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: History channel
Dec 19, 2017
The city of Rome is over 2,700 years old. Dig into the ground and you’ll eventually bump into what the old residents left behind.
Source: History channel
Dec 19, 2017
Melvil Dewey is remembered today as an innovator who ushered American librarianship into the modern age, but his pattern of sexual harassment was so egregious that women dared to speak out against it, at a time when women were harshly judged for reporting sexual harassment.
Source: BBC
Dec 19, 2017
The historian, who serves as Trump’s national security adviser, has accused Russia of "a sophisticated campaign of subversion" to undermine free and open societies.
Source: Propublica
Dec 18, 2017
The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower. Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil.
Source: Vox
Dec 18, 2017
“This is tax reform on the fast and cheap.”
Source: The Atlantic
Dec 18, 2017
Despite efforts to require lessons on civil rights, outdated textbooks in the Mississippi school system indicate little has changed.
Source: The Roanoke Times
Dec 16, 2017
Now they are being restored.
Source: NYT
Dec 16, 2017
According to several scholars of American history, the invocation of a president’s name as a jaw-jutting declaration of exclusion, rather than inclusion, appears to be unprecedented.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 15, 2017
Economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment; rather, racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.
Source: The Daily Beast
Dec 15, 2017
Things fell apart for Nixon when he dropped below 30 percent approval in his second term. Trump is getting there in his first year.
Source: VOA
Dec 14, 2017
Volkswagen says a study has revealed that security guards at its operation in Brazil cooperated with the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
Source: NYT
Dec 14, 2017
In his first 10 months in office, Trump has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly. Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 14, 2017
What went wrong.
Source: History channel
Dec 14, 2017
Much like “Merry Christmas,” it turns out that “Happy Holidays” also has religious roots.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Dec 14, 2017
Reports indicate congressional negotiators have dropped repeal of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students and other provisions affecting higher ed from final tax-reform bill.
Source: Newsweek
Dec 14, 2017
An archaeological inspection of Greer Stadium in Nashville found a “high likelihood of human remains.”
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 13, 2017
The secret letter was tucked inside the pages of an old book. It had been written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to a top lieutenant, condemning civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: Quartz
Dec 13, 2017
A comparison of the census map of 1860 showing concentration of slaves in Alabama with the votes in the Senate election this week show that Roy Moore’s support was highest in white counties from 1860.
Dec 12, 2017
California’s inclusive curriculum raises questions on the ethics of teaching about sexual orientation.
Source: Boston Globe
Dec 12, 2017
It was written in the 19th century by a songwriter who was cashing in on minstrel shows.
