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 Washington Post
June 14, 2016
During his video endorsing Hillary Clinton's candidacy, President Obama made a claim that's become common in recent months.
Source: ABC News
June 14, 2016
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday urged Christians to stop displaying the Confederate battle flag, recognizing that it is perceived by many as a "symbol of hatred, bigotry and racism" that offends millions of people.
Source: National Post
June 14, 2016
The findings offer new insight not only into the Khmer Empire, which reigned in what is now called Cambodia from around the 9th to the 15th centuries, but into the populations that lived in the area long before then.
Source: The Atlantic
June 15, 2016
And even if it is, does that title matter?
Source: Politico
June 9, 2016
by Seth Masket
Why? The reasons for durability come down to a mix of election laws, a form of government that favors a two-party system, the way that voters think through how they’ll vote, and the structural obstacles faced by third parties.
Source: Priceonomics
June 9, 2016
In the 1924 presidential election, the most hyped candidate was an egotistical and fabulously wealthy businessman who many politicians did not believe would really run. That man was legendary carmaker Henry Ford.
Source: NYT
June 14, 2016
More than a century after Georgetown University used some of the profits from the sale of 272 enslaved African-Americans to help ensure its survival, John J. DeGioia, the university’s president, took a first step on Monday toward making amends to their descendants.
Source: Time Magazine
June 14, 2016
Women's freedom to wear two-legged garments speaks to a revolution that has been centuries in the making.
Source: The Washington Post
June 14, 2016
An international team of archaeologists, astronomers and historians have spent the past 10 years deciphering the many mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first mechanical computer.
Source: NYT
June 14, 2016
An installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale shows how the death camp was designed.
Source: Time Magazine
June 13, 2016
Which moments in American history have most shaped the worldviews of those born in 1946?
Source: NYT
June 13, 2016
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is no stranger to violence.
Source: The Post and Courier
June 9, 2016
She called it a “veiled attempt” to create a museum for the H.L. Hunley Confederate submarine, which is undergoing restoration in North Charleston.
Source: NYT
June 11, 2016
Worst? Spiro T. Agnew
Source: The Local
June 11, 2016
A rightwing Italian newspaper, owned by Silvio Berlusconi's brother, was today giving away free copies of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf in a move which sparked both shock and condemnation.
Source: NYT
June 8, 2016
At $100 million a year, the Broadway production of the show would pass the $1 billion mark in a decade.
Source: PennLive
June 9, 2016
Pennsylvania man lied about Auschwitz imprisonment and escape, historian says.
Source: New Historian
June 9, 2016
Remains of Homo floresiensis, a mysterious, pygmy like human species, were first found on the island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2003.
Source: Scientific American
June 8, 2016
New research by anthropologists and forensic scientists is bringing hope to the relatives of war victims as it challenges Spain’s “pact of forgetting.”
Source: Slate
June 8, 2016
A legacy of colonialism nearly wiped out the language and its culture. These immersion schools weren’t having it.
