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: Quinnipiac
3-7-18
Reagan, Obama Top Trump 4-1 As Best President
Source: NYT
3-6-18
Why Nuclear Deals With North Korea Don’t Stick
Source: The Seattle Times
3-6-18
A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Source: CBS News
3-6-18
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, 89, is one of two living grandsons of President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, one year after George Washington was sworn in as president.
Source: Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
3-5-18
The National Archives said last week that it will gather tens of millions of pages of classified historical records from Presidential Libraries around the country and will bring them to Washington, DC for declassification review.
Source: NYT
3-5-18
History is full of movements led by students — albeit usually in college, not high school. Some were successful and others brutally crushed, but even the latter still resonate.
Source: The Washington Post
3-2-18
On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons.
Source: The Intercept
3-3-18
An effort to refocus attention on Polish suffering, and away from the Holocaust, through a change to Poland’s anti-defamation law — has backfired spectacularly.
Source: The Daily Beast
3-2-18
Probably the closest anyone has come to assassinating Queen Elizabeth.
Source: The Conversation
3-2-18
What can a modern-day Creole language tell us about its first speakers in the 1600s?
Source: Smithsonian
3-1-18
Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.
Source: The Washington Post
3-1-18
She fears it will outlive her.
Source: NYT
3-1-18
Researchers assembled 5 million family trees using data from the website Geni.com to test several genetic and historical hypotheses.
Source: CNN
3-2-18
Remember what happened after Smoot-Hawley?
Source: Time Magazine
3-1-18
For the work she did, which led to her becoming the first Chair of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Margaret Dunkle is now one of the trailblazers honored by the National Women’s History Project for exemplifying this year’s Women’s History Month theme of “Nevertheless, She Persisted.”
Source: Hyperallergic
1-18-18
There are signs that attendance in many museums across the country is slowly falling, but the reasons why are still to be determined.
Source: Gallup
2-28-18
More than one year into Donald Trump's presidency, Americans' satisfaction with their national government shows no signs of improving.
Source: Time Magazine
3-1-18
“‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ is really about every woman who really had to use her tenacity and courage to accomplish whatever she set out to accomplish. It’s universal,” said Molly Murphy MacGregor, executive director and co-founder of the National Women’s History Project.
Source: NBC News
3-1-18
The move would be the latest in a long string of staff shakeups at the White House over the past year and comes after months of strained relations between the president and McMaster.
Source: Pew Research Center
3-1-18
Wide and growing divides in views of racial discrimination
