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: National Coalition for History
3-23-18
by Lee White
Major Victory: Across the board, history, archival and education programs were either level funded or received small increases.
Source: The Cheat Sheet
4-4-18
1. John Adams - Languages learned: Latin, Greek, and French
Source: Smithsonian
4-3-18
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that the chiefs had acted in ‘war, not murder’ when they attacked white settlers who had encroached on their land.
Source: NYT
3-30-18
Ancient Egyptian leaders increased their empire’s grain production and crossbred cattle for resilience in an early effort to ward off climate disaster, a study shows.
Source: History channel
4-2-18
“People were out of control with anger and sadness and frustration.”
Source: Athens Banner-Herald
3-21-18
When faculty and administrators drive in to their jobs at Baldwin Hall, they’re driving over the graves of slaves or former slaves.
Source: Duke Today
4-2-18
Panelists considered what monuments do and don’t say about our nation’s troubled racial history.
Source: The Washington Post
3-30-18
His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds, but Arcata is poised to do just that with a statue of William McKinley.
Source: NYT
3-31-18
In Denmark, where most of the public statues represent white men, two artists on Saturday unveiled the striking statue in tribute to a 19th-century rebel queen who had led a fiery revolt against Danish colonial rule in the Caribbean.
Source: PBS Newshour
3-31-18
The Mormon church made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry.
Source: The Washington Post
3-30-18
An archaeological dig has unearthed physical evidence of ancient human presence: 29 footprints pressed into the shoreline of Calvert Island, part of the First Nations’ traditional territory.
Source: ABS CBN News
4-1-18
1968 was a year so eventful that it's become known as "The Year That Changed America."
Source: CBS News
4-1-18
Scholars believe the damaged scrolls of Herculaneum could contain lost works of Greek philosophy, Roman poetry, or early Christian writings.
Source: Newsweek
3-29-18
Kristen Windmuller-Luna is slated to take over managing the museum's African art collection in April.
Source: History channel
3-29-18
The census, a Constitutionally-mandated survey of the U.S. population taken every decade since 1790, has a long history of being used as a political tool.
Source: Snopes
3/28/18
Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help freed slaves defend themselves against racist attacks after the Civil War.
Source: NYT
3-28-18
For millions of African-Americans today, the site is “ground zero,” as the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has put it, for “blackness, black culture, the African experience, the African-American experience, slavery — however you want to slice it.”
Source: The Washington Post
3-27-18
The coffin, from the 6th century B.C., had been purchased by Sir Charles Nicholson from an Egyptian antiquities market in 1857 or 1858.
Source: Pew Research Center
3-28-18
Polish attitudes toward Jews are typical of the public’s views in many of the 17 other countries Pew Research Center surveyed in Central and Eastern Europe.
