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: Slate
June 29, 2016
DNA testing cannot definitively prove whether a person is Cherokee. Or a member of any community, at least not reliably.
Source: The College Fix
June 29, 2016
More websites (like the College Fix) are relating the complaints of the right-of-center National Association of Scholars.
Source: WHNT
June 29, 2016
"The Berlin Wall fell because of the success of the Pershing II."
Source: WSJ
June 29, 2016
A new report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni found that just 23 of the institutions among the 76 deemed to be the “best” by U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 rankings require history majors to take at least one U.S. history course.
Source: New Historian
June 29, 2016
A World War II-era internment camp near Heart Mountain, Wyoming, is under excavation by archaeologists keen to understand the everyday lives of the Japanese-Americans incarcerated there.
Source: Time Magazine
June 24, 2016
The history of the referendum goes all the way back to Roman times, but their rise to common usage has more to do with the 1980s.
Source: Forward
June 27, 2016
An internet tool singles out extreme right-wingers online — and Donald Trump — by putting swastikas around their names, mirroring an earlier application that neo-Nazis used to identify Jews online.
Source: The Washington Post
June 26, 2016
President Obama’s designation on Friday of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village as a national monument comes amid a push across the country to write lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the nation’s collective history, an effort that has been quietly underway for years.
Source: The Guardian
June 23, 2016
Shakespeare jumps to third in magazine list, Alexander Hamilton is highest new entry while Turing and Cleopatra drop out.
Source: History
June 24, 2016
Though undoubtedly a historic decision, Brexit is also only the latest development in the conflicted relationship between the UK and the EU that has played out over the past 50 years.
Source: NYT
June 24, 2016
Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again on Friday during his first visit to Armenia when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre.
Source: NYT
June 25, 2016
It has been almost 70 years since Britain exited India.
Source: The Blaze
June 24, 2016
“I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country, the richness and the diversity and uniquely American spirit that has always defined us — that we are stronger together, that out of many, we are one,” Obama said.
June 25, 2016
by HNN Staff
Simon Schama, Timothy Garton Ash, Andrew Roberts, and other historians comment on Brexit.
Source: Politico
June 23, 2016
A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.
Source: Buzzfeed
June 22, 2016
Scandalous details from Gary Byrne’s upcoming book about his time working in the Clinton White House don’t match what he told investigators from Kenneth Starr’s office in 1998.
Source: National Security Archive
June 23, 2016
British Plans Envisioned Using Nuclear Weapons as an Option in Iran and Iraq, According to Declassified Documents
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
June 15, 2016
The bare statistics are as follows: From 10.57 p.m. to 2.36 a.m. on the night of April 13-14, 327 B-29s dropped a total of 2,120 tons of incendiary and high-explosive bombs on Tokyo, burning out a total area of 11.4 square miles, destroying 170,546 buildings, leaving 2,459 people dead and 640,932 homeless.
Source: The Washington Post
June 22, 2016
Alarm bells went off in Ronald Reagan’s White House in the fall of 1987 when Donald Trump announced that he was considering a request to headline the biggest annual fundraiser for congressional Democrats.
June 22, 2016
GOP representative Steve King had objected that Tubman is a divisive figure and wanted to block her from $10 bill. GOP stopped him.
