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: NYT
Nov 24, 2014
“Historically, there seems to be a tipping point at which the justices seem more comfortable setting aside state practices. When only a third of the states still retain a practice, the court seems ready to act.”
Source: NYT
Nov 23, 2014
One of the country’s great dynastic families is downsizing.
Source: NYT
Nov 22, 2014
Friday’s 10-to-5 vote, with all Republicans on the board supporting the books and Democrats opposing them, was the first of its kind since 2002. The books will be used for at least a decade.
Source: Huff Post
Nov 22, 2014
A rare glimpse of Kennedy’s off-air persona. In the clip, dug up by MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Kennedy can be heard speaking candidly about that first televised presidential debate,
Source: Pew Research Center
Nov 21, 2014
President Obama’s executive action to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation is an act that both follows and departs from precedents set by his predecessors.
Source: National Geographic
Nov 20, 2014
Oldest human genome reveals less of an East Asian ancestry than thought.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 20, 2014
Repopulating our woods — and even our yards, our commons and our courthouse lawns — with American chestnuts would put a versatile, nutritious, easily harvested food source within reach of just about everyone.
Source: Newsweek
Nov 20, 2014
by Max Holland
Historian Max Holland unravels the complicated story.
Source: The Conversation
Nov 20, 2014
by Stefanie Linden
During World War I, severe post-traumatic reactions reached an epidemic scale that surpassed anything known from previous armed conflicts.
Source: National Security Archive
Nov 20, 2014
Documents, both those from the original posting as well as more recent ones, provide insider perspective and accounts of a variety of topics.
Source: Bloomberg
Nov 20, 2014
The chance discovery of more than 1,400 modernist works in a 2012 raid by tax authorities at Gurlitt’s apartment in Munich unearthed paintings, sketches and prints long given up as lost or destroyed under Adolf Hitler’s rule.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 19, 2014
The lesser known story is that of the more than two dozen American Indian tribes scattered along the 2,400-mile byway, which stretched from Chicago to California.
Source: ABC News
Nov 19, 2014
"In the long term, it's really dangerous to interject one's liberal or conservative views and try to turn that into historical fact."
Source: FOX News
Nov 19, 2014
Despite having more than 20 gunshot wounds, Johnson almost single-handedly fought off his attackers armed only with a rifle and a bolo knife, using the rifle as a club once it had run out of bullets. All told, Johnson left four Germans dead and injured at least 20 others, who retreated.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Nov 19, 2014
It's a collection totaling 196,000 posters and lobby cards representing 44,000 titles for some of Hollywood's greatest films.
Source: Tablet Magazine
Nov 19, 2014
Turns annual extremist march into a fundraiser for a very good cause
Source: Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table
Nov 19, 2014
by David W. Jacobs
A new book is said to offer strong evidence that Randolph Jefferson fathered the author's ancestor, Edwin Jefferson, with Betty Brown Hemings.
Source: ABC News
Nov 19, 2014
The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a digital art detective, able to unlock the mysteries of a work's age and authenticity by analyzing its underlying canvas or paper.
Source: The Express Tribune News Network
Nov 19, 2014
A 1914 watercolour by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned on Saturday could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($62,685) given strong global interest, a German auction house chief said on Tuesday.
Source: Smithsonian
Nov 19, 2014
In a burst of post World War II innovation, the transistor radio with music for your pocket fueled a teenage social revolution.
