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: Crosscut
February 2, 2018
It is 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis.
Source: Vox
2/1/18
“I can’t think of a single time any president has done anything like this.”
Source: ABC News
January 31, 2018
The state Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to install a statue of educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the spot where a statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith still stands.
Source: Political Wire
February 1, 2018
The president’s claim is not backed up by Nielsen’s numbers, which show Barack Obama at 48 million viewers in 2010, George W. Bush at 51.7 million in 202 and Bill Clinton at 45.8 million in 1994.
Source: The Washington Post
January 10, 2018
It’s where the GOP members of Congress were heading when their train crashed into a truck.
Source: Time Magazine
January 31, 2018
The Complicated History of African Americans in the Military
Source: the way of improvement leads home
1/31/18
by John Fea
Young people believe that Americans are more divided over politics than race or religion.
Source: NYT
January 30, 2018
A century ago, the war to end war came to an end. At the same time, Russia endured a vicious civil war, and the flu killed more people than all the battlefields of World War I.
Source: The Washington Post
January 28, 2018
Leaving mementos at the Wall has been a tradition since the polished stone memorial bearing the names of the 58,000 Vietnam War dead was dedicated in 1982.
Source: The Washington Post
January 29, 2018
In Benin, where the government plans to build two museums devoted to the slave trade in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, slavery is an embattled subject.
Source: Iowa State Daily
January 29, 2018
It wasn’t intended to be partisan.
Source: NYT
January 29, 2018
It took two eagle-eyed historians to track down the plane that led hundreds of Allied aircraft into Normandy during World War II.
Source: Bloomberg
January 29, 2018
History, demographics and the national mood are pointing to one conclusion about the 2018 congressional races: Democrats are well-positioned to bring one-party government in Washington under Donald Trump’s presidency to a screeching halt.
Source: Newsweek
January 28, 2018
Speaking on the official government podcast, Angela Merkel stressed the importance of highlighting intolerance because of a recent rise in anti-Jewish and other hate crimes.
Source: National Post
January 26, 2018
How repulsive was Lyndon B. Johnson? Contact with him put one at risk of encountering a profane spectacle of burping, farting and crotch-scratching.
Source: The Washington Post
January 28, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke by phone Sunday and agreed to open a dialogue to avoid further diplomatic fallout following Poland’s initial approval of a law making it a criminal offense to mention Polish complicity in crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Source: CBS News
January 27, 2018
A simple meeting in a Naples synagogue was more than 70-years in the making.
Source: NYT
January 28, 2018
The revelations have not only prompted personal reckonings but also fueled a larger debate on Hispanic and Native American identity.
Source: The Washington Post
January 26, 2018
Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book.
Source: Fox News
January 25, 2018
An amateur historian says he's discovered a lengthy stretch of the original Berlin Wall in a wooded area of the German capital.