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: The Economist
Feb 7, 2015
America’s largest ethnic group has assimilated so well that people barely notice it
Source: Quarts
Feb 7, 2015
In surveying five prescribed textbooks in India, the study found that none of them makes a mention of the term “holocaust” or its Hebrew equivalent “shoah.”
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Feb 6, 2015
The mayor of Greenwood, S.C., wants to alter a war memorial to remove references to racial segregation, but historians claim it will destroy the memorial's historical integrity.
Source: The Conversation
Feb 6, 2015
by Jon Hoover
Nowhere does he provide explicit justification for immolation.
Source: Reuters
Feb 6, 2015
The measure, sponsored by a Republican lawmaker, expands a bill passed by the state legislature in 1999 that stripped place names of the word "squaw," used as a pejorative term for Native American women.
Source: Gallup
Feb 6, 2015
Throughout President Barack Obama's sixth full year in office, an average of 79% of Democrats, compared with 9% of Republicans, approved of the job he was doing.
Source: NYT
Feb 5, 2015
The composer was struck by the parallels between Hamilton — an illegitimate immigrant from the West Indies who rose to power largely by the sheer force of his rhetoric — and such hustlers-turned-moguls as Jay Z.
Source: NYT
Feb 5, 2015
Obama compared the atrocities of the Islamic State to the bloodshed committed in the name of Christianity in centuries past.
Source: National Coalition for History
Feb 5, 2015
by Lee White
Historians have been assured that the historical community will be consulted in identifying qualified historians to serve on the commission.
Feb 5, 2015
by HNN Editor
Maybe not, but his embrace of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero is encouraging to liberals.
Source: Star Tribune
Feb 5, 2015
The town of Edina admits its racist past, but one Wikipedia editor apparently doesn’t.
Feb 5, 2015
by HNN Editor
The website Counterpunch features an article attacking the mainstream media for ignoring US complicity.
Source: Press Release -- The Historial Jeanne d’Arc
Feb 5, 2015
The Historial Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc History Museum), an ambitious project spearheaded by Métropole Rouen Normandie, is the largest space dedicated to this historical figure of international renown. Opens 21 March 2015
Source: WaPo
Feb 5, 2015
John Kerry came in dead last.
Source: New York Magazine
Feb 4, 2015
"These are people who feel no empathy and have no sympathy for anybody outside of their immediate circle. They don't know what pity means."
Source: Chicagoist
Feb 3, 2015
Whether you're on the side of "progress" or "preserving history," this video is powerful, regardless, and is a stark reminder that change is constant.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Feb 3, 2015
A fossilized hipbone of an ape called Sivapithecus is challenging the belief that the upright body of Great Apes evolved just once.
Source: Gizmodo
Feb 3, 2015
A new video from the New York Times explains how we got to this terrifying point in American history — a seemingly upside down, dystopian world where we're witnessing the resurgence of diseases we thought were long since wiped out.
Source: AP
Feb 3, 2015
Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks' archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Feb 2, 2015
Japan’s rightwing politicians are overlooking abundant historical evidence that Korean women were forced into sexual slavery.
