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
Apr 9, 2015
In examining attitudes towards people who chose to stay in New Orleans despite the danger of Katrina, Anja Nadine Klopfer has reached an interesting conclusion. She argues that choosing to stay was a conscious decision based on local identity stemming from the Civil War-era.
Source: NYT
Apr 9, 2015
The 2016 Republican candidates can already be sorted into roles that tell us a lot about their chances of winning the nomination.
Source: NYT
Apr 8, 2015
The 20-foot segment, which features striking paintings of grotesque faces, had been on display in a plaza on Madison Avenue since 1990 before it disappeared in September for conservation work.
Source: CBS News
Apr 8, 2015
"I tell people when they say, 'Why is a white man involved in this?' I say, 'Don't you remember it was a white man that caused all this?"
Source: WSJ
Apr 8, 2015
The book relies on interviews with an extensive roster of butlers, ushers and other professional staff who’ve kept the White House up and running through the years.
Source: NYT
Apr 8, 2015
After a 16-year legal battle, a former defense minister of El Salvador once embraced by Washington as a close ally during the civil war there in the 1980s, was deported on Wednesday after immigration courts found that he had participated in torture and killings by troops under his command.
Source: New Historian
Apr 8, 2015
According to scientists from Cambridge and Oxford Brookes Universities, modern humans, when they left Africa and entered Europe, brought with them diseases that the Neanderthals had never encountered before and could not fight as effectively as the newcomers.
Source: The Telegraph
Apr 8, 2015
Spanish history academy director wants to amend text which says regime was 'authoritarian but not totalitarian'
Source: New Historian
Apr 7, 2015
A new study has revealed that humans living in Europe had dark skin for the majority of the time they have inhabited the continent.
Source: BBC
Apr 7, 2015
Athens says Germany owes Greece nearly €279bn in war reparations for the Nazi occupation in World War Two.
Source: womenon20s
Apr 7, 2015
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks were selected by the people and Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller was added by the organizers.
Source: AP
Apr 6, 2015
It’s got both the chair Lincoln was sitting ion when he was shot and JFK’s death limo.
Source: History channel
Apr 6, 2015
The estate, which Nixon dubbed “La Casa Pacifica” (“the house of peace”) and the “Western White House,” featured a sandy stretch of beach and a swimming pool surrounded by a bulletproof windscreen.
Apr 6, 2015
by HNN Editor
Why are we still honoring people who made war against the United States, asks the New Republic.
Apr 6, 2015
by Marc Stein
Fifty years ago, three teen-agers in Philadelphia took an extraordinary step by refusing to take a step. Their sit-in began on Sunday, April 25, 1965, at Dewey's restaurant near Rittenhouse Square
Source: Politico
Apr 5, 2015
This time it’s Hillary’s brother
Source: Media Matters
Apr 5, 2015
Reagan's so-called million job month in September 1983 was simply an outlier inflated due to nearly 675,000 striking communication workers returning to work.
Source: NYT
Apr 5, 2015
Channapha Khamvongsa has led a single-minded effort to clean up the fallout of a nine-year American air campaign that made Laos one of the most heavily bombed places on earth.
Source: Statesman
Apr 4, 2015
It happened between 1915 and 1919 when Rangers and vigilantes killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of Mexicans and Tejanos in South Texas.
Source: Telegraph
Apr 4, 2015
Footage purports to show IS extremists damaging a UNESCO World Heritage site in Hatra, Iraq with sledgehammers and assault rifles
