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
May 28, 2017
Following campaigns such as Rhodes must fall, university is to make history syllabus more diverse and less British-focused.
Source: WaPo
May 27, 2017
by Richard A. Moss
Other presidents have set up back channels too
Source: Al-Fanar Media
May 26, 2017
A campaign to restore the holdings of the library of the University of Mosul has received an enthusiastic response since it began three months ago.
Source: NYT
May 26, 2017
The antimonument activists have a powerful lineup of city officials on their side, including Lyda Krewson, the newly elected mayor of St. Louis, who said that she favored removing the Confederate Memorial from the park permanently.
Source: Political Wire
May 26, 2017
“Donald Trump, in the mid-1980s, aggressively pursued an official government post to the USSR, according to a Nobel Peace Prize winner with whom Trump interacted at the time.”
Source: The Washington Post
May 26, 2017
How did Kennedy celebrate his 46th birthday — the last of his short life? On a boat, with Dom Pérignon, French cuisine and the president chasing the wife of a legendary Washington journalist.
Source: Time Magazine
May 25, 2017
Eric Foner suggests Beaufort, SC Reconstruction Site.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 25, 2017
But many struggle to decide how far they should go.
Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
May 24, 2017
As more families from other states move to Bozeman, some parents are surprised or upset to learn that kids here don’t get a holiday from school on Martin Luther King Day.
Source: Think Progress
May 24, 2017
The state has been relying on a century-old, white supremacist phrase to disenfranchise felons.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
May 24, 2017
Egyptian President Nasser’s aggressive moves along the border.
Source: Smithsonian
May 24, 2017
The money will help pay for the hiring of six curators.
Source: The National Coalition for History
May 23, 2017
It includes cuts to federal history and humanities funding including elimination of the (NEH), (NHPRC), K-12 history and civics grants.
Source: Political Wire
May 23, 2017
“STAT reviewed decades of Trump’s on-air interviews and compared them to Q&A sessions since his inauguration. The differences are striking and unmistakable.”
Source: Daily Kos
May 23, 2017
GOP Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will assume office following Branstad’s resignation, and the state’s first woman governor subsequently will face election to a full term in 2018.
Source: History channel
May 23, 2017
New analysis of two fossil specimens found in Greece and Bulgaria has led a team of international scientists to a stunning conclusion: The fossilized lower jawbone and teeth, which date back some 7.2 million years, belonged not to an ape but to a hominin, or early human ancestor.
Source: Reuters
May 23, 2017
President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil.
Source: Townsville Bulletin
May 22, 2017
It happened in Australia in May 1942 when US black troops staged a mutiny against their harsh white officers who objected to the races mixing.
Source: 60 Minutes
May 21, 2017
Archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellite photos to locate ancient sites and she's finding them -- thousands.
Source: Philly.com
May 21, 2017
Plaques honor white soldiers. None minor blacks.
