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: Civil War Trust Press Release
Nov 11, 2014
Dubbed ‘Campaign 1776,’ new initiative led by Civil War Trust will focus on preservation and interpretation of the hallowed battlefields where a young America was forged.
Source: National Geographic
Nov 10, 2014
In an ancient burial site in Alaska, researchers find hints of cultural links between the New World and eastern Asia.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Nov 10, 2014
It foreshadowed feminism.
Source: NYT
Nov 10, 2014
Mary Berg wrote a diary about her life in the Warsaw Ghetto that was published in English long before Anne Frank’s diary. Then she disappeared.
Source: NYT
Nov 10, 2014
Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.
Source: CBS
Nov 10, 2014
For the last four years, New York researcher and photographer Sarah Stacke has been trying to bring their identities into focus.
Source: The Washington Post
Nov 10, 2014
The text in question is called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, written on treated animal skin, which was brought to the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it from an Egyptian monastery.
Source: Media Matters
Nov 10, 2014
Paul: "Judge Napolitano Gets It"
Source: WaPo
Nov 9, 2014
The word "nigga" is used 500,000 times a day on Twitter.
Source: National Geographic
Nov 9, 2014
Dutch photographer Martin Roemers spent ten years documenting those relics—the now decaying testaments of an era that shaped the character of a continent.
Source: The Wilson Quarterly
Nov 9, 2014
Many Americans took credit for its fall. But only one was poised to profit from it: New Jersey-based contractor Joseph Sciamarelli.
Source: New York Post
Nov 8, 2014
President Ronald Reagan secretly recorded some of his conversations with foreign leaders.
Source: NYT
Nov 8, 2014
After 28 years, East Berliners were giddy with marvel that they could now visit the West. Günter Taubmann felt different, as if, he said, “I am in the wrong movie.”
Source: NYT
Nov 8, 2014
The project took so long there were rumors that the statue was beyond repair. But it was not, as the Met will make clear on Tuesday when the museum puts Adam on display again.
Source: SBS (Australia)
Nov 8, 2014
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has visited the site of Checkpoint Charlie as celebrations kick off to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Source: RT
Nov 7, 2014
Most Russians agree with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the standoff between Russia and the West, but many think the Cold War did not end in 1989.
Nov 7, 2014
25 years later the anchor recalls NBC's scoop.
Source: Huffington Post
Nov 7, 2014
Egypt's Antiquities Minister, Mamdouh El-Damaty, said the artifacts belonged to a temple dating back to King Tuthmose III.
Source: AP
Nov 6, 2014
The segments include a reference to top-secret intelligence briefings the Nixon administration provided to China, and reveal Nixon's private musings as he wrangled with the then-Soviet Union over limiting nuclear weapons.
Source: UPI
Nov 6, 2014
Putin's comments were seen as using historical precedent to strengthen his authoritarian policies.
