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
Sep 11, 2014
Whitewashing the Bible is nothing new.
Source: New Yorker
Sep 11, 2014
Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama.
Source: CBS Evening News
Sep 10, 2014
Most of the people buried in the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery in Alexandria, their names now etched in bronze, were former slaves and children who escaped to freedom during the Civil War.
Source: National Library of Medicine
Sep 10, 2014
by Rebecca C. Warlow
The National Library of Medicine is making the film of Roosevelt’s speech publicly available for the first time, nearly 74 years after the President made his speech.
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 9, 2014
The total number of children currently being apprehended is roughly half of what it was before the Great Recession.
Source: BBC
Sep 9, 2014
Archaeologists have dated the 26cm (10in) weapon to either the Shang or Zhou dynasties - the dawn of Chinese civilisation - based on its material, size and shape.
Source: Media Matters
Sep 9, 2014
"The book relies on wild extrapolation and questionable or anonymous sources and has been denounced as "fictional" by lawyers and investigators involved in the case."
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 9, 2014
In what's been called a "sensational" find, archaeologists have discovered a Viking fortress near the Danish city of Køge, about 30 miles southwest of Copenhagen.
Source: South China Morning Post
Sep 9, 2014
Hirohito warned against a “reckless war” that would make him feel “deeply sorry for my imperial ancestors.”
Source: Journal of Turkish Weekly
Sep 8, 2014
There are a number of reasons for people to yearn for Saddam Hussein. The first reason is his antagonism toward Israel.
Source: Politico
Sep 7, 2014
It is the most famous, or notorious, political attack ad in U.S. history, and 50 years after it first aired on Sept. 7, 1964, the iconic "Daisy" commercial has lost none of its explosive punch.
Source: Discovery
Sep 7, 2014
Carved from marble with traces of blue-and-red paint, the Caryatids were found when a team of archaeologists, led by Katerina Peristeri, removed sandy soil in front of a sealing wall.
Source: The Guardian
Sep 7, 2014
Infamous killer is identified from blood samples on a shawl found next to one victim’s body, says ‘armchair detective.’
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 5, 2014
Everybody grows older, but when you're president of the United States, the physical aging process happens a lot more quickly.
Source: Radio Free Europe
Sep 5, 2014
ITAR-TASS is again adopting its Soviet-era acronym of simply TASS in a step it says will strengthen its image.
Source: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 483
Sep 5, 2014
Lack of Legal or Legislative Closure to Affair Opened Path to Future Presidential Abuses
Source: Foreign Policy
Sep 4, 2014
A few too many years under the Deutsche Demokratische Republik can wreak havoc on a moral compass
Source: Foreign Policy
Sep 4, 2014
How the slave trade patterns of centuries ago are still shaping African marriages today
Source: NYT
Sep 4, 2014
‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Looks at Fall of Saigon
Source: NYT
Sep 4, 2014
Until 1976 West Point didn't even admit women.
