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
4-24-18
While the outlines of an accord between North and South Korea have been considered for decades, there are drastic differences this time.
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
4-25-18
Most Americans have a firm grasp of slavery in the south and how its plantations, crops and bondage helped frame a legacy of oppression. The same cannot be said of slavery in the north.
Source: Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation (Press Release)
4/25/18
The discovery of the map shows the extent to which Lewis and Clark were helped by Native American geographers.
Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian
4-23-18
The student researchers in the Penn Slavery Project expanded upon their initial findings further demonstrating the University's connections to slavery at a presentation April 23.
Source: The Washington Post
4-23-18
In Nazi Germany, propagandists listed physical characteristics that differentiated Jews from Aryans. While some characteristics were far more often mentioned, such as large noses and curly hair, drooping or “sleepy” eyes occasionally made the list.
Source: Newsweek
4-23-18
Evolutionary anthropologist David Raichlen and his colleagues from the University of Arizona, examined 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints recently discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, which represent the earliest direct evidence of hominin bipedalism.
Source: CNN
4-20-18
by Harry Enten
Trump right now is adored by the Republican base.
Source: NYT
4-21-18
The Trump administration has made eliminating federal regulations a priority, and an increasing number of environmental rules are under threat.
Source: NYT
4-21-18
The boxer? Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion in 1908, who was convicted of transporting his white girlfriend across state lines.
Source: National Security Archive
4/20/18
Her name? Lisa Howard, a one-time soap actress who became a leading TV journalist. She became a conduit after interviewing Fidel Castro for ABC News.
Source: The Washington Post
4-18-18
Trump is no historian.
Source: USA Today
4-19-18
According to medical historian Herwig Czech, Asperger directly referred two disabled girls to the notorious Am Spiegelgrund children's clinic in Vienna, where some 800 children were murdered under the Nazi's euthanasia program.
Source: Journal Sentinel
4-19-18
A Klan group formed as an interfraternity society in 1919 included student body leaders Porter Butts and Fredric March, whose names are prominently displayed in the Memorial Union.
Source: WESH
4-20-18
Great Hearts Monte Vista, a San Antonio, Texas charter school, confirmed an eighth-grade American History class was assigned a worksheet titled "The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View."
Source: NYT
4-17-18
Digitized records and DNA tests are allowing civilian volunteers to pitch in and help put correct names on unidentified remains in American military cemeteries.
Source: NYT
4-17-18
Five months after the release of sweeping research into its deep historical connections with slavery, Princeton University announced that it would name two prominent spaces in honor of enslaved people who lived or worked on its campus.
Source: The Daily Beast
4-19-18
Two years ago this week, the Treasury secretary announced civil rights and women’s icons would be on America’s money. Where are they?
Source: FiveThirtyEight
4-19-18
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Source: AP
4-18-18
Nearly 75 years after the USS Helena was sunk by Japanese torpedoes in the waters off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, an expedition backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen reported finding its wreckage.
Source: NYT
4-17-18
Some said the ruckus over Israel's 70th anniversary party was crass and undignified. Others said it was perfectly, quintessentially Israel.
