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 Daily Beast
Dec 2, 2016
In his 1935 novel, It Can’t Happen Here, the Nobel prize winning author created a demagogue remarkably similar to Trump. He also nailed America’s love affair with demagogues.
Source: NYT
Dec 2, 2016
A gate bearing the Nazi slogan and believed to have been stolen from the concentration camp in 2014 has been found in a suburb of Bergen, Norway.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 2, 2016
"The U.S. wanted to avoid what had happened in Germany and Japan where the military had dominated the democracy.”
Source: ProPublica
Dec 2, 2016
The meaning of the Emoluments Clause is fairly clear. And it all goes back to a diamond-encrusted snuffbox Ben Franklin got from Louis XVI.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Dec 2, 2016
For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement's founding, prophetic leadership and believers. During the past few years, however, they have been confronted with a dramatic retelling, with fresh details, context and examples of human foibles fleshing out — and sometimes debunking — the familiar facts they have always believed.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Dec 2, 2016
The government will acknowledge the harm inflicted on Aboriginal communities by the forcible removal of children.
Source: NYT
Dec 1, 2016
With the arrival of any new president, vast troves of information on government websites are at risk of vanishing within days. The fragility of digital federal records, reports and research is astounding.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 1, 2016
Experience the day through the eyes of one survivor.
Source: The Hill
Dec 1, 2016
The two main proponents of the bipartisan push, which has been going on for years, both have ties to the real estate mogul.
Source: The Conversation
Dec 1, 2016
by Christopher Lloyd
Cultural memory – the recollection of the past through books and films – increases at particular moments in time when the past demands attention.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 1, 2016
It's more than five years in the making.
Source: NYT
Dec 1, 2016
Five months after his death, Elie Wiesel’s family gathered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday with prominent political figures to honor his contributions to Jewish history and memory.
Source: The Virginia Gazette
Nov 30, 2016
"They get to not just see it happen, they get to be a part of it happening," Media Project Manager Heather Hower said.
Source: The Inquirer
Nov 29, 2016
Topics sensitive to the government are off-limits for Xiaoice.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 29, 2016
Some people think that racism toward Asians diminished because Asians “proved themselves” through their actions. But that is only a sliver of the truth.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Nov 29, 2016
Navy Fireman 3rd Class Edwin Hopkins died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was buried as an unknown serviceman in Hawaii until his body was recently identified in a DNA test.
Source: Quartz
Nov 28, 2016
Abraham Lincoln was more than just a foe of slavery. He was also a mixed-race eugenicist, believing that the intermarriage of blacks and whites would yield an American super-race. Or at least, that’s what newspapers in 1864 would have had you believe.
Source: NYT
Nov 28, 2016
The South Korean government indicated on Monday that it was rolling back its plan to require schools to use only state-issued history textbooks, an apparent shift for a signature project of President Park Geun-hye as she faces a corruption scandal and an escalating public backlash.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Nov 28, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, has been touting her boss’s margin of victory in the Electoral College. But in a historical context, Trump’s Electoral College performance is decidedly below-average.
Source: International Business Times
Nov 28, 2016
Germany announced Saturday it is launching a probe into Nazi influence on its post-war central government at the cost of 4 million euros ($4.2 million). The investigation will run till 2020.
