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: The Conversation
May 6, 2016
The surprising answer? It’s in Turkey.
Source: The Washington Post
May 8, 2016
Ignoble history happened in America. And now we are wrestling with how to claim it, or reject it, by consigning Confederate statues to scrap.
Source: The Washington Post
May 9, 2016
There are a lot of things that Trump gets wrong about NAFTA, including its basic history.
Source: Time Magazine
May 10, 2016 (accessed)
More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust.
Source: NYT
May 4, 2016
Victors are said to write history. But in California, history is being written by a committee that is at the center of a raging debate over how to tell the story of South Asia.
Source: NYT
May 5, 2016
The long-missing manuscript for Federalist No. 2 has been located at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Source: WQAD
May 5, 2016
Even if you strip out history subreddits, there’s really no avoiding Hitler on Reddit.
Source: The Washington Post
May 10, 2016
In the first Gallup poll from 1945 just after the bombings, a huge 85 percent of Americans approved the bombings. However, figures from 2005 show a significant decline to 57 percent.
Source: Forward
May 9, 2016
A letter from former President William Howard Taft attacking the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court in thinly veiled anti-Semitic terms may be of historic value, but apparently not $15,000 worth.
Source: NBC News
May 9, 2016
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Friday released new photos of the president responding to the 9/11 attacks.
Source: Mondoweiss
May 7, 2016
High Israeli officials have lectured Europeans in recent days over their supposedly false understanding of Jewish history, especially as that history applies to the Israeli claim to have annexed Jerusalem.
Source: CBS News
May 5, 2016
A trove of Palmyra's smaller treasures were saved by dedicated archaeologists -- Syria's very own Monument men and women, led by Chief of Antiquities Maamoun Abdulkarim.
Source: The New Yorker
May 4, 2016 (accessed)
Is treasure buried beneath the mountains of Poland?
Source: The Washington Post
May 5, 2016
The entire drama of human history is encoded in our DNA.
Source: The Conversation
May 4, 2016
Precisely 100 years ago, in the midst of World War I, a family of Quakers in Cambridge set up a youth organization designed to offer outdoor coeducational experiences without the militarism and imperialism that they perceived in the Boy Scouts. They called the group the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry.
Source: Constitution Daily
May 2, 2016
While one-in-three Texans think that the state has the right to secede, a vast majority of those polled would chose to stay in the United States if they were voting on the issue.
Source: KXXV TV
May 3, 2016
Thousands came out to watch as he was castrated, fingers cut off, lynched and burned.
Source: Tulsa World
May 5, 2016
John Rogers, a prominent attorney who died in 1977, was a TU trustee for 40 years and the law school’s founding dean, but belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and another vigilante organization in the 1920s.
Source: NYT
May 3, 2016
The White House is considering the creation of a national monument to the gay rights movement on a small piece of Greenwich Village parkland across the street from the Stonewall Inn, where a 1969 uprising helped inspire the push for equality.
Source: The Guardian
May 4, 2016
Miao Deshun, who was 25 when he was jailed in 1989, has been in prison for almost three decades and has had no contact with outside world for years.
