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: artnet News
10-19-17
Archaeologists and art historians find themselves embroiled in a white supremacist debate.
Source: Newsweek
10-19-17
According to a Marist poll released on Thursday, 42 percent believe Trump’s legacy will be as one of the country’s worst leaders.
Source: History channel
10-19-17
His name was Ben Cooper and he created the market for licensed Halloween costumes.
Source: AP
10-19-17
Written in the 1980s, the letters give a peek into Obama’s psyche as he sought out the path that would eventually land him in the White House as the United States’ first black president.
Source: Newsweek
10-19-17
“When I hear Spencer saying, ‘For us, it is to conquer or it is to die,’ I hear echoes of [Hitler].”
Source: National Security Archive
10-17-17
Newly declassified US embassy Jakarta files detail army killings and US support for quashing leftist labor movement.
Source: WBUR
10-16-17
The Tufts Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, together with the Tufts Data Lab, embarked on a mission to document significant sites that reflect local African-American history.
Source: The Guardian
10-17-17
Study of ice-core records and Ancient Egyptian documents suggests environmental forces helped seal the last Ptolemaic ruler’s fate in 30BC.
Source: Politico
10-16-17
by Philip Shenon and Larry J. Sabato
Later this month, the National Archives is set to release thousands of documents about John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It’s likely to fuel conspiracy theorists for years.
Source: Politico
10-16-17
What America’s top military leaders have learned from a 54-year-old history of the Korean War.
Source: The Washington Post
10-16-17
A plaque honoring Confederate soldiers was placed on the Jefferson County Courthouse in West Virginia, where slaves were once sold.
Source: The Washington Times
10-15-17
The chorus of opposition to Confederate monuments has yet to strike a chord in southwestern Virginia, where the service of the “brave men and women” who fought and died for the Confederacy is enshrined in the statue of a soldier in the center of the city.
Source: US News and World Report
10-16-17
October is LGBTQ History Month.
Source: National Security Archive
10-16-17
The U.S. military drew up plans to occupy Cuba and establish a temporary government headed by a U.S. “commander and military governor” during the 1962 missile crisis, new documents disclose.
Source: The Boston Globe
10-16-17
Freshly unearthed documents recast the Great War’s most notorious spy as a mother who left an abusive marriage and as a scapegoat for war-torn France looking to distract from heavy casualties on the front lines.
Source: The Times of Israel
10-16-17
Sought for 150 years, the remarkable discovery of the small theater changes archaeologists' perceptions of Roman-conquered Jerusalem after the fall of the Second Temple.
Source: The Hill
10-15-17
House Republicans are moving forward with a bill to reform a century-old conservation law, raising the stakes in their ongoing effort to curtail the president's’ ability to set aside wide swaths of federal land as national monuments and protect them from future development.
Source: The Post and Courier
10-14-17
Five hundred years ago this month, Martin Luther set out to challenge his church and ended up starting what would become known as the Protestant Reformation.
Source: Sun Herald
10-16-17
Kenny Holloway, vice president of the Biloxi School Board said, “There were complaints about it. There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books.
Source: NYT
10-15-17
Textbooks are getting a larger dose of Communist Party lore, including glorified tales about the party’s fights against foreign invaders like Japan.
