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 Guardian
Oct 11, 2017
Labour leader also wants greater focus on history of British empire and colonialism.
Source: Political Wire
Oct 11, 2017
“No longer will ‘blue slips’ be allowed to deny a nominee a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on confirmation.”
Source: NBC News
Oct 10, 2017
In honor of its first anniversary, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be commemorated with a Forever Stamp by the U.S. Postal Service.
Source: History channel
Oct 10, 2017
It took the combined efforts of cartoons, comics and candy manufacturers to resurrect trick-or-treating after World War II and make it what it is today.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 10, 2017
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says that if Confederate monuments are taken down, there’s no telling how far America might go —Native Americans could call for the removal of statues commemorating leaders who orchestrated violence against their ancestors.
Source: The Brookings Institution
Oct 10, 2017
The study cites precedents from the Nixon and Clinton impeachments.
Source: Newsweek
Oct 9, 2017
The problem is, the notion of a black soldier fighting for his beloved South is a myth, according to historians.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 9, 2017
Nelson Winbush relishes talking about his grandfather’s time as a Confederate soldier, fighting at the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, slave trader and imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Source: NYT
Oct 9, 2017
Residents of a tiny Bolivian hamlet vividly recall the day the guerrilla leader was shot at their school. "For us, this was a time of suffering," says a woman who brought him soup.
Source: Newsweek
Oct 8, 2017
In his final Columbus Day proclamation as president, Obama recognized the suffering endured by the Native American people.
Source: Forbes
Oct 7, 2017
New research focused on the city of Rome suggests a more peaceful transition from paganism to Christianity, rather than the clash, bash and "fall" championed for hundreds of years.
Source: The Roanoke Times
Oct 7, 2017
A cache of Civil War letters from Radford that may be the largest yet found documents the lives of the Wharton family and gives rare details of an enslaved couple serving on the homefront and the battlefield.
Source: NYT
Oct 6, 2017
Declassified documents show that intelligence officers, and President Eisenhower, knew that the Soviet Union was close to launching a man-made satellite.
Source: NYT
Oct 6, 2017
A 1960s government program took indigenous children from their families for adoption by nonnative parents, some as far away as Europe and New Zealand.
Source: Slate
Oct 6, 2017
Rep. Paul Gosar is pushing conspiracy theories popularized by 9/11 Truther Alex Jones about the August white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville.
Source: Khaosod English
Oct 6, 2017
“If someone is charged for criticizing a king who reigned 500 years ago, then something is not normal.”
Source: NYT
Oct 5, 2017
The plaque at Canada’s first national Holocaust monument, unveiled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is being replaced after an international outcry.
Source: NYT
Oct 5, 2017
Marine archaeologists announced new findings from their most recent excavation of the roughly 2,000-year-old Antikythera wreck.
Source: Pew Research Center
Oct 5, 2017
Sharp shifts among Democrats on aid to needy, race, immigration.
Source: Newsweek
Oct 5, 2017
The cemetery, dating from the first and second centuries A.D., was discovered in the Roman port town of Berenike, established in Ptolemaic Egypt between 285-246 B.C.
