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: NYT
Oct 26, 2016
Attacks on the headless figure, part of a contentious Barcelona exhibit, show Spain’s continuing struggle with how to confront its dictatorial past.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 26, 2016
The connections between the Philippines and the U.S. run deep, and have sometimes been fraught, but would be very difficult to cut.
Source: Science Daily
Oct 26, 2016
A combination of historical and genetic research reveals the error and hype that led to the coining of the term 'Patient Zero' and the blaming of one man for the spread of HIV across North America.
Oct 25, 2016
by HNN Editor
Rutgers historian David Greenberg says it's a myth that Nixon acquiesced when he lost to Kennedy.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 24, 2016
Under current rules, Republican House leaders won’t honor the ‘Greatest Generation’ of spies.
Source: The Costa Rica Sta
Oct 24, 2016
Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States called on Harvard University “to demonstrate its remorse and its debt to unnamed slaves from Antigua and Barbuda."
Source: NY Post
Oct 24, 2016
This is the selfie a murderer took just moments after he stabbed a historian to death and robbed him of a rare $61,00 novel.
Source: The Root
Oct 23, 2016
The author of the petition believes that Thomas was dissed because of his political views.
Source: Europe Online Magazine
Oct 22, 2016
The historian was critical of a report about the activities of Auto Union during Germany‘s Nazi era. Auto Union is the company that became Audi, now a key subsidiary of Volkswagen Group.
Source: NYT
Oct 22, 2016
“This is a moment of transition,” said Estelle B. Freedman, a Stanford University historian who studies the evolution of laws and norms surrounding sexual assault.
Source: Daily Beast
Oct 21, 2016
The subject of an acclaimed new movie, the 1831 slave revolt led by Turner is also the focus of two tours, one black and one white, in a region still divided over Turner’s legacy.
Source: Armenpress
Oct 21, 2016
The German historian, Michael Hesemann, told the reporters that he plans to write a book based on the findings.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 20, 2016
Gore did not “refuse to accept the result on election day” in 2000, nor did he try “to overturn the result of the 2000 election” when he availed himself of the legal apparatus offered to candidates in especially close elections.
Source: NYT
Oct 20, 2016
They said that Mr. Trump’s armchair generalship revealed a fundamental lack of understanding of Iraqi politics, military warfare, and military history.
Source: VOX
Oct 20, 2016
It happened in the South after Reconstruction.
Source: Syracuse.com
Oct 19, 2016
His model currently projects a win for the Republican with a certainty of 87 to 99 percent.
Source: NYDailyNews
Oct 19, 2016
The memorial sign has been routinely vandalized since it went up in 2007.
Source: The Guardian
Oct 19, 2016
Ministry of Justice announces initiative to wipe criminal records of gay and bisexual men convicted of sexual offences that are no longer illegal.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 19, 2016
Yes, but that doesn't mean there's cause to worry about this year's presidential race.
Source: Vox
Oct 19, 2016
Donald Trump didn't just destroy himself. Hillary Clinton destroyed him.