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
1-31-17
It’s a word with a meaning that’s changed throughout history.
Source: The New Yorker
2-2-17
“I don’t know that Trump has historical awareness at all.” – Fitzhugh Brundage, the chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Source: NYT
2-2-17
President Trump’s first 10 days in the White House don’t seem as big a whirlwind after reading coverage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first 10.
Source: Politico
2-2-17
The State Department wrote a message that recognized Jewish victims, but the White House used its own that didn’t.
Source: Smithsonian
2-2-17
The executive order that forced Japanese-Americans from their homes also put immigrants from Italy under the watchful eye of the government.
Source: Yale Daily News
2-2-17
… if corporation trustees go along.
Source: Newsweek
2-2-17
The story is buoyed by legend, but scuttled by facts.
Source: The News & Observer
1-24-17
The proposal by the outgoing Obama administration has the backing of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
Source: NBC News
2-2-17
Essentially, it's supposed to stop leaders of houses of worship from using the pulpit to campaign for certain politicians. But doing away with the Johnson Amendment won't be so simple.
Source: KPRC
2-1-17
A student who witnessed the incident said students were shouting "Heil Hitler" and "Heil Trump."
Source: New York Post
2-1-17
A private Catholic high school in Ohio is discontinuing an “immersive” class lesson aimed at recreating the experience of slavery, complete with spiritual music and picking genuine raw cotton.
Source: NYT
2-1-17
Two decades ago, the state was facing the stresses of an ethnic and cultural shift, and it lashed out at diversity before embracing it.
Source: The Washington Post
2-1-17
About one-third of all Americans think that you have to be a Christian to truly be an American — despite the history of religious pluralism that dates back to the nation’s very earliest days.
Source: The Conversation
1-29-17
From the 19th century to 1965, the United States discriminated against various groups.
Source: Time Magazine
1-30-17
Here's where Donald Trump fits in.
Source: The Guardian
1-31-17
Comments at World Jewish Relief dinner seen by some as linked to Donald Trump’s ban on Syrian refugees entering US.
Source: The Atlantic
2-1-17
Marking Black History Month, the president made some strange observations about Douglass and Martin Luther King, but mostly talked about himself.
Source: NYT
1-31-17
A law that allows the Austrian government to seize the home, which could possibly be demolished, is challenged as unconstitutional.
Source: CNET
2-1-17
On the first day of February, Black History Month hits the top trending topic on Twitter.
Source: The Washington Post
2-1-17
Today there is an international consensus that conquest is not okay, but Trump seems to reject the prohibition on the spoils of war.
