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
10-14-17
The discovery of Arabic characters that spell “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes in boat graves in Sweden has raised questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia.
Source: NYT
10-14-17
An exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago displays once-secret documents that describe covert operations and intelligence gathering on the Pinochet dictatorship.
Source: AP
10-12-17
President Donald Trump is going around mischaracterizing his tax plan as the largest tax cut in U.S. history and a Republican senator is calling him out on it.
Source: The Atlantic
10-12-17
A study of diverse people from Africa shows that the genetic story of our skin is more complicated than previously thought.
Source: Smithsonian
10-12-17
But the Luwian language text’s unproven provenance calls its authenticity into question.
Source: Smithsonian
10-12-17
Unesco has become most well known for maintaining a list of more than 1,000 world heritage sites, locations worldwide that the agency deems worthy of protection.
Source: Political Wire
10-11-17
“No longer will ‘blue slips’ be allowed to deny a nominee a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on confirmation.”
Source: NBC News
10-10-17
In honor of its first anniversary, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be commemorated with a Forever Stamp by the U.S. Postal Service.
Source: History channel
10-10-17
It took the combined efforts of cartoons, comics and candy manufacturers to resurrect trick-or-treating after World War II and make it what it is today.
Source: Huffington Post
10-10-17
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says that if Confederate monuments are taken down, there’s no telling how far America might go —Native Americans could call for the removal of statues commemorating leaders who orchestrated violence against their ancestors.
Source: Newsweek
10-9-17
The problem is, the notion of a black soldier fighting for his beloved South is a myth, according to historians.
Source: The Brookings Institution
10-10-17
The study cites precedents from the Nixon and Clinton impeachments.
Source: The Washington Post
10-9-17
Nelson Winbush relishes talking about his grandfather’s time as a Confederate soldier, fighting at the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, slave trader and imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Source: Forbes
10-7-17
New research focused on the city of Rome suggests a more peaceful transition from paganism to Christianity, rather than the clash, bash and "fall" championed for hundreds of years.
Source: The Roanoke Times
10-7-17
A cache of Civil War letters from Radford that may be the largest yet found documents the lives of the Wharton family and gives rare details of an enslaved couple serving on the homefront and the battlefield.
Source: NYT
10-9-17
Residents of a tiny Bolivian hamlet vividly recall the day the guerrilla leader was shot at their school. "For us, this was a time of suffering," says a woman who brought him soup.
Source: NYT
10-6-17
Declassified documents show that intelligence officers, and President Eisenhower, knew that the Soviet Union was close to launching a man-made satellite.
Source: NYT
10-5-17
The plaque at Canada’s first national Holocaust monument, unveiled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is being replaced after an international outcry.
Source: Newsweek
10-8-17
In his final Columbus Day proclamation as president, Obama recognized the suffering endured by the Native American people.
Source: NYT
10-6-17
A 1960s government program took indigenous children from their families for adoption by nonnative parents, some as far away as Europe and New Zealand.
