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 York Times
3/5/19
Hanson, who is a retired classics professor and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, compares Trump to a tragic hero
Source: Science Magazine
3/6/19
Some researchers point to new evidence from archaeology, history, and genetics to argue that the Black Death likely did sow devastation in medieval sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: New Yorker
3/6/19
In restoring a neglected corner of Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn, students found fragments of information about life in nineteenth-century New York.
Source: Washington Post
3/6/19
A Louisiana congressman just compared border crossers to Allied forces storming the beaches at Normandy.
Source: The Conversation
3/4/19
by Chitralekha Zutshi
The desire for autonomy in different areas of Kashmir has led to repeated uprisings and independence movements.
Source: The Conversation
3/7/19
by Alka Kurian
Women in countries such as India, Pakistan and others have long organized successful campaigns against sexual harassment.
Source: New York Times
3/6/19
In the last 10 years, the niche market for art by Hitler has grown. But many, if not most, of these works are likely not by Hitler.
Source: New York Times
3/6/19
Four years into a civil war, thousands of antiquities have been taken from Yemen’s museums.
Source: NPR
3/4/19
U.S. officials have been working behind the scenes to convince the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions.
Source: USA Today
3/4/19
A Supreme Court decision in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, rendered much of the Voting Rights Act ineffective.
Source: Smithsonian.com
3/4/19
Five years after the F.B.I.’s six-day raid on a rural Indiana home, the agency is turning to the public for help identifying and repatriating the artifacts.
Source: The Atlantic
Accessed 3/5/19
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron” is the first biography of Landon to explore recent revelations about her life, and the literary critic Lucasta Miller’s sleuthing delivers an unexpected result.
Source: Washington Post
3/2/19
President Trump said March 2 he intends to sign an executive order mandating that colleges take steps to guarantee free speech to get federal research grants.
Source: Time
3/5/19
“The church is not afraid of history,” Pope Francis said, announcing the move in a speech to members of the Vatican’s Secret Archives.
3/1/19
The parties swept the nation during the 1950s and 1960s—and were more than they seemed.
Source: Narratively.com
Accessed 3/4/19
by Paul Kramer and Ashanti Forston
Rev. Routté bluffed his way into first-class treatment in the Jim Crow-era south — unmasking the ridiculous hypocrisy of segregation.
Source: Washington Post
3/1/19
Their planes were rickety crop-dusters, but the Soviet women turned them into killing machines.
Source: Live Science
3/1/19
It's the third in a series of archives that make up the Billion Year Archive initiative.
Source: New York Times
2/27/19
For much of the 20th century, the Ku Klux Klan actively recruited members in the armed forces without hindrance.
Source: National Security Archive
2/28/19
by Nate Jones
The Archive filed suit after receiving no substantive response to the FOIA request for six months.
