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 Conversation
4-18-17
At its height in the 1930s, the French empire encompassed some 60 million colonial subjects, from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia.
Source: CBS News
4-19-17
Documents showing that Adolf Hitler had been indicted as a war criminal for actions by the Nazis during World War II before his death - contrary to longstanding assumptions.
Source: The Washington Post
4-19-17
After 68 years, and several previous failed attempts, the state of Florida has finally found the words that justice had been waiting on all this time: “We’re truly sorry.”
Source: Crosscut
4-19-17
Secession is in the air on the West Coast.
Source: CBS News
4-18-17
They’re called Information Wanted ads. They were written by newly freed slaves looking for lost family members who were sold or ran away.
Source: PRI
4-29-17
Slaves in the US famously took the underground railroad north into free states and Canada, but a similar path existed to the south into Mexico.
Source: The Washington Post
4-18-17
by Verlan Lewis
The pattern goes back at least to 1900.
Source: NYT
4-18-17
President Trump has demonstrated that while he won office on a populist message, he has not consistently governed that way in the nearly 100 days in the White House.
Source: The Conversation
4-17-17
A team of medievalists and scientists look back to history – including a 1,000-year-old eyesalve recipe – for clues to new antibiotics.
Source: Independent
4-18-17
Archive shows Adolf Hitler was indicted for war crimes in 1944.
Source: The Daily Beast
4-17-17
In a crowded Republican field in South Carolina, Sheri Few stands out for all the wrong reasons.
Source: NYT
4-18-17
“Judging by the current situation, North Korea is China’s latent enemy and South Korea could be China’s friend,” says China’s best-known historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua.
Source: The Washington Post
4-18-17
About 100 men and women whose ancestors were once sold as slaves to fund the nascent Georgetown University gathered at that university Tuesday for an emotional worship service of remembrance and repentance.
Source: The Washington Post
4-11-17
Jackson, who would become the country’s seventh commander in chief in 1829, promised anyone who captured this “Mulatto Man Slave” a reward of $50, plus “reasonable” expenses paid.
Source: LA Daily News
4-10-17
The Rodney King verdict touched off days of rioting, looting and violence that left more than 55 people dead.
Source: NYT
4-13-17
Frédéric Chatillon and Axel Loustau are well-known former members of a violent, far-right student union that fought pitched battles with leftists and took a turn toward Hitler nostalgia in the mid-1990s.
Source: Newsweek
4-14-17
Former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley's rise and fall is hardly unique in American politics, where abuse of power, misuse of government funds and, of course, sex scandals are as common as flag pins on lapels.
Source: The Boston Globe
4-13-17
In a news conference and a pair of interviews, President Trump gave skewed accounts of US relations over time with Russia, and of health care under his watch.
Source: The News & Observer
4-12-17
Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Source: National Security Archive at GW
4-12-17
The Ford administration had to use a combination of approaches to keep South Korea’s Park dictatorship from going forward with a suspected nuclear weapons program in the mid-1970s.
