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: New Historian
Jul 9, 2018
DNA studies have unearthed the troubling history of dogs in North America – and their fate of extinction at the hands of European colonists.
Source: NYT
Jul 9, 2018
It’s ben 20 years since James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck.
Source: The New Yorker
Jul 9, 2018
They left Israel with nearly 60% of the West Bank.
Source: The Times of Israel
Jul 8, 2018
Netanyahu defends controversial joint statement with Warsaw; says 'goal has been achieved' since clauses of law that deterred free research on Holocaust have been abolished.
Source: NYT
Jul 7, 2018
Within days of taking office, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that his government wanted to exhume Franco and move him to a more modest burial place, as part of an effort to atone for the crimes of the civil war and the repression that followed the conflict.
Source: CNN
Jul 7, 2018
The comments from State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a candidate seeking the Republican nomination in the race to replace retiring Rep. Lynn Jenkins, came at a July 2 meeting of the Leavenworth County Republican Party.
Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Jul 6, 2018
Pictures tell the story.
Source: BBC
Jul 6, 2018
Millard Fillmore is one of the most obscure US presidents, but there is plenty about him that may seem uncannily familiar.
Source: NBC News
Jul 6, 2018
Could she?
Source: NBC News
Jul 6, 2018
Documents indicate Anne's father Otto tried twice to collect the papers needed to obtain visas for the United States.
Source: Vox
Jul 6, 2018
The deep roots of conservative opposition to the environmental state, explained.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 5, 2018
This stone, purportedly found in a North Carolina swamp in 1937, could be a message from Roanoke colonist Eleanor White Dare.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 5, 2018
Although seven presidents supported such efforts, none were successful, according to anti-lynching legislation introduced last week by three black senators.
Source: NYT
Jul 5, 2018
With dark complexions and origins wreathed in mystery, the rural Sumter County people called the Turks never fit easily in any racial pigeonhole. A new book tries to settle who they really are.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 5, 2018
Facebook was forced to apologize to a local publisher in Texas this week for removing a post containing text from the Declaration of Independence after classifying it as “hate speech.”
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 4, 2018
The up-and-down nature of past efforts suggests the process could be fraught with pitfalls, including a mixed record of cooperation from the North Koreans.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 4, 2018
That includes the United States.
Source: NYT
Jul 3, 2018
Chanel suits, Cassini dresses, riding clothes and jewelry for a weekend cut tragically short.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 3, 2018
The ad, paid for by the Becoming American Initiative, uses audio of a Reagan speech in which he praised immigrants and their contributions to American society, along with footage and photographs of the Statue of Liberty and various immigrants through the years.
Source: NYT
Jul 2, 2018
Few admit a link.
