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 Conversation
January 17, 2018
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the Danes were not pleased.
Source: CNN
January 19, 2018
The answer is that the government kept functioning even when money hadn't been appropriated.
Source: NPR
January 19, 2018
If President Trump's first year in office seemed chaotic from a staffing perspective, there's a reason.
Source: NPR
January 18, 2018
What lessons were learned from previous government shutdown showdowns?
Source: MSN
January 17, 2018
These were the least healthy presidents in American history based on their health around the time of their presidency.
Source: The Washington Post
January 17, 2018
One-hundred-and-eighty years after Jesuit priests sold slaves to save Georgetown University from financial ruin, a group of descendants is calling for restitution.
Source: Time Magazine
January 17, 2018
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has ping-ponged between a low of 35% and a high of 45% during his first year in office — the worst record of any of the most recent seven presidents, according to Gallup.
Source: The Times (London)
January 17, 2018
The first loan of the Bayeux Tapestry outside France for 950 years is expected to be to the British Museum in 2022.
Source: The Guardian
January 17, 2018
This week we were told that rats didn’t spread the plague, the Aztecs weren’t wiped out by smallpox and ‘whipping boys’ may never have actually existed. So what other ‘facts’ are historically suspect?
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
January 17, 2018
Several lawmakers have filed bills to give localities the power to remove Confederate monuments and relocate them to museums, nullifying a state law aimed at preventing local officials from removing or altering war memorials.
Source: Smithsonian
January 16, 2018
Michigan State’s ‘Enslaved: The People of the Historic Slave Trade’ will combine available historical data on slavery into one searchable hub.
Source: Political Wire
January 17, 2018
A new Freedom House report finds “democracy is in retreat around the world” for the 12th year in a row.
Source: Fox News on Twitter
1/16/18
The first seven-episode installment chronicles the events that ultimately led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton during the 1990s.
Source: CBS News
January 17, 2018
His case stems from a 2014 university lecture when he told the audience to "not fall prey to propaganda" and questioned whether King Naraesuan had really won the 1593 battle by defeating a Burmese prince in solo combat mounted on a war elephant.
Source: NYT
January 15, 2018
NYT imagines what it would have been like to tweet the events of ’68.
Source: NYT
January 14, 2018
Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since President Trump took office, that Hawaii’s false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with North Korea.
Source: NYT
January 15, 2018
An Ohio teacher who told a black eighth grader that his friends would “lynch” him if he didn’t finish his work has been put on leave, the school district said, calling the student a “hero” for standing up to her.
Source: ABC News
January 14, 2018
There will be a clear historical dividing line that separates what the American presidency and American politics were on either side of the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Source: NYT
January 13, 2018
The president's vulgar comments about certain countries harken back to complaints about "undesirable nationals" that led to severe restrictions in 1924.
Source: NYT
January 12, 2018
The entrance to the tunnel, a desperate attempt to pierce the Iron Curtain and reunite a divided family, was unearthed this week after laying hidden for more than 50 years.
