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: BBC
May 5, 2015
Enric Marco was exposed shortly before he was due to share a platform at the camp with then Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Source: NYT
May 5, 2015
The strange-but-true story behind Robert Van Fleet’s famous 1965 photograph from a football game between bitter high school rivals in Massachusetts.
Source: Time
May 5, 2015
The Mark Twain Project found about 110 dispatches written in 1865 and 1866.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 4, 2015
The international student says in an apology he had no idea of the cultural significance of the noose.
Source: New Haven Register
May 2, 2015
With the unveiling of a new exhibition next month, Ellis Island is telling stories of immigrants who have come as recently as the start of this century, decades after the last arrival was processed through its doors.
Source: AP
Apr 30, 2015
President Barack Obama has chosen his hometown of Chicago to host his future presidential library.
Source: AZ Central
Apr 30, 2015
ASU denounces 'Whiteness'-fueled hate speech.
Source: Time
Apr 29, 2015
The first curfews were imposed under England’s Alfred the Great, who ruled in the ninth century.
Source: LA Times
Apr 29, 2015
by Michael Hiltzik
In Shakespeare's plays alone one finds a kaleidoscope of purposes for marriage--for love, for dynastic purpose, for spite, for sex.
Source: Slate
Apr 29, 2015
That’s bad news for all art patrons.
Source: National Security Archive
Apr 28, 2015
Yet He Insisted, "I'd do the same thing right this second."
Source: Yahoo News
Apr 28, 2015
Hundreds of people protested outside the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco, calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for his country's treatment of people from other Asian countries during World War II.
Source: Science magazine
Apr 28, 2015
The National Science Foundation had spent years lobbying for the Census Bureau to include the college-major question, arguing that it is essential for monitoring trends in the scientific workforce.
Source: Press Release -- CIRCLE
Apr 28, 2015
The 2014 NAEP Civics, released today, finds that 23% of America’s 8th graders are “proficient.” Although higher scores would certainly be desirable, many adults might be surprised by how difficult the NAEP Civics questions are.
Source: NYT
Apr 28, 2015
The earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday flattened many of the country’s historic structures and some residential buildings, leaving people without shelter.
Source: CBS News
Apr 28, 2015
40 years ago this Thursday, America's war in Vietnam ended. For many who fought, the war's end brought no closure. Barry Petersen joined a group of veterans as they returned to Vietnam.
Source: Huffington Post
Apr 28, 2015
More than 10 years after it was discovered, a mysterious tunnel hidden under an ancient pyramid in central Mexico is giving up new secrets.
Source: The Daily Beast
Apr 28, 2015
Georgia tax and census records show that Affleck’s great-great-great-grandfather likely owned no slaves at all—though he was the executor of estates that did.
Source: Politico
Apr 28, 2015
If everything goes according to plan, Evan Wolfson and Marc Solomon will be unemployed some time later this year.
Source: Press Release -- Mobius Virtual Foundry
Apr 28, 2015
Using live actors and a vintage bus, Möbius has created a virtual reality that places attendees in Montgomery, Ala. on December 1, 1955.
