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: ABC News
October 28, 2016
Placing Fred Malek's name on the theater that shows an introductory film about Nixon is "outrageous," Timothy Naftali, a history professor at New York University and former library director, said on Twitter last week.
Source: La Crosse Tribune
October 28, 2016
Sociologist Jim Loewen visited La Crosse to talk about his research into America’s centuries of racism and the cover-up by white historians of that history.
Source: USA Today
October 30, 2016
Although the term "October surprise" didn't come into vogue until the late 20th century, they've been a political reality since the 1800s.
Source: The Washington Post
October 29, 2016
The cheerleaders, representing Greenfield’s McClain High School, held up a banner after traveling to the game against the Hillsboro Indians that read, “Hey Indians, Get ready for a Trail of Tears Part 2.”
Source: ATTN:
October 27, 2016
Candy companies used to market candy differently to whites and blacks.
Source: NYT
October 26, 2016
Attacks on the headless figure, part of a contentious Barcelona exhibit, show Spain’s continuing struggle with how to confront its dictatorial past.
Source: Time Magazine
October 26, 2016
The connections between the Philippines and the U.S. run deep, and have sometimes been fraught, but would be very difficult to cut.
Source: Science Daily
October 26, 2016
A combination of historical and genetic research reveals the error and hype that led to the coining of the term 'Patient Zero' and the blaming of one man for the spread of HIV across North America.
Source: The Daily Beast
October 24, 2016
Under current rules, Republican House leaders won’t honor the ‘Greatest Generation’ of spies.
Source: The Costa Rica Sta
October 24, 2016
Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States called on Harvard University “to demonstrate its remorse and its debt to unnamed slaves from Antigua and Barbuda."
October 25, 2016
by HNN Editor
Rutgers historian David Greenberg says it's a myth that Nixon acquiesced when he lost to Kennedy.
Source: NY Post
October 24, 2016
This is the selfie a murderer took just moments after he stabbed a historian to death and robbed him of a rare $61,00 novel.
Source: Europe Online Magazine
October 22, 2016
The historian was critical of a report about the activities of Auto Union during Germany‘s Nazi era. Auto Union is the company that became Audi, now a key subsidiary of Volkswagen Group.
Source: NYT
October 22, 2016
“This is a moment of transition,” said Estelle B. Freedman, a Stanford University historian who studies the evolution of laws and norms surrounding sexual assault.
Source: Syracuse.com
October 19, 2016
His model currently projects a win for the Republican with a certainty of 87 to 99 percent.
Source: The Root
October 23, 2016
The author of the petition believes that Thomas was dissed because of his political views.
Source: Daily Beast
October 21, 2016
The subject of an acclaimed new movie, the 1831 slave revolt led by Turner is also the focus of two tours, one black and one white, in a region still divided over Turner’s legacy.
Source: Time Magazine
October 20, 2016
Gore did not “refuse to accept the result on election day” in 2000, nor did he try “to overturn the result of the 2000 election” when he availed himself of the legal apparatus offered to candidates in especially close elections.
Source: Armenpress
October 21, 2016
The German historian, Michael Hesemann, told the reporters that he plans to write a book based on the findings.
Source: NYT
October 20, 2016
They said that Mr. Trump’s armchair generalship revealed a fundamental lack of understanding of Iraqi politics, military warfare, and military history.
