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 New Yorker
4-24-18 (accessed)
"Can a national-security adviser retain his integrity if the President has none?"
Source: The Washington Post
4-22-18
by Matthew J. Garcia
"The entire affair sickened me as I watched it unfold."
Source: The Daily Californian
4-22-18
Merchant, along with various other female academics, is responsible for integrating two concepts — environmentalism and feminism — into a study known as ecofeminism.
Source: NPR
4-22-18
"Nothing has essentially changed since 1945. We are in the same place we were with two regimes nose-to-nose."
Source: The Washington Post
4-22-18
Germany exerted a magnetic pull on Dr. Smyser, who spent time in the country as a young man, served there in the Army, held diplomatic postings in Berlin and Bonn, and eventually wrote one of the first comprehensive accounts of its political evolution after World War II — “From Yalta to Berlin: The Cold War Struggle Over Germany.”
Source: The Washington Post
4-21-18
by Max Boot
Kim hasn’t made the concessions Trump thinks he’s made.
Source: Mosaic
4-23-18
by Avi Shilon
Avi Shilon, citing statements from 1948, says the answer is no.
Source: Informed Comment
4-21-18
by Juan Cole
Reason #1: Pompeo has openly stated that he intends to undermine the Iran Deal.
Source: New Republic
4-20-18
by Win McCormack
Some doubt the distinction he made in a recent essay that drew wide attention.
Source: The Telegraph
4-17-18
American producers feared "slightly creaky old lady isn't ideal for US TV.”
Source: The Guardian
3-29-18
by Timothy Garton Ash
The British historian still believes Brexit can be undone.
Source: The Washington Post
4-13-18
by Elizabeth Cobbs
Women's work hasn't been hidden. It just hasn't been seen.
Source: New Republic
4-17-18
Re: Cuban Missile Crisis: "There are no indications whatsoever that we are moving toward that kind of extremely dangerous era of the Cold War."
Source: Pulitzer Prize
4/16/18
Jack E. Davis for "The Gulf," Caroline Fraser for "Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder," and James Forman Jr. for "Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America."
Source: US News and World Report
4-15-18
He has been thinking a lot about the 1960s as he finishes up (hopefully) his final book on LBJ.
Source: NPR
4-15-18
Deborah Lipstadt says she was shocked to learn a third of Americans don’t know that 6 million Jews died.
Source: New York Post
2-17-18
Tara Westover grew up in the Idaho mountains and was raised by a father who believed the end was near and a mom who'd treat even serious wounds with herbs.
Source: Salon
4-16-18
by Chauncey DeVega
"My instinct is that we are at the beginning of a new Progressive Era in American history."
Source: NYT
4-12-18
by John Sedgwick
And it changes his perspective on the value of genealogy.
Source: Organization of American Historians
4-13-18
Among the winners: Linda Kerber.
