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: CBS News (Video)
Feb 19, 2015
Seventy years after the battle of Iwo Jima, two survivors provide perspective on the offensive that is best remembered for an iconic photograph of U.S. Marines raising an American flag.
Source: Voice of America
Feb 18, 2015
Missing from chapters on World War One are the stories of Americans who volunteered for the fight before the US entered the war.
Source: Huffington Post
Feb 18, 2015
While the this correspondence sheds light on his personal communications, it has long been known that Freud did not view homosexuality as a pathology.
Source: The Hill
Feb 18, 2015
The White House told the Times that the designation, to be made Thursday, is meant to recognize “the fragility of civil rights during times of conflict.”
Source: CBS News (Video)
Feb 18, 2015
It was named for George Pullman, who was no saint. He despised unions and endured bitter strikes. But the diverse work force he employed fostered an environment that ushered in fair labor conditions.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 17, 2015
Record haul of 2,000 coins found in an ancient harbour and belong to era of Fatimid Caliphate which ruled much of the Middle East and North Africa from 909 to 1171
Source: Huffington Post
Feb 17, 2015
Photographer Stephen Somerstein chronicled the Selma demonstration through a series of images that authentically portray the events that took place over the course of the 54-mile march.
Source: NYT
Feb 17, 2015
He was lead counsel in 1974 for a number of historians, political scientists and reporters who maintained that despite an agreement he had struck with the government, Nixon could not take possession of records created while he was in the White House.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2015
How a manuscript’s discovery became Harper Lee’s ‘new’ novel
Source: Telegraph
Feb 16, 2015
On average Britons lived for two years longer after the fall of the Roman Empire
Source: Princeton University
Feb 16, 2015
William H. Scheide donates rare books library to Princeton; collection is largest gift in University's history
Source: The Atlantic
Feb 16, 2015
Long before Washington's Birthday was marked by car sales, Americans celebrated their first president by pedaling.
Source: The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2015
The United States dropped barrels packed with fuel in an attempt to burn foliage in the dense forests of Vietnam and smoke out Viet Cong guerrillas.
Source: AP
Feb 15, 2015
Architects and preservationists are at the estate building a computerized database of every piece of the mansion.
Source: NYT
Feb 15, 2015
Spider Martin, a photographer for The Birmingham News in Alabama, captured the weekslong events of Selma in 1965 and other events of the civil rights era.
Source: Brookings
Feb 13, 2015
But beneath the surface of the aggregate figures lurks evidence of significant ambivalence.
Source: Politico
Feb 13, 2015
Honest Abe loved the federal government.
Source: New Historian
Feb 13, 2015
A new study of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shows that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between 250 and 1150 CE.
Source: NYT
Feb 13, 2015
It turns out that Monopoly’s origins begin not with Charles Darrow 80 years ago, but decades before with a bold, progressive woman named Elizabeth Magie.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Feb 13, 2015
The building’s named for Ben Tillman, the virulent racist governor of South Carolina who watched while a black state senator was murdered.
