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: Foreign Policy
Jul 21, 2015
Critics say the new history curriculum is an attempt to appease Beijing and sway Taiwanese youth toward unification.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 20, 2015
This story will horrify you.
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
Jul 20, 2015
The $15 million makeover will include interactive exhibits appealing to younger, tech-savvy visitors.
Source: WaPo
Jul 20, 2015
He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women and outrageous clubs. Most important, he had a job in his father’s real estate company and a brain bursting with money-making ideas that would make him a billionaire.
Source: The Independent
Jul 20, 2015
20 were jailed. They have now been sent home.
Source: NYT
Jul 19, 2015
Mrs. Clinton rarely talks publicly about her father, Hugh E. Rodham, who exerted a powerful, if sometimes bruising, influence on her life before he died in 1993.
Source: Guardian
Jul 19, 2015
Buckingham Palace has been urged to disclose documents that would finally reveal the truth about the relationship between the royal family and the Nazi regime of the 1930s.
Source: AP
Jul 18, 2015
Researchers believe they found the grave of a man who could be considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln, tracking his final resting place to the cemetery of a former Minnesota psychiatric hospital.
Source: IFC Films
Jul 18, 2015
What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong?
Source: Huffington Post
Jul 17, 2015
Here are some of the mistakes he keeps apologizing for.
Source: Coalition for History
Jul 17, 2015
by Lee White
S. 1177 includes promising developments for history and civics education. It restores limited federal funding for both those subjects although a specific amount is not specified in the bill.
Source: National Security Archive
Jul 17, 2015
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds National Security Archive Victory in Fruit Company's "Reverse-FOIA" Action
Source: Charlotte Observer
Jul 17, 2015
The 39th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans – at the time, an event hailed as a symbol of the country’s unity – drew as many as 150,000 observers in 1929.
Source: AP
Jul 16, 2015
Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that the book is called "The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters."
Source: Inside Higher ED
Jul 16, 2015
South Africa's Constitution exempts hate speech from the normal protections of free speech -- and many in the country said that praising Hitler was hate speech.
Source: NYT
Jul 15, 2015
A newly released grand jury transcript provides some supporting evidence to Mrs. Rosenberg’s defenders, who believe that she was unfairly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 15, 2015
The United States handed over more than 400 ancient artifacts to Iraq on Wednesday, part of ongoing efforts to repatriate the country’s looted heritage.
Source: Huffington Post
Jul 15, 2015
Groening has testified that he guarded prisoners' baggage after they arrived at Auschwitz and collected money stolen from them.
Source: New Yorker
Jul 14, 2015
It removed the Soviet-established statues to Lenin and others.
Source: Cleveland.com
Jul 14, 2015
"Of course, Democratic critics might suggest Boehner has been able to hold onto as many GOP seats as he has thanks to Republican-friendly redistricting maps."
