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: Time Magazine
Apr 8, 2016
It was considered blasphemous by many. Even Bob Dylan criticized it.
Source: NYT
Apr 8, 2016
The College Board says it heard the critics out and made needed changes.
Source: Yahoo News
Apr 7, 2016
"The good thing about history is we’ve seen worse and survived it."
Source: OZY
Apr 7, 2016
Click here to see the pictures.
Source: AP
Apr 7, 2016
The museum, formerly housed on Clay Street, features over 12,000 square feet across two floors that illustrate the African-American experience in Virginia and beyond.
Source: NYT
Apr 6, 2016
The shrine, an unsteady 206-year-old structure held together by an iron cage, has become an uncomfortable symbol of Christian divisions.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 6, 2016
It’s a transition that happens once or twice a decade.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Apr 6, 2016
Joined by Congressman John Lewis, President Faust yesterday unveiled a plaque dedicated to Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba, who lived and worked at Wadsworth House in the 1700s.
Source: The Daily Beast
Apr 6, 2016
Stanford students are voting on a plan to reinstate the controversial Western Civilization curriculum more than 25 years after Jesse Jackson helped kill it.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Apr 6, 2016
It’s about Lloyd Gaines. Lloyd who? Exactly.
Source: San Antonio Express-News
Apr 5, 2016
Kerry, who served in the Navy during the war, will speak April 27, in the middle of the three-day event, before accompanying President Obama on his first Vietnam visit in May.
Source: New Historian
Apr 5, 2016
Homo floresiensis, aka the ‘Hobbit’ people, were first discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia and ever since researchers have wondered how they were able to co-exist with early humans when no other group had. The answer? They didn’t.
Source: Opposing Views
Apr 5, 2016
The picture of the student dressed as a Klansman went viral after being posted on the social media app Snapchat and circulating on Facebook.
Source: Newsweek
Apr 5, 2016
No one who witnessed the war in Bosnia came out of it untouched, and it would be hard to find someone there today whose life was not affected by the master plan of Karadzic and his henchmen.
Source: Quinnipiac University
Apr 5, 2016
Only 36 percent of Democrats agree.
Source: New Historian
Apr 4, 2016
“This closely matches the historical reports of a major demographic collapse immediately after the Spaniards arrived in the late 1400s.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Apr 4, 2016
A committee of trustees has met nine times since December and made recommendations for an “expanded and more vigorous commitment to diversity and inclusion at Princeton,” the statement says.
Source: NYT
Apr 4, 2016
During the talk to members of the Stasi, recently discovered by the BBC, he described his successes and urged colleagues to “deny everything.”
Source: The Herald Bulletin
Apr 3, 2016
“Living in Alex and knowing I was the only black person in town wasn’t a comfortable situation. It was different walking to the store and to the park and to the library.”
Source: Time Magazine
Apr 1, 2016
It's only the second one ever found in North America.
