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: ABC News
Aug 1, 2015
The 2016 Republican primary is on course to become the most crowded in modern presidential history.
Source: National Parks Traveler
Jul 31, 2015
There’s not even a visitor’s center.
Source: Vulture
Jul 31, 2015
Roland Emmerich's low-budget film tells the story of the 1969 Stonewall riots.
Source: National Security Archive
Jul 31, 2015
The crime was covered up for decades. A document shows what really happened.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 31, 2015
The list includes Bill Gates and somebody you never heard of: Mansa Musa.
Jul 31, 2015
by HNN Editor
But is it still needed? Maybe, argue some.
Source: Buzzfeed
Jul 30, 2015
Four years into a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced millions, Syria’s immense history is being sold off on en masse as looters descend on ruins across the country.
Source: Pew Research Center
Jul 30, 2015
Most Americans believe a woman will be elected president within their lifetime, a milestone that would add the U.S. to a growing list of countries that have had a female leader.
Source: WSJ
Jul 30, 2015
In a statement, Ohio State said the songbook reflected the sort of “shocking behavior” that the school is “committed to eradicating from its marching band program.”
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 30, 2015
SMU’s Thomas J. Knock says McGovern confirmed the story 15 years ago as he was preparing to do research into the presidential candidate’s biography.
Source: The Guardian
Jul 29, 2015
Museum branded a ‘sick joke’ after obtaining planning permission by promising ‘the only dedicated resource in the East End to women’s history’
Source: BBC
Jul 29, 2015
The Eagle was built by the Nazis and fought for Hitler in World War Two - so how did a tall ship that once flew the swastika end up as a training vessel for new US Coast Guard cadets?
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s raucous hip-hop musical, “Hamilton,” sprang from an unlikely source: a dense, 818-page biography of Alexander Hamilton by the historian Ron Chernow.
Source: The Weekly Standard
Jul 29, 2015
Tennessee law specifically prohibits the renaming of Confederate memorials on public property.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 29, 2015
The revision is being released after significant pushback from conservatives who claimed the redesigned course framework, released last year, painted American history in too negative a light.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 29, 2015
Voters in Jefferson County, Colo., are petitioning to recall three conservative members of the local school board who caused a national stir last fall after criticizing the Advanced Placement U.S. History course for being insufficiently patriotic.
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2015
If an entirely new airport emerges in the coming years, will its 1939 name still be relevant?
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2015
A largely Republican countermovement of ideologues and partisan operatives who, from the moment the Voting Rights Act became law, methodically set out to undercut or dismantle its most important requirements.
Source: Hakai
Jul 28, 2015
New archaeological research hints at a new reason for Vikings’ Greenland occupation.
Source: Vanity Fair
Jul 28, 2015
Women have, throughout history, been secondary—often recorded (if at all) as complementary, or as muse to man’s genius. But now, as modern societies are re-appraising the value of women, so too are books evolving to match.
