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: NYT
3-30-17
Onita Estes-Hicks learned that Jesuits who once ran Georgetown University sold some of her ancestors. She is now enrolled in a social justice program aimed at helping her make sense of it all.
Source: Tablet Magazine
3-30-17
The Marxist philosopher’s views do not apparently sync with those of Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government.
Source: Time Magazine
3-24-17
Here's the history you should know.
Source: NYT
3-30-17
The 150th anniversary of Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States was a day of mourning for some hard-right Russian nationalists who see the transaction as a gigantic blunder by the ailing czarist empire.
Source: Tablet Magazine
3-29-17
Tiyul-Rihla, a grassroots educational initiative, is bringing together historically clashing neighbors
Source: The Daily Beast
3-29-17
Reichsbürger conspiracists have made it their mission to “reactivate” the German Reich with the borders it had before World War II.
Source: Shmoop
3-30-17 (accessed)
Between 8 March and 16 June, in what later became known as the "First Hundred Days," Congress followed Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills.
Source: AmeriForce
3-29-17
His tweet celebrated the veterans, who President Obama had said were often blamed for the war.
Source: The New Yorker
3-28-17
Could Ronald Reagan’s 1982 meeting with Tip O’Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House, provide inspiration for Donald Trump following the demise of the House Republican health-care bill?
Source: Politico
3-29-17
‘It’s sort of frightening,’ one presidential historian says about the president’s shallow interest in his predecessors.
Source: NYT
3-29-17
The collection includes 26 letters from Susan B. Anthony, 10 from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and dozens from other suffragists.
Source: The Conversation
3-27-17
It turns out, both critics and supporters of the new membership policies can claim ownership of Boy Scout heritage.
Source: New Historian
3-27-17
Whether one believes we live in the Anthropocene or not, mankind has undoubtedly left a dramatic mark on the delicate ecosystems and environment of the planet.
Source: CBS News
3-28-17
Letters between former first lady Jackie Kennedy and Ormsby Gore, the former British ambassador to Washington, wrote love letters to each other after each was widowed, and before Kennedy decided to marry Aristotle Onassis.
Source: VOA
3-26-17
The underground Crossrail project to connect Heathrow airport to the financial district has unearthed over 10,000 artifacts.
Source: Gant News
3-27-17
Some are calling it ‘A slap in the face of history’
Source: The Root
3-25-17
“Now I work here—to realize that this is my history, this is my story, blows me away,” said Alexander, an executive assistant in Georgetown’s office of technology commercialization. “I have been really emotional as I learned about my ties to the university.”
Source: NYT
3-24-17
Sixty years after the treaty that led to its founding, the European Union is under fundamental stress — divided and divergent, anxious that it no longer represents the future but the past, and that it may be incapable of handling the serious challenges of this already-turbulent century.
Source: PSYBLOG
3-24-17 (accessed)
What would you do if repeatedly ordered to give a strong electric shock to a helpless stranger?
Source: NYT
3-24-17
by Gregory Cowles
The book is by military historian Nicholas Reynolds, who decided to investigate Hemingway’s past after curating an exhibit on the CIA.
