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: Harvard Gazette
1-8-16
A new project will digitize more than 4,500 petitions on Native American affairs that were sent to the Massachusetts legislature from 1640 to 1870.
Source: Time Magazine
2-23-16
Stories about the Führer's phallus have existed for over 60 years.
Source: Cville
2-17-16
A survey indicates slavery became part of the curriculum only since the 1980s at Monticello and other places.
Source: The Atlantic
2-22-16
Is It Time to Retire Black History Month From the Classroom?
Source: NYT
2-22-16
“It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway — and it is — action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over,” Biden said. “That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process.”
Source: Politico
2-22-16
As anti-Vietnam War activist, he called the spy agency 'a dangerous institution that has got to go.'
Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly
2-22-16 (accessed)
In a long article Wilson’s racism laid bare.
Source: Humanities Indicators (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
2-22-16
The share of Americans visiting historic sites fell by a third from 1982 to 2012. And the declines occurred across every age cohort, though young adults are the least likely to visit historic sites.
Source: Inside Higher ED
2-22-16
Student protesters are demanding that the Cornell Plantations' name be changed by the university.
Source: Politico
2-21-16
Jeb Bush isn’t the only one who was supposed to win and didn’t.
Source: NYT
2-22-16
He presented it as an example of how brutal toughness toward terrorists was the way to safeguard the United States.
Source: News One
2-20-16
“What’s so inspiring about these young people and their generation is that they don’t see black history as a relic; it’s not something to study in a book.”
Source: NYT
2-19-16
by Paul Jankowski
Renovated museum to open at Verdun.
Source: New York Post
2-18-16
A decades-old video has emerged showing Chicago cops arresting a young protester — Bernie Sanders — at a 1963 anti-segregation demonstration in Chicago.
Source: The Telegraph
2-19-16
Hillary Clinton’s rival for Democrat nomination ruled out ever joining the party, documents show.
Source: National Security Archive
2-19-16
Photographs of nukes have been available since 1990.
Source: Al Jazeera America
2-19-16
One tribe is bidding to go all the way home to the Midwest, some two centuries later.
Source: New Historian
2-18-16
Co-led by Professor Adam Siepel from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island, NY, the team found evidence of interbreeding dating back to approximately 100,000 years in the past – several millennia before any other existing documented interbreeding event.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
2-14-16
It’s "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict” by Caleb Smith.
Source: Syrian heritage.org
2-19-16 (accessed)
And this is just the destruction that's took place in December and January.
