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 Boston Globe
7-23-17
An effort is underway to revise a law that prevents memorials from being built on there Mall for wars still in progress.
Source: NYT
7-21-17
The first installment profiles Elmore Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation worker – still on the job! – who was involved in the 1968 strike that drew MLK's attention.
Source: NYT
7-20-17
Historians are worried.
Source: The Washington Post
7-21-17
The decision to ban travel by U.S. citizens to a foreign country marks an unusual policy shift for the State Department, harking back to restrictions on travel not widely used since the Cold War era.
Source: NYT
7-22-17
A long-hidden legal memo says yes.
Source: NYT
7-22-17
He won't use that power now, he says, but reserves the right to use it.
Source: NYT
7-21-17
A lunar landing, a museum loan, a theft, a critical error, a legal battle — and now, a sale at auction. What’s next for this bag of moon dust?
Source: NYT
7-22-17
The president’s strategy for navigating the inquiry is adopted from the Clintons’ approach to the Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations.
Source: NYT
7-21-17
He cited Napoleon a few times. But did he know who the was talking about?
Source: Time Magazine
7-19-17
Linguistic experts say they know who wrote the famous Bixby letter. It wasn’t Lincoln.
Source: National Post
7-20-17
Her school, Beit Berl College, first condemned the apparent theft, then backtracked after she said collected the items from outside the camp grounds.
Source: Press Herald
7-19-17
Salem, Massachusetts recognizes five of the victims on the 325th anniversary of their deaths and vows never to forget.
Source: MSNBC Video
7-20-17
The historian made his comments on a segment of the Rachel Maddow show that aired after the Washington Post reported that Trump is considering pardoning himself and family and friends.
Source: The Hill
7-10-17
The student landed the interview after an aide inadvertently leaked the military leader’s cellphone number to the public.
Source: The Conversation
7-19-17
Christopher Nolan, the director of the Dunkirk movie, consulted with survivors to get their stories. This is one of the lessons he learned.
Source: NYT
7-18-17
Mass grave, with the remains of as many as 28 Soviet soldiers found, draws renewed attention.
Source: Smithsonian
7-18-17
Maggie L. Walker fought segregation her whole life in the former capital of the Confederacy. Now her statue towers over the Virginia city.
Source: The Daily Beast
7-18-17
The National Archives has tentatively approved a proposal to let the agency get rid of files that don’t have historical value. Historians fear there’s a lot of room for error.
Source: The Washington Post
7-17-17
Trump’s startling new tweet shows that’s changed.
Source: American Family News Network
7-17-17
"[It] has excluded notable figures such as Clarence Thomas, Mia Love, [and] also the title or anything referenced to eugenics, which has impacted African-Americans in this country more so than any other issue."
