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: Kansas City Star
Jul 13, 2015
“It’s taken a long time, but things that are worthwhile sometimes take a lot of effort and I guess this is one of those things.”
Source: The National Security Archive
Jul 13, 2015
While its intended target was the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it impacted “180-200 miles south of the Mexican border,” according to a recently released memorandum sent from the desk of Henry Kissinger, then serving as National Security Advisor to President Nixon.
Source: The Des Moines Register
Jul 13, 2015
“He said what he was going to do and he did what he said he was going to do, and then he left,” Bush said.
Source: Brisbane Times
Jul 13, 2015
The volume is not intended to "rewrite history but instead be informed by 25 years of new knowledge and interviews with Vietnam War veterans."
Source: AP
Jul 12, 2015
Legal experts suggest that history might hint at how the coming months will unfold, as a handful of defiant clerks across the South and Midwest refuse to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling last month that legalized gay marriage.
Source: Guardian
Jul 12, 2015
A new BBC documentary tells how a trove of documents lays bare the names of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners, including relatives of Gladstone and Orwell
Source: NYT
Jul 12, 2015
The musical retelling of the life of the nation’s first Treasury secretary is poised to become not only a hit, but a turning point for the art form and a cultural conversation piece.
Source: NYT
Jul 12, 2015
Pvt. Hyman Schulman’s correspondence became “not only a record of a historical event, but what it really meant to have a life, and a love, interrupted by extraordinary events.”
Source: NYT
Jul 11, 2015
by NYT Editorial
National consensus, not family members, should determine the fate of a memorial to a national hero.
Source: NYT
Jul 11, 2015
With all the debate brewing over the origins of Harper Lee’s novel “Go Set a Watchman,” the biggest bombshell turned out to be an explosive plot twist that no one saw coming.
Source: Guardian
Jul 10, 2015
Russia's veto of a resolution honoring the dead is worrisome, say critics in the West.
Source: Yahoo
Jul 9, 2015
In 1950 the US military conducted a test to see whether San Francisco's fog could be used to help spread a biological weapon in a "simulated germ-warfare attack."
Source: NYT
Jul 9, 2015
Francis repeated familiar themes in sharply critiquing the global economic order and warning of environmental catastrophe — but also added a new twist with his apology.
Jul 9, 2015
Click here to keep track of the ongoing debate about Confederate flag, statues and other symbols of controversy.
Source: AP
Jul 8, 2015
Lew said that Hamilton's image would be retained in some way on the redesigned bill.
Source: NYT
Jul 8, 2015
As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, reconciliation has been halting in a region where memories and wounds, personal and political, run deep.
Source: Gallup Poll
Jul 8, 2015
Whereas 54% of Americans today view the Confederate flag as a symbol of Southern pride, 34%, including 58% of Democrats, believe it to be a racist symbol. Republicans support flying of the flag by 67%.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Jul 8, 2015
Some historians are suggesting it’s more akin to Historical Guerrilla Warfare.
Source: Wired
Jul 7, 2015
After being decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, the facility sat around for a few years before philanthropist David Woodley Packard (son of the Hewlitt-Packard co-founder) swooped in, remodeled it, and gave it to the Library of Congress.
Source: NYT
Jul 6, 2015
Of the Confederacy museum, “Most of us real Southerners dropped their membership quite a few years ago.”
