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: Quartz
11-28-16
Abraham Lincoln was more than just a foe of slavery. He was also a mixed-race eugenicist, believing that the intermarriage of blacks and whites would yield an American super-race. Or at least, that’s what newspapers in 1864 would have had you believe.
Source: Los Angeles Times
11-29-16
Navy Fireman 3rd Class Edwin Hopkins died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was buried as an unknown serviceman in Hawaii until his body was recently identified in a DNA test.
Source: NYT
11-28-16
The South Korean government indicated on Monday that it was rolling back its plan to require schools to use only state-issued history textbooks, an apparent shift for a signature project of President Park Geun-hye as she faces a corruption scandal and an escalating public backlash.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
11-28-16
Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, has been touting her boss’s margin of victory in the Electoral College. But in a historical context, Trump’s Electoral College performance is decidedly below-average.
Source: The Guardian
11-24-16
The ancient Assyrian city of Kalhu fascinated tourists until extremists set about erasing it because it pre-dates Islam
Source: Constitution Daily
11-22-16
President-elect Donald J. Trump might have some unique decisions to make about how his business assets are managed as he serves in the White House, thanks to an obscure constitutional clause.
Source: The New Yorker
11-27-16
“No one was more at risk of experiencing violence and targeted racial terror than black veterans.”
Source: International Business Times
11-28-16
Germany announced Saturday it is launching a probe into Nazi influence on its post-war central government at the cost of 4 million euros ($4.2 million). The investigation will run till 2020.
Source: Washington Monthly
11-23-16
In all but four previous elections, the popular vote winner also won the electoral college.
Source: Haaretz
11-23-16
'It seems as if the Poles wrote the statement and gave it to the Israeli government to sign,' says one critic.
Source: NYT
11-26-16
Researchers say they have figured out a piece of the puzzle of why a 2.3 million-gallon spill of molasses from a storage tank in Boston was so deadly, killing 21 people and destroying buildings.
Source: The Guardian
Friedrich Trump, a German, was issued with the document in February 1905, and ordered to leave the kingdom of Bavaria within eight weeks as punishment for having failed to do mandatory military service and failing to give authorities notice of his departure to the US when he first emigrated in 1885.
Source: Daily Beast
12-27-16
by James Kirchick
In the eyes of Castro and his revolutionary comrade Che Guevara – who frequently referred to gay men as maricones, “faggots” – homosexuality was inherently counterrevolutionary.
Source: Sun Sentinel
11-26-16
"The most transformational event in the history of South Florida was the Castro takeover."
Source: National Security Archive
11-25-16
Declassified records recall official deception in the name of protecting a presidency.
Source: CBS
11-23-16
It will include a new visitor center built below the memorial in a spectacular cavernous space visitors never see.
Source: Yahad - In Unum (Press Release)
11-21-16
“For decades, the commonly taught misconception about the Holocaust was that it was contained within the walls of Nazi concentration camps. This couldn’t be more wrong.”
Source: Mic
11-20-16
"This is a constant as part of our democracy. In a sense, presidents are being shadowed. They're being watched," Dallek said. "This is the way the job works."
Source: New Jersey On-Line
11-18-16
Published in a book titled "Scarlet and Black," the detailed report shows how intertwined slavery is with the early history of Rutgers, a common theme among America's colonial colleges.
Source: Time Magazine
11-18-16
The so-called Bobby Kennedy Law may get in the way.
