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 12, 2017
In the 1980s, the Soviets peddled "bum dope about AIDS" around the world. Moscow's tactics haven't changed much in the years since.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 12, 2017
It’s the lock that launched a two-year investigation and took down a president. And now more than four decades later — and for a starting bid of $50,000 — it can be a really wonky conversation piece.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 12, 2017
The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991.
Source: Forbes
Dec 11, 2017
As questions swirl over whether a sitting President can be indicted for a federal crime, the ancient and medieval history of providing political immunity to leaders, ambassadors, clerics and witnesses reveals a troubling past.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 11, 2017
by Sid Bedingfield
The untold story of the double agent who attacked the paper from within.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 11, 2017
Native tribes exist in an odd semi-sovereign legal state, which often pits tribal rights against the rights of states, or the authority of the federal government, or both. Such conflicts are frequently resolved in the courts — where the odds are not in the tribes’ favor.
Source: NYT
Dec 10, 2017
Historians say violent behavior that gave rise to the phrase "run amok" - and then subsided - can teach us about mass killings today.
Source: Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN)
Dec 10, 2017
You can blame the birth of agriculture.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 10, 2017
At least two of the college’s presidents owned slaves.
Source: CBS News
Dec 9, 2017
The tombs, located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery for noblemen and top officials, are the latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs spanning different dynasties of ancient Egyptian history.
Source: NYT
Dec 9, 2017
President Trump’s presence jolted the opening of a civil rights museum, generating boycotts from some leaders in the movement and small protests by activists as the state’s attempt to confront its racially violent past clashed with more recent divisions wrought by Mr. Trump’s presidency.
Source: Star Tribune
Dec 8, 2017
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee relied on the past when the present offers little support for his view.
Source: History channel
Dec 8, 2017
The women standing up today are in fact part of a long history of activists fighting sexual harassment.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Dec 7, 2017
The memorial will be part of a museum that traces the country’s history of racial inequality from enslavement to mass incarceration.
Source: Chapelboro.com
Dec 7, 2017
“Of the many things that he did, and his ideas are still with us."
Source: NYT
Dec 7, 2017
The memoirs include the emperor's account of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Japan's surrender.
Source: The Root
Dec 7, 2017
It is unclear who’s responsible for posting the flyers, but they came in two varieties: the first, a personal attack against a Jewish resident of the city of Princeton; the second, an advertisement for a fake course at the university called, “Introduction to White Studies: White Guilt and Reparations.”
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 7, 2017
It’s more than you’d think.
Source: NYT
Dec 6, 2017
The places with the most opportunity used to attract the most new residents, in a cycle of fast-growing cities and rising prosperity. But no more.
Source: NYT
Dec 6, 2017
The 1917 blast after a collision between a French munitions ship and a Norwegian vessel killed about 2,000 people and leveled part of the Canadian city.
