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
Sep 21, 2017
Calls to remove cemetery monuments are raising questions. Are such monuments really on public display? Should they be treated like the ones in public squares?
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Sep 20, 2017
It was sold to the LDS church by the break-off sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Source: BBC
Sep 19, 2017
The vessel is thought to have been sunk by a mine.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
Sep 19, 2017
by Joyce E. Chaplin, Jason Beckfield and Khalil Gibran Muhammad
"We Are Educators, Not Prosecutors"
Source: WSJ
Sep 19, 2017
by Douglas A. Irwin
Immigration and rapid industrialization—not tariffs—made the 19th-century economy great.
Source: Time Magazine
Sep 19, 2017
Though Trump used Truman's words to make a nationalism-friendly case that the organization benefits when individual member states look out for themselves, he hasn't always been supportive of the United Nations.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 19, 2017
But NAEP gets an F on that score says Sam Wineburg.
Source: NYT
Sep 19, 2017
Who killed Alberta Jones, Louisville’s first black prosecutor, in 1965? Prodded by a professor, the police are trying again to find out.
Source: Newsweek
Sep 18, 2017
Only about a quarter (26 percent) of Americans can successfully name all three branches of government, with one-third of respondents unable to name a single branch, 27 percent who knew one branch and 13 percent who knew two.
Source: NYT
Sep 18, 2017
We've had them before, though not during most of the Cold War; most presidents then thought they would remind people of the USSR.
Source: The Weekly Standard
Sep 18, 2017
That's the question facing administrators as students return to campus across the South.
Source: Irish Central
Sep 17, 2017
A collage of newspaper ads showcases the evidence that the Irish faced discrimination in the 19th century.
Source: Newsweek
Sep 15, 2017
More than 80,000 U.S. military members remain missing in action, according to the Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), which formed in 2015 following the merger of previous departmental efforts to do such accounting.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Sep 15, 2017
The Assembly passed a resolution 41 to 5 to denounce comments by the president that seemed to equate white supremacists and neo-Nazis with the protesters demonstrating against them.
Source: NYT
Sep 15, 2017
It’s long been derided as myth, but the story keeps popping up.
Source: NYT
Sep 15, 2017
It’s a worldwide phenomenon.
Source: Pacific Standard Magazine
Sep 14, 2017
It’s the National Park Service!
Source: Ars Technica
Sep 14, 2017
Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sep 14, 2017
A Native American group argues that a plot of land owned by the university is theirs by ancestral right. Scholars of indigenous studies at Brown cast doubt on the claim.
Source: Star Tribune
Sep 14, 2017
A committee was launched in response to a stunning new exhibit.
