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: Raw Story
10-15-14
Harry Shearer webseries re-enacts Richard Nixon’s troubled final moments in office
Source: AP
10-14-14
The directive is believed to have been issued by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, a government regulator, but such directives are usually issued orally and are almost impossible to be confirmed directly.
Source: The Algemeiner
10-14-14
“I’ve decided that I should do what I believe in.”
Source: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)
10-14-14
A 2 day conference is scheduled for Nov. 14 & 15.
Source: Watergate
10-14-14
These materials will be digitized and made available to scholars, historians and journalists, both online and in person.
Source: Not Even Past
9-29-14
Some of the most important documents for historians of Jewish history are documents that haven’t been saved at all. In fact, they’ve been discarded – into a closed storage space known as a geniza.
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
10-8-14
by Daniel Pipes
"Congress should defund any Title VI Middle East studies centers that flout the law, mislead the public, and undermine the country's security."
Source: South China Morning Post
10-12-14
When they retire their schools lose state benefits.
Source: Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
11-28-14 (accessed)
"We write on behalf of many veterans of the American peace movement during the Vietnam era with a deep concern that taxpayer funds and government resources are being expended on a one-sided, three-year, $30 million educational program on the "lessons of Vietnam."
Source: National Review
10-7-14
by Davis Hanson
"The Obama administration has tarnished nearly every major federal agency."
Source: Lehigh Valley Live
10-7-14
It took Elisa Korb two years to get to the set of the hit ABC game show "Jeopardy!"
Source: The College of William & Mary
10-7-14
For years, many people deliberately hid their stories — and a large part of themselves — out of fear of exclusion or punishment.
They discuss McPherson's new book on Jefferson Davis.
Source: Diane Ravitch's blog
10-5-14
This teacher was suspended without pay for 30 days for “theft of services,” having helped the campaign during school hours.
Source: National Women’s History Museum
10-6-14
Dr. Allgor is a leading historian of first ladies and a frequent commentator on television and in other media on issues having to do with the role of the first lady.
Source: The Washington Post
10-5-14
Jefferson County has become ground zero for a new culture fight — this time over how to teach U.S. history to high-achieving 10th-graders.
Source: Mosaic
10-6-124 (accessed)
by Robert S. Wistrich
"I have visited France countless times during recent decades; never before did I hear French Jews say so often that they consider Israel to be their homeland. "
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal (Japan Focus)
10-6-14
The detention took place during a lecture on democracy.
Source: NY Post
10-5-14
Queens College's Edgar J. McManus earned $116,000 his final year as a professor. “They don’t pay you much when you’re working, but the pension is certainly good," he says.
Source: NYT
10-4-14 (accessed)
by Nathaniel Rich
"And it was served by the most unlikely of antagonists, a former college-football coach, competitive weight lifter and author of dense, intellectually robust 500-page books of American history: John M. Barry."
