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: NYT
11-2-17
The anniversary of the British document is greeted with tributes and demonstrations.
Source: The Guardian
11-1-17
CIA released journal as part of 470,000 documents collected from Bin Laden’s house, showing he visited the UK as a teenager and found it to be ‘decadent’
Source: The Washington Post
11-1-17
In a new paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, Oren Kolodny and his colleague Marc Feldman test a basic hypothesis — that the extinction of the Neanderthals was simply a consequence of population dynamics and bad timing.
Source: The American Psychological Association
11-1-17
59% say "they consider this to to be the lowest point in our nation’s history that they can remember."
Source: Time Magazine
10-31-17
Fear of foreign interference in U.S. affairs is about as old as the U.S., but this 1938 law is a response to a specific fear: Americans in the U.S. working for the Nazis.
Source: History channel
10-30-17
For hundreds of years, Catalonians have thought of themselves as distinct from the rest of Spain.
Source: Crosscut
10-31-17
by Knute Berger
If you travel around Washington state and visit local historical societies, you’ll notice that “history” tends to begin with the arrival of white settlers and extend to perhaps one or two generations back.
Source: The Washington Post
10-31-17
Kelly was asked about the decision of a church in Alexandria to remove plaques honoring George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
Source: East Bay Times
10-30-17
A month after announcing its plans to greenlight $98,000 in federal funds for a project by a UC Berkeley professor documenting the Black Panther Party’s legacy, the National Park Service has pulled the plug amid a fierce backlash by conservatives who decried the history of what they labeled “a violent extremist group.”
Source: NYT
10-26-17
Decades before the trials in Massachusetts, women in Connecticut were being accused. Now, a group of people there is moving to clear the names of the victims.
Source: CNN
10-29-17
In response to violent protests over the fate of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this year, a 244-year-old Episcopal church in Alexandria is planning to move a set of plaques honoring former parishioners Robert E. Lee and George Washington.
Source: jfkfiles.blogspot.com
10-28-17
by Dale K. Myers
The latest JFK assassination files leave the media scrambling for something - anything - newsworthy.
Source: NBC News
10-29-17
The latest numbers from Gallup, from a 2013 survey taken to mark the 50th anniversary of the event, showed 61% of Americans believed the assassination was a conspiracy, while 30% believed Oswald acted alone.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
10-25-17
After anti-Semitic stickers were strewn around Italian soccer club Lazio's stadium, the team and the Italian soccer federation are taking steps to combat racism and anti-Semitism at games, including reading a passage aloud from Anne Frank's diary before matches.
Source: CBS News
10-29-17
Adolfo Kaminsky isn't a well-known hero, but thousands of Jews in France during World War II owe their lives to him.
Source: CBS News
10-29-17
Montpelier was the Virginia home of James Madison, father of the Constitution and architect of the Bill of Rights. The plantation was also home to generations of slaves. Now, descendants have a chance to get in touch with their roots.
Source: Haaretz
10-30-17
Supporters say accusations are part of 'international Zionist plot' against him; all the complainants said they had been in contact with Ramadan for spiritual guidance.
Source: WaPo
10-27-17
Several historians are among the group the Post consulted: Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein, and Ibram X. Kendi.
Source: The Guardian
10-26-17
Not since the time of the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts at the turn of the 20th century was so much owned by so few.
Source: Smithsonian
10-26-17
There are unlikely to be any bombshells, and it’ll be months or years before historians can draw conclusions from the new files.
