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: UPI
Aug 26, 2016
Silvia Fazio, the German school's director, apologized for the students' behavior.
Source: My Statesman
Aug 25, 2016
“It is inappropriate for our goal of diversity and inclusion on campus,” UT President Gregory L.Fenves said.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Aug 25, 2016
Even as a youth, Lonnie Bunch was captivated by history.
Source: The Atlantic
Aug 24, 2016
Donald Trump’s campaign manager says he’s actually winning, thanks to “undercover” supporters. Plenty of past presidential hopefuls have mistakenly believed the same.
Source: NYT
Aug 23, 2016
The vote may be more favorable to Mr. Trump than the worst-case-scenario prognosticators suggest for a very simple reason: Landslides do not really happen in presidential elections anymore.
Source: New Yorker
Aug 22, 2016
by Jeffrey Toobin
In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.
Source: Raw Story
Aug 22, 2016
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) thinks history professors are an extravagant luxury that could be cheaply replaced with video documentaries and Google searches.
Source: The Daily Beast
Aug 22, 2016
For the first time on record, an International Criminal Court defendant has entered a guilty plea to war crimes.
Source: Newsweek
Aug 22, 2016
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has taken a lot of heat for paid appearances, but she's far from the first politician to accept such invitations.
Source: NYT
Aug 21, 2016
It was an immigrant tale that would make any family proud. But for decades, the Trumps almost never talked about it.
Source: The Seattle Times
Aug 21, 2016
“This is an opportunity to take an amazing culture, and understand what it mean to be an American through this lens,” said Lonnie Bunch, as he toured observers around a special sneak peek inside the building.
Aug 19, 2016
She opened the library in 2013, partly to try to start a conversation about race in her community. She spent about $150,000 on it -- yet almost no one cared or came. So she built a slave cabin.
Source: PRESS TV
Aug 17, 2016
Greece has asked Germany to pay reparations for the losses the Nazi war machine inflicted on the South European nation during World War II, pledging to exhaust diplomatic and, if necessary, legal means in pursuit of its demands.
Source: Snopes
Aug 17, 2016
A widely circulated list of historical "facts" about slavery dwells on the participation of non-whites as owners and traders of slaves in America.
Source: NYT
Aug 17, 2016
The new editors of the magazine, Yanhuang Chunqiu, appear likely to remake what had been one of the few remaining outlets for liberal political opinion in China.
Source: NYT
Aug 16, 2016
In the West, Yes. In the World, No.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Aug 16, 2016
When the Richard Nixon Presidential Library first opened 26 years ago, it was dismissed by many historians as more of a whitewash than a faithful retelling of his presidency.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Aug 16, 2016
In 2005, a court barred Vanderbilt from removing "Confederate" from the facade of a building, citing the terms of a gift. The university is returning the gift at today's value -- and will now remove the word.
Source: NYT
Aug 15, 2016
The American Psychiatric Association says such an assessment would be unethical. But many in the profession, arguing that this election is too important, are doing so anyway.
Source: Daily Emerald
Aug 15, 2016
“It got to the point where I tensed my shoulders every time I walked down the sidewalk.” — Law Professor
