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 Conversation
Accessed 1/7/19
by Antonia Finnane
An ordinary Chinese immigrant to Australia reveals an extraordinary story.
Source: Smithsonian.com
1/2/19
They held on for as long as they could, but now the Smithsonian and other Washington museums are closed.
Source: Jacobin
Accessed 1/7/19
by Jana Tsoneva
One year after the Bolsheviks ended Russia’s participation in World War I, revolutionary soldiers in Bulgaria forced their government to do the same.
Source: Mother Jones
1/3/19
by Pema Levy
It didn't start with Donald Trump.
Source: CNN
1/4/19
Even the Wall Street Journal has denounced Trump for passing along old Soviet propaganda.
Source: Daily Beast
1/4/19
by Marc Wortman
In the last decade, the number of students majoring in history at the nation’s colleges has plummeted, and it seemingly has nothing to do with the job market.
Source: Mother Jones
1/4/19
A new book explores congressional violence in the decades leading up to the Civil War
Source: Smithsonian.com
1/3/19
While the rituals associated with the site may not be entirely clear, identifying the ruins of a temple to the deity Xipe Tóte is an important discovery
Source: The Conversation
1/3/19
by Vasile Ersek
The stories of abrupt climate change in the Middle East echo over millennia to the present day.
Source: Washington Post
1/3/19
After Nancy Pelosi was elected House speaker Thursday, she was given a wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered.
Source: Foreign Affairs
1/1/19
by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
Since WWII, the United States has put deterrence at the core of its defense strategy. Now technological and geographical changes might change that.
Source: Pacific Standard
1/2/19
by Katy Reckdahl
Tate plans to open an educational center in the New Orleans school she attended as one of only three black students in 1960.
Source: New York Times
1/1/19
by Amy Qin
The photographer Li Zhensheng is on a mission to make his fellow Chinese remember one of the most turbulent chapters in modern Chinese history that the ruling Communist Party is increasingly determined to whitewash.
Source: NPR
12/31/18
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion Ledger about his 30-year career in investigative journalism, as well as his upcoming projects.
Source: The Conversation
1/2/19
by Brooks D. Simpson
As the 116th Congress convenes this week, how can American political history help us anticipate what political shifts might occur?
Source: Salon
1/3/19
by Tony Platt
A decade from now under the First Step Act, expect that incarceration will be not so much reduced as diversified.
Source: NYT
1-2-2019
A German family has the artwork, and refuses to give it back. The Italian museum has mounted a publicity campaign in an effort to get German authorities to intervene.
Source: New York Review of Books
1/3/19
by Stephen Wertheim
Today, neoconservatives are riding high once more, in the White House, on Capitol Hill, in the most prominent organs of opinion. Why?
Source: Common Dreams
1/2/19
by Lawrence Wittner
The United States is first in war, but trailing in crucial aspects of modern civilizaiton.
Source: Popular Mechanics
12/26/18
by Maude Campbell and Henry Robertson
A look at how, when someone dies, we figure out why.
