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 Washington Post
Jun 10, 2017
In a 70-page legal brief responding to a liberal watchdog group’s lawsuit, the administration said that market-rate payments for goods or services made to the president’s real estate, hotel and golf companies do not constitute emoluments as defined by the Constitution.
Source: ABC New (Australia)
Jun 10, 2017
In the early 1960s Washington was a city on edge and the threat of a nuclear attack was not far from the minds of the powerful.
Source: The Conversation
Jun 9, 2017
Lessons from the last time the US added a star to its flag.
Source: MPR News
Jun 9, 2017
But many in Minnesota haven’t heard of what happened to the Mankato.
Source: The Conversation
Jun 8, 2017
Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a landmark civil rights milestone.
Source: CNN
Jun 8, 2017
It's a line that Henry II, the king of England, has been quoted historically as uttering in 1170 during a years-long feud with Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 8, 2017
Japan’s long-standing aspirations to develop a "plutonium economy" troubled U.S. officials going back decades as early as the Jimmy Carter administration.
Source: The State
Jun 7, 2017
Furman University has established a task force, The Task Force on Slavery and Justice, that will help Furman and the larger community understand the role slaves may have played in the university's early history.
Source: NYT
Jun 7, 2017
Newly discovered fossils indicate Homo sapiens were present in Africa 300,000 years ago, scientists reported. Until now, the earliest evidence dated back just 195,000 years.
Source: The Times of London
Jun 5, 2017
One of the most acerbic diarists of his generation has revealed that he excised references to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s racial prejudices.
Source: The Root
Jun 5, 2017
The battle against Confederate symbols and memorials was brought to the forefront of national conversation almost exactly two years ago when white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine black parishioners and injured several others in a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 4, 2017
For the 28th year in succession, a sea of light illuminated Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the evening of June 4 in commemoration of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
Source: NPR
Jun 4, 2017
This week marks the 50th Anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War. Michel Martin speaks with Jane Eisner, editor of The Forward, about Israelis' feelings toward marking the event.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jun 3, 2017
Among the statues some are raising questions about is one for Columbus. Another is one honoring historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Source: Arutz Sheva
Jun 3, 2017
Estonian politician running for election promises to 'decriminalize' Holocaust denial and 'correct' education on Third Reich history.
Source: NYT
Jun 3, 2017
“It’s the last secret of the 1967 war.”
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 2, 2017
It's history worth remembering as we head into a new clash between Congress and the presidency.
Source: USA Today
Jun 2, 2017
A section of rope was found near the MLK Memorial in Washington on Friday, two days after a noose was discovered inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Jun 2, 2017
The book offers a mostly pictorial walk though the secrets, struggles and triumphs of Utah's gay community, from the anti-gay territorial laws that put men in prison in the late 1800s to the city's first gay bars, early gay pride celebrations and the legalization of gay marriage.
Source: Reuters
Jun 2, 2017
For generations, young Americans could go all the way through high school without learning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have long been part of their country's history.
