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: Smithsonian
5-24-17 (accessed)
The money will help pay for the hiring of six curators.
Source: Political Wire
5-23-17
“STAT reviewed decades of Trump’s on-air interviews and compared them to Q&A sessions since his inauguration. The differences are striking and unmistakable.”
Source: Townsville Bulletin
5-22-17
It happened in Australia in May 1942 when US black troops staged a mutiny against their harsh white officers who objected to the races mixing.
Source: Daily Kos
5-23-17
GOP Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will assume office following Branstad’s resignation, and the state’s first woman governor subsequently will face election to a full term in 2018.
Source: History channel
5-23-17
New analysis of two fossil specimens found in Greece and Bulgaria has led a team of international scientists to a stunning conclusion: The fossilized lower jawbone and teeth, which date back some 7.2 million years, belonged not to an ape but to a hominin, or early human ancestor.
Source: Reuters
5-23-17
President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil.
Source: The Guardian
5-20-17
Some celebrate the 1967 conflict as a liberation, others believe it launched a disastrous occupation.
Source: 60 Minutes
5-21-17
Archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellite photos to locate ancient sites and she's finding them -- thousands.
Source: Philly.com
5-21-17
Plaques honor white soldiers. None minor blacks.
Source: KRISTV
5-20-17
A bill passed Friday lets the board's 15 elected members reject textbook content deemed not "suitable for the subject and grade level."
Source: Tablet Magazine
5-17-17
Newly unsealed classified documents reveal: Jerusalem conquered almost by accident; Israel’s National Religious Party, forerunner to the settler movement, lobbied for military de-escalation at every turn; and nobody in Israel’s security cabinet seems to have seen the country’s most momentous war coming.
Source: NYT
5-17-17
For thousands of patients, a stay at a state asylum in Mississippi ended in unmarked graves.
Source: WaPo
5-19-17
“They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history." – Mayor Mitch Landrieu
Source: Motherboard
5-19-17
To side-step controversy Disney is revamping the exhibit. Now only GW and Lincoln will speak.
Source: Time Magazine
5-18-17
As a 29-year-old, he was tasked with transforming the public image of a man about twice his age, the former Vice President whose pale and sweaty image during the 1960 presidential debate with JFK had significantly damaged that previous presidential run.
Source: The Stanford Daily
5-17-17
It may have been culture and migration.
Source: CBS19
5-17-17
Finding new artifacts almost every minute, Terry Brock, Senior Research Archeologist for the mansion and his team have been able to unearth a substantial amount of information on the slaves of Montpelier.
Source: Vox
5-17-17
Lincoln had to oversee a civil war. Multiple presidents were assassinated. Politicians are often imprisoned around the world.
Source: USA Today
5-17-17
Less than four months into Donald Trump's presidency, members of Congress are tossing around the word "impeachment."
Source: The New Yorker
5-17-17
by David Remnick
Given Donald Trump’s long record of deception, James Comey’s memos are far more likely to bury the President than to exonerate him.
