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
Feb 19, 2016
by Paul Jankowski
Renovated museum to open at Verdun.
Source: The Telegraph
Feb 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s rival for Democrat nomination ruled out ever joining the party, documents show.
Source: National Security Archive
Feb 19, 2016
Photographs of nukes have been available since 1990.
Source: Al Jazeera America
Feb 19, 2016
One tribe is bidding to go all the way home to the Midwest, some two centuries later.
Source: Syrian heritage.org
Feb 19, 2016
And this is just the destruction that's took place in December and January.
Source: New York Post
Feb 18, 2016
A decades-old video has emerged showing Chicago cops arresting a young protester — Bernie Sanders — at a 1963 anti-segregation demonstration in Chicago.
Source: New Historian
Feb 18, 2016
Co-led by Professor Adam Siepel from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island, NY, the team found evidence of interbreeding dating back to approximately 100,000 years in the past – several millennia before any other existing documented interbreeding event.
Source: NYT
Feb 18, 2016
The more people are told about the history of Supreme Court nominations, the more they tend to agree that the Senate should consider the president’s nomination, not delay it.
Source: Think Progress
Feb 18, 2016
“That’s history,” said Tammi Lawton, who attended Trump’s rally in Walterboro with four friends. “No matter which way you look at it, that is history. That’s Southern history, and she’s a stupid idiot.”
Source: NYT
Feb 18, 2016
Mr. Walesa, in interviews, has said that as a dissident, he “played a game” with the Communist authorities, but that he never actively served them.
Source: Cville
Feb 17, 2016
A survey indicates slavery became part of the curriculum only since the 1980s at Monticello and other places.
Source: NYT
Feb 17, 2016
Many in the town are convinced that the Kremlin lopped 3,000 years off Derbent’s age to avoid having a Muslim city named the oldest urban settlement in a country that presents itself as the defender of traditional Christian values.
Source: NY Daily News
Feb 17, 2016
St. John's University was at the center of a firestorm after current and former students expressed their anger over the school failed to post recognition of Black History Month.
Source: CNN
Feb 17, 2016
Predappio is a pilgrimage site for far-right militants and people nostalgic for the Mussolini era.
Source: NYT
Feb 16, 2016
A proposal by the Institute for Advanced Study to build faculty housing has drawn criticism from preservationists of a 1777 battleground.
Source: Think Progress
Feb 16, 2016
These leaders had a much different perspective in July 2008, the final year of George W. Bush’s presidency, when they convened a meeting entitled “Protecting American Justice: Ensuring Confirmation of Qualified Judicial Nominees.”
Source: Press Release
Feb 16, 2016
It will replace the Yorktown Victory Center.
Source: Freedom Trail Foundation
Feb 16, 2016
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Freedom Trail Foundation announces a first-time ever opportunity to experience and discover the women who took part in the American Revolution, and the generations of women that followed, inaugurating their own struggles for freedom and equality.
Source: Public Policy Polling
Feb 16, 2016
38% of Trump voters say they wish the South had won the Civil War to only 24% glad the North won and 38% who aren’t sure.
Source: NYT
Feb 15, 2016
The Lincoln Memorial will undergo some of its most extensive renovations to date, including efforts to wash away dirt and debris, repair damage sustained during a 2011 earthquake, and build a substantial space for educational programs under the memorial.
