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 Conversation
Apr 4, 2017
Almost half a million years ago, according to new data, water suddenly started cascading over the narrow strip of land that joined England and France – putting pressure on a chalk bridge.
Source: The Louisiana Weekly
Apr 3, 2017
Yes, there are enough Louisiana descendants to fill a room.
Source: USA Today
Apr 3, 2017
In Kansas City, community leaders formed the Liberty Memorial Association in 1919 and in just 10 days raised $2.5 million (about $34 million in today's dollars) to build a memorial. One-quarter of the city’s population donated to the cause.
Source: Independent
Apr 3, 2017
They argued that it reminded them of murder and that it attracted visitors, compromising their right to privacy.
Source: USA Today
Apr 3, 2017
The change is called the "nuclear option" because it blows up both long-standing rules and bipartisanship in a chamber that has traditionally valued both.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
Apr 3, 2017
Following the Charleston massacre, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched an effort to catalog and map Confederate place names and other symbols in public spaces, both in the South and across the nation. This study, while far from comprehensive, identified a total of 1,503.
Source: The Kansas City Star
Apr 2, 2017
“World War I changed everything.”
Source: CBS News
Apr 2, 2017
Museum curators in Scotland have discovered a piece of Egyptian history -- and they found it inside a crumpled up paper bag.
Source: NYT
Apr 2, 2017
Separated from their family and exhibited in a human zoo during the 1930s, the last sisters face a new indignity: the sale of their childhood home.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 31, 2017
The monument isn’t a temple, obelisk or sculpture. It’s a mural installed in the spring of 1942 at the entrance to the Interior Department’s basement cafeteria.
Source: Time Magazine
Mar 31, 2017
The newly released FBI images show firefighters and first responders working at the scene.
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 31, 2017
A century ago this week, the United States entered World War One. Unlike today, the children of America’s wealthiest families were the first into battle.
Source: NYT
Mar 30, 2017
The Tudor monarch is influencing Britain’s modern-day divorce from the Continent, with powers that were first used by the king set to be deployed to help unpack four decades of European Union membership.
Source: NYT
Mar 30, 2017
Onita Estes-Hicks learned that Jesuits who once ran Georgetown University sold some of her ancestors. She is now enrolled in a social justice program aimed at helping her make sense of it all.
Source: Tablet Magazine
Mar 30, 2017
The Marxist philosopher’s views do not apparently sync with those of Viktor Orbán’s Hungarian government.
Source: NYT
Mar 30, 2017
The 150th anniversary of Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States was a day of mourning for some hard-right Russian nationalists who see the transaction as a gigantic blunder by the ailing czarist empire.
Source: Shmoop
Mar 30, 2017
Between 8 March and 16 June, in what later became known as the "First Hundred Days," Congress followed Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills.
Source: Tablet Magazine
Mar 29, 2017
Tiyul-Rihla, a grassroots educational initiative, is bringing together historically clashing neighbors
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 29, 2017
Reichsbürger conspiracists have made it their mission to “reactivate” the German Reich with the borders it had before World War II.
Source: AmeriForce
Mar 29, 2017
His tweet celebrated the veterans, who President Obama had said were often blamed for the war.
