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: NBC News
1-6-18
With hundreds of paintings, statues and historical artifacts at their disposal, the New York Historical Society is using the power of visual aids to help students better absorb the facts and dates.
12-12-17
California’s inclusive curriculum raises questions on the ethics of teaching about sexual orientation.
Source: Time Magazine
1-5-18
The framers of the Constitution left voters to be the final check and balance on the president on this kind of decision.
Source: History channel
1-5-18
It’s not clear who Edgar Degas used as the model for the 1879 painting, L’Etoile, that depicts that tense moment. But it’s likely that she was a prostitute.
Source: The Hill
1-4-18
Jill Wine-Banks told MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" that she believes she could bring a successful case against Trump, adding that there is "so much evidence" that Trump meant to obstruct the investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia by firing Comey.
Source: NYT
1-3-18
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's accusation resonates for many Iranians, whose country has long been subject to outside interference.
Source: NYT
1-3-18
The second-oldest human genome ever found in North America, it sheds new light on how people — among them the ancestors of living Native Americans — first arrived in the Western Hemisphere.
Source: History channel
1-3-17
Since John F. Kennedy, every president has had an officer that follows him around with the so-called “nuclear football,” a briefcase that can be used to launch a nuclear attack (it got its nickname from a nuclear war plan called “dropkick”).
Source: Pacific Standard
1-2-18
Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
1-2-18
Three hundred years after the founding of a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texans are grappling with post-statehood histories that put white male settlers front and center. A new generation of historians seeks a more diverse set of characters.
Source: New Republic
1-2-17
In 1947, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa set out to introduce America to Soviet life. Seventy years later, two journalists retraced their steps.
Source: The News & Observer
1-1-18
The North Carolina government is officially recognizing what historians call the only successful coup d’etat in American history, when white supremacists overthrew the Reconstruction-era government in Wilmington in 1898.
Source: The Roanoke Times
12-16-17
Now they are being restored.
Source: The Post and Courier
12-23-17
The man's name was Abraham. In a grainy 1889 photo of the plantation home belonging to Furman University's namesake family, he appears standing by the portico with his face obscured in foliage and shadows.
Source: NYT
12-30-17
The sporadic release of documents from Britain’s National Archives gives a glimpse into the country’s inner workings.
Source: NYT
12-29-17
He isn’t the first president to understand the power of television. But he is alone in not grasping its limits.
Source: NYT
12-31-17
In ways that were once unimaginable, President Trump has discarded the conventions and norms established by his predecessors. Will that change the institution permanently?
Source: The Washington Post
1-1-18
When Alan Shane Dillingham, a historian at Spring Hill College in Alabama, lectures on the 1960s he starts by displaying a timeline of the decade’s most iconic, tumultuous year — 1968.
Source: The State
12-30-17
Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederate soldiers. But records show the state never accepted nor recognized armed African-American soldiers during the Civil War.
Source: NYT
1-1-18
It also helped set the tone for Soviet-American rivalry during the Cold War, profoundly shaping the world we live in today, historians said.
