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: Vox
11-19-18
The 1923 speaker election illustrated the power of a majority party faction to bargain for reform and drive a speaker from power.
Source: Politico
11-23-18
‘They haven’t gotten his job approval over 50 percent, like Reagan,’ says one GOP pollster.
Source: NYT
11-21-18
The deal has been deeply unpopular among South Koreans, including some of the surviving victims, who say it fell short of official reparations and a declaration of legal responsibility on Japan’s part.
Source: AP
11-22-18
A small New Mexico border town once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy to draw tourists.
Source: Slate
11-15-18
Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs.
Source: Pew Research Center
11-21-18
Black history museums and historic sites are flourishing across the South, riding a wave of interest in African-American history that has made a stunning success of the two-year-old National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital.
Source: The Times of Israel
An international interdisciplinary team of academics discovers evidence of a catastrophic volcanic eruption on Iceland that spurred a snow-ball effect causing a whole world of pain.
Source: NYT
11-22-18
T.N. Pandit, an Indian anthropologist who visited North Sentinel several times between 1967 and 1991, said their hostility is simple: they want to be left alone.
Source: NYT
11-20-18
Throughout World War II, the Dutch art dealers Benjamin and Nathan Katz sold art they owned, but three generations of the Katz family have argued that their actions were made under duress and have fought for decades to regain possession of scores of works transferred during the war.
Source: History channel
11-14-18
Ancient modern humans had just as many head injuries as Neanderthals.
Source: Time Magazine
11-16-18
Many at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the “Kindertransport” in London drew comparisons between the welcome extended to Kindertransport children back in 1938, and the general hostility toward migrants now, no matter how deserving they might be.
Source: Smithsonian
11-16-18
A Han Dynasty-era pit includes 300 soldiers, guard towers, farm animals and everything else a noble might need in the afterlife,
Source: NPR
11-16-18
The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.
Source: Time Magazine
11-16-18
An international criminal tribunal convicted two former Khmer Rouge leaders of atrocities including genocide in a historic ruling.
Source: The Conversation
11-16-18
by Rebecca Moore
It’s to remember the victims for their shared vision and not just their deaths.
Source: NYT
11-15-18
No recent prime ministers have been willing to commit the tens of millions of dollars it would take to make the stone house habitable again.
Source: The Washington Post
11-13-18
The Greek Culture Ministry said archaeologists have located the first tangible remains of the city.
Source: The Washington Post
11-14-18
Fifty years ago, on Nov. 14, 1968, then-Yale President Kingman Brewster announced female undergraduates would be admitted for the first time.
Source: BBC
11-14-18
A pearl and diamond pendant that belonged to ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette has been sold for $36m (£28m) in what Sotheby's auction house says is a world record for a pearl.
Source: The Hill
11-14-18
The board voted 12-2 to keep Clinton in the curriculum, with Republicans Pat Hardy and Geraldine Miller opposing the proposal.
