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: Hartford Courant
Apr 28, 2016
A major donor to the University of Hartford's DeWitt collection of political memorabilia said he'll sue to block the school's plan to sell the collection, even as a former senior U.S. Senate aide expressed new doubt Thursday about whether such a sale would be legal.
Source: New Historian
Apr 28, 2016
It’s Acra, a citadel constructed by the Greeks more than two thousand years ago in the middle of old Jerusalem.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 28, 2016
Middle Tennessee State University’s president, Sidney A. McPhee, is recommending the renaming of Forrest Hall, which honors the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Source: The Times
Apr 28, 2016
Ken Livingstone made his comments in course of a defense of an MP accused of anti-Semitism.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 28, 2016
It turns out that the home preserved on the estate — and marketed for years as the residence where the president laid his head — is in fact a guest quarters.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 27, 2016
With a number of states still to vote — including the largest, California — Trump is poised to set a new record vote total in Republican presidential primaries.
Source: NYT
Apr 27, 2016
As the number of Jews in Iraq has dwindled to nearly none, Iraqi Jews in Israel are taking fresh interest in a heritage once considered unseemly.
Source: ARCA blog
Apr 27, 2016
Late in the day, April 26, 2016 and with final House passage, the US government has approved its final amended version of H.R. 1493, "The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act" agreed to in the Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 27, 2016
That’s a problem for some.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 26, 2016
For many people in the West, Chernobyl has served as a kind of referendum on nuclear power.
Source: Syria Direct
Apr 26, 2016
“Specialists are still working to estimate the exact scale of the damage, but it’s around 30 percent.”
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 26, 2016
It isn't clear that the young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though.
Source: Yale Daily News
Apr 26, 2016
A decision from administrators is expected soon.
Source: NYT Newsletter
Apr 26, 2016
Former President Harry Truman resigned as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, calling the event “a prearranged affair,” fixed to give the nomination to John F. Kennedy.
Source: NYT
Apr 25, 2016
Intense coverage of the five-day Irish rebellion, whose centennial is this week, reflected in part the growing clout of Irish America, historians say.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Apr 24, 2016
“Today, we are all Armenian,” said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) as he addressed the crowd from the stage. “We have one cause and that cause is justice.”
Source: New Historian
Apr 24, 2016
Disappointed when Woodrow Wilson didn’t name him to a vacancy on the Supreme Court, he lashed out at Louis Brandeis, who got the seat.
Source: NYT
Apr 24, 2016
Donald J. Trump is reviving memories of someone who stirred local passions like few others: Frank L. Rizzo of Philadelphia.
Source: Daily Reflector
Apr 24, 2016
Poland's conservative government is taking steps that threaten the fate of an ambitious new museum devoted to World War II that some of the world's most esteemed war historians have worked for years to create.
Source: NYT
Apr 23, 2016
A critical, deadly episode in the quest for independence remains divisive 100 years on. Some see undemocratic treachery; others, heroism.
