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
Dec 28, 2018
The National Archives released a new batch of documents that tell of internet anxiety at the prime minister’s office, Margaret Thatcher’s thoughts of Nelson Mandela and the journey of a stallion from Turkmenistan to London.
Source: NYT
Dec 28, 2018
Imre Nagy, the communist prime minister executed for rebelling against the Soviet Union, is a hero to many in Hungary — but not to its far-right government.
Source: AP
Dec 28, 2018
The son of Gov. Pat Brown, Jerry Brown became governor at 36 and built a reputation as an idealist who eschewed traditional trappings of wealth and power.
Source: Colossal
Dec 28, 2018
The digital recreation is presented by Museum View (which uses the same functionality as Google Street View), and allows visitors to explore the institution’s key artifacts as they were displayed before this year’s tragic destruction.
Source: NYT
Dec 27, 2018
The hard-right government has accused the French of disrespect and of trying to culturally appropriate the artist in a dispute over loaning his works.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Dec 26, 2018
by Maude Campbell and Henry Robertson
A look at how, when someone dies, we figure out why.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 26, 2018
A laser scan shows the sunken U-boat off the coast of the Outer Banks resting in 700 feet of water. Entombed are dozens of German sailors.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 26, 2018
Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first commander in chief to fly in an airplane during his 1943 trip to North Africa.
Source: Bloomberg
Dec 26, 2018
“It is not unheard of to have presidents comment on the stock market, even though it’s not considered to be a good idea. It can actually spook investors.”
Source: Artsy
Dec 26, 2018
From cave paintings to Caravaggio, our understanding of the art of the past—and its relationship to the present—became much more nuanced thanks to the dramatic discoveries of 2018.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 26, 2018
by Shane O’Sullivan
New documents reveal that Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign colluded with a foreign government far more than historians thought.
Source: NYT
Dec 26, 2018
The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein say he came to Donald J. Trump’s aid with a diagnosis of bone spurs during the Vietnam draft.
Source: NYT
Dec 25, 2018
A law taking effect Jan. 1 that updates many facets of military justice will put an end to a disciplinary practice left over from the era of sailing ships.
Source: TechCrunch
Dec 25, 2018
Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 24, 2018
The military’s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 24, 2018
Massimo Osanna, general director of the Pompeii archaeological park, told Italian news agency ANSA that he believed the horse belonged to a high-ranking military officer and met a “fierce and terrible end."
Source: Smithsonian
Dec 24, 2018
A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019.
Source: NYT
Dec 23, 2018
Its latest show, “Welcome to Jerusalem,” also got people talking. And it appeared to draw criticism from an unlikely source: the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Source: BuzzFeed
Dec 23, 2018
"This email tells me the university cares more about the feelings of Nazis than the safety of their students."
Source: NYT
Dec 21, 2018
The author, David Icke, backs the teaching in schools of Holocaust denial.
