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 20, 2017
Some celebrate the 1967 conflict as a liberation, others believe it launched a disastrous occupation.
Source: KRISTV
May 20, 2017
A bill passed Friday lets the board's 15 elected members reject textbook content deemed not "suitable for the subject and grade level."
Source: WaPo
May 19, 2017
“They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history." – Mayor Mitch Landrieu
Source: Motherboard
May 19, 2017
To side-step controversy Disney is revamping the exhibit. Now only GW and Lincoln will speak.
Source: Time Magazine
May 18, 2017
As a 29-year-old, he was tasked with transforming the public image of a man about twice his age, the former Vice President whose pale and sweaty image during the 1960 presidential debate with JFK had significantly damaged that previous presidential run.
Source: Tablet Magazine
May 17, 2017
Newly unsealed classified documents reveal: Jerusalem conquered almost by accident; Israel’s National Religious Party, forerunner to the settler movement, lobbied for military de-escalation at every turn; and nobody in Israel’s security cabinet seems to have seen the country’s most momentous war coming.
Source: NYT
May 17, 2017
For thousands of patients, a stay at a state asylum in Mississippi ended in unmarked graves.
Source: The Stanford Daily
May 17, 2017
It may have been culture and migration.
Source: CBS19
May 17, 2017
Finding new artifacts almost every minute, Terry Brock, Senior Research Archeologist for the mansion and his team have been able to unearth a substantial amount of information on the slaves of Montpelier.
Source: Vox
May 17, 2017
Lincoln had to oversee a civil war. Multiple presidents were assassinated. Politicians are often imprisoned around the world.
Source: USA Today
May 17, 2017
Less than four months into Donald Trump's presidency, members of Congress are tossing around the word "impeachment."
Source: The New Yorker
May 17, 2017
by David Remnick
Given Donald Trump’s long record of deception, James Comey’s memos are far more likely to bury the President than to exonerate him.
Source: The Washington Post
May 17, 2017
by Tony Schwartz
"Trump’s sense of self-worth is forever at risk. When he feels aggrieved, he reacts impulsively and defensively."
Source: NPR
May 17, 2017
Workers removed a statue of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard on horseback from its spot at the entrance of City Park. One more statue remains to be taken down, of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Source: Edge Effects
May 17, 2017
by Brian Hamilton
The Slavery Research Group's plans include a conference on Faulkner’s relationship to slavery.
Source: The Oneida Daily Dispatch
May 16, 2017
“Most people believe that slavery was a southern thing, it was mostly southern states,” he said, but most do not know New York City had more slaves than any city in the U.S. beside Charleston, S.C
Source: Business Insider
May 16, 2017
20% of respondents believe that Trump would have stopped the Civil War from happening if he was alive at the time, whereas 16% of respondents believe Jackson would have if he was.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
May 16, 2017
The idea that at some point party loyalty goes out the window and politicians become nonpartisan statesmen doesn’t hold up historically.
Source: Bloomberg
May 15, 2017
by Noah Feldman
Why federal laws that criminalize the revealing of secrets don’t apply to the president.
Source: The Washington Post
May 15, 2017
Nixon wasn’t the only president to record his conversations.
