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: The Los Angeles Times
Jun 16, 2017
The GOP’s secretive process marks a sharp departure from the traditional way the Senate has developed large, complex bills.
Source: Nola
Jun 15, 2017
Congressional members have been attacked at least 21 other times since 1789, according to a report compiled in 2011 by the Congressional Research Service.
Source: The Washington Times
Jun 15, 2017
The hub of U.S. cybersecurity, Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, remains the game-changer in defense that it has been since its inception.
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 15, 2017
Long-awaited volume supplements earlier publication that whitewashed U.S., British Roles.
Source: Star Telegram
Jun 15, 2017
Every June 19 in Texas, communities celebrate with prayer, family gatherings and a strong dose of history. That was the day in 1865 that a union general arrived in Galveston with an order informing Texas that all slaves were freed.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 14, 2017
It was in 1828 when a journalist, stung by criticism, slapped the president’s son in the capitol in hopes of providing a duel.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 14, 2017
70 years after its publication and her death, the story is being commemorated in a new edition published by LIFE.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jun 14, 2017
The teacher argued that slave families mainly remained intact before the Civil War. Her student said that that’s racist.
Source: NYT
Jun 13, 2017
It’s happened before.
Source: Twitter
Jun 13, 2017
by Kevin M. Kruse
Trump's rating is lower than any of these presidents: FDR, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama.
Source: USA Today
Jun 13, 2017
A groundbreaking study on lynching published 2 years ago can now be examined in detail thanks to Google.
Source: NYT
Jun 13, 2017
Few countries have ever grown from client state to regional power. Qatar managed it in just a few years.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 12, 2017
It was in 1874. The couple? Andrew Kinney, a black man, and Mahala Miller, a white woman.
Source: The New Yorker
Jun 12, 2017
by Robin Wright
A first person account.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 12, 2017
The fight against civil rights brought it back.
Source: Bloomberg
Jun 12, 2017
by Timothy L. O'Brien
"Trump sued me, then had to acknowledge 30 times during a deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues."
Source: USA Today
Jun 12, 2017
Twelve states already have adopted the group’s call, and its leaders hope to add 10 to 15 next year. A separate effort demanding a convention to consider a balanced budget amendment already has the support of 27 states.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jun 12, 2017
But when they showed up they found out otherwise.
Source: NYT
Jun 11, 2017
He’s got media allies. Nixon didn’t.
Source: Fredericksburg.com
Jun 10, 2017
The interior of a circular Virginia Mist granite memorial at the University of Virginia will bear the names of nearly 1,000 enslaved workers from between 1817 and 1865.
