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
May 30, 2016
… Sharing liquor bottles online that look like the famous image of a man standing defiantly in front of a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square.
Source: The Guardian
May 29, 2016
The conflict between Republicans and Nationalists that erupted in 1936 was distorted by Franco and largely neglected by later governments. Now a campaign is under way to open the first international museum telling all sides of the story.
Source: The Washington Post
May 29, 2016
The 10-month battle at Verdun — the longest in World War I — killed 163,000 French and 143,000 German soldiers and wounded hundreds of thousands of others.
Source: NYT
May 28, 2016
Mr. Trump’s campaign has engendered impassioned discussion about the nature of his appeal and warnings from critics on the left and the right.
Source: The Washington Post
May 28, 2016
Today he’s honored as a devout Muslim. In the 1950s he was honored as a secularist.
Source: NYT
May 27, 2016
Geneticists have studied clues in the DNA of African-Americans about the history of slavery and the Great Migration.
Source: Adweek
May 27, 2016
It will help African-American families trace their ancestors.
Source: The Washington Post
May 27, 2016
Obama called for the courage to “spread peace and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.” In later remarks, he said that scientific strides must be matched by moral progress or mankind was doomed.
Source: ABC News
May 26, 2016
The copy sold is one of 14 signed by Lincoln, his vice president, the speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and in this case, by 36 senators.
Source: CBS
May 26, 2016
The images from the aftermath of Hiroshima are haunting, but for Susan Archinski and her husband Tony, they're also personal.
Source: Fast Company
May 26, 2016
Visitors to the library can download a free app from Layar, point their smartphone at 10 "trigger images," and read a more balanced view of the information presented.
Source: The Marshall Project
May 25, 2016
White-on-black murders rarely result in a death sentence. Roof might be an exception.
Source: Ars Technica
May 25, 2016
Rock designs suggest a complex social structure and ritual behavior.
Source: VICE
May 25, 2016
Harald Sandner got so annoyed by seeing the wrong dates being thrown around in historic works that he decided to take on the task of reconstructing each day of Hitler's life.
Source: NYT
May 25, 2016
Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings have argued that the United States will have moral authority only after it apologizes for the “original sin.”
Source: AP
May 24, 2016
School teacher Mary Lou Bruner has lost her bid to join the Texas board that selects textbooks.
Source: NYT
May 24, 2016
While invoking Hiroshima has become a universal shorthand for the horrors of nuclear war, Nagasaki, where about 74,000 people were killed, has mostly lived in the other city’s shadow.
Source: The Washington Post
May 24, 2016
Museum officials appealed to wealthy African Americans and their corporate, civic and religious institutions. They came through.
Source: Wired
May 24, 2016
New data indicate the Black Death killed 45% of East England's population.
Source: Vox
May 24, 2016
West represents a black intellectual critique of Hillary Clinton — and of a middle-class black establishment that's chosen comfort over change.
