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
October 5, 2014
One common goal of state archivists, correction officials and relatives of the former guards and inmates is that what happened at Attica should not be forgotten.
Source: New Zealand Herald
October 6, 2014
by John Summers
The town tells an alternative story to that of China's breakneck economic growth and rising consumerism, one of nostalgia for those days of Mao suits, Marxism and austerity.
Source: Time
October 3, 2014
High-level White House debates over Iraq and Syria are coming to light as top officials air their differences.
Source: NYT
October 2, 2014
Resurrecting a Disgraced Reporter
Source: NYT
October 4, 2014
Poe’s snarly past with Boston will be set aside on Sunday, when the city officially welcomes the master of the macabre into its fold with the unveiling of a statue in his honor.
Source: NYT
October 4, 2014
Mr. Duvalier continued to defend what human rights workers called one of the most oppressive governments in the Western Hemisphere, following in the footsteps of his father, François, known as Papa Doc, who died in 1971.
Source: Bloomberg
October 3, 2014
“I fear that Putin is going to bring the country to a crisis much more quickly than many would like.”
Source: CBS Evening News
October 2, 2014
A new memorial in Washington DC honors disabled veterans.
Source: Time
October 1, 2014
The dungeon believed to have held Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the blood-thirsty character, was recently discovered in Turkey.
October 2, 2014
by HNN
In our heads is a a distorted picture of sports in classical Athens and Rome.
Source: Flavorwire
September 28, 2014
Reel Art Press' "Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art" by John Kisch and Tony Nourmand is a centennial celebration of black film poster art.
Source: Media Matters
October 2, 2014
Several historians who have researched Patton's life told Media Matters no real evidence exists to support O'Reilly's claim that the general's death was the result of a conspiracy by former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Source: World Bulletin
September 16, 2014
540 Ottoman sailors drowned on September 16, 1890 when the Ertugrul Firkateyni sank on its return journey.
Source: Fox News
October 2, 2014
Experts identified a shipwreck uncovered last month in the Arctic as the HMS Erebus, the ship British Rear Adm. Sir John Franklin was likely sailing on when it vanished along with another vessel 170 years ago.
Source: Civil War News
October 2, 2014 (accessed)
After soaking for three months in 55,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide to loosen the sand, sediment and rust that comprises the concretion, conservators began carefully probing the outside of the hull in early August.
Source: Press Release: Earth Cam
October 1, 2014
Once again the National Park Service has partnered with EarthCam to bring live views of iconic U.S. monuments to the world.
Source: National Security Archive
October 1, 2014
"I think we are going to have to smash Castro," Kissinger tells President Ford
Source: Al Arabiya News
September 30, 2014
Speaking at a conference at the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO in Paris, France's ambassador to UNESCO Philippe Lalliot warned that Iraq’s cultural heritage is in “great danger.”
Source: NYT
September 30, 2014
Presidents have faced astonishing breaches at “the people’s house,” long before an intruder with a knife managed to slip past security and run around the State Floor this month.
Source: NYT
September 29, 2014
Now approaching next year’s 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination comes a new book that for the first time gathers together all of the 130 known photographs of the 16th president.
