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: EdSource
Apr 16, 2015
California, home to the largest number of American Indians in the country, is for the third time considering legislation that would end the use of “Redskins” as a school team name or mascot.
Source: Live Science
Apr 16, 2015
Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus.
Source: National Security Archive
Apr 16, 2015
Newly declassified Clinton White House e-mails and notes detail a decisive U.S. role in the tragic pullout of United Nations peacekeepers during the first two weeks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Source: Scientific American
Apr 15, 2015
Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction.
Source: National Security Archive
Apr 15, 2015
Now we know how the US learned about it and when.
Source: NYT
Apr 15, 2015
The foundation that raises money to maintain the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau has had a guiding philosophy: “To preserve authenticity.”
Source: NYT
Apr 15, 2015
Michelle Robinson Obama, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, has deep roots in the city of her birth.
Source: NYT
Apr 14, 2015
As he tried to find a sewage pipe, Luciano Faggiano dug his way past a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar.
Source: Special to HNN
Apr 14, 2015
by James Loewen
The Department of Defense has its Vietnam. Activists have another.
Source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 14, 2015
As in the first such contest, this one invites contributors to create cartoons questioning the historical truth of the Holocaust.
Source: Yahoo News
Apr 14, 2015
Clinton has long capitalized on her affinity with Mrs. Roosevelt.
Source: Time
Apr 13, 2015
Conservative activists, citing opposition in the 19th century to the Dred Scot decision, say the other 2 branches don’t have to enforce an order of the Supreme Court.
Source: CBS
Apr 13, 2015
His security guard left to get a drink at a tavern.
Source: NYT
Apr 13, 2015
Mr. Grass was called his country’s moral conscience by many, but he stunned Europe when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
Source: NYT
Apr 12, 2015
In addressing the Armenian question, Francis quoted from a 2001 declaration by Pope John Paul II and Catholicos Karekin II, the Armenian Apostolic Church’s supreme patriarch, in which the two leaders called the Armenian slaughter a campaign of extermination that was “generally referred to as the first genocide of the 20th century.”
Source: CBS
Apr 12, 2015
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released a new video showing what appears to be the terror group's destruction of an ancient city in Iraq.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 11, 2015
From Washington to Lincoln’s resting place in Springfield, Illinois, the commemoration of his death echoes past grief and a nation’s defining struggle.
Source: Vox
Apr 11, 2015
The typical presidential candidate explodes onto the national scene as something of an enigma. Hillary Clinton is different.
Source: Live Science
Apr 10, 2015
These molecules, which could be up to 170,000 years old, could one day help yield the most complete picture yet of Neanderthal life, researchers say.
Source: CBS
Apr 9, 2015
Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was where confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered 150 years ago, effectively ending the Civil War. And as David Martin explains, it's also the place no one should ever take for granted.
