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: New Historian
Dec 16, 2015
Twenty-two archaeological artifacts were recently returned to China by officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including bronze trays, jade disks, and a 120-million-year-old micro raptor fossil.
Source: Baltimore magazine
Dec 16, 2015
“In Baltimore, the mayor plans for a commission to advise her on what to do with the Confederate monuments in the city, most of which have been there for more than a century. Like sharks smelling blood, the feeding frenzy is on.” — A member of Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans
Source: Times Union
Dec 16, 2015
Whaling ships kept meticulous daily logbooks of weather conditions during their often yearslong voyages searching the globe for whales.
Source: David Bruce Smith’s Grateful America Foundation
Dec 16, 2015
The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association is dedicated to honoring the suffragists, who fought for and won women’s right to vote.
Source: Vox
Dec 16, 2015
Palestinian rioters set a fire on the compound containing Joseph's Tomb — which is venerated by Jews as a holy site — in the West Bank city of Nablus
Source: NYT
Dec 15, 2015
“There may be a tunnel,” said Janusz Madej, the head of the scientific team, “but there is no train.”
Source: NYT
Dec 15, 2015
Thanks to centuries of legislating by Parliament, which bans the wearing of suits of armor in its chambers, Britain has accumulated many laws that nowadays seem irrelevant, and often absurd.
Source: NYT
Dec 14, 2015
A broad examination of heads of government and their unsuccessful challengers across 17 countries from 1722 to 2015 found that the leaders lived 2.7 fewer years.
Dec 14, 2015
by Brian D. Johnson
The latest to do so is Baltimore.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dec 13, 2015
As the city wraps up the public engagement portion of its effort to develop a plan to memorialize Lumpkin’s Slave Jail, advocates have continued their calls for a broader approach to recognizing Richmond’s role in the slave trade.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dec 13, 2015
The map is “a powerful smack in the forehead,” said John Kneebone, a professor of history who researched the second wave of the Klan after it was reborn in Atlanta in 1915 with the premiere of “The Birth of a Nation.”
Source: NYT
Dec 11, 2015
That was the year Ronald Reagan rattled insiders with his insurgent campaign against President Gerald R. Ford, with party members arriving at the convention without a clear nominee.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 11, 2015
For 90 years the school’s stadium has honored a football star who later as president of the university sought to deny black students admission to the state’s flagship campus.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 11, 2015
The documents suggests a number of parallels with the Obama experience.
Source: VOX
Dec 11, 2015
by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, Christoph Trebesch
The study by two economists found that on average, far-right votes increase by about a third in the five years following systemic banking distress.
Source: IBTimes
Dec 10, 2015
How Reparations Debate For Black Americans Has Kept Congress From Apologizing For Slave History
Source: The Guardian
Dec 9, 2015
Historian says ‘in all certainty’ remains found near Szigetvar in southern Hungary point to resting place of 16th-century sultan of Ottoman Empire
Source: NYT
Dec 9, 2015
“The French elite used to say the same things that the Indian elite now say, that inequality would be reduced with rising development.”
Source: Pew Research Center
Dec 9, 2015
No longer the majority and falling behind financially
Source: Inside Higher ED
Dec 9, 2015
Early campaigns to abolish the holiday form a largely forgotten chapter in American history.
