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: ABC News
August 1, 2015
The 2016 Republican primary is on course to become the most crowded in modern presidential history.
August 2, 2015
by HNN Editor
Two new books are drawing attention.
Source: National Security Archive
July 31, 2015
The crime was covered up for decades. A document shows what really happened.
Source: NYT
July 29, 2015
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s raucous hip-hop musical, “Hamilton,” sprang from an unlikely source: a dense, 818-page biography of Alexander Hamilton by the historian Ron Chernow.
Source: Time Magazine
July 31, 2015
The list includes Bill Gates and somebody you never heard of: Mansa Musa.
Source: WSJ
July 30, 2015
In a statement, Ohio State said the songbook reflected the sort of “shocking behavior” that the school is “committed to eradicating from its marching band program.”
Source: The Weekly Standard
July 29, 2015
Tennessee law specifically prohibits the renaming of Confederate memorials on public property.
July 31, 2015
by HNN Editor
But is it still needed? Maybe, argue some.
Source: The Washington Post
July 30, 2015
SMU’s Thomas J. Knock says McGovern confirmed the story 15 years ago as he was preparing to do research into the presidential candidate’s biography.
Source: Newsweek
July 29, 2015
The revision is being released after significant pushback from conservatives who claimed the redesigned course framework, released last year, painted American history in too negative a light.
Source: The Washington Post
July 29, 2015
Voters in Jefferson County, Colo., are petitioning to recall three conservative members of the local school board who caused a national stir last fall after criticizing the Advanced Placement U.S. History course for being insufficiently patriotic.
Source: NYT
July 29, 2015
If an entirely new airport emerges in the coming years, will its 1939 name still be relevant?
Source: NYT
July 29, 2015
A largely Republican countermovement of ideologues and partisan operatives who, from the moment the Voting Rights Act became law, methodically set out to undercut or dismantle its most important requirements.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 30, No. 1
July 27, 2015
by Akiko Hashimoto
A scholarly review shows that these often-neglected sources of knowledge reflect a strong pacifist take on Japanese war crimes.
Source: Vanity Fair
July 28, 2015
Women have, throughout history, been secondary—often recorded (if at all) as complementary, or as muse to man’s genius. But now, as modern societies are re-appraising the value of women, so too are books evolving to match.
Source: US News
July 27, 2015
Rubio told reporters that "decades and decades of discriminatory practices" have yielded a lack of economic opportunity for many minorities and sour relationships between law enforcement and minority communities, particularly African-Americans.
Source: CNN
July 27, 2015
It was in 1970 and Palestinian radicals had hijacked three planes headed to the US. Out of the ordeal came the US policy never to negotiate with terrorists, a policy Nixon came up with on the spot.
Source: New York Magazine
July 26, 2015
Hired by ABC to provide lively commentary on the presidential conventions, their ripostes nearly ended in fisticuffs.
Source: NYT
July 28, 2015
A team of researchers announced on Tuesday that they had unearthed and identified four men, some of European America’s earliest leaders, who died in colonial Jamestown from 1608 to 1610.
Source: The Washington Post
July 28, 2015
The Public Scholar program, a major new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience.
