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: Independent
Apr 18, 2017
Archive shows Adolf Hitler was indicted for war crimes in 1944.
Source: NYT
Apr 18, 2017
“Judging by the current situation, North Korea is China’s latent enemy and South Korea could be China’s friend,” says China’s best-known historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 18, 2017
About 100 men and women whose ancestors were once sold as slaves to fund the nascent Georgetown University gathered at that university Tuesday for an emotional worship service of remembrance and repentance.
Source: The Conversation
Apr 17, 2017
A team of medievalists and scientists look back to history – including a 1,000-year-old eyesalve recipe – for clues to new antibiotics.
Source: The Daily Beast
Apr 17, 2017
In a crowded Republican field in South Carolina, Sheri Few stands out for all the wrong reasons.
Source: Mobilized African Diaspora (MAD)
Apr 16, 2017
by Mobilized African Diaspora (MAD)
The group – Mobilized African Diaspora (MAD) – claims Jefferson posed the same threat to Africans as the KKK subsequently did.
Source: Newsweek
Apr 14, 2017
Former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley's rise and fall is hardly unique in American politics, where abuse of power, misuse of government funds and, of course, sex scandals are as common as flag pins on lapels.
Source: NYT
Apr 13, 2017
Frédéric Chatillon and Axel Loustau are well-known former members of a violent, far-right student union that fought pitched battles with leftists and took a turn toward Hitler nostalgia in the mid-1990s.
Source: The Boston Globe
Apr 13, 2017
In a news conference and a pair of interviews, President Trump gave skewed accounts of US relations over time with Russia, and of health care under his watch.
Source: The News & Observer
Apr 12, 2017
Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Source: National Security Archive at GW
Apr 12, 2017
The Ford administration had to use a combination of approaches to keep South Korea’s Park dictatorship from going forward with a suspected nuclear weapons program in the mid-1970s.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 12, 2017
In the 1930s students protested an appearance of Mussolini. (The college president was burned in effigy.)
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 11, 2017
Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 11, 2017
Over the years, historians (armchair and scholarly) and psychologists have speculated that maybe Hitler didn’t use sarin because he was a victim of a mustard gas attack in 1918, during World War I, and knew the misery of such weapons.
Source: NBC4
Apr 11, 2017
The two-room "slave cabin" in the African-American history museum was home to a family of 11.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 11, 2017
It took less than a hundred days for President Trump to discover that the Assad dynasty may be his nemesis, too.
Source: Caribbean Life News
Apr 11, 2017
The government of Jamaica took responsibility for a single incident that blamed the island’s total Rastafarian population for the death of eight individuals in a farming community 10 miles east of the second city of Montego Bay 54 years ago.
Source: The Hill
Apr 11, 2017
Later in the briefing, Spicer walked back his remarks when a reporter challenged him to explain, saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons “in the same way” as Assad.
Source: LA Daily News
Apr 10, 2017
The Rodney King verdict touched off days of rioting, looting and violence that left more than 55 people dead.
Source: Bloomberg
Apr 10, 2017
Paul Krugman was right.
