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
5-6-16
The surprising answer? It’s in Turkey.
Source: The Washington Post
5-8-16
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
5-9-16
There are a lot of things that Trump gets wrong about NAFTA, including its basic history.
Source: Time Magazine
5-10-16 (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
5-4-16
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
5-5-16
The long-missing manuscript for Federalist No. 2 has been located at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Source: WQAD
5-5-16
Even if you strip out history subreddits, there’s really no avoiding Hitler on Reddit.
Source: The Washington Post
5-10-16
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
5-9-16
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
5-9-16
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Friday released new photos of the president responding to the 9/11 attacks.
Source: Mondoweiss
5-7-16
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
5-5-16
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
5-4-16 (accessed)
Is treasure buried beneath the mountains of Poland?
Source: The Washington Post
5-5-16
The entire drama of human history is encoded in our DNA.
Source: The Conversation
5-4-16
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
5-2-16
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
5-3-16
Thousands came out to watch as he was castrated, fingers cut off, lynched and burned.
Source: Tulsa World
5-5-16
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
5-3-16
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
5-4-16
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.
