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: Jewish Standard
Jun 22, 2017
The findings of an Anti-Defamation League report released this week found that 42 KKK groups are active in 33 states, with an estimate of some 3,000 members. More than half the groups were either formed or restarted in the past three years.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 22, 2017
The key work on creating the Senate version of the ACA was done in secret.
Source: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Jun 22, 2017
For decades, successive generations of school leaders seemed to downplay the troubling history, but now they are preparing to formally acknowledge Wesleyan’s Klan history, as well as ties to slavery.
Source: Newsweek
Jun 22, 2017
A new discovery may hold some clues as to how carved images evolved into a formal writing system.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 22, 2017
Iraqi PM denounces levelling of Mosul building where Islamic State leader declared a caliphate three years ago.
Source: The Hill
Jun 21, 2017
“I believe that there’s no reason not to support it,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who introduced the bill. “It helps the country, it helps women, and it’s truly bipartisan.”
Source: NYT
Jun 21, 2017
It completely overlooks Mr. Geisel’s anti-Japanese cartoons from World War II, which he later regretted.
Source: NPR
Jun 20, 2017
by Julian Zelizer (Interview)
Medicare was largely designed in secret, though there had been public hearings.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 20, 2017
With the help of a $10 million gift from philanthropist David Rubenstein, the Montpelier staff has devoted new attention and resources to tell their story.
Source: NBC News
Jun 20, 2017
Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
Jun 19, 2017
It was a historic reunion, the guests told one another, held this weekend to mark the 45th anniversary of the 1972 Watergate break-in.
Source: NYT
Jun 19, 2017
He cites Alien and Sedition Acts, suppression of civil liberties in the Civil War, and the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.
Source: CBS News (video)
Jun 19, 2017
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery at 27 and repeatedly risked her life over the next decade, returning to Maryland about a dozen times and rescuing more than 70 family members and friends. Chip Reid reports on how her legacy is being honored.
Source: Quartz
Jun 19, 2017
Trump’s win has broken through an apathy barrier of sorts. People who’d become disengaged with politics suddenly started paying attention again.
Source: CBS New York
Jun 18, 2017
The grant will ensure that the story of the people who were at the Stonewall uprising 48 years ago is told.
Source: Independant
Jun 18, 2017
Newly discovered diaries reveal horror of siege.
Source: NBC News
Jun 18, 2017
Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Source: NYT Editorial
Jun 17, 2017
His name is David Rubenstein. He founded the Carlyle Group and is giving away a billion dollars.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jun 16, 2017
The state legislator denied that slavery caused the war.
Source: Live Science
Jun 16, 2017
At an ancient site of human sacrifice in China, war captives may have been kept as slaves for years before they were killed, a new study finds.
