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: The Guardian
February 17, 2015
Record haul of 2,000 coins found in an ancient harbour and belong to era of Fatimid Caliphate which ruled much of the Middle East and North Africa from 909 to 1171
Source: CBS News (Video)
February 18, 2015
It was named for George Pullman, who was no saint. He despised unions and endured bitter strikes. But the diverse work force he employed fostered an environment that ushered in fair labor conditions.
Source: Huffington Post
February 17, 2015
Photographer Stephen Somerstein chronicled the Selma demonstration through a series of images that authentically portray the events that took place over the course of the 54-mile march.
Source: NYT
February 17, 2015
He was lead counsel in 1974 for a number of historians, political scientists and reporters who maintained that despite an agreement he had struck with the government, Nixon could not take possession of records created while he was in the White House.
Source: The Washington Post
February 16, 2015
How a manuscript’s discovery became Harper Lee’s ‘new’ novel
Source: Telegraph
February 16, 2015
On average Britons lived for two years longer after the fall of the Roman Empire
Source: Harvard Gazette
February 12, 2015
It’s a difficult exhibition to explore, but one that its organizers hope will promote a deeper understanding of America’s brutal history of slavery, segregation, and racism, and their legacy.
Source: Princeton University
February 16, 2015
William H. Scheide donates rare books library to Princeton; collection is largest gift in University's history
Source: The Atlantic
February 16, 2015
Long before Washington's Birthday was marked by car sales, Americans celebrated their first president by pedaling.
Source: Equal Justice Initiative
February 10, 2015
Lynching in America makes the case that lynching of African Americans was terrorism, a widely supported phenomenon used to enforce racial subordination and segregation.
Source: The Washington Post
February 16, 2015
The United States dropped barrels packed with fuel in an attempt to burn foliage in the dense forests of Vietnam and smoke out Viet Cong guerrillas.
Source: Brookings
February 13, 2015
But beneath the surface of the aggregate figures lurks evidence of significant ambivalence.
Source: The Economist
February 7, 2015
America’s largest ethnic group has assimilated so well that people barely notice it
Source: NYT
February 15, 2015
Spider Martin, a photographer for The Birmingham News in Alabama, captured the weekslong events of Selma in 1965 and other events of the civil rights era.
Source: Politico
February 13, 2015
Honest Abe loved the federal government.
Source: New Historian
February 13, 2015
A new study of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shows that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between 250 and 1150 CE.
Source: NYT
February 13, 2015
It turns out that Monopoly’s origins begin not with Charles Darrow 80 years ago, but decades before with a bold, progressive woman named Elizabeth Magie.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
February 13, 2015
The building’s named for Ben Tillman, the virulent racist governor of South Carolina who watched while a black state senator was murdered.
Source: National Journal
February 12, 2015
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, we take a look at the monument-turned-landmark that was built for him.
Source: The Washington Post
February 11, 2015
Before the Census was mailed to every household in America, it was gathered by counters walking door-to-door who collected along the way an inadvertent historical record not just of who we were in 1880 or 1940, but who we lived next to.
