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 Los Angeles Times
Feb 15, 2016
Mayor Kevin Faulconer has bowed to pressure from a conservative legal group that protested long-standing guidelines in the city's correspondence manual asking employees not to refer to the nation's "founding fathers," but to instead just call them "founders."
Source: BBC
Feb 15, 2016
Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II's close relationship with a married woman, which lasted more than 30 years, have been shown to the BBC.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 14, 2016
It’s "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict” by Caleb Smith.
Source: The Daily Beast
Feb 14, 2016
The battle over plans for a Washington memorial to Dwight Eisenhower drags on, but meanwhile more and more of the Greatest Generation fades away each day.
Source: Journal News
Feb 14, 2016
For some, the notion of Black History Month is a throwback to a bygone era and not consistent with the so-called post-racial era that began with President Barack Obama’s election.
Source: NYT
Feb 13, 2016
Despite mountains of evidence, the church says it doesn’t believe the remains are those of the Czar Nicholas II and his family.
Source: NYT
Feb 13, 2016
The North halted its inquiry into the fate of Japanese said to have been kidnapped decades ago, retaliating for new sanctions imposed by Tokyo.
Source: Time Magazine
Feb 13, 2016
He showed modern presidents and political parties that it is possible to pick a Supreme Court justice who shines brightly without shifting shape.
Source: WaPo
Feb 13, 2016
Here's the quote: "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down, you have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality." Only Stalin never said it.
Source: Politifact
Feb 13, 2016
The most recent contradiction of this claim would be Reagan’s nomination of Kennedy. Kennedy was nominated in November 1987 and confirmed during Reagan’s final year of office in February 1988.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders's indignation at Clinton's embrace of Kissinger is the indignation of a generation of Democrats who loathed Nixon and Kissinger with every fiber of their being.
Source: New Historian
Feb 11, 2016
An anthropologist from Washington State University says that, based on his research into modern hunter-gatherer societies, the desire to teach is hard-wired into humanity’s genetic code.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 11, 2016
The video contextualizes historic racial disparity in the United States using the metaphor of a race track in which runners face different obstacles depending upon their racial background.
Source: The Frederick News-Post
Feb 11, 2016
The song lyrics denounce Lincoln as a tyrant.
Source: BBC
Feb 11, 2016
The suspect is a 94-year-old former Nazi SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp.
Source: ProPublica
Feb 11, 2016
He did it by cultivating an improbable source who risked everything to gather the key evidence.
Source: Monuments of Mosul
Feb 10, 2016
The project Monuments of Mosul in Danger aims to document and research Mosul monuments that have been destroyed by ISIS since June 2014.
Source: Portside
Feb 9, 2016
That’s the controversial argument of a new book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by sociologist R. W. Connell.
Source: NYDailyNews
Feb 8, 2016
New Yorkers relived the tragic sight of the Twin Towers crumbling apart while watching a Super Bowl 50 commercial for Colonial Williamsburg.
Source: Huffington Post
Feb 7, 2016
"As far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men."
