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: PBS
Dec 19, 2016
Lynchings -- unlawful executions used to terrorize and subdue black communities into passivity -- are perhaps one of the least discussed legacies of slavery and the Jim Crow South. A new memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, will commemorate victims of these acts of terror.
Source: The Day
Dec 19, 2016
The Post Office will issue a commemorative stamp.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 19, 2016
German post-war politicians were horrified by the possibility of another fascist populist gaining widespread support among the public. So they decided to make the election of the German president a decision of a Federal Assembly, which meets only for that purpose.
Source: Politico
Dec 18, 2016
Bogus news has been around a lot longer than real news. And it’s left a lot of destruction behind.
Source: NYT
Dec 18, 2016
In its 19th-century beginnings, New York Life Insurance sold 508 policies covering slaves. Their descendants are grappling with it.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 17, 2016
After 72 years, historians have a new theory.
Source: Point of Beginning (POB)
Dec 16, 2016
It’s an initiative of ASOR Cultural Heritage – a collaborative effort to respond to the destruction of cultural heritage in Syria and northern Iraq.
Source: Brookings Institution
Dec 16, 2016
"Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump."
Source: Political Wire
Dec 16, 2016
Research shows he was far more liberal than any Democratic presidential nominee in modern history.
Source: The Times of Israel
Dec 16, 2016
After MPs vote to expropriate house, local official says it will be offered to agency working with disabled people.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2016
Non-spouses have played roles like hers in past administrations. None quite like her.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Dec 15, 2016
The surveillance program, codenamed “Picnic,” began as an emergency effort during the Korean War, but federal agencies collaborated with telephone companies in 1954 to continue the wiretaps, says Dennis Molinaro, who teaches history at Ontario’s Trent University.
Source: Politifact
Dec 15, 2016
Every part of the eye-grabbing headline is wrong.
Source: CBS News
Dec 15, 2016
Trump ends the election year with far lower expectations than his two most recent predecessors did.
Source: NYT
Dec 15, 2016
The German owner of the 1,500 artworks was of sound mind when he bequeathed them to a museum in Switzerland, a court in Munich ruled.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 14, 2016
With a series of tweets, phone calls, interviews and statements by surrogates, President-elect Trump has signaled a new, tough policy against China.
Source: NPR
Dec 14, 2016
As President Obama prepares to leave office, 45 percent of Americans think he'll be remembered as an outstanding or above-average president, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
Source: NYT
Dec 14, 2016
The conventional belief is that only small tribes could have inhabited the Amazon jungle, but new discoveries call that into question.
Source: Euronews
Dec 14, 2016
On loan when Russian forces took control of Crimea in 2014, the collection was assembled from four museums and represented fragments of the ancient empires that used the region as a trade crossroads.
Source: The Root
Dec 14, 2016
Ted Bonner, an Arkansas school board member, was called on to resign after dressing up in blackface at a Halloween party.
