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: NYT
9-4-15
by Scott Lilenfeld and Ashley Watts
Social scientists say most successful presidents have been narcissists.
Source: NYT
9-4-15
Hungary's chief rabbi: "It was horrifying when I saw those images of police putting numbers on people’s arms,”
Source: Pew Research Center
9-3-15
Only Baby Boomers by in large think of themselves as members of a certain generation.
Source: The Independent
9-3-15
A Lebanese-French archaeologist tells Robert Fisk about her unique answer to a unique crime
Source: BBC
9-3-15
China has held a lavish parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two, showcasing its military might on an unprecedented scale.
Source: WaPo
8-30-15
Long forgotten, after Brown, most were shuttered. Often consisting of just two or three classrooms, the schools were the heart of their communities, cradles of pride built on land often donated by black farmers.
Source: The Wichita Eagle
8-10-15
A nearly 100-year-old movie, which showcases 300 Kiowa and Comanche people from Kansas and Oklahoma, is now showing on Netflix.
Source: The Herald Journal
8-29-15
Archaeologists are now trying to find out.
Source: San Francisco Magazine
8-24-15
Only one consequence of l’affaire Serra is agreed upon by all parties as a positive: It has opened up discussion of a tragic chapter in California history, one of which even many educated people are ignorant.
Source: The Guardian
9-1-15
Temple of Bel, the most important site in Palmyra, reduced to rubble as jihadis continue to wreck Syria’s cultural heritage
Source: University Press of Kansas blog
9-1-15 (accessed)
by Lewis Gould
The answer is yes. But the Ohio members of Congress are wrong to think the mountain was named in honor of the slain president. The naming took place before he was even nominated.
Source: The Root
9-1-15
Stanley Nelson’s timely documentary brings some clarity to the murky history of one of the civil rights era’s most militant groups.
Source: WSJ
8-31-15
Aftershocks from that year’s presidential election are being felt in this year’s surprising campaign
Source: AP
8-31-15
Around 500,000 to 1 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were pushed out of the country during the 1930s repatriation, as the removal is sometimes called.
Source: Politico
8-27-15
Politico Magazine asked a handful of historians to weigh in on the historical figures to which Trump has been compared.
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal
8-30-15
by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
The bones of 115 Koreans brought to Japan as laborers during the Asia-Pacific War will be carried along a route of remembrance to their final resting place in Korea.
Source: thelocla.fr
8-28-15
A feminist organization has changed the street signs of a Paris neighbourhood so that they bear women's names instead, protesting the lack of streets in the city named after famous female figures.
Source: NYT
8-29-15
Decades before Caitlyn Jenner, Phyllis Frye was grappling with bias, scorn and personal pain, and helping the transgender movement take shape.
Source: Newsweek
8-26-15
The Central Intelligence Agency is set to release 2,500 previously top-secret briefings it gave to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s.
Source: KSTY
8-26-15
South Dakota Board of Education approved new guidelines that do not require high schools to teach U.S. history beginning next year.
