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 Times of Israel
4-12-18
Nearly half are unable to name a single ghetto or concentration camp, and 4 in 10 are unsure what Auschwitz was.
Source: The Conversation
4-11-18
by Steven Lubet
President Trump’s difficulty finding lawyers who will represent him in his current legal troubles tells us much about his leadership style and the advice he is willing to accept.
4-10-18
Illinois senators advanced a plan requiring public schools to teach a unit on the role and societal contributions of gays, lesbians and other LGBT individuals.
Source: Bangor Daily News
4-10-18
He said he sold the relics partly to pay for an addiction to collecting war memorabilia and to acquire a collection for a museum he dreamed of running one day.
Source: Haaretz
In the past week, Breitbart’s Wikipedia page has become the scene of an epic battle, with alt-right trolls descending en masse to change its content.
Source: Cleveland Jewish News
4-9-18
The notion that Jews may have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed, popular in some pro-gun circles, has been debunked by historians, who have noted how outnumbered Jews were in countries in which they were slaughtered.
Source: History channel
4-9-18
Donald Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border is only the latest in a long history of U.S. militarization of its national boundaries.
Source: Newsweek
4-9-18
He worries about what’s happening right now in America, where he has lived and prospered since arriving a couple of years after Buchenwald’s liberation on April 11, 1945.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4-9-18
The political scientist has been called a white supremacist.
Source: CBS News
4/9/18
A remarkable memorial opens later this month in Alabama, dedicated to victims of lynching.
Source: Ashland Daily Tidings
4/6/18
Stories of modern racism were shared at an event, called “Living with the ghosts of our past,” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Congress passing the Fair Housing Act.
Source: Bloomberg
4-6-18
Here's how his record compares with past presidents'.
Source: AP
4/7/18
South Carolina debated seceding from the Union more than 150 years ago, one of the opening salvos of the Civil War. Now, the topic has come up again, amid a national debate over firearms and gun rights.
Source: AP
4-4-18
A Japanese museum wants to abolish nukes. An American museum at Los Alamos is uncomfortable with that message.
Source: NYT
4-3-18
LBJ had used the death of President John F. Kennedy to pass the Civil Rights Act, and wrung the Voting Rights Act from the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery. In 1968 he used MLK's death to pass the Gun Control Act.
Source: History channel
4/6/18
by Matthew Dallek
Violence included the assassinations of MLK and RFK. Then camera the Democratic Convention of 1968. And all along there was the Vietnam War.
Source: National Geographic
4/5/18
Armed with satellites and drones, archaeologists discover new Nasca lines and dozens of other enigmatic geoglyphs carved into the earth.
Source: History channel
4-6-18
What really happened?
Source: National Security Archive
4/6/18
Secret CIA interviews with defectors, former German POWs, and previously detained German scientists and technicians in the mid-1950s yielded invaluable insights into Soviet nuclear capabilities.
Source: The Washington Post
4-3-18
In papers presented in 2000 and 2007, historian Margo J. Anderson of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and statistician William Seltzer of Fordham University found evidence that census officials cooperated with the government, providing data to target Japanese Americans.
