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
4-12-16
Hillary Clinton is not the first.
Source: NYT
7-27-16
President Obama has selected Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side to build his presidential library near the University of Chicago.
Source: NYT
7-27-16
The current Republican Party may also fall into that category, given how many powerful Republicans have refused to back Mr. Trump.
Source: The Guardian
7-27-16
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
7-22-16
Slate asked historians to list some of the "worst" years in history. 2016 hardly comes close.
Source: NYT
7-26-16
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
7-25-16
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
7-22-16
Since 1980, the polling average 109 days before the general election has been off by about 7.5 percentage points.
Source: New Historian
7-25-16
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
7-26-16
The vestige of American slavery had long gone politely ignored amid the polished Oxonian interiors of the rarefied university.
Source: The Washington Post
7-22-16
Obama has delivered many memorable speeches. But which will schoolchildren read decades from now?
Source: NPR
7-24-16
It started with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940.
Source: NYT
7-21-16
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
7-21-16
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
7-22-16
"There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen."
Source: The Daily Beast
7-23-16
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
7-22-16
Trump’s speech was the most negative in tone of any convention acceptance speech since 1972.
Source: KU Leuven
7-25-16 (accessed)
The death of King Albert I of Belgium in 1934 – officially a climbing accident – still fuels speculation.
Source: National Security Archive
7-22-16
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
7-22-16
Portland’s also got a serious case of racism.
