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: Bloomberg
Oct 17, 2018
From the Ottoman Empire to interviewing Osama bin Laden, the family’s ties are a tapestry of intrigue.
Source: NYT
Oct 16, 2018
Would they?
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 16, 2018
The story referenced by Trump was probably fake news.
Source: AP
Oct 15, 2018
The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent nearly $3 million on Confederate cemetery security since August 2017, records obtained by the AP show.
Source: NYT
Oct 15, 2018
Nearly a half-century after Lee Soo-keun’s execution, a court in Seoul absolved him of espionage, ruling that he had been wrongfully executed based on fabricated charges and a confession obtained through torture.
Source: Science Daily
Oct 15, 2018
A radical new approach combining archaeology, genetics and microscopy can reveal long-forgotten secrets of human diet, sanitation and movement from studying parasites in ancient excrement, according to new research.
Source: NYT
Oct 15, 2018
The European Union was created to end strife and promote economic prosperity — with the support, not opposition, of the United States.
Source: Smithsonian
Oct 15, 2018
Using original archival research and FBI blacklist documents, a new book pieces together the intersectional narratives that never made it on air.
Oct 15, 2018
A recent poll placed Confederate monuments nearly last among the 18 biggest issues facing Alabama this campaign season.
Source: NBC News
Oct 14, 2018
A makeshift memorial in New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic Union soldiers during the Battle of Glorieta Pass "looks like just a taco stand, without any tacos."
Oct 13, 2018
“I offer our university’s deepest apology for the profound injustices of slavery, our full acknowledgment of the strength of enslaved peoples in the face of their suffering, and our respect and indebtedness to them,” Dr. Folt said in a speech for the University Day celebration at Memorial Hall.
Source: The Hill
Oct 13, 2018
“Last night I was disheartened to hear Donald Trump, our president, make comments about Robert E. Lee as a great general, as an honorable man. These were far from the true,” Robert Lee IV said in a video he posted on Twitter.
Source: NYT
Oct 13, 2018
Democrats are largely ducking the topic on the campaign trail, but few people in Washington doubt that it will be on the table if they win the House.
Source: History channel
Oct 12, 2018
The same clouds of ash that blanketed Pompeii preserved the colors and paintings on the walls in this newly rediscovered room by keeping out all light and water.
Source: Snopes
Oct 12, 2018
President Eisenhower did say that if a political party doesn’t advance a moral cause, then it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 11, 2018
Now they're for sale.
Source: Politico
Oct 11, 2018
A federal judge has ordered the partial release of a Watergate report that fueled an impeachment drive against President Richard Nixon and could serve as a precedent for a similar effort aimed at President Donald Trump.
Source: Harvard Law Review
Oct 11, 2018
States and voters have been extending voting rights since the birth of the republic when only 6% of Americans were eligible to vote.
Source: The Times of Israel
Oct 9, 2018
Soviet secret police covered up its executions by planting trees over killing fields in Moscow’s forested Kommunarka area.
Source: Smithsonian
Oct 9, 2018
During the pogrom, a white mob killed an estimated 300 black Tulsans. According to eyewitnesses, the dead are buried in unmarked mass graves in Greenwood.
