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: NYT
Jun 18, 2016
Letters written long ago by Barack Obama Sr. shed new light on a young Kenyan whose ambitions helped change the course of U.S. history. But for the president, they may also revive old pain.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 17, 2016
Cohn showed Trump how to exploit power and instill fear through a simple formula: attack, counterattack and never apologize.
Source: NYT
Jun 17, 2016
To some, a classified section of an inquiry into the terrorist attacks points to Saudi involvement, while the country’s foreign minister says, “There is no there there.”
Source: NYT
Jun 17, 2016
After the sentencing of Reinhold Hanning, who may be the last former Nazi sentenced for war crimes, reflections on how Germany has addressed its history.
Source: evonomics
Jun 17, 2016
Polarization in Congress has increased steadily over the past four decades, but a new study found that it rose more sharply after banking crises and market crashes.
Source: Mo4ch News
Jun 16, 2016
Fifty years ago this Thursday, a pivotal speech in Greenwood, Mississippi radically changed the direction of the global civil rights movement forever – when Trinidadian immigrant Stokely Carmichael popularized the phrase “Black Power.”
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Jun 15, 2016
The bare statistics are as follows: From 10.57 p.m. to 2.36 a.m. on the night of April 13-14, 327 B-29s dropped a total of 2,120 tons of incendiary and high-explosive bombs on Tokyo, burning out a total area of 11.4 square miles, destroying 170,546 buildings, leaving 2,459 people dead and 640,932 homeless.
Source: AP
Jun 15, 2016
Mass violence has "a long, ugly history" in America, said Katherine Grandjean, history professor at Wellesley College. "It's a pattern as old as the nation and goes back long before even into the colonial roots."
Source: PennLive
Jun 15, 2016
Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, D-Philadelphia, noticed the flag late Tuesday, removed it on her own and turned it over to House Speaker Mike Turzai's office.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 15, 2016
And even if it is, does that title matter?
Source: Compton Herald
Jun 14, 2016
On Sunday, 17 bicycle riders gathered around the monument at New Echota south of Resaca and began retracing the route their ancestors were forced to make in the summer of 1838.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 14, 2016
During his video endorsing Hillary Clinton's candidacy, President Obama made a claim that's become common in recent months.
Source: ABC News
Jun 14, 2016
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday urged Christians to stop displaying the Confederate battle flag, recognizing that it is perceived by many as a "symbol of hatred, bigotry and racism" that offends millions of people.
Source: National Post
Jun 14, 2016
The findings offer new insight not only into the Khmer Empire, which reigned in what is now called Cambodia from around the 9th to the 15th centuries, but into the populations that lived in the area long before then.
Source: NYT
Jun 14, 2016
More than a century after Georgetown University used some of the profits from the sale of 272 enslaved African-Americans to help ensure its survival, John J. DeGioia, the university’s president, took a first step on Monday toward making amends to their descendants.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 14, 2016
Women's freedom to wear two-legged garments speaks to a revolution that has been centuries in the making.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 14, 2016
An international team of archaeologists, astronomers and historians have spent the past 10 years deciphering the many mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first mechanical computer.
Source: NYT
Jun 14, 2016
An installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale shows how the death camp was designed.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 13, 2016
Which moments in American history have most shaped the worldviews of those born in 1946?
Source: NYT
Jun 13, 2016
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community is no stranger to violence.
