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 Los Angeles Times
3-16-17
It began in 1965 as part of the Great Society.
Source: Forward
3-16-17
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II.
Source: The Washington Post
3-15-17
Presidents receive a salary because the Constitution requires it. It's required so the president never has to face a choice of public duty or private interest. At least, that's the theory.
Source: AHA Today
3-16-17
"Because so much is at stake, the AHA asks our members to contact their representatives in Congress as soon as possible to register strong objections to the massive cuts to programs essential to the cultivation of our national heritage and civic culture."
Source: The Tennessean
3-15-17
Jackson's populist politics have resonated with Trump. Upon moving into the White House last month, the new president hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office.
Source: The Guardian
3-15-17
Benoît Loeuillet, head of FN in Nice, secretly filmed saying ‘there weren’t mass deaths as we’ve been told.’
Source: NYT
3-15-17
It was the first time a president has called for ending the endowments, which were created in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Source: Philly.com
3-14-17
The union that represents the employees at Independence National Historical Park says the president’s hiring freeze on most federal jobs has forced the closure of several historic buildings and exhibits across the park.
Source: The Conversation
3-14-17
by Eric Lohr
Americans are shocked Russia meddled in our election. But there's centuries of precedent – and, at times, it’s been the U.S. meddling.
Source: The Daily Beast
3-14-17
Steve Bannon the college senior was a well-liked liberal history buff who adored Arnold Toynbee.
Source: Newsweek
3-14-17
The skull bears a mixture of traits—some link it to the Neanderthals, such as a fused brow ridge, while other features are representative of other extinct fossils in Europe, according to the journal Science.
Source: Politico
3-12-17
The South couldn’t stop the rumors. Can we?
Source: NYT
3-14-17
People with prominent collections and unsettled consciences have stepped forward to investigate what they own.
Source: The Chicago Tribune
3-13-17
Prosecutors have asked a court in Lublin to issue an arrest warrant for Michael Karkoc.
Source: Haaretz
3-13-17
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reportedly extended the invitation at a meeting with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Jerusalem last week.
Source: Tablet
3-14-17
by James Kirchick
The book is "The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age." The author is James Kirchick, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
3-1-17
Some Minneapolis Park Board members think it’s worth revisiting discussion of the name of Lake Calhoun, also known by the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska, in light of Yale University’s decision to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from a residential college.
Source: New Historian
3-12-17
The mysterious disappearance of the Clovis people could be explained by an asteroid impacting the earth thousands of years ago, according to a newly published study.
Source: YouTube
3-10-17
Thousands of artifacts had been safely removed before ISIS took over.
Source: NYT
3-13-17
The story of one of the slaves sold to help keep Georgetown afloat. (And we have his picture.)
