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: RT
2-26-17
The game warns of the creeping danger of fascism.
Source: The National Interest
2-26-17
Historian Andrew Bacevich says it should be kept in place, but Europeans should pay for it.
Source: The New Yorker
2-27-17 (accessed)
What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
Source: NYT
2-24-17
But Im Chaem, the woman enjoying this apparently idyllic retirement, is accused of overseeing the killing of tens of thousands of people as a Khmer Rouge official in northwestern Cambodia in 1977 and 1978.
Source: NYT
2-25-17
There may be good reasons to worry about Mr. Bannon, but they are not the ones everyone is giving.
Source: Newsweek
2-26-17
by William Pomeranz
Putin has already chosen what he needs from the Soviet past: great power status, control of the commanding heights of the economy, victory in World War II and national stability.
Source: NYT
2-26-17
It is difficult to know if President Trump is aware of the historic resonance of the term, a label generally associated with despotic communist governments rather than democracies.
Source: History channel
2-22-17
After Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico in 1519, one of the worst epidemics in human history tore through the once-mighty Aztec civilization.
Source: Newsweek
2-21-17
What had started as a chance meeting in a quiet museum would soon become a vital partnership—spanning oceans and war zones—to preserve ancient history before it vanishes.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
2-23-17
The appeal came in the form of a letter penned by Yad Vashem’s director of the libraries, Dr. Robert Rozett, to the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.
Source: Smithsonian
2-21-17
And the museum’s dwell time, the length of time a visitor stays in a museum, is unparalleled—averaging six hours or more on weekends compared to 75 minutes to two hours for most museums.
Source: NYT
2-21-17
What criteria should we use when ranking presidents?
Source: Roll Call
2-22-17
She’s the new Librarian of Congress.
Source: WBRZ
2-20-17
Instead of writing about events in February in support of equality for all races, a white student wrote she was “unpleased” with having to write such a paper and continued not everyone is created equal.
Source: The Conversation
2-21-17
Activists today are racing to save climate records from the Trump administration. Secret archives were a powerful way to fight hostile political climates throughout history – from the Nazis to the Islamic State.
Source: The Washington Post
2-21-17
First lady Melania Trump and Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, toured the museum last week.
Source: Washingtonian
2-6-17
Barbara Feinman Todd's new memoir says the famous journalist reported out a story about Clinton talking to Eleanor Roosevelt that she told him in confidence. Woodward says that's not correct.
Source: The Washington Post
2-19-17
A $35 million restoration project will bolster Monticello’s infrastructure but also reconstruct and showcase buildings where enslaved people lived and worked.
Source: NYT
2-20-17
A digital sleuth has discovered an anonymously published 1852 serial novel by the poet, which survived in only a single copy of an obscure newspaper.
Source: NBC News
2-20-17
"I'm not giving up," said Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) who hosted a Capitol Hill briefing recently that drew activists, legal experts, scholars, politicos and community leaders from across the country.
