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: Time Magazine
Apr 23, 2016
Experts say it's too early for general election polls to be meaningful.
Source: The Commercial Appeal
Apr 22, 2016
Everywhere you go you see Confederate flags.
Source: New Historian
Apr 22, 2016
An excavation on the site of Malcolm X’s boyhood Boston-area home has yielded historical links not to the civil rights activist’s past, but to older periods of history – which could include the Colonial era.
Source: NYT
Apr 22, 2016
Historians suggest this could be an election like 1964 or 1968.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
Apr 21, 2016
Most were put in place during the early decades of Jim Crow or in reaction to the civil rights movement.
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 21, 2016
There’s a long tradition, although it hasn’t happened since 1952.
Source: Huffington Post
Apr 21, 2016
Governments could be receiving an extra $167 billion annually if corporations paid Reagan-era tax rates.
Source: Business Insider
Apr 21, 2016
In 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a massive 3-mile-long row of buildings, destined to be an enormous beach resort for Nazi Germany. It was abandoned three years later, when World War II broke out.
Source: National Security Archive
Apr 21, 2016
He worried that Israel’s nuclear program was a potentially serious proliferation risk and insisted that Israel permit periodic inspections to mitigate the danger.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 20, 2016
The antebellum abolitionist who supported John Brown and criticized Lincoln for his incrementalist approach to abolishing slavery, or the post-war figure of legend who was the subject of sentimental biographies?
Source: New Historian
Apr 20, 2016
The findings reopen a longstanding debate about the debts that former imperial powers owe to the countries they once occupied, and whether they should be repaid.
Source: NYT
Apr 20, 2016
The 105.6-carat stone, known as the Koh-i-Noor, was moved to Britain in 1850 and is now part of the crown jewels.
Source: NYT
Apr 20, 2016
Other depictions of women and civil rights leaders will also be part of new currency designs. (Includes Related Links to relevant stories we found on the Internet.)
Source: Atlas Obscura
Apr 19, 2016
When scholar Sheldon Gosline found what he theorized was Persian script in a remote village in southern China, he thought it was evidence of a lost civilization. But archaeologists and historians have their doubts.
Source: New Historian
Apr 19, 2016
36 years ago, the original patent for Wilbur and Orville Wright’s “Flying Machine” was lost in a paperwork shuffle. Now, it’s been re-discovered, securing the historic document once more for posterity.
Source: Tablet
Apr 19, 2016
by Robert Rockaway
What stops them? The FBI got word of the plot and stopped it.
Source: NYT
Apr 19, 2016
The first reference to Uncle Sam has been traced to Isaac Mayo, a 16-year-old midshipman on the U.S.S. Wasp, who reported for duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on March 1, 1810.
Source: NYT
Apr 19, 2016
Mr. Trump’s pugnacious style and often divisive messages bring back memories of Mr. Koch, who, in his day, similarly personified New York City’s sometimes assertive, sometimes obstreperous id.
Source: FOX News
Apr 18, 2016
Traditional Olympic flame ceremony introduced by Nazis to take place once again ahead of Rio 2016
Source: The Conversation
Apr 18, 2016
Researchers are now uncovering evidence that the Vikings conquered more of the British Isles than was previously thought.
