
Dec 26, 2017
Reagan’s tax cuts helped the richest Americans, those in the highest 1 percent of the income distribution.
Source: Fox News
Dec 26, 2017
Fox News says it's controversial to speculate about the sexual preference of famous Americans from the past.
Source: NYT
Dec 26, 2017
Mr. Huckabee had just watched “Darkest Hour,” a film about Churchill. It was, he wrote on Twitter, a reminder of “what real leadership looks like.”
Source: CNN
Dec 25, 2017
Last year, Mélisande Short-Colomb learned about her ancestors' ties to the university when she was contacted by a genealogist tracing the descendants of slaves that Jesuits at Georgetown owned almost two centuries ago.
Source: NYT
Dec 25, 2017
A political art group built a replica of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in Bornhagen, Germany. Next door is the home of Björn Höcke, a far-right politician who called the memorial “a monument of shame.”
Source: The Post and Courier
Dec 23, 2017
The man's name was Abraham. In a grainy 1889 photo of the plantation home belonging to Furman University's namesake family, he appears standing by the portico with his face obscured in foliage and shadows.
Source: NYT
Dec 23, 2017
Over its 24-year life, the tribunal indicted 161 people, heard from nearly 5,000 witnesses and met for 10,800 trial days.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Dec 22, 2017
But the Japaneze government is actively denying the history of Korean mistreatment there.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 22, 2017
For two decades, the commander in chief has doled out distinguished-looking coins as personal mementos. Now, the presidential “challenge coin” has undergone a Trumpian transformation.
Source: NYT
Dec 22, 2017
There was no Twitter to fan the flames when W.E.B. Du Bois sparred with Booker T. Washington and Malcolm X argued with Martin Luther King Jr.
Dec 22, 2017
by HNN Editor
The claim is by Doug Weed, author of books on presidential families.
Source: Religion News Service
Dec 21, 2017
Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 21, 2017
by Carlos Lozada
Histories of past presidential scandals reveal common threads and turning points -- but also show how Trump stands alone.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 21, 2017
The selection of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) as the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee was the clearest sign yet of how seriously House Democrats consider the possibility of a full-blown constitutional showdown with Trump.
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 21, 2017
In a surprise move Wednesday evening, the city sold two parks to a nonprofit corporation that promptly tore down monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis.
Source: Newsweek
Dec 21, 2017
Historian Tim Naftali says that he hasn’t seen “this kind of sycophancy” since listening to the Nixon tapes in which former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon “what a remarkable human being he is.”
Source: UCLA Newsroom
Dec 21, 2017
Sinai Palimpsests Project involved scholars from UCLA Library, St. Catherine’s Monastery and the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Dec 20, 2017
For film historians and film buffs the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.
Source: CNN
Dec 20, 2017
The belief in alien encounters has long been a prominent feature of American life.
