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: Time Magazine
April 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton is not the first.
Source: NYT
July 27, 2016
President Obama has selected Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side to build his presidential library near the University of Chicago.
Source: NYT
July 27, 2016
The current Republican Party may also fall into that category, given how many powerful Republicans have refused to back Mr. Trump.
Source: The Guardian
July 27, 2016
Ali David Sonboly, 18, who was born in Munich to Iranian parents, boasted to friends that he was proud to be an “Aryan.”
Source: Slate
July 22, 2016
Slate asked historians to list some of the "worst" years in history. 2016 hardly comes close.
Source: NYT
July 26, 2016
Michelle Obama, speaking at the Democratic Convention, said she lived in a home built by slaves. Some were taken aback, but history supports her.
Source: CNN
July 25, 2016
by Tim Naftali
In modern U.S. political history, how unprecedented are such serious efforts by foreign governments to mess with our domestic politics? Not at all unprecedented, as it turns out.
Source: NYT
July 22, 2016
Since 1980, the polling average 109 days before the general election has been off by about 7.5 percentage points.
Source: New Historian
July 25, 2016
Archaeologists have discovered numerous settlements in Germany. They have also uncovered evidence which shows that Neanderthal populations there came to an unexplained, sudden end.
Source: The Nation
July 26, 2016
The vestige of American slavery had long gone politely ignored amid the polished Oxonian interiors of the rarefied university.
Source: The Washington Post
July 22, 2016
Obama has delivered many memorable speeches. But which will schoolchildren read decades from now?
Source: NPR
July 24, 2016
It started with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940.
Source: NYT
July 21, 2016
When a Viking ship, meticulously recreated in Norway, crossed the Atlantic last month, the feat captivated history buffs in the United States. But as the ship, called the Draken Harald Harfagre, glided into American waters this month, it collided with an unexpected foe: modern-day safety regulations.
Source: The Deseret News
July 21, 2016
Some Jewish historians' personal stories of Holocaust plights and survival had reportedly fell into obscurity due to a language barrier, but they are now seeing new light after one man embarked on a journey to preserve and highlight the texts.
Source: USA Today
July 22, 2016
"There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen."
Source: The Daily Beast
July 23, 2016
Trump says he’ll put America First, which of course carries echoes of the old isolationist and anti-Semitic movement—which Trump has apparently never even heard of.
Source: The Washington Post
July 22, 2016
Trump’s speech was the most negative in tone of any convention acceptance speech since 1972.
Source: KU Leuven
July 25, 2016 (accessed)
The death of King Albert I of Belgium in 1934 – officially a climbing accident – still fuels speculation.
Source: National Security Archive
July 22, 2016
The blasts in Bikini Atoll in July 1946 staged by a joint Army-Navy task force were the first atomic explosions since the bombings of Japan a year earlier.
Source: The Atlantic
July 22, 2016
Portland’s also got a serious case of racism.
