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
5-16-18
Find out why this small strip of land has been through so many conflicts and political upheavals since the end of World War II.
Source: NYT
5-15-18
Fangzheng has close ties to Japan going back to the days of Japanese imperial control in this part of China. Now it's a target of nationalist ire.
Source: Press Release – Chicago History Museum
5/17/18
You can now experience the Valentine's Day Massacre and other Chicago historical events through Virtual Reality.
Source: Newsweek
5-15-18
Richard Gibson, an African American expat, was friends with Richard Wright.
Source: The Economist
4-5-18
Reaction to the queen’s purported Muslim extraction has been varied in the Arab world.
Source: NYT
5-15-18
Anne Frank tried to cover up two pages of writing in her diary that contained dirty jokes and a description of what she referred to as “sexual matters,” pasting brown paper over the pages in her red-and-white plaid notebook.
Source: BBC News
5-15-18
Still on Chinese people's minds is the period when China was forced to open up to trading with Western countries.
Source: Time Magazine
5-14-18
Both Jewish nationalism and Palestinian nationalism came to be defined by the idea of return.
Source: NYT
5-14-18
The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.
Source: NYT
5-13-18
As more nations seek the bomb, and as the United States and Russia expand their nuclear arsenals, veterans of the Cold War say the public is too complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
5-13-18
The calamities of the Soviet collapse planted Mr. Putin’s single-minded aim to position Russia as “a strong and sovereign nation” — terms in which he describes Alexander’s Russia in the 1880s.
Source: The Local
5-11-18
For the first time ever, archaeologists have been able to cast the complete figure of a horse that perished in the volcanic eruption at Pompeii.
Source: The Washington Post
5-13-18
This newfound appreciation may have less to do with history and more to do with political beer goggles: It’s 2 a.m. in the nation’s capital, and suddenly every past president looks good.
Source: The Washington Post
5-10-18
Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it?
Source: The Washington Post
5-11-18
According to her research, seven of Kelly’s eight great-grandparents were immigrants. Four immigrated from Italy, three from Ireland.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
5-11-18
So why aren’t any airports named for them?
Source: NYT
5-10-18
“The idea is that we walk with pictures of our relatives,” said Pavel Mramornov, 11, holding a portrait of his great-great-grandfather, who died in 1944. “We carry our relatives in our hearts.”
Source: The Washington Post
5-9-18
The Boy Scout movement began 110 years ago on a tiny island just off the southern coast of England, where Robert Baden-Powell, a legendary cavalry officer with eyes “as keen as the hawk’s,” as one historian put it, took 22 inquisitive boys to scamper in the woods he had explored as a child.
Source: NYT
5-10-18
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an act that Jewish groups praise as helpful in their efforts to reclaim lost property in Poland but which the Polish government says is discriminatory.
Source: The Conversation
5-9-18
by Elizabeth Benjamin
Instead of celebrating the occasion, the French president appears to be inadvertently recreating it.
