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: History
Jun 24, 2016
Though undoubtedly a historic decision, Brexit is also only the latest development in the conflicted relationship between the UK and the EU that has played out over the past 50 years.
Source: NYT
Jun 24, 2016
Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again on Friday during his first visit to Armenia when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre.
Source: The Blaze
Jun 24, 2016
“I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country, the richness and the diversity and uniquely American spirit that has always defined us — that we are stronger together, that out of many, we are one,” Obama said.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 23, 2016
Shakespeare jumps to third in magazine list, Alexander Hamilton is highest new entry while Turing and Cleopatra drop out.
Source: Politico
Jun 23, 2016
A measure to bar confederate flags from cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs was removed from legislation passed by the House early Thursday.
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 23, 2016
British Plans Envisioned Using Nuclear Weapons as an Option in Iran and Iraq, According to Declassified Documents
Source: Buzzfeed
Jun 22, 2016
Scandalous details from Gary Byrne’s upcoming book about his time working in the Clinton White House don’t match what he told investigators from Kenneth Starr’s office in 1998.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 22, 2016
Alarm bells went off in Ronald Reagan’s White House in the fall of 1987 when Donald Trump announced that he was considering a request to headline the biggest annual fundraiser for congressional Democrats.
Jun 22, 2016
GOP representative Steve King had objected that Tubman is a divisive figure and wanted to block her from $10 bill. GOP stopped him.
Source: WSJ
Jun 21, 2016
A crowdsourced initiative in which anyone can help decipher Civil War telegrams, including messages from Lincoln himself.
Source: The Conversation
Jun 21, 2016
by Roger Mortimore
The wane and wax of Euroscepticism in Britain.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 20, 2016
Man tells reporter at controversial sale in Germany that he came from Argentina and bought the relics for a museum.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 20, 2016
Over the next nine months, a team of Greek conservationists will restore the collapsing chapel built above and around the burial cave where the faithful believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead after the Crucifixion.
Source: Newsweek
Jun 20, 2016
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder just signed a bill into law and Rhode Island's legislature just passed one, while other states are trying.
Source: NYT
Jun 20, 2016
The bodies of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were found on a remote road 52 years ago. Nine people have been convicted in the case.
Source: NYT
Jun 20, 2016
The country’s vote on leaving the European Union recalls in some ways England’s break five centuries ago with the papacy, another great power across the Channel.
Source: Politico
Jun 19, 2016
by Joseph Cummins
Think he’s the first to hand out vicious epithets to his opponents? Just ask “Tricky Dick,” “the Beast of Buffalo” and “Rutherfraud.”
Source: The Daily Beast
Jun 19, 2016
The 1973 arson of the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans was the deadliest day for LGBT people in America until the massacre at Pulse.
Source: NYT
Jun 19, 2016
The Air Force says that there was no harmful radiation at the crash site, but interviews with dozens of men and details from declassified documents disagree.
Source: New Historian
Jun 18, 2016
They were found in Eritrea.
