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 Guardian
March 28, 2016
Memos show media mogul William Randolph Hearst’s executives conspired to undermine Welles and stop release of film.
Source: CBS News
March 28, 2016
The ceremony came more than seventy years after they helped America win World War 2.
Source: The Root
March 28, 2016
Some of Cosby’s accusers are angered by the exhibit.
Source: Inside Higher ED
March 28, 2016
Many students initially assumed that someone in their library or residence hall had printed the flier. But as the day went on, more campuses reported the same flier on their printers.
Source: Forward
March 28, 2016
You can even buy a birthday card. Seriously.
Source: OZY
March 27, 2016
They’ve tried before. It hasn’t worked.
Source: Mashable
March 27, 2016
The hashtag #BlackWomensHistoryMonth is highlighting women who have contributed greatly to American history, but are rarely given credit.
Source: New York Post
March 27, 2016
According to National First Ladies’ Library historian Carl Anthony, the first smear campaign aimed at a first lady came way back in 1808.
Source: NYT
March 26, 2016
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in Washington in September, had some delicate decisions to make about slavery, Bill Cosby and President Obama.
Source: PSYBLOG
March 27, 2016
People born between 1988 and 1994 — so-called “millennials” — are the most narcissistic generation ever.
Source: CBS News
March 27, 2016
Some of the most important heritage sites seem ok.
Source: The Washington Post
March 24, 2016
Edenfield will be sentenced on July 21 and faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The government has recommended probation.
Source: Reuters
March 24, 2016
Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar.
Source: Financial Times
March 24, 2016
Study #1: Why did the industrial revolution start in northwest Europe? Because, argue James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou, of a “uniquely high female age at first marriage — around 25 — from at the latest the fifteenth century.”
Source: Forward
March 24, 2016
Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate.
Source: The Daily Beast
March 24, 2016
He’s actually German.
Source: Mondoweiss
March 23, 2016
A document has surfaced showing that the Israeli army in 1948 committed atrocities.
Source: Forward
March 23, 2016
A review of documents released in the 1980s but unexamined until now shows the extent to which Jews were spying on Jews.
Source: WTKR
March 23, 2016
On social media some students at the school, Isle of Wight, said they don’t understand what the fuss is about.
Source: National Security Archive
March 23, 2016
Prior U.S. Government Releases Have Detailed Human Rights Abuses and U.S. Policymaking in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador.
