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: NPR
Oct 13, 2016
"Bob Dylan, like many if not most literary greats, is an alchemist. He manages to take materials from here and there and to turn them into something different — to make them larger, to make them his own."
Source: Trade-Schools.net
Oct 13, 2016
28% of presidents never went to college.
Source: Public Radio International
Oct 12, 2016
Ann Major recently decided to digitize her grandfather’s movies. That’s when she found a little surprise.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
Oct 12, 2016
Trump could stage a comeback. It’s possible. But it would be basically unprecedented.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 10, 2016
"I was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the congress to do what you want to do," Clinton said
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 10, 2016
A growing number of communities are now ditching the traditional Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People’s Day.
Source: NYT
Oct 9, 2016
The film arrived to an estimated $7.1 million in ticket sales over the weekend, apparently unable to push past the controversy surrounding its director and star, Nate Parker.
Source: Gizmodo
Oct 9, 2016
On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew.
Source: The Root
Oct 9, 2016
After being in white hands for several generations, Turner’s descendants were able to retrieve his skull from a former Gary, Ind., mayor.
Source: NYT
Oct 8, 2016
Debate over the merits and risks of America’s role as a moral authority has raged for decades, from the war in Vietnam, to Iraq, and now to Syria.
Source: NYT
Oct 8, 2016
Richard Winger, the editor of Ballot Access News, points out that in 1912, the Republican incumbent nominee for vice president, James Sherman, died in October.
Source: NYT
Oct 7, 2016
The house’s materials have been shipped to an artist in Berlin, who wants to reconstruct the house to honor Ms. Parks’s life and her extraordinary role in the civil rights movement.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 7, 2016
Cartoons and video like this are part of a new trend by Israel to conduct its public diplomacy — known as "hasbara" or explanation— via social media.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 6, 2016
The United States began the War in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001.
Source: NYT
Oct 6, 2016
The book, “Adolf Hitler: His Life and His Speeches,” was credited to Baron Adolf Victor von Koerber, a German aristocrat and war hero.
Source: NYT
Oct 6, 2016
Modern technology is used to reproduce artifacts that were destroyed in Iraq and Syria; the results are on display at the Colosseum in Rome.
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 5, 2016
From domes in Milwaukee to a steamboat in Louisiana
Source: Newsweek
Oct 5, 2016
The class, canceled and then reinstated, is taught by a Palestinian student
Source: CBC
Oct 5, 2016
Tenured professor denies responsibility for anti-Semitic post on his Facebook page.
Source: NYT
Oct 5, 2016
The museum has been designed to absorb the crush of people arriving on ferries that dock every 20 to 30 minutes.
