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 Japan Times
May 15, 2016
Fifty years after Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China’s founder still exerts a powerful pull.
Source: ABC News
May 15, 2016
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.
Source: New Historian
May 14, 2016
A zooarchaeologist from the University of Colorado Denver says he’s found evidence that European Neanderthals may have weathered periods of extreme cold brought about by climate change, based on signs of nutritional stress left behind in their remains.
Source: NYT
May 14, 2016
The president has approached conflict, and dealings with terror groups, as a chronic but manageable security challenge rather than an all-consuming national campaign.
Source: The Daily Beast
May 14, 2016
The pontiff again stirred the pot this week by hinting at allowing female deacons. The history of the early Church might just give him the cover to do so.
Source: Time Magazine
May 13, 2016
“This museum will reveal American history through the lens of the African-American experience. That’s literally and figuratively” said Philip Freelon, a lead architect on the project.
Source: The Washington Post
May 13, 2016
The researchers say the find is unequivocal proof that people were in Florida more than 1,000 years earlier than anyone had imagined.
Source: Press Release -- The Trustees of the Sulgrave Manor Trust
May 12, 2016
This is what happens when you clean a painting.
Source: ABC News
May 11, 2016
A vast majority of white Americans say there should not be reparations for African-American descendants of slaves, but more than half of blacks say it's a good idea and Hispanics are almost evenly split, according to a new poll.
Source: The Washington Post
May 11, 2016
Not exactly.
Source: The Washington Post
May 11, 2016
With Donald Trump almost certainly the Republican Party’s candidate for president, pundits in and out of the conservative movement are predicting devastating effects for the party.
Source: Time Magazine
May 10, 2016
More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust.
Source: The Washington Post
May 10, 2016
In the first Gallup poll from 1945 just after the bombings, a huge 85 percent of Americans approved the bombings. However, figures from 2005 show a significant decline to 57 percent.
Source: New Historian
May 9, 2016
The relics have been lying underground, buried for more than 600 years, beneath the feet of museum experts.
Source: The Washington Post
May 9, 2016
There are a lot of things that Trump gets wrong about NAFTA, including its basic history.
Source: Forward
May 9, 2016
A letter from former President William Howard Taft attacking the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court in thinly veiled anti-Semitic terms may be of historic value, but apparently not $15,000 worth.
Source: NBC News
May 9, 2016
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Friday released new photos of the president responding to the 9/11 attacks.
Source: The Washington Post
May 8, 2016
Ignoble history happened in America. And now we are wrestling with how to claim it, or reject it, by consigning Confederate statues to scrap.
Source: Mondoweiss
May 7, 2016
High Israeli officials have lectured Europeans in recent days over their supposedly false understanding of Jewish history, especially as that history applies to the Israeli claim to have annexed Jerusalem.
Source: The Conversation
May 6, 2016
The surprising answer? It’s in Turkey.
