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: National Security Archive
Nov 23, 2015
U.N./NATO air strikes plus better-armed peacekeepers likely would have changed calculus and saved the lives of 8,000 Muslims.
Source: NYT
Nov 22, 2015
Efforts to remove Mr. Wilson’s name from a residential complex and the public policy school at Princeton University have raised difficult questions about a prominent graduate’s racist legacy.
Source: Politifact
Nov 22, 2015
"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 21, 2015
Hitler’s plan for a weapon that would outgun the allies was doomed – but one engineer has been trying to find out how it worked.
Source: NYT
Nov 20, 2015
Joachim Ronneberg of Norway says that just before his sabotage mission, he happened upon a tool that was crucial in destroying the Nazis’ supply of a fluid used to create nuclear weapons.
Source: Slate
Nov 19, 2015
The Texas State Board of Education approved increasing public participation in the textbook-review process but rejected a proposed amendment that would have empowered it to create an expert panel of academics to review the books for accuracy.
Source: The Telegraph
Nov 19, 2015
An underground chamber that was a place of worship for a mysterious cult 2,000 years ago has opened to the public for the first time.
Source: WSJ
Nov 19, 2015
Whether residents of Washington, D.C., can carry firearms in the street has prompted examination of English law from the Middle Ages
Source: WSET
Nov 19, 2015
Historians immediately responded with scorn.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Nov 19, 2015
The same day, institution ends the use of "master" to describe leaders of residential colleges.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 19, 2015
A Washington Post investigation reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton have methodically cultivated donors over 40 years, from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors.
Source: Grand Forks Herald
Nov 18, 2015
UND is choosing a new nickname after the NCAA banned its members from using Native American imagery in 2005, and its Fighting Sioux name was retired in late 2012.
Source: Vietnam Full Disclosure
Nov 18, 2015
Frontline and ProPublica are investigating the mysterious deaths of Vietnamese journalists in America by a group believed to have grievances stemming from the Vietnam War.
Source: UPI
Nov 17, 2015
His plan, he said, would protect artifacts from "fanatics who are attacking the living and the dead, all who have humanity today and tomorrow, and those of yesterday."
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 17, 2015
See this graph. It will make you think.
Source: NYT
Nov 16, 2015
From the early 2000s until 2009, when the majority owner was a Jewish family, pro-Palestinian activists held several demonstrations outside the hall to protest an annual benefit held there for the Israeli border police.
Source: New Historian
Nov 16, 2015
The findings have the potential to answer questions about the origins of the Yamnaya culture, herders from the Steppe who swept into Western Europe around 5,000 years ago.
Source: NYT
Nov 16, 2015
A fossil found in a Siberian cave yields evidence from a vanished, once-hardy branch of the human tree that lived at least 110,000 years ago.
Source: WaPo
Nov 16, 2015
The tradition goes back to World War Two.
Source: Independent Journal
Nov 16, 2015
A rumor was spreading on Twitter that the lights on the Eiffel Tower had been shut off in honor of the victims of the attack. There was just one problem: The lights are always shut off every night at 1am.
