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: CBS
Dec 21, 2018
Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders were the first humans to leave Earth's orbit, circumnavigating the moon 10 times.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 21, 2018
Banana executives with Chiquita Brands now the subject of a major criminal investigation in Colombia were instrumental in the development and execution of company policies surrounding secret payments to Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups
Source: NYT
Dec 20, 2018
In one image released by the West Midlands Police, the couple were photographed holding their baby alongside a flag emblazoned with a swastika.
Source: NYT
Dec 20, 2018
More than 4,700 people, the vast majority of them black, were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968.
Source: The Daily Universe
Dec 20, 2018
Whether it’s construction of a proposed oil pipeline across Native American lands or the federal government’s recent decision to downsize national monuments in the West, many people who have lived in these areas for decades say their voices aren’t being heard.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 18, 2018
The president was Ulysses S. Grant.
Source: Radio Free Europe
Dec 18, 2018
The trial of Yury Dmitriyev, a Russian historian charged with sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, has started in the northwestern region of Karelia.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dec 18, 2018
As more voices weigh in on historical markers, every word is under extra scrutiny
Source: Politico
Dec 17, 2018
The tentative title suggests the former House speaker intends to portray himself as a throwback to a bygone era.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 17, 2018
Some of the best opportunities for Western intelligence to get a picture – literally – of Soviet capabilities were presented by the USSR itself at public military parades.
Source: Special to HNN
Dec 17, 2018
by Ed Hooper
They are seeking the return of the Charles Niehaus statue removed December 2017 from Health Sciences Park in the city.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 17, 2018
The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany said the government had agreed to payments of 2,500 euros ($2,800) to those still alive from among the 10,000 people who fled on the so-called “Kindertransport.”
Source: CNN
Dec 15, 2018
His comments stand in contradiction to what his spokesman told CNN's KFile team last week
Source: The Cut
Dec 14, 2018
Tablet magazine has published a 10,000-plus-word investigation detailing allegations of antisemitism against Women’s March organizers.
Source: Haaretz
Dec 14, 2018
Critics say the appointment of an Israeli, Daniel Blatman, as chief historian of the planned Warsaw Ghetto Museum provides a fig leaf for an attempt to distort history
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 14, 2018
Silent Sam’s fate remains uncertain.
Source: The Seattle Times
Dec 13, 2018
How a generation of killer whales was taken from Puget Sound.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 13, 2018
The USS San Diego was sailing to New York on July 19, 1918, when an external explosion near the engine room shook the armored cruiser. Within minutes, the 500-foot warship began to capsize.
Source: NYT
Dec 12, 2018
Long before he was president of Russia, Vladimir Putin worked as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden in the former East Germany and had access to Germany’s dreaded secret police.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 12, 2018
In 1859, the House went to war over Rep. John Sherman’s leadership bid.
