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: Politifact
Nov 3, 2015
Actually, the word was dreamed up by a British doctor in 1905.
Source: NY Review of Books
Nov 2, 2015
Documents recently released provide the best evidence yet of how hard the US was pushing for the eradication of the Communists and the routing of the pro-Chinese Sukarno.
Source: 60 Minutes
Nov 1, 2015
Historian Lonnie Bunch reveals his long hunt for a slave ship for the forthcoming Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Source: NYT
Nov 1, 2015
The Anti-Defamation League called Mr. Carto “one of the most influential American anti-Semitic propagandists” and “the mastermind of the hate network.”
Source: New Historian
Oct 31, 2015
The animal to which the bones belonged lived 11.6 million years ago, according to the researchers who analysed it, an international team from the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and George Washington University.
Source: The Times of Israel
Oct 31, 2015
In segment on Al-Rahma, host and professor interviewee discuss the ‘black’ history of the Jewish people
Source: CNN
Oct 31, 2015
What the Bush v. Gore studies showed
Source: NYT
Oct 31, 2015
The colonial legacy of Lord Jeffery Amherst, the unofficial face of the college, has generated increasing opposition, but traditionalists are resisting calls for a change.
Source: NYT
Oct 30, 2015
“Contrary to the impression that was created, I did not mean to claim that in his conversation with Hitler in November 1941 the Mufti convinced him to adopt the Final Solution. The Nazis decided on that by themselves.”
Source: NPR
Oct 28, 2015
Fifty years after the Arch was built, its anniversary has inspired National Park officials to take a closer look at what the monument represents.
Source: NYT
Oct 28, 2015
Last fall thousands of students staged a walkout to protest the proposed change.
Source: WAFF
Oct 27, 2015
While many people were offended by the photo, others say they don't understand why it's offensive. Here’s why it is.
Source: NYT
Oct 27, 2015
Spurred by a historian, Ukraine has embarked on a quest for a new identity, a fallout from the hybrid war that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia unleashed in early 2014.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 26, 2015
One of America’s most famously Christian businesses is amassing a vast collection of Biblical antiquities. The problem is some of them may have been looted from the Middle East.
Source: NYT
Oct 26, 2015
Using the skeletons of two children who lived in Alaska 11,500 years ago, researchers discovered the first DNA found in the region known as Beringia.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 26, 2015
Could the murder of an anti-Castro dissident—and billions of dollars in damages from that and related cases—threaten Obama’s peace plan with Havana?
Source: NYT
Oct 26, 2015
A warrior’s tomb full of precious metals and jewels is expected to give insight into the rise of the Mycenaeans, from whom Greek culture developed.
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Oct 25, 2015
The story is from John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Penn., who was an airfare airman present in the control room.
Source: WaPo
Oct 25, 2015
by Ishann Tharoor
True, the US didn't drop its barrel bombs in populated areas.
Source: Think Progress
Oct 25, 2015
"During slavery, a lot of the slaveowners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave."
