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: The Boston Globe
Mar 14, 2016
In an op ed in the Boston Globe he says "Massachusetts should revive the requirement that public school students pass a US history MCAS test to graduate from high school."
Source: Harvard Law Today
Mar 14, 2016
“The Corporation agrees with your judgment and the recommendation of the committee that the Law School should have the opportunity to retire its existing shield and propose a new one,” wrote Harvard President Drew Faust.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Mar 14, 2016
Americans overwhelmingly believe they know the issues when they go to the polls but agree nearly as strongly that everybody else does not.
Source: CBC News
Mar 13, 2016
Laval University will review its choice in imagery for a fundraising campaign after facing criticism that one of its illustrations looks like a pavilion designed by a Nazi architect.
Source: Newsweek
Mar 12, 2016
It’s a repeat of an old pattern that resulted in the 19th century in the Civil War.
Source: NYT
Mar 11, 2016
The gulag is a distant memory. In today’s Russia, people pine for an era of order and superpower status.
Source: The New Republic
Mar 11, 2016
Harper Lee’s estate will no longer allow publication of the inexpensive paperback edition that was popular with schools.
Source: AJC
Mar 10, 2016
Republican House members on Thursday took turns blasting the public affairs director for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board for comparing them to Hitler for failing to move so-called religious liberty legislation.
Source: BBC
Mar 10, 2016
The lost cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria is now chronicled by the BBC.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 9, 2016
The rare Whitman “soldier letter,” one of only three known to exist, was discovered last month by a National Archives volunteer who is part of a team preparing Civil War widows’ pension files to be digitized and placed online.
Source: Time Magazine
Mar 9, 2016
Report on a new study in “Nature."
Source: Toronto Star
Mar 9, 2016
A historian has been writing letters to politicians, Bank of Canada governors for years saying it is unacceptable not to have a female figure on the bills.
Source: The Wilson Center
Mar 8, 2016
Despite the public disclosure of Soviet Central Committee documents in 1998—eighteen years ago—which revealed that the allegations were fraudulent, China and, much more noisily, North Korea still maintain the charges.
Source: The Des Moines Register
Mar 8, 2016
When it rains, workers at the State Historical Building strategically place large potted plants around the atrium to catch water dripping from the leaky skylights.
Source: Huffington Post
Mar 8, 2016
Microsoft is encouraging young women to #MakeWhatsNext.
Source: NYT
Mar 8, 2016
How different would the world look without the great minds of female inventors?
Source: Inside Higher ED
Mar 8, 2016
The political science textbook included maps showing Israel belonged originally to Palestinians.
Source: PRNewswire
Mar 7, 2016
This rare 1927 edition is bound in red leather and has the title in gold print attached to its spine. It was kept by a soldier's daughter until only a few years ago.
Source: National Post
Mar 6, 2016
Book blasts JFK legacy north of 49.
Source: BBC
Mar 6, 2016
Its leader dresses up like a Nazi.
