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: thelocla.fr
Aug 28, 2015
A feminist organization has changed the street signs of a Paris neighbourhood so that they bear women's names instead, protesting the lack of streets in the city named after famous female figures.
Source: Politico
Aug 27, 2015
Politico Magazine asked a handful of historians to weigh in on the historical figures to which Trump has been compared.
Source: Newsweek
Aug 26, 2015
The Central Intelligence Agency is set to release 2,500 previously top-secret briefings it gave to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s.
Source: KSTY
Aug 26, 2015
South Dakota Board of Education approved new guidelines that do not require high schools to teach U.S. history beginning next year.
Source: Huffington Post
Aug 26, 2015
A new campaign launched on the 99th anniversary of the National Park Service looks to spark debate about conservation.
Source: New Historian
Aug 26, 2015
New tests of the ink used on an ancient papyrus known as the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife have suggested it might be authentic, adding fuel to an ongoing debate as to the nature of the document.
Source: NYT
Aug 26, 2015
The foundation overseeing the Chicago library’s development has invited firms worldwide to apply for the project, which is to include a community garden.
Source: The New Jersey Jewish News
Aug 25, 2015
“Both leading candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have machatunim,” Jewish in-laws of their daughters.
Source: NYT
Aug 25, 2015
This September marks the 75th anniversary of the Blitz. London’s robust tourism industry will commemorate the capital’s time under siege.
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 25, 2015
For nearly a century, Alaska has served as mainly a toe-touch state for presidents. Next week, President Obama will change all that.
Source: San Francisco Magazine
Aug 24, 2015
Only one consequence of l’affaire Serra is agreed upon by all parties as a positive: It has opened up discussion of a tragic chapter in California history, one of which even many educated people are ignorant.
Source: NPR
Aug 24, 2015
Now, 60 years after the tragedy, Florida State University is creating an Emmett Till Archive.
Source: The Daily Beast
Aug 24, 2015
Day after sweltering Arkansas day, an anonymous RNC staffer toils inside the Clinton Library, opening file after file—in search of the detail from the past that’ll sink the front-runner.
Source: NYT
Aug 23, 2015
The church, like many others in its day, supported slavery and profited from it even after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was outlawed and slavery had been banned in the state.
Source: NYT
Aug 23, 2015
Islamic State militants have detonated explosives around the Temple of Baalshamin, one of the most grand and well-preserved structures at the ancient ruins.
Source: Belfast Telegraph
Aug 22, 2015
Orange Order historian disputes gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell's claim that King Billy was bisexual.
Source: Texas Monthly
Aug 22, 2015
Publishers didn't actually cave. Students will still be learning about Jim Crow.
Source: Mother Jones
Aug 21, 2015
The courts have overruled many efforts.
Source: The Conversation
Aug 21, 2015
by Gabriel Gorodetsky
Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the most pivotal events of the interwar era, recording them in the only diary to have been written by a major Soviet official during Stalin’s great terror.
Source: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Aug 21, 2015
The party’s record over the past six years has made clear that when Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017 the Democratic Party will have ceded vast sections of the country to Republicans.
