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 Daily Beast
June 2, 2016
As the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre approaches, China is still trying to come to terms with the contradictory legacies of Mao and Deng.
Source: The Times of Israel
May 31, 2016
27 candles were lighted to symbolize the 27 centuries of Jewish life in the Iraqi capital.
Source: NYT
June 2, 2016
The Anglican God inherited over generations from Henry VIII’s day has long ceased to represent an exclusive franchise.
Source: Slate
June 1, 2016
These letters show that many were greatly disturbed by the series and felt the producers went too far.
Source: Russia Today
June 2, 2016
The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.
Source: The Marshall Project
May 25, 2016
White-on-black murders rarely result in a death sentence. Roof might be an exception.
Source: The New Historian
May 31, 2016
A new experiment has shown that the difficulty of moving the stones from Wales to Wiltshire wasn’t nearly as high as everyone thinks.
Source: The Daily Beast
May 30, 2016
After WWII, the city’s bureaucrats decided ‘equal treatment’ for the few Jews not exterminated was to fine them. Now the municipality is trying to make amends.
Source: The Guardian
May 29, 2016
The conflict between Republicans and Nationalists that erupted in 1936 was distorted by Franco and largely neglected by later governments. Now a campaign is under way to open the first international museum telling all sides of the story.
Source: The Washington Post
May 29, 2016
The 10-month battle at Verdun — the longest in World War I — killed 163,000 French and 143,000 German soldiers and wounded hundreds of thousands of others.
Source: NYT
May 30, 2016
… Sharing liquor bottles online that look like the famous image of a man standing defiantly in front of a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square.
Source: NYT
May 28, 2016
Mr. Trump’s campaign has engendered impassioned discussion about the nature of his appeal and warnings from critics on the left and the right.
Source: NYT
May 27, 2016
Geneticists have studied clues in the DNA of African-Americans about the history of slavery and the Great Migration.
Source: Adweek
May 27, 2016
It will help African-American families trace their ancestors.
Source: The Washington Post
May 28, 2016
Today he’s honored as a devout Muslim. In the 1950s he was honored as a secularist.
Source: ABC News
May 26, 2016
The copy sold is one of 14 signed by Lincoln, his vice president, the speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and in this case, by 36 senators.
Source: CBS
May 26, 2016
The images from the aftermath of Hiroshima are haunting, but for Susan Archinski and her husband Tony, they're also personal.
Source: The Washington Post
May 27, 2016
Obama called for the courage to “spread peace and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.” In later remarks, he said that scientific strides must be matched by moral progress or mankind was doomed.
Source: Fast Company
May 26, 2016
Visitors to the library can download a free app from Layar, point their smartphone at 10 "trigger images," and read a more balanced view of the information presented.
Source: Ars Technica
May 25, 2016
Rock designs suggest a complex social structure and ritual behavior.
