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: National Security Archive
Sep 14, 2016
President Richard Nixon may never have even read the President’s Daily Briefs partially declassified and released by the CIA with great fanfare on August 24, 2016.
Source: NBC News
Sep 13, 2016
The book, Mexican American Heritage, published by Momentum Instruction, was found to have 68 factual errors and 73 interpretive and omission errors by an ad hoc committee of scholars assembled by board member Ruben Cortez Jr.
Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center
Sep 13, 2016
Nearly a third of Americans cannot name any of the three branches of government.
Source: NYT
Sep 13, 2016
From brushing off gunshot wounds to working through paralysis, presidents, and those seeking the office, have been no strangers to challenging ailments.
Source: Time Magazine
Sep 12, 2016
The demand to know more about candidates' health jumped in the 1990s, after two high-profile politicians suffered health crises
Source: The Guardian
Sep 12, 2016
The former education secretary’s claim that much history teaching was informed by post-colonial guilt is not supported by data, according to British Education Research Association study.
Source: AP
Sep 12, 2016
Last seen in the 1840s while under the command of Sir John Franklin, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror have long been among the most sought-after prizes in marine archaeology and the subject of songs, poems and novels.
Source: CBS
Sep 12, 2016
It’s been a long road, and the story of the museum, like the African-American experience, is one of trial and triumph, reports CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford.
Source: Newsweek
Sep 12, 2016
Like Clinton, the Bush White House used a private email server—its was owned by the Republican National Committee.
Source: The Daily Beast
Sep 10, 2016
How 9/11 spawned one of the most unusual art preservation efforts of the modern era.
Source: New Historian
Sep 10, 2016
Missing since 1940 after being attacked by German forces, it has been found submerged in 40 meters of water off the Danish coast.
Source: NYT
Sep 10, 2016
In a vast courtroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, a middle-aged Cambodian woman soberly described a night nearly four decades ago that she said she had never talked about before.
Source: The Daily Beast
Sep 9, 2016
American intelligence chiefs were so worried in late 2003 of a nuclear terror attack, they asked the British to take over their spying in case something ‘catastrophic’ went down.
Source: National Security Archive
Sep 9, 2016
Forty-three years after the U.S.-supported military coup in Chile, the Central Intelligence Agency continues to withhold information on what it knew about planning for the putsch, and what intelligence it shared with President Richard Nixon.
Source: The Hoya
Sep 9, 2016
A group of descendants of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation in partnership with the university and the Jesuits of Maryland to fund scholarships for descendants.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 9, 2016
Norway’s largest newspaper published a front-page letter to the Facebook CEO lambasting the company’s decision to censor a photograph of the Vietnam war
Source: NYT
Sep 8, 2016
Sam Iacobellis, an engineer whose development and lightning delivery of 100 B-1 supersonic stealth bombers to President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s was credited with speeding the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Saturday.
Source: The Conversation
Sep 8, 2016
Study suggests his accent could’ve been to blame.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Sep 8, 2016
School Board President Matt Haney wants to rename Washington High School after poet Maya Angelou, a San Francisco native.
Source: Cleveland.com
Sep 8, 2016
The school joins other colleges across the country that have examined ties to slaveholding and the Confederacy.
