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
March 3, 2017
Over the past year, a Columbia University preservation expert and a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan have been engaged in an unusual poetic-scientific experiment in the little-visited olfactory wing of history.
Source: The Daily Beast
March 3, 2017
by Sharon Weinberger
DARPA was assigned the task of developing plans to protect the president after the assassination of JFK
Source: The Telegraph
March 5, 2017
Mr. Blank spoke to YouTube video creator Davey Wavey about his unique coming out story ahead of a documentary, On My Way Out, that grandson Brandon Gross is directing about him.
Source: NYT
February 27, 2017
Since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Gallup polling organization has asked Americans an open-ended question: “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?”
Source: The Washington Post
March 2, 2017
Welcoming Heitfeld, the kin of the very people who brutally forced him from his childhood home, to live as his roommate while she finishes her degree feels like “an act of justice,” Stern said in an interview.
Source: The Washington Post
March 2, 2017
The point is not that VOICE equals the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. But that Trump is using the levers of government to drum up fear of one group of people.
Source: New Historian
March 2, 2017
The team of experts at the University of Washington in Seattle compared the modern DNA with DNA from Neanderthals and was able to determine that fragments of Neanderthal genes had survived and remained active in 52 separate types of human tissue.
Source: Time Magazine
March 2, 2017
Though the U.S. and the Soviet Union were allies in World War II and helped each other to victory, that cooperation was followed by decades during which the opposition between the two systems they represented dominated global politics.
Source: Reuters
March 1, 2017
Islamic State has captured Palmyra, whose ancient ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, twice during Syria's six-year conflict.
Source: Mother Jones
February 28, 2017
It started with bizarre references to Frederick Douglass and fake news. It didn't get better from there.
Source: Japan Today
March 1, 2017
The statue was erected in a community where Korean Americans live.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 26, 2017
"The fact that so many of our nation’s elite institutions have histories that are entangled with the history of slavery only enhances the opportunity and the obligation.”
Source: BBC
March 1, 2017
Bill Clinton got $15 million for his memoirs and George W. Bush $10 million.
Source: Slate
February 28, 2017
She praised historically black colleges – which were formed after white colleges blocked blacks from attending – as a positive example of school choice.
Source: National Security Archive
February 28, 2017
CIA’s Dulles Agreed: “You Don’t Revolt in the Face of Tanks, Artillery and Tear Gas; Revolutions Are Now at the Top.”
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
February 27, 2017
“To keep on flashing these symbols and statues, they should be put in perspective, maybe a museum, or if they stay where they are, write up a true story of what they represent.”
Source: NYT
February 26, 2017
In 1947, up to 28,000 Taiwanese were massacred by Nationalist troops, and Taiwan and China are reckoning with the legacy.
Source: NYT
February 26, 2017
Some 6,000 Albanians were taken away by government agents during the Communist era and never heard from again.
Source: The Telegraph
February 27, 2017
The shrine is situated on top of a hill in eastern Mosul called Nebi Yunus - one of two mounds that form part of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh.
Source: Slate
February 26, 2017
Seventy years ago American researchers infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea -- then left without treating them.
