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 Chronicle of Higher Education
4-12-17
In the 1930s students protested an appearance of Mussolini. (The college president was burned in effigy.)
Source: The Washington Post
4-11-17
Over the years, historians (armchair and scholarly) and psychologists have speculated that maybe Hitler didn’t use sarin because he was a victim of a mustard gas attack in 1918, during World War I, and knew the misery of such weapons.
Source: NBC4
4-11-17
The two-room "slave cabin" in the African-American history museum was home to a family of 11.
Source: The New Yorker
4-11-17
It took less than a hundred days for President Trump to discover that the Assad dynasty may be his nemesis, too.
Source: Bloomberg
4-10-17
Paul Krugman was right.
Source: NYT
4-10-17
It appears now that they could be the only people to answer in court for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 in one of the worst episodes of mass killing in the last century.
Source: Caribbean Life News
4-11-17
The government of Jamaica took responsibility for a single incident that blamed the island’s total Rastafarian population for the death of eight individuals in a farming community 10 miles east of the second city of Montego Bay 54 years ago.
Source: The Hill
4-11-17
Later in the briefing, Spicer walked back his remarks when a reporter challenged him to explain, saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons “in the same way” as Assad.
Source: The Washington Post
4-10-17
This type of media-induced policy shift is not new, and past experiences may illuminate potential outcomes and dangers for today.
Source: Haaretz
4-10-17
Some 1 million papers show what the U.S. knew, or didn't know, about Israeli leaders' health, IDF maneuvers and Moshe Dayan's celebrity status.
Source: The Telegraph
by Jacob Furedi
Just last month, Google hired a team of 10,000 contractors to trawl through the internet and flag up incorrect accounts of the Holocaust.
Source: CNN
4-10-17
Le Pen suggested France was not responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews who were sent to Nazi death camps.
Source: AHA Today
4-5-17
by Dane Kennedy
Sponsored by the National History Center, the purpose of the briefing was to give historical context to current tensions between the United States and China, with a particular focus on Chinese aims and anxieties.
Source: Yale News
4-7-17
At a ceremony historian Paul Kennedy noted that a grand total of roughly 9,500 Yale graduates and students served in the war, including in the Red Cross, YMCA, and other non-governmental bodies.
Source: NYT
4-8-17
The book, “The Fourth Turning,” a 1997 work by two amateur historians, Neil Howe and William Strauss, lays out a theory that American history unfurls in predictable, 80-year cycles of prosperity and catastrophe. And it foresees catastrophe right around the corner.
Source: Point of Beginning (POB)
12-16-16
It’s an initiative of ASOR Cultural Heritage – a collaborative effort to respond to the destruction of cultural heritage in Syria and northern Iraq.
Source: NYT
4-7-17
The strike raises two sets of legal issues.
Source: The Daily Beast
4-8-17
In the run-up to WWII, British intelligence unleashed an astrologer on an unsuspecting American public to sway public opinion on the war. He was a persuasive fake.
Source: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
4-8-17
For the past 10 years, figuring out how to unfurl the drama of the American Revolution has been the task of R. Scott Stephenson. As vice president of exhibitions, collections and programming, he has examined 3,000 artifacts, many from the Valley Forge Historical Society.
Source: New Historian
4-7-17
Constructed during the sixteenth century by Ivan the Terrible’s mother, Elena Glinskaya, the room was designed specifically to allow the Russians to spy on an enemy by eavesdropping through a wall.
