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 Atlantic
5-9-17
A Nixon biographer on two big differences between 1973 and 2017.
Source: NYT
5-9-17
Not since Watergate has a president dismissed the person leading an investigation bearing on him, and the dismissal drew instant comparisons to the Saturday Night Massacre.
Source: AHA
5-9-17 (accessed)
by Andrew K. Koch
Race, family income levels, gender, and status as a first-generation college student are the best predictors of who will or will not succeed.
Source: The Washington Post
4-9-17
Homo naledi, a strange new species of human cousin found in South Africa two years ago, was unlike anything scientists had ever seen.
Source: Harvard Gazette
5-9-17
Centennial exhibit includes earliest known recording of future president’s voice.
Source: Huffington Post
5-8-17
In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.
Source: National Coalition for History
5-4-17
On May 4, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that will fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2017.
Source: NY Daily News
5-8-17
“When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it’s a bad thing,” Rice said.
Source: The Washington Post
5-8-17
More whites — and fewer blacks — actually voted.
Source: NYT
5-7-17
About 260 feet tall and topped by a cross, the Xingsha Church is bigger even than the biggest statue of Mao Zedong in China, less than 10 miles west of here.
Source: NPR
5-7-17
In the northwestern German city of Hanover, 50,0000 people have been evacuated from their homes while experts defused three British bombs dropped during World War II.
Source: The Atlantic
4-26-17
A new report identifies some 1,500 memorials to the Civil War’s losing cause, from schools to state holidays, ranging from the Deep South to the Pacific Northwest.
Source: fedscoop
5-3-17
Instead of building a presidential library for Barack Obama, the 44th president’s foundation will help fund a more-accessible digital archive of his records. This is the new model.
Source: New York Magazine
5-5-17
The answer has to do with our high levels of immigration.
Source: CBS News
5-7-17
Ben Ferencz was 29 when he led the prosecution of the Nazis behind Einsatzgruppen – anti-Semitic death squads which murdered more than a million people by shooting them.
Source: This American Life
4-28-17
Buchanan says he’s delighted even though he hasn’t gotten the credit.
Source: NPR
5-5-17
Twenty-five years ago, the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified nearly two centuries after it was written – thanks to the determination of a college student.
Source: The Conversation
4-30-17
by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
A new book by historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez reveals that for most of American history immigrants could enter the United States without official permission and not fear criminal prosecution by the federal government. That changed in 1929.
Source: The New Yorker
5-5-17
Is it an illness?
Source: NYT
5-7-17
The city has already taken down one monument, but crane companies in the region are receiving threats over the removal of three others.
