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 Washington Post
12-21-17
The selection of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) as the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee was the clearest sign yet of how seriously House Democrats consider the possibility of a full-blown constitutional showdown with Trump.
12-22-17
by HNN Editor
The claim is by Doug Weed, author of books on presidential families.
Source: The Atlantic
12-21-17
In a surprise move Wednesday evening, the city sold two parks to a nonprofit corporation that promptly tore down monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis.
Source: Newsweek
12-21-17
Historian Tim Naftali says that he hasn’t seen “this kind of sycophancy” since listening to the Nixon tapes in which former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon “what a remarkable human being he is.”
Source: The Los Angeles Times
12-20-17
For film historians and film buffs the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.
Source: UCLA Newsroom
12-21-17
Sinai Palimpsests Project involved scholars from UCLA Library, St. Catherine’s Monastery and the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library.
Source: History channel
12-19-17
The city of Rome is over 2,700 years old. Dig into the ground and you’ll eventually bump into what the old residents left behind.
Source: CNN
12-20-17
The belief in alien encounters has long been a prominent feature of American life.
Source: History channel
12-19-17
Melvil Dewey is remembered today as an innovator who ushered American librarianship into the modern age, but his pattern of sexual harassment was so egregious that women dared to speak out against it, at a time when women were harshly judged for reporting sexual harassment.
Source: BBC
12-19-17
The historian, who serves as Trump’s national security adviser, has accused Russia of "a sophisticated campaign of subversion" to undermine free and open societies.
Source: Propublica
12-18-17
The explosive compound RDX helped make America a superpower. Now, it’s poisoning the nation’s water and soil.
Source: Vox
12-18-17
“This is tax reform on the fast and cheap.”
Source: The Atlantic
12-18-17
Despite efforts to require lessons on civil rights, outdated textbooks in the Mississippi school system indicate little has changed.
Source: The Washington Post
12-15-17
Economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment; rather, racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.
Source: VOA
12-14-17
Volkswagen says a study has revealed that security guards at its operation in Brazil cooperated with the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
Source: NYT
12-16-17
According to several scholars of American history, the invocation of a president’s name as a jaw-jutting declaration of exclusion, rather than inclusion, appears to be unprecedented.
Source: NYT
12-14-17
In his first 10 months in office, Trump has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly. Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure.
Source: The Daily Beast
12-15-17
Things fell apart for Nixon when he dropped below 30 percent approval in his second term. Trump is getting there in his first year.
Source: The Washington Post
12-14-17
What went wrong.
Source: The Washington Post
12-13-17
The secret letter was tucked inside the pages of an old book. It had been written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to a top lieutenant, condemning civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
