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
8-14-18
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
History shows he may regret that.
Source: The Conversation
8-15-18
by Annemarie Toebosch
As the anniversary of Indonesian independence from the Netherlands approaches, a close look reveals how Dutch policy divides people along racial lines and ignores the Indonesian dead in that war.
Source: The Washington Post
8-13-18
This week, the room is in the news as the surprising scene of the firing of former presidential adviser and reality show foil Omarosa Manigault Newman.
Source: National Security Archive
8-13-18
Repository of historic human rights evidence faces government crackdown.
Source: NYT
The bells were taken in the wake of a massacre of 48 Americans during the long war to pacify the Philippines, a war in which thousands of Filipinos were slaughtered.
Source: The Washington Post
8-13-18
Herbert Hoover's approach is echoed in the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Source: The Guardian
8-11-18
Lawmakers push for ‘constitutional convention’ to restrict federal government – and it’s not as far fetched as it sounds.
Source: Time Magazine
8-10-18
Here's what to know about the history of that ban.
Source: Crosscut
8-13-18
But for quirks of colonial competition, the troubles with managing empire, and the shifting fortunes of international commerce, the Pacific Northwest could have been part of the Spanish Empire.
Source: NYT
8-10-18
Judge Kavanaugh delivered the advice in a private memorandum made public on Friday by the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Source: Newsweek
8-13-18
A recently translated book about the Holocaust has claimed that Italian citizens played a crucial and enthusiastic role in the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Source: The Hill
8-11-18
A new Marist College poll found that 45 percent rated Trump’s job performance as poor — the same percentage who said Nixon was doing poorly as president in a Harris poll.
Source: CBS News
8/10/18
"You have some people who are very upset and you know this needs to be something that's under wraps right now."
Source: National Security Archives
8/10/18
The CIA director described extended sessions of physical violence and waterboarding.
Source: Time Magazine
8-9-18
Even historians find that they can be tricked.
Source: The Telegraph
8-9-18
The pioneering scientist was voted in at number one, higher than Margaret Thatcher, Emmeline Pankhurst and the Virgin Mary, according to a reader poll conducted by BBC History Magazine.
Source: The Washington Post
8-9-18
The story of how such a monument could remain in place a century later offers lessons in just how hard it can be to confront a shared history that still divides a nation.
Source: The Washington Post
8-8-18
The image of Russia’s “greatness” has been largely sanitized from its legacy of violence.
Source: CNN
8-8-18
Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat for Virginia, praised in a speech last year Virginia's decision in 1861 to secede from the Union, putting it on par with rebellions during the American Revolution and today.
Source: The Washington Post
8-7-18
After a five-year plunge into the history of slavery at the University of Virginia, a commission has concluded that slavery played an integral role in the founding, construction and operations of the public university.
