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: NPR
Oct 24, 2017
More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today.
Source: TPM
Oct 24, 2017
“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”
Source: AJC.com
Oct 24, 2017
The DeKalb County Commission voted Tuesday to attempt to move a 109-year-old monument honoring the Confederacy.
Source: Balkan Transitional Justice
Oct 23, 2017
A historian who testified at a rehabilitation hearing for Serbia’s WWII Prime Minister, Milan Nedic, said the collaborationist leader’s loyalty to the German regime was “absolute until the very end.”
Source: Politico
Oct 23, 2017
There is little doubt that the political interests of the Klan and the Democratic Party, at least in the early years, intersected. But there is no evidence that it was founded as part of the Democratic Party, or that the party ever even had an official "military arm."
Source: Pew Research Center
Oct 23, 2017
Reflecting growing partisan gaps across most of the individual questions in the scale – even those where both parties have shifted in the same direction – Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades.
Source: NYT
Oct 22, 2017
Bannon has declared a “season of war” to push out problematic Republicans in midterm elections just as Roosevelt tried to do to balky Democrats. But Roosevelt’s purge backfired.
Source: CNN
Oct 22, 2017
"If you're concerned about what's going on today, read history and figure out what to do because it's all right there."
Source: The Post and Courier
Oct 22, 2017
Since the idea for the International African American Museum was publicly announced almost two decades ago, the project has swung on a pendulum of uncertainty. Until now.
Source: USA Today
Oct 21, 2017
To find a completely new species? Nobody expected that.
Source: New York Post
Oct 21, 2017
Secret government documents to be released this week likely contain new details about what the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before he murdered President John F. Kennedy, assassination experts say.
Source: Politico
Oct 20, 2017
If the decision holds, it could contribute to the belief that the government has something to hide.
Source: Smithsonian
Oct 19, 2017
The fiery progressive Robert La Follette responded with a classic defense of free speech in wartime.
Source: artnet News
Oct 19, 2017
Archaeologists and art historians find themselves embroiled in a white supremacist debate.
Source: Newsweek
Oct 19, 2017
According to a Marist poll released on Thursday, 42 percent believe Trump’s legacy will be as one of the country’s worst leaders.
Source: History channel
Oct 19, 2017
His name was Ben Cooper and he created the market for licensed Halloween costumes.
Source: AP
Oct 19, 2017
Written in the 1980s, the letters give a peek into Obama’s psyche as he sought out the path that would eventually land him in the White House as the United States’ first black president.
Source: Newsweek
Oct 19, 2017
“When I hear Spencer saying, ‘For us, it is to conquer or it is to die,’ I hear echoes of [Hitler].”
Source: National Security Archive
Oct 17, 2017
Newly declassified US embassy Jakarta files detail army killings and US support for quashing leftist labor movement.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 17, 2017
Study of ice-core records and Ancient Egyptian documents suggests environmental forces helped seal the last Ptolemaic ruler’s fate in 30BC.
