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 Washington Post
Mar 7, 2017
The list of administration members who need to hit the history books includes: Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Sean Spicer, and Mike Pence.
Source: VOA
Mar 7, 2017
Despite the significant anniversary, Russian authorities have been cautious about how to observe it, apparently fearful of inciting divisions, especially in the wake of a revolution in neighboring Ukraine.
Source: History channel
Mar 6, 2017
Wednesday’s women’s strike traces its roots to a socialist protest in 1907, but historians say the event that was said to have inspired the 1907 protest was manufactured.
Source: Forward
Mar 6, 2017
Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this week under the title: “Holocaust in Ukraine – New Perspectives on the Evils of the 20th Century.”
Source: CNN
Mar 6, 2017
"The place was infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll of Soviet military intelligence or fellow-travelers who were kind of compliant in helping these guys get along." – Steve Bannon, in an interview with Diane West, rightwing author of ""American Betrayal."
Source: The Atlantic
Mar 6, 2017
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again?
Source: The Hill
Mar 6, 2017
“That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.”
Source: NYT
Mar 5, 2017
To carry out mass deportations, thousands of new immigration and customs agents would be hired, and local police officers and sheriff’s deputies would be recruited. To do that, the president would need the cooperation of state, county and city officials. What if he does not get it?
Source: NYT
Mar 5, 2017
Harvard hosts a conference examining a long-neglected topic that has suddenly become urgent.
Source: The Telegraph
Mar 5, 2017
Mr. Blank spoke to YouTube video creator Davey Wavey about his unique coming out story ahead of a documentary, On My Way Out, that grandson Brandon Gross is directing about him.
Source: USA Today
Mar 4, 2017
These leaders — Black, Latina, Asian, Arab, Native American — in varied fields, broke both gender and racial barriers as they made history.
Source: Independent
Mar 4, 2017
Donald Trump has been criticised by veterans for donning a military style bomber jacket and cap while visiting a Navy ship, despite receiving five deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam.
Source: Huffington Post
Mar 4, 2017
“The Camp of the Saints” tells a grotesque tale about a migrant invasion to destroy Western civilization.
Source: NYT
Mar 3, 2017
Over the past year, a Columbia University preservation expert and a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan have been engaged in an unusual poetic-scientific experiment in the little-visited olfactory wing of history.
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 3, 2017
by Sharon Weinberger
DARPA was assigned the task of developing plans to protect the president after the assassination of JFK
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 2, 2017
Welcoming Heitfeld, the kin of the very people who brutally forced him from his childhood home, to live as his roommate while she finishes her degree feels like “an act of justice,” Stern said in an interview.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 2, 2017
The point is not that VOICE equals the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. But that Trump is using the levers of government to drum up fear of one group of people.
Source: New Historian
Mar 2, 2017
The team of experts at the University of Washington in Seattle compared the modern DNA with DNA from Neanderthals and was able to determine that fragments of Neanderthal genes had survived and remained active in 52 separate types of human tissue.
Source: Time Magazine
Mar 2, 2017
Though the U.S. and the Soviet Union were allies in World War II and helped each other to victory, that cooperation was followed by decades during which the opposition between the two systems they represented dominated global politics.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Mar 1, 2017
Some Minneapolis Park Board members think it’s worth revisiting discussion of the name of Lake Calhoun, also known by the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska, in light of Yale University’s decision to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from a residential college.
