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
Jul 28, 2015
A team of researchers announced on Tuesday that they had unearthed and identified four men, some of European America’s earliest leaders, who died in colonial Jamestown from 1608 to 1610.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 28, 2015
The Public Scholar program, a major new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 30, No. 1
Jul 27, 2015
by Akiko Hashimoto
A scholarly review shows that these often-neglected sources of knowledge reflect a strong pacifist take on Japanese war crimes.
Source: US News
Jul 27, 2015
Rubio told reporters that "decades and decades of discriminatory practices" have yielded a lack of economic opportunity for many minorities and sour relationships between law enforcement and minority communities, particularly African-Americans.
Source: CNN
Jul 27, 2015
It was in 1970 and Palestinian radicals had hijacked three planes headed to the US. Out of the ordeal came the US policy never to negotiate with terrorists, a policy Nixon came up with on the spot.
Source: The Guardian
Jul 27, 2015
Craig Lambert from Southampton University says contrary to reports of 1,500 ships, the king set sail for France with far fewer vessels
Source: Huffington Post
Jul 27, 2015
"We gasped and looked in, and there's the face of a king just staring straight out at us."
Source: New York Magazine
Jul 26, 2015
Hired by ABC to provide lively commentary on the presidential conventions, their ripostes nearly ended in fisticuffs.
Source: NYT
Jul 26, 2015
The filmmakers have been attuned to sensitivity and integrity regarding the case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed and sexually assaulted while her neighbors allegedly listened in 1964.
Source: Slate
Jul 26, 2015
How? By accusing Jewish partisans who fought the Germans of war crimes.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 26, 2015
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called on the former Arkansas governor to “apologize to the Jewish community and to the American people for this grossly irresponsible statement.”
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 24, 2015
In a review in the WaPo he says Tim Weiner leaves a cartoonish portrait of Nixon while Evan Thomas takes too seriously Nixon’s own view of himself.
Source: ctpost.com
Jul 23, 2015
Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.
Source: The Guardian
Jul 22, 2015
News agency combines with British Movietone to provide footage of momentous events that have helped to shape the world
Source: NYT
Jul 22, 2015
The pieces of the manuscript, which were found in the library of the University of Birmingham, are probably at least 1,370 years old, researchers say.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 22, 2015
“How could we still find in the museum of the facility the remains of Jews killed by Hirt 70 years ago?”
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 22, 2015
Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science has been derided as an oppressive eyesore ever since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin built it as his personal gift to the city.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 22, 2015
There is little room for subtlety at the Museum of Chinese People’s Resistance Against the Japanese Invasion.
Source: U.S. Department of State
Jul 22, 2015
On May 15, 2015, U.S. Special Operations Forces recovered a cache of hundreds of archaeological and historical objects and fragments during a raid in al-Amr (eastern Syria) to capture ISIL leader Abu Sayyaf.
Source: Atlantic
Jul 21, 2015
by David A. Graham
The history is especially painful because Waller County, where the arrest was made, was for a time a beacon of black progress.
