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: Reuters
Jul 13, 2017
Friends say he's been framed.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 13, 2017
Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System, says the key year was 1938.
Source: National Constitution Center
Jul 12, 2017
Aaron Burr was. But presidents can't be.
Source: NBC 5 Chicago
Jul 12, 2017
The rioting that began July 12, 1967, left 26 dead, more than 700 injured and nearly 1,500 arrested, mostly black.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 12, 2017
Congress has long seen August as an ideal month for housekeeping in members' districts, and for a simple reason: It's too darn hot.
Source: USA Today
Jul 12, 2017
A Japanese blogger says the key photograph was taken two years before her ill-fated trip.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 12, 2017
by Gene B. Sperling and Chris Jennings
That’s what two key Democrats from the Clinton administration say.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jul 12, 2017
It’s his 200th birthday.
Source: NYT
Jul 12, 2017
Only one close example: 1968. Perpetrator? Nixon.
Source: History channel
Jul 11, 2017
The massive stone wharf loomed over Rio de Janeiro’s harbor, serving as the arrival point for nearly a million enslaved Africans during the first half of the 19th century. Today, the ruins of the Valongo Wharf are the only physical remains of a slave trade port left standing in the Americas.
Source: The Economist
Jul 11, 2017
The mayor of what was the capital of the Confederacy wants to preserve its statues, but ensure the full history is told.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Jul 11, 2017
by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Almost everybody believes it’s true including Henry Kissinger (as related in his memoirs). It’s not.
Source: The Hill
Jul 10, 2017
The student landed the interview after an aide inadvertently leaked the military leader’s cellphone number to the public.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 10, 2017
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev supported John F. Kennedy over incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election.
Source: BBC
Jul 10, 2017
South Korea has released what it says is the first known footage of "comfort women" forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 9, 2017
“Hundreds of local citizens rose up in a non-violent protest against the hate that was being spewed in Justice Park.”
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 8, 2017
The first Hollywood blockbuster revived it.
Source: Politico
Jul 8, 2017
The New York Democrat, whose district includes Trump Tower, is on a mission to sell her idea to the women in the White House.
Source: Political Wire
Jul 7, 2017
"The Republican health care effort is the most unpopular legislation in three decades — less popular than the Affordable Care Act when it was passed, the widely hated Troubled Asset Relief Program bank bailout bill in 2008, and even President Bill Clinton’s failed health reform effort in the 1990s."
Source: NYT
Jul 7, 2017
In recent years, archivists, historians and librarians have been asked to curate the aftermath of catastrophes: school massacres, a nightclub siege, a bombing, a rampage during a Bible study.
