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: Time Magazine
12-13-2018
The USS San Diego was sailing to New York on July 19, 1918, when an external explosion near the engine room shook the armored cruiser. Within minutes, the 500-foot warship began to capsize.
Source: NYT
12-12-2018
Long before he was president of Russia, Vladimir Putin worked as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden in the former East Germany and had access to Germany’s dreaded secret police.
Source: NYT
12-6-2018
The former first lady’s long-awaited new memoir recounts with insight, candor and wit her family’s trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago’s South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.
Source: The Washington Post
12-12-2018
In 1859, the House went to war over Rep. John Sherman’s leadership bid.
Source: WDTN
12-11-2018
The two year study would delve into the depths of African American history and provide insight into their accomplishments and tribulations.
Source: Time Magazine
12-12-2018
Herbert W. Kalmbach, President Richard Nixon’s personal lawyer, received a prison sentence on June 17, 1974, exactly two years after the Watergate break-in, for funneling hush money to Watergate defendants.
Source: NYT
12-11-2018
American troops took the three church bells after avenging a deadly attack on their fellow soldiers, and the seizure has complicated ties with the Philippines since.
Source: Roll Call
12-12-2018
"Brokeback Mountain," "The Shining," "The Lady From Shanghai" are among selections.
Source: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
12-12-2018
The document, commissioned by President R. Albert Mohler Jr., laments "a sinful absence of historical curiosity."
Source: Inside Higher Ed
12-11-18
A Columbia University student shouted that “white people are the best thing that ever happened to the world” on Sunday evening during a racist tirade in front of students of color, who caught the rant on video.
Source: NPR
12-9-2018
"About 90 percent of the Old Testament is missing [and] 50 percent of the New Testament is missing."
Source: NYT
12-8-2018
Antonio Scurati, the author of “M,” sees his book as an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel. Others disagree.
Source: NYT
12-10-2018
The news that a New Jersey golf course owned by President Trump had been employing undocumented immigrants as housekeepers was far from the first such revelation about a prominent public official.
Source: NYT
12-10-2018
The neighborhood, known as the Green Zone, had been cordoned off by the American military in 2003 to protect it from bombings during the war.
Source: Historic Newspapers (Special to HNN)
12/10/2018
And why it's so shocking.
Source: The Conversation
12-10-2018
by Jana Lipman
There’s much more to this naval base than its use as an offshore prison.
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
12-9-2018
The more the students dug into the archives the more ties they found between Penn and slavery.
Source: The Jamestown Sun
12-8-2018
It’s "North Dakota’s Mount Rushmore.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
12-7-2018
Just as the fall semester is set to close, activists say, at least 79 teaching assistants and instructors have joined a rare “grade strike,” pledging to withhold more than 2,000 final grades unless the university meets their conditions.
Source: NPR
12-9-2018
For the first time in its 225-year history, the site has begun telling the stories of the African-American men and women who were enslaved there, and consulting with their descendants.
