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 American Scholar
May 7, 2017
by Cathy Otten
A first-person account shows it’s a legacy in ruins.
Source: NYT
May 7, 2017
About 260 feet tall and topped by a cross, the Xingsha Church is bigger even than the biggest statue of Mao Zedong in China, less than 10 miles west of here.
Source: NPR
May 7, 2017
In the northwestern German city of Hanover, 50,0000 people have been evacuated from their homes while experts defused three British bombs dropped during World War II.
Source: CBS News
May 7, 2017
Ben Ferencz was 29 when he led the prosecution of the Nazis behind Einsatzgruppen – anti-Semitic death squads which murdered more than a million people by shooting them.
Source: NYT
May 7, 2017
The city has already taken down one monument, but crane companies in the region are receiving threats over the removal of three others.
Source: New York Magazine
May 5, 2017
The answer has to do with our high levels of immigration.
Source: NPR
May 5, 2017
Twenty-five years ago, the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified nearly two centuries after it was written – thanks to the determination of a college student.
Source: The New Yorker
May 5, 2017
Is it an illness?
Source: National Coalition for History
May 4, 2017
On May 4, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that will fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2017.
Source: The Washington Post
May 4, 2017
There was another presidential contest loser who also chose the vocal-and-angry route — none other than Trump’s hero, Andrew Jackson.
Source: fedscoop
May 3, 2017
Instead of building a presidential library for Barack Obama, the 44th president’s foundation will help fund a more-accessible digital archive of his records. This is the new model.
Source: The Boston Globe
May 3, 2017
“If you don’t really know anything about the history of race relations, the history of Supreme Court decisions, the history of Jim Crow, the history of lynchings, the history of slavery, how are you going to even know how to respond when young black people are disturbed and outraged today.”
Source: New Republic
May 3, 2017
They're in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias?
Source: The Hill
May 3, 2017
The center will sit near a lagoon that runs into Lake Michigan in the Jackson Park neighborhood and will feature three buildings – a museum, a forum and a library – as well as outdoor gathering spaces.
Source: NYT
May 2, 2017
After it was threatened with demolition, the house was moved to Berlin, where it was opened to the public in early April.
Source: NBC News
May 2, 2017
Seven decades after the first black player joined the majors, the sport is still suffering from bouts of racism.
Source: CNN
May 2, 2017
Senator Orrin Hatch criticized President Donald Trump Tuesday over his call to end the filibuster, saying the US "would have gone straight to socialism" without the Senate rule.
Source: National Security Archive
May 2, 2017
“We are funding their activities, or we are protecting ourselves. It’s questionable.”
Source: NYT
May 1, 2017
A midcentury war began a crisis of identity and integration that is playing out in France's battle for presidency.
Source: NPR
May 1, 2017
Jean-François Jalkh has stepped down as the leader of France's far-right National Front party, after controversy over his remarks about Nazi Germany's use of Zyklon B gas to kill Jews during World War II.
