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: Time
3-8-17
TIME takes a look back at 50 influential women — specifically, women who ran for, were appointed to or married into a role in the U.S. government — who have helped define the history of American civic life.
Source: The Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table
3-13-17
Millions are being spent on Hamilton artifacts.
Source: The Telegraph
3-10-17
The quartzite statue was found broken into several pieces in the Matariyyah neighborhood of Cairo by a German-Egyptian archaeological team.
Source: Al Jazeera
3-9-17
Iraqi archaeologists say ISIL looted the museum before destroying it, but many artefacts were stored safely elsewhere.
Source: Press Release – National Park Service
3-9-17
“National parks reflect the stories of woman who were pioneers, innovators, and leaders; and we take our responsibility to preserve and share these stories with visitors today and future generations very seriously.”
Source: Time Magazine
3-8-17
The family of former Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney has offered a public apology to the descendants of Dred Scott on the 160th anniversary of the landmark decision.
Source: Think Progress
3-9-17
The administration’s trying to create a new reality through racist policies and dangerous rhetoric, say scholars.
Source: History channel
3-6-17
Wednesday’s women’s strike traces its roots to a socialist protest in 1907, but historians say the event that was said to have inspired the 1907 protest was manufactured.
Source: Huffington Post
3-7-17
“I think it’s very important to actually say that word, to acknowledge that something was done in these institutions.”
Source: The Washington Post
3-7-17
The list of administration members who need to hit the history books includes: Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Sean Spicer, and Mike Pence.
Source: VOA
3-7-17
Despite the significant anniversary, Russian authorities have been cautious about how to observe it, apparently fearful of inciting divisions, especially in the wake of a revolution in neighboring Ukraine.
Source: Forward
3-6-17
Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this week under the title: “Holocaust in Ukraine – New Perspectives on the Evils of the 20th Century.”
Source: NYT
3-5-17
To carry out mass deportations, thousands of new immigration and customs agents would be hired, and local police officers and sheriff’s deputies would be recruited. To do that, the president would need the cooperation of state, county and city officials. What if he does not get it?
Source: CNN
3-6-17
"The place was infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll of Soviet military intelligence or fellow-travelers who were kind of compliant in helping these guys get along." – Steve Bannon, in an interview with Diane West, rightwing author of ""American Betrayal."
Source: The Atlantic
3-6-17
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again?
Source: The Hill
3-6-17
“That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.”
Source: NYT
3-5-17
Harvard hosts a conference examining a long-neglected topic that has suddenly become urgent.
Source: USA Today
3-4-17
These leaders — Black, Latina, Asian, Arab, Native American — in varied fields, broke both gender and racial barriers as they made history.
Source: Independent
3-4-17
Donald Trump has been criticised by veterans for donning a military style bomber jacket and cap while visiting a Navy ship, despite receiving five deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam.
Source: Huffington Post
3-4-17
“The Camp of the Saints” tells a grotesque tale about a migrant invasion to destroy Western civilization.
