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: NYT
7-31-18
Three years before Roe v. Wade established a constitutional right to abortion, New York legalized the procedure in 1970, turning the state into a magnet for women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies.
Source: Tablet Magazine
7-31-18
It’s a tale of ducks, hens, and sexually voracious crows. The author? George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.
Source: National Security Archive
8/1/18
Previously unknown third phase revealed: “We had the Blue Team on the run by the third day,” Red Team Targeting Officer recalled, “it could have been a lot worse.”
Source: Newsweek
8-1-18
In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler referred to Jewish people as "international elements that ‘conduct their business everywhere.’ "
Source: The Conversation
7-31-18
by Mark McKinty
The story of Spain during the 20th century is a complex one.
Source: Bloomberg
7-30-18
“The problem is that young people get used to hate speech. Some people don’t like chips, some people hate Coca-Cola—and some people hate the Jews.”
Source: The Hill
8-1-18
"The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote," by Elaine Weiss, which its publisher calls an "inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights" - will be adapted into either a TV movie or a limited series.
Source: The Charlotte Observer
8-1-18
The research showed Ryan is 3 percent Ashkenazi Jewish.
Source: NYT
7-26-18
by T.J. Stiles
Before the 14th Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected almost no one.
Source: NYT
7-28-18
The 155th anniversary Gettysburg re-enactment was a snapshot of a hobby with dwindling ranks.
Source: The Washington Post
7-29-18
The signs for Confederate Avenue and Dixie Drive may come down, but will Austin really consider changing its name amid national upheaval to jettison Confederate symbols?
Source: American Historical Association
7-25-18
"The AHA is dismayed by threats to the preservation of records relating to the treatment of immigrants by the US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
Source: AP
7-27-18
A newly released memo by a wartime Japanese official provides what a historian says is the first look at the thinking of Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the U.S. into World War II.
Source: The Washington Post
7-26-18
The history you need to know to put the Cohen recordings in context.
Source: The Washington Post
7-26-18
Most puzzling to tourists: The memorial to MLK.
Source: NYT
7-26-18
The unpublished material, or at least some of it, has suddenly emerged and was offered for sale at a Manhattan auction house, along with another artifact that scholars have never seen: the manuscript for the published book, which bears dense traces of Mr. Haley’s and Malcolm X’s complex negotiations over the finished text.
Source: The Conversation
7-26-18
by Thomas Alan Schwartz
It was 50 years ago that he got Vanderbilt to start recording the evening network newscasts.
Source: The Daily Beast
7-25-18
The former secretary of state pushed one president to use China to isolate the Soviet Union. These days, he’s counseling almost the reverse—and officials are listening.
Source: The Atlantic
7-20-18
by Julian E. Zelizer
In 1973, Nixon was confident the secret White House recordings would help his cause. That’s not how it worked out.
Source: The Conversation
7-24-18
by Douglas M. Charles
In the first and second world wars, the FBI effectively uprooted foreign influence campaigns. Today, the agency faces an uphill battle.
