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: Yale Daily News
Aug 1, 2016
The school will review all names after a committee investigation.
Source: The Daily Beast
Aug 1, 2016
Brazil is suffering pre-Games fears, delays—and Zika—but Rio probably won’t be among the all-time most disastrous Olympics. Here are the top five worst ever.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 31, 2016
On Monday, survivors will attend the unveiling of a memorial on the 50th anniversary of Whitman’s rampage, which left 17 dead and more than 30 wounded.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jul 31, 2016
For nearly a century, historians have argued about whether or not the events in Exodus actually took place, A new find in Israel may hold the key to a new explanation.
Source: Newsmax
Jul 30, 2016
Just 35 percent of Americans who were interviewed in the days after the speech thought it was "excellent or good."
Source: NYT
Jul 30, 2016
Sgt. Gary Rose, a medic with an elite group of commandos in 1970, is to receive the first Medal of Honor acknowledging the heroics of a soldier on the ground in the Secret War in Laos.
Source: Guardian
Jul 30, 2016
The pontiff visits camp where 1.1 million people were killed and later meets a group of former inmates
Source: NYT
Jul 29, 2016
A president’s approval rating has tended to be more predictive in elections than right-track/wrong-track numbers.
Source: PBS
Jul 29, 2016
As the skyline changes at a head-spinning clip, archaeologists, by law, are digging down, uncovering fascinating artifacts.
Source: The Roanoke Times
Jul 28, 2016
It was the Black Tom explosion, an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents that took place on July 30, 1916, in Jersey City, N.J.
Source: Romper
Jul 27, 2016
Meryl Streep's speech name-checked America's first woman soldier.
Source: NYT
Jul 27, 2016
President Obama has selected Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side to build his presidential library near the University of Chicago.
Source: NYT
Jul 27, 2016
The current Republican Party may also fall into that category, given how many powerful Republicans have refused to back Mr. Trump.
Source: The Guardian
Jul 27, 2016
Ali David Sonboly, 18, who was born in Munich to Iranian parents, boasted to friends that he was proud to be an “Aryan.”
Source: NYT
Jul 26, 2016
Michelle Obama, speaking at the Democratic Convention, said she lived in a home built by slaves. Some were taken aback, but history supports her.
Source: The Nation
Jul 26, 2016
The vestige of American slavery had long gone politely ignored amid the polished Oxonian interiors of the rarefied university.
Source: CNN
Jul 25, 2016
by Tim Naftali
In modern U.S. political history, how unprecedented are such serious efforts by foreign governments to mess with our domestic politics? Not at all unprecedented, as it turns out.
Source: New Historian
Jul 25, 2016
Archaeologists have discovered numerous settlements in Germany. They have also uncovered evidence which shows that Neanderthal populations there came to an unexplained, sudden end.
Source: KU Leuven
Jul 25, 2016
The death of King Albert I of Belgium in 1934 – officially a climbing accident – still fuels speculation.
Source: NPR
Jul 24, 2016
It started with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1940.
