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
Jul 21, 2017
He cited Napoleon a few times. But did he know who the was talking about?
Source: NYT
Jul 20, 2017
Historians are worried.
Source: National Post
Jul 20, 2017
Her school, Beit Berl College, first condemned the apparent theft, then backtracked after she said collected the items from outside the camp grounds.
Source: MSNBC Video
Jul 20, 2017
The historian made his comments on a segment of the Rachel Maddow show that aired after the Washington Post reported that Trump is considering pardoning himself and family and friends.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 19, 2017
Linguistic experts say they know who wrote the famous Bixby letter. It wasn’t Lincoln.
Source: Press Herald
Jul 19, 2017
Salem, Massachusetts recognizes five of the victims on the 325th anniversary of their deaths and vows never to forget.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 19, 2017
Christopher Nolan, the director of the Dunkirk movie, consulted with survivors to get their stories. This is one of the lessons he learned.
Source: NYT
Jul 18, 2017
Mass grave, with the remains of as many as 28 Soviet soldiers found, draws renewed attention.
Source: Smithsonian
Jul 18, 2017
Maggie L. Walker fought segregation her whole life in the former capital of the Confederacy. Now her statue towers over the Virginia city.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 18, 2017
The National Archives has tentatively approved a proposal to let the agency get rid of files that don’t have historical value. Historians fear there’s a lot of room for error.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 17, 2017
Trump’s startling new tweet shows that’s changed.
Source: American Family News Network
Jul 17, 2017
"[It] has excluded notable figures such as Clarence Thomas, Mia Love, [and] also the title or anything referenced to eugenics, which has impacted African-Americans in this country more so than any other issue."
Source: CNBC
Jul 17, 2017
Forty-one percent of Americans think Trump "should be impeached and compelled to leave the presidency," versus 53 percent who do not, according to the poll.
Source: thelocal.fr
Jul 16, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marked 75 years since the roundup of some 13,000 Jews to be sent to Nazi death camps, calling France's responsibility a "stark truth" at a ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Source: NYT
Jul 15, 2017
After 56 years and many investigations, there is new hope that secrets lurking in Western intelligence archives could solve the biggest whodunit in United Nations history: the mysterious death of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Source: NYT
Jul 15, 2017
Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to award them any money remaining from a $9 million legal settlement over the program.
Source: NYT
Jul 15, 2017
In 2016, China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage reported 103 tomb-raiding and cultural relic theft cases.
Source: National Geographic
Jul 14, 2017
Pictures captured by photographer Herbert Ponting in the early 20th century show the coldest continent before climate change took hold.
Source: The Telegraph
Jul 14, 2017
The faculty should not just be filled with “busts of 1920s bearded men” but rather more modern, diverse scholars so that King’s College London feels less “alienating," says dean.
Source: Daily Beast
Jul 14, 2017
by Ron Radosh
They weren't guilty of treason. (But they were found guilty of espionage.)
