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
11-23-17
New textbook rules spark LGBTQ history debate.
Source: NYT
11-22-17
The apology, which will take place next Tuesday in the House of Commons, is another step in a review the prime minister began last year into how to acknowledge the harm bought by what is sometimes called the “gay purge.”
Source: Newsweek
11-22-17
During the Constitutional Convention he expressly said that impeachment would be called for in the case of a president betraying his trust to a foreign power.
Source: Newsweek
11-22-17
Digging around the eastern countryside of Denmark’s island of Zealand, archaeologists have unearthed three stone courtyards near the town of Tollerup.
Source: Newsweek
11-22-17
It's in response to his complaint that Germany's got a Holocaust memorial in the heart of Berlin.
Source: NYT
11-22-17
Along with Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, who was convicted on similar charges last year, Mr. Mladic was found to have orchestrated a campaign of so-called ethnic cleansing.
Source: NYT
11-21-17
High school textbooks are particularly bad about stating absolutes because these materials “teach history” by giving students facts to memorize even when the details may be unclear.
Source: The Junto
11-21-17
by E. M. Rose
Circumstantial evidence suggests that they met when they were staying only a few hundred yards down the street from each other in the homes of men with interlocking business interests.
Source: Newsweek
11-21-17
Archaeologists at Historic Jamestowne are working to establish the diet of the colonists who once lived there.
Source: Buzzfeed
11-20-17
At dinner at a lobbying hotspot with a powerful tech CEO, the national security adviser said the president has the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” according to sources. Oracle and the Trump administration deny the comments.
Source: Crosscut
11-20-17
A University of Washington professor says that one of the doctors who worked on JFK’s body admitted that one shot was from the front not behind him. But that's not what the doctor told Gerald Posner.
Source: The Daily Princetonian
“Slavery became part of the DNA of Princeton. Princeton became renowned as a safe space for slaveholders.”
Source: Time Magazine
11-16-17
For whatever reason on Mar. 1, 1937, at the personal invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt, celebrity palm reader Nellie Simmons Meier of Indianapolis visited the White House and performed a reading on the President and his inner circle.
Source: NYT
11-16-17
A similar find was valued at around $5 million in 2015.
Source: Time Magazine
11-17-17
Here's how to outsmart them.
Source: The Washington Post
11-16-17
“We have to acknowledge the proslavery argument was often drawn from the Bible,” said Seth Pollinger, the museum’s director of content.
Source: Time Magazine
11-16-17
Here's how that's gone for other Senators.
Source: StarTribune
11-16-17
Mississippi State University will launch the new library and exhibit space housing Grant's papers and artifacts on Nov. 30.
Source: JStor
11-16-17 (accessed)
It might still come as a surprise to hear that Thanksgiving as we know it was deliberately invented in the nineteenth century.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-14-17
Why a cloud hangs over the new Museum of the Bible.
