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: Bloomberg
Jun 8, 2015
“The idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic. I was concerned about it when I first heard those words."
Source: Media Matters
Jun 8, 2015
Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson, the state's self-appointed vetter of GOP presidential candidates, recently told members of the League of Women Voters that it should be harder for people to vote, suggesting it be limited to state property owners or people who pass a civics test.
Source: The Conversation
Jun 8, 2015
by Karina Urbach
He has always been known for his pro-Nazi sympathies. However, the extent of his betrayal could never be fully verified due to the secrecy of the Royal Archives.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jun 7, 2015
The modern human rights movement turns 40
Source: France 24
Jun 6, 2015
A replica of a French frigate that in 1780 transported General Lafayette to America to rally US rebels battling for independence arrived to great fanfare Friday in the Virginia town where British forces eventually surrendered.
Source: NY Review of Books
Jun 5, 2015
Britain has got Waterloo fever. With the anniversary coming on June 18, documentaries are presenting Wellington, the Iron Duke, as more malleable than first appears, and lauding Napoleon as a hero, rather than as the megalomaniac “Boney.”
Source: NYT
Jun 5, 2015
A Czech series has, not surprisingly, stirred intense reactions about mixing such a dark period in history into an entertainment format more often associated with the Kardashians.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 5, 2015
We haven’t seen a commander-in-chief regularly sporting specs since Harry Truman and those round wire-rims.
Source: ThinkProgress
Jun 4, 2015
Fifty years after the events of Bloody Sunday transpired on the Edmund Pettus Bridge — a bridge named after a former Ku Klux Klan leader — the Alabama Senate voted on a resolution to change the landmark’s name.
Source: Politico
Jun 3, 2015
It is the first time in more than a decade that Americans have expressed a favorable view of Bush.
Source: NPR
Jun 2, 2015
Moscow this year is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its subway system — the Moscow Metro — a crowning achievement of the Soviet Union's unprecedented forced industrialization in the 1930s.
Source: The Root
Jun 2, 2015
After starring as Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed movie Selma, David Oyelowo revealed in a recent interview that Steven Spielberg is trying to get him to reprise his role as the civil rights leader.
Source: New Historian
Jun 2, 2015
A startling archaeological find in southern Russia has revealed proof that the ancient Scythians, a nomadic race that ruled the region some 2,400 years in the past, smoked a concoction of cannabis and opium regularly enough to craft ornate devices to do so.
Source: CBC News
Jun 2, 2015
"Residential schooling was always more than simply an educational program: it was an integral part of a conscious policy of cultural genocide," the TRC's summary report states.
Source: NYT
Jun 2, 2015
Pvt. Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin of the Army will be recognized for valor for risking their lives to protect others on the French front line in 1918.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 1, 2015
Cobbling together the history of the House is significantly trickier than the 50 governors or the 100 senators.
Source: NYT
Jun 1, 2015
A language scholar sets out to find the missing pages of an ancient, influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon.
Source: BBC
May 31, 2015
An exhibition in Liverpool investigates the significance of hair in black culture.
Source: NYT
May 31, 2015
Director Lonnie Bunch says he's been searching for such a slave ship since he took the job in 2005.
Source: NYT
May 30, 2015
The millions of dollars paid out indicate the ease with which thousands of former Nazis managed to settle into new lives in the United States with little scrutiny after the end of World War II.
