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: New Historian
Mar 21, 2017
Named the tomb of the Fregerslev Viking, the grave contains the remains of a high-status individual as well as several priceless grave goods.
Source: Time Magazine
Mar 21, 2017
They hated each other.
Source: NYT
Mar 21, 2017
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is one of several museums making changes to engage and educate younger people about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.
Source: Roll Call
Mar 21, 2017
Congressional support among the last barriers after 20-year dispute.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Mar 20, 2017
Howard University is investigating an alleged incident in which a white professor asked his class to engage in a mock slave auction.
Source: NYT
Mar 19, 2017
A wave of nationalist victories, including Donald Trump's, has made Europe's most extreme right-wing parties more hopeful about their future.
Source: NYT
Mar 17, 2017
Thousands of films showing U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 have been declassified.
Source: Forward
Mar 17, 2017
Decades after officials worried they might be sheltering the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, members of the Mennonite sect in Paraguay are coming to terms with their historical ties with the Third Reich.
Source: Newsweek
Mar 17, 2017
He drapes everything in gold. He orders his steaks well-done. He uses Scotch tape to hold his ties together. But as a prominent member of New York City's social elite (more or less) over the past 30-plus years, it's been impossible for him to avoid the art world.
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 16, 2017
It was from Steve Bannon.
Source: NYT
Mar 16, 2017
The four-acre park on the southern tip of the island was designed more than four decades ago by the renowned architect Louis Kahn, before the A.D.A. took effect.
Source: BBC
Mar 16, 2017
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled Al-Anani told a news conference the statue was almost certainly Psamtek I, who ruled between 664 and 610BC.
Source: NYT
Mar 16, 2017
When Mr. Pence was a toddler, overshadowed by talkative older brothers, his grandfather taught him to recite “Humpty Dumpty” in Gaelic.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Mar 16, 2017
It began in 1965 as part of the Great Society.
Source: Forward
Mar 16, 2017
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II.
Source: AHA Today
Mar 16, 2017
"Because so much is at stake, the AHA asks our members to contact their representatives in Congress as soon as possible to register strong objections to the massive cuts to programs essential to the cultivation of our national heritage and civic culture."
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 15, 2017
Presidents receive a salary because the Constitution requires it. It's required so the president never has to face a choice of public duty or private interest. At least, that's the theory.
Source: The Tennessean
Mar 15, 2017
Jackson's populist politics have resonated with Trump. Upon moving into the White House last month, the new president hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office.
Source: The Guardian
Mar 15, 2017
Benoît Loeuillet, head of FN in Nice, secretly filmed saying ‘there weren’t mass deaths as we’ve been told.’
Source: NYT
Mar 15, 2017
It was the first time a president has called for ending the endowments, which were created in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
