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: AP
6-13-18
Though Trump is far from the first U.S. president to work with an unsavory counterpart to achieve a strategic goal, his decision to broadcast that he tacitly accepts Kim’s history of atrocities was a sharp break from the past, says the AP.
Source: Axios
6-12-18
The decline is evident in polls in Canada, Germany, Japan, UK, France and Italy. But in Russia US popularity is on the upswing.
Source: Politico
6-11-18
The College Board says it’s making the change because the current class covers too much and most colleges teach similar content as two separate courses.
Source: NYT
6-10-18
Home to the largest population of Jews in Europe before the war, Poland has more property that was stolen during the war and nationalized in its aftermath than any other nation.
Source: The Hill
6-11-18
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was recently pardoned by President Trump, is making comparisons for his next film between the Democratic resistance to Trump and how Democrats didn’t accept President Lincoln’s reelection during the Civil War.
Source: Brisbane Times
6-11-18
Dictators have scored presidential face time before.
Source: Boston1775 (blog)
6-7-18
Two new databases of English writing from the founding era confirm that “bear arms” is a military term.
Source: NYT
6-8-18
Written 2,300 years ago, it is a Chinese version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with text that swirls like the stars through the firmament and describes the relationship between humans and heaven.
Source: Medium
6-7-18
by Ben Blum
A French academic and filmmaker, plumbing newly-released documents from Philip Zimbardo’s archives at Stanford, show he did not allow participants to leave.
Source: Snopes
6-8-18
The answer is yes.
Source: The Washington Post
6-9-18
Who was the man whose likeness is captured in the figurine, and what did he mean to the people of Abel?
Source: Politico
6-10-18
The president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.
Source: The Daily Beast
6-8-18
One of Donald Trump’s longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
Source: Fortune
6-7-18
No, Eisenhower's probably was.
Source: Snopes
6-6-18
Neither the Constitution nor hundreds of years of Supreme Court rulings have directly answered the legality of this question.
Source: We're History
6-7-18
National parks are not just places of natural beauty and wildlife. National parks are also places of great significance to American history—both the triumphant and the controversial.
Source: WRAL
6-6-18
Peter Faneuil, one of the richest merchants in 18th century New England, was a slave owner. And he traded not only in sugar, molasses and timber, but in humans.
Source: The Washington Post
6-6-18
The lyrics have a storied history — one deeply entwined with America’s ever-uneasy relationship between religion and politics.
Source: CNN
6-6-18
The problem with Trump's comments to Trudeau is that British troops burned down the White House during the War of 1812, not Canada.
Source: NYT
6-5-18
Tests results and surveys show that students’ — and most Americans’ — knowledge of their history and the structure of their government is abysmal.
