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: Yahoo
May 1, 2017
President Trump during an interview questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.
Source: The Conversation
Apr 30, 2017
by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
A new book by historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez reveals that for most of American history immigrants could enter the United States without official permission and not fear criminal prosecution by the federal government. That changed in 1929.
Source: LA Times
Apr 29, 2017
“Flash point!: An Immersive 360° Look at Photographing the L.A. Riots” features photos taken during the riots with accompanying virtual-reality short films.
Source: PRI
Apr 29, 2017
Slaves in the US famously took the underground railroad north into free states and Canada, but a similar path existed to the south into Mexico.
Source: This American Life
Apr 28, 2017
Buchanan says he’s delighted even though he hasn’t gotten the credit.
Source: The Daily Beast
Apr 28, 2017
by Max Holland
It was the unfounded claim that JFK was assassinated as the result of some sort of conspiracy, perhaps even by the CIA.
Source: NPR
Apr 28, 2017
Georgetown University says it will try to atone to the descendants of slaves sold more than a century ago. One concrete step is "preferential admissions" for descendants, but it doesn't help everyone.
Source: US News and World Report
Apr 28, 2017
He’s gone further than other presidents. With him it’s personal.
Source: NYT
Apr 27, 2017
Sifting through teaspoons of clay and sand scraped from the floors of caves, German researchers have managed to isolate ancient human DNA — without turning up a single bone.
Source: Politico
Apr 27, 2017
Unless the president intervenes, we’ll soon know more secrets about the Kennedy assassination.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 26, 2017
A new report identifies some 1,500 memorials to the Civil War’s losing cause, from schools to state holidays, ranging from the Deep South to the Pacific Northwest.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 26, 2017
“I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I can’t possibly do both,” a frustrated T.R. once famously declared.
Source: The Guardian
Apr 26, 2017
Sheri Few, who is running for South Carolina’s fifth congressional district, has said the removal of a Confederate monument in the state should be matched by the removal of a memorial to African American slaves. And if elected, she said she would focus on “fighting the destruction of every bit of Confederate memorabilia in our country.”
Source: Wired
Apr 26, 2017
After years of debate over the dating technology used on a mastodon found in San Diego, a group of researchers now believes that they can date it and the human tools to 130,000 years ago—more than 100,000 years earlier than the earliest humans are supposed to have made it to North America.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 25, 2017
Here’s how big it would have to be.
Source: National Security Archive
Apr 25, 2017
Declassified CIA and White House documents posted today by the National Security Archive show conclusively what media mogul Agustin Edwards repeatedly denied – that he and his newspaper, El Mercurio, became a critical part of U.S. plans to foment a military coup against President Allende.
Apr 25, 2017
The answer is no.
Source: NYT
Apr 24, 2017
More than 500 years after Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, a nascent Jewish community is planting fresh roots in the Sicilian capital, reclaiming a lost, often painful, history, this time with the aid of the local diocese.
Source: CNN
Apr 24, 2017
The controversial removal was the first of four scheduled relocations of Confederate memorials in the city, despite weeks of opposition from pro-monument groups and threats against workers.
Source: USA Today
Apr 24, 2017
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial, warned that anti-Semitism and apathy to cruelty remain a critical global problem.
