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: NY Times
5/26/19
The people of Africatown are already dreaming that the ship’s bones will reside with them, serving as a key not only to the past but to the future, attracting tourists and sparking a much-needed renaissance.
Source: Washington Post
5/30/19
More than seven decades after the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines and raped hundreds of girls, the survivors still want to be heard.
Source: The Guardian
5/25/19
Translated into English for the first time, letters to grandmother and others reveal context of birthdays, boys and braces as well as the rising Nazi menace.
Source: Time
5/24/19
by Thurston Clarke
Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.
Source: National Review
5/27/19
Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.
Source: Washington Post
5/29/2019
Congress had the final say on the design for the slain president’s monument. The competition was intense.
Source: Inside Sources
5/26/2019
by Esau Williams
Theresa May’s exit is not likely to change Britian's relationship with Europe much.
Source: Gresham College
5/30/2019
On Tuesday, June 4, Professor Margaret MacMillan will put the treaty in perspective, one hundred years later.
Source: ACME Specialist Whistles
5/30/2019
Join The Search For The Lost D-Day Landing Clickers
Source: Wall Street Journal
5/25/2019
As recent events change how visitors see Confederate imagery, sites work to broaden the audience
Source: NY Times
5/23/19
Last month, the University of Minnesota board of regents held a special meeting to discuss whether to remove the names of four former university administrators at the school’s Twin Cities campus.
Source: New York Times
5/27/2019
Contributions to the memorial have flagged, and federal money has become stretched across an expanding landscape of tributes.
Source: Washington Post
5/24/19
You can’t throw a potato peel without hitting a new bestseller about the perils of Nazi Germany.
Source: NPR
5/22/19
Soldiers brought in to excavate found undisputed evidence of a mass grave: skulls with bullet holes, shoes and tattered clothing worn on the last day of people's lives.
Source: National Geographic
5/24/2019
No one is sure how the holiday started, and people debate how it should be celebrated, but it still honors those who lost their lives in service of their country.
Source: History.com
5/28/19
At the close of the Civil War, freed slaves in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers.
Source: CBS News
5/26/2019
Pam Elam and Coline Jenkins run the Monumental Women campaign. Their goal: to erect a monument in Central Park honoring women's suffrage pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Source: Time
5/23/19
The observance now takes place every May in the U.S. and is marked by communities within the country’s 22.2 million Asians and 1.6 million Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders.
Source: Washington Post
5/23/19
Mount Vernon is also a Southern plantation where hundreds of people lived in servitude and abject poverty, and their stories deserve to be heard, too.
Source: Time
5/24/19
by Marc Wortman
A recently rediscovered diary recounts the harrowing final days of the fighting that brought the Communists to power.
