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
Jul 18, 2016
On the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Donald J. Trump was conspicuously trying to conjure somebody else: Richard M. Nixon.
Source: Grammarly
Jul 18, 2016
Less complex language correlates with higher poll results for Republican politicians, while simpler rhetoric corresponds to lower poll results for Democrats.
Source: Salon
Jul 16, 2016
Nominating conventions have a often been a venue for chaos, incompetence and embarrassment.
Source: NYT
Jul 16, 2016
The divisions caused by the Spanish Civil War, and the decades of dictatorship it ushered in, ending only with Franco’s death in November 1975, continue to ripple through Spain.
Jul 14, 2016
In an interview with Jon Meacham, Trump said "they could have settled without going to war."
Source: NYT
Jul 14, 2016
The site is believed to be where Suleiman the Magnificent spent his last night before 50,000 of his Ottoman soldiers sacked a nearby fortress defended by 2,500 Christians led by Miklos Zrinyi, a local Croatian-Hungarian nobleman.
Source: Business Day Live
Jul 13, 2016
Germany plans to formally apologise to Windhoek for the genocide of indigenous Namibians a century ago, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday, but added that the move would not carry any obligation of reparations.
Source: Think Progress
Jul 13, 2016
The founding fathers did not see the same need to preserve an illusion that the Court is above politics.
Source: dam.gov
Jul 13, 2016
The National Museum of Aleppo was attacked in the recent days, by the fall of a large number of missiles and explosive bombs.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 13, 2016
by Kyle C. Kopko and Christopher Devine
Not even LBJ’s presence on the ticket in 1960 can be definitely proven to have helped JFK win Texas.
Source: Facebook Page: Historians on Donald Trump
Jul 13, 2016
Appalled by Donald Trump's candidacy, David McCullough and Ken Burns created a Facebook page featuring commentary by William Leuchtenburg, Evan Thomas, Kenneth Jackson, and many others.
Source: NBC News
Jul 12, 2016
A textbook on Mexican-American history that some scholars and activists say is poorly written and contains "racist" passages is on a list of proposed books for use in Texas public schools.
Source: Twitter
Jul 12, 2016
It’s in response to the AllLivesMatter meme.
Source: Tech Insider
Jul 11, 2016
The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps.
Source: The Times of Israel
Jul 11, 2016
Palestinian-Jordanian draft document calls for return to ‘historic status quo’ on Temple Mount, challenges Jewish ties to holy site.
Source: New Haven Independent
Jul 11, 2016
An African-American dishwasher lost his job after losing his cool and breaking a stained-glass panel in Yale’s Calhoun residential college dining hall that depicted slaves carrying bales of cotton.
Source: South China Morning Post
Jul 11, 2016
Humans came out of Africa 60,000 years ago. But humans were in China between 112,000 and 178,000 years ago.
Source: CNN
Jul 11, 2016
The Hong Kong Alliance claimed that the owners' committee was making it hard for the museum to operate -- forcing visitors to leave their names and personal information and restricting visitor numbers.
Source: NYT
Jul 10, 2016
After more than 30 years of excavating the remains of a Philistine city, a team of archaeologists says it believes it has found a cemetery belonging to the ancient people on the outskirts of Ashkelon in Israel.
Source: New Historian
Jul 10, 2016
Around 10,000 years ago prehistoric humans began using cannabis, a new research study has found, and not just in one small corner of the globe.
