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 Washington Post
November 8, 2018
Our first president offered asylum as one of America’s assets. Repeatedly.
Source: The Washington Post
November 8, 2018
In 1917 Jeanette Rankin joined the chamber as its first and only female member.
Source: Smithsonian
November 7, 2018
The American Indian Museum puts the 150-year-old Fort Laramie Treaty on view in its “Nation to Nation” exhibition.
Source: Snopes
November 7, 2018
Jewish students in Berlin on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
Source: The Hill
November 7, 2018
Critics have expressed concern that the new language will make it unconstitutional for incarcerated individuals to work in prisons, Colorado Public Radio reported.
Source: NYT
November 6, 2018
And the party of angry messages tinged with racism.
Source: NYT
November 5, 2018
Delphine Boël grew up certain that she should be a princess. Now a court ruling and a DNA test could make it true.
Source: NYT
November 6, 2018
Johann Rehbogen was still a teenager when he began work as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he was stationed between June 1942 and September 1944.
Source: The Globe and Mail
November 6, 2018
Hundreds died in Nazi death camps.
Source: Politico
November 5, 2018
by Jeff Greenfield
The behavior of other presidents who dealt with midterm rebukes won’t be much use.
Source: The Washington Post
November 4, 2018
In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.
Source: The Washington Post
November 5, 2018
Trump has invoked the same phrase as he campaigns for Republicans.
Source: National Security Archive
11/5/18
Far from being a “non crisis” or a “war scare that wasn’t,” the 1983 US-Soviet confrontation is a profound representation of the “hair trigger” mindset toward which the nuclear arms race can push humanity.
Source: CityLab
October 29, 2018
Not only will Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina, unite two formerly segregated parks; confronting and educating visitors about its history, including a segregated baseball stadium, is part of the design.
Source: Radio Free Europe
November 4, 2018
A weeklong series of commemorations has begun in France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, with some 80 world leaders expected to attend.
Source: Vox
November 2, 2018
In both years, women ran for office to push back against sexual misconduct.
Source: The Runner
November 3, 2018
55 per cent of those surveyed could not name the accomplishments of Canadian women.
Source: Time Magazine
November 5, 2018
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says the item that sold for the highest price, $468,500, at Saturday’s auction was Armstrong’s spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle.
October 31, 2018
The Chicago City Council approved an agreement between the Obama Foundation and the city to build the presidential center in Jackson Park.
Source: NYT
October 28, 2018
In the early 1970s, many evangelical Christians weren’t active in politics. Within a few years they had reshaped American politics for a generation.
