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: WSJ
May 22, 2018
Case in point: This op ed in the Wall Street Journal, which notes that North Korea offered to return the ship in 2005 for high-level talks.
Source: The Conversation
May 22, 2018
by Barry Godfrey and Steven Soper
A study of nearly 25,000 prison register entries shows how connections between race and imprisonment started in the 1860s.
Source: Philly.com
May 21, 2018
A library representative said that she was shocked by the find — and that the Quakers will offer to return the remains, to conduct a burial, or take any action that Indian leaders may desire.
Source: Newsweek
May 21, 2018
A new study has dashed all the conspiracy theories, whether mundane or bizarre.
Source: The Washington Post
May 20, 2018
The same year that 16,899 U.S. soldiers died at the peak of the Vietnam War.
Source: The Boston Globe
May 20, 2018
The award, established by members of the Kennedy family to honor JFK after his 1963 assassination, recognizes and celebrates “the quality of political courage that he admired most,” according to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Source: CNN
May 18, 2018
Trump shares the term "witch hunt" with Richard Nixon, who was reported to have used it about Watergate hearings.
Source: Slate
May 18, 2018
Black Mormons wish it was real.
Source: NYT
May 18, 2018
The Senate is entering a new phase of judicial battles as Republicans push aside Democrats' objections.
Source: The New Yorker
May 18, 2018
Fox News’s Bret Baier wants you to think he just might be.
Source: NYT
May 17, 2018
Watergate has long been the touchstone for modern American scandal, the mountain of misconduct against which all others are judged.
Source: Time Magazine
May 17, 2018
Protests called for a formal promise from the city and the foundation that South Siders will not be hurt by the project.
Source: NYT
May 17, 2018
The upheaval of 50 years ago is hardly history at the movies — from zombies to concerns about male-dominated Hollywood, what happened continues to reverberate.
Source: Press Release – Chicago History Museum
May 17, 2018
You can now experience the Valentine's Day Massacre and other Chicago historical events through Virtual Reality.
Source: History channel
May 16, 2018
The president was Andrew Johnson. The Senate declined to convict him.
Source: The Aspen Institute
May 16, 2018
The project was created to teach Americans how to avoid papering over their differences and instead argue better.
Source: NYT
May 16, 2018
The Dutch art dealer Jan Six says that he has discovered a new Rembrandt, a portrait of an unidentified young man that he purchased at a Christie’s auction in London.
Source: NYT
May 16, 2018
Kim doesn't want a deal like Qaddafi got given what happened to him.
Source: NYT
May 16, 2018
Find out why this small strip of land has been through so many conflicts and political upheavals since the end of World War II.
Source: NYT
May 15, 2018
Fangzheng has close ties to Japan going back to the days of Japanese imperial control in this part of China. Now it's a target of nationalist ire.
