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: Yale Daily News
4-26-16
A decision from administrators is expected soon.
Source: NYT Newsletter
4-26-16
Former President Harry Truman resigned as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, calling the event “a prearranged affair,” fixed to give the nomination to John F. Kennedy.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
4-21-16
Most were put in place during the early decades of Jim Crow or in reaction to the civil rights movement.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
4-24-16
“Today, we are all Armenian,” said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) as he addressed the crowd from the stage. “We have one cause and that cause is justice.”
Source: New Historian
4-24-16
Disappointed when Woodrow Wilson didn’t name him to a vacancy on the Supreme Court, he lashed out at Louis Brandeis, who got the seat.
Source: NYT
4-23-16
A critical, deadly episode in the quest for independence remains divisive 100 years on. Some see undemocratic treachery; others, heroism.
Source: The Commercial Appeal
4-22-16
Everywhere you go you see Confederate flags.
Source: Time Magazine
4-21-16
There’s a long tradition, although it hasn’t happened since 1952.
Source: New Historian
4-22-16
An excavation on the site of Malcolm X’s boyhood Boston-area home has yielded historical links not to the civil rights activist’s past, but to older periods of history – which could include the Colonial era.
Source: NYT
4-22-16
Historians suggest this could be an election like 1964 or 1968.
Source: The Washington Post
4-20-16
The antebellum abolitionist who supported John Brown and criticized Lincoln for his incrementalist approach to abolishing slavery, or the post-war figure of legend who was the subject of sentimental biographies?
Source: NYT
4-24-16
Donald J. Trump is reviving memories of someone who stirred local passions like few others: Frank L. Rizzo of Philadelphia.
Source: NYT
4-25-16
Intense coverage of the five-day Irish rebellion, whose centennial is this week, reflected in part the growing clout of Irish America, historians say.
Source: Daily Reflector
4-24-16
Poland's conservative government is taking steps that threaten the fate of an ambitious new museum devoted to World War II that some of the world's most esteemed war historians have worked for years to create.
Source: Time Magazine
4-23-16
Experts say it's too early for general election polls to be meaningful.
Source: Huffington Post
4-21-16
Governments could be receiving an extra $167 billion annually if corporations paid Reagan-era tax rates.
Source: Business Insider
4-21-16
In 1939, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of a massive 3-mile-long row of buildings, destined to be an enormous beach resort for Nazi Germany. It was abandoned three years later, when World War II broke out.
Source: New Historian
4-20-16
The findings reopen a longstanding debate about the debts that former imperial powers owe to the countries they once occupied, and whether they should be repaid.
Source: National Security Archive
4-21-16
He worried that Israel’s nuclear program was a potentially serious proliferation risk and insisted that Israel permit periodic inspections to mitigate the danger.
Source: Atlas Obscura
4-19-16
When scholar Sheldon Gosline found what he theorized was Persian script in a remote village in southern China, he thought it was evidence of a lost civilization. But archaeologists and historians have their doubts.
