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: CNN
February 20, 2017
Hitler's phone, which was originally black, was painted red and engraved with his name and a swastika.
Source: NYT
February 20, 2017
Ford constructed an American-style town, which he wanted inhabited by Brazilians hewing to what he considered American values. He was after a reliable source of rubber.
Source: Vox
February 18, 2017
The key insight? Humans took over the world by cooperating with one another.
Source: New Historian
February 19, 2017
A new study has applied the remarkable insights it can offer to shed light on the enduring mystery surrounding the history of migration and settlement of the Americas.
Source: The New York Post
February 19, 2017
The Obama Center is due to be so expensive because it will require the construction of both a presidential library and a museum about the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama.
Source: The Brookings Institution
February 13, 2017
1. What is “Big Government?”
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
February 17, 2017
The main banner featured a picture of the collaborationist Kazys Skirpa modified to resemble Pepe the Frog, symbol of the Alt-Right movement in the US.
Source: The Washington Post
February 17, 2017
Dwight Eisenhower moved into the top five for the first time, moving up from No. 8 in 2009 and No. 9 in 2000.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
February 15, 2017
A newly rediscovered essay by the famed British prime minister written on the eve of World War II discussed the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
February 15, 2017
Austrian police say they detained the man after witnesses reported seeing him repeatedly in front of the home where Adolf Hitler was born.
Source: Fox News
February 15, 2017
Dubbed “the first Oval Office,” the canvas tent will be the cornerstone of the Philadelphia-based Museum’s collection of approximately 3,000 Revolutionary War-era artifacts.
Source: Political Wire
February 16, 2017
Famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein told CNN the Trump administration is trying to cover up its ties to Russia.
Source: Newsweek
February 15, 2017
At the start of World War II, the U.S. opened 10 camps that interned 120,000 people, including the most famous one, Manzanar, in Northern California.
Source: The Conversation
February 14, 2017
by Shontavia Johnson
America's always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them.
Source: The Root
February 14, 2017
"How many more slaves are needed in the cotton fields?"
Source: Pacific Daily News
February 13, 2017
The money will reward Guam residents for standing by the US during the Japanese occupation of World War 2.
Source: The Washington Post
February 14, 2017
by Richard A. Moss
Back-channel contacts between Washington and Moscow are hardly unprecedented, but Trump's were a disorganized mess.
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
February 13, 2017
Amazon has removed books that deny the Holocaust from online stores in countries where Holocaust denial is illegal, but they remain available in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Source: Time Magazine
February 8, 2017
That's not to say that nobody has ever come close.
Source: NYT
February 10, 2017
Julius Evola was a darling of Italian Fascists and has caught on in the far-right circles Stephen K. Bannon nurtured at Breitbart News and harnessed for President Trump.