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: NYT
3-24-16
The United States “has to examine its own policies as well, and its own past,” the president said at a memorial to victims of the war in 1970s and ’80s.
Source: Eureka Alert (Press Release)
3-20-16
Economically more backward countries are more likely to experience both violent and non-violent civil unrest, according to research by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Source: The Root
3-22-16
John Ehrlichman, an integral part of the Nixon White House, reportedly referred to the anti-war left and blacks as enemies of the Nixon regime, and outlined a method by which it “could disrupt those communities.”
Source: The Roanoke Times
3-22-16
Among the protesters’ jeers were accusations that those supporting the removal of the monument are “communists” and members of the “Taliban.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-23-16
Across the country, and the South especially, colleges and universities are coming to terms with their historical ties to the Confederacy, and how those ties are honored through monuments, statues, and building names.
Source: Independent
3-21-16
The Democrat compared the ‘dark chapters of history' of World War II to her rival's racist rhetoric.
Source: Hyperallergic
3-21-16
A team of digital surveyors is working to create the world’s largest 3D database of archaeological sites in Syria, focusing on those at risk of destruction.
Source: Time Magazine
3-20-16
Something similar happened before.
Source: Think Progress
3-21-16
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s controversial decision to declare April Confederate Heritage Month is giving teachers an opportunity to tell the truth about the Confederacy, but do students want to hear it?
Source: Smithsonian
3-18-16
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a ruling that made the poll tax unconstitutional
With regime troops and their allies now within striking distance of the city itself, the Russians are softening up the minions of the phony caliphate from the air.
Source: NYT
3-19-16
If this were anything like a normal year, the Republicans would be favored to take the White House. That, at least, is what Ray Fair’s economic model has been saying consistently since November 2014.
Source: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
3-14-16
In a new paper by Harvard researchers the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s are the reason unions are concentrated in a small number of states.
Source: Cornell Chronicle
3-18-16
The project at Cornell aims to compile all North American runaway slave advertisements, never before systematically collected, into a collaborative database.
Source: NYT
3-17-16
Radar scans of King Tutankhamun's burial chamber have revealed two hidden rooms, a tantalizing discovery that could resolve a mystery as old as the pyramids: What was the fate of Egypt's beautiful Queen Nefertiti?
Source: The Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table (special to HNN)
3-17-16
by David W. Jacobs
He barely is acknowledged in the play, "Hamilton."
Source: NYT
3-17-16
Obama’s visiting Argentina during the 40th anniversary of the coup that led to the dirty war.
Source: The New Republic
3-16-16
The Maadana seal was believed to date to the era of the First Temple in Jerusalem. Objects like this lent credence to Israeli claims to the Holy Land.
Source: FOX News
3-16-16
A historian in the U.K. has discovered secret notes hidden in the text of England’s first printed bible.
Source: NYT
3-15-16
There were fistfights and major influence by the Ku Klux Klan during the party’s convention at Madison Square Garden, an existential battle over the meaning of America.
