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: YouGov
Jul 15, 2014
Americans are especially likely to think of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan as "very" smart.
Jul 15, 2014
Reluctantly, Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for compensation included the “disadvantaged” and opened the door to whites as a way to solidify the support of white allies and liberals.
Source: NYT
Jul 15, 2014
To Some Dismay, Italy Enlists Donors to Repair Monuments
Source: Pew Research Center
Jul 15, 2014
Sacré bleu! France makes the list of top 10 fans of the U.S. and Germany makes the list of the top 10 critics.
Source: Science Daily
Jul 15, 2014
Mormon pioneer mortality rate calculated at 3.5 percent.
Source: The History Blog
Jul 15, 2014
A tourist hiking in the foothills of a waterfall in Mexico two weeks ago fell from a branch onto a Mesoamerican monolith that was in the process of being carved out of the stone by looters.
Source: Salon
Jul 15, 2014
The school, Heritage Academy, is using two of Skousen’s most popular books, “The 5,000 Year Leap” and “The Making of America.”
Source: Pink News
Jul 14, 2014
It was the only European gay publication to outlast the Nazis.
Source: The Independent
Jul 14, 2014
French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows.
Source: Informed Comment blog
Jul 14, 2014
A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn’t sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who’d apparently failed to sign up for the draft by their 18th birthday.
Source: NYT
Jul 12, 2014
Though she never held elected office, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely considered to be the most influential first lady ever.
Source: The Toronto Sun
Jul 12, 2014
Despite being the foundation of modern North American spy training, surviving structures were razed in 1969.
Source: BBC
Jul 12, 2014
Why does Italy have two police forces and what is so special about this one?
Source: BISI (British School of Archaeology in Iraq) blog
Jul 11, 2014
For now, the Tomb of Jonah appears to be safe.
Source: Bloomberg
Jul 11, 2014
Sadly, Putin's nostalgia will come at great cost to the country's future.
Source: AP
Jul 10, 2014
Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help thwart it.
Source: The Florida Times-Union
Jul 10, 2014
The hunt is expected to wrap up in August.
Source: The Conversation
Jul 10, 2014
And there is much to lose.
Source: NYT
Jul 10, 2014
‘Blood Feud’ vs. ‘Hard Choices’ in Hillary Clinton Book Battle
Source: Vanity Fair
Jul 10, 2014
In an adaptation from their forthcoming book, Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley and historian Luke A. Nichter draw on 3,700 hours of President Nixon’s White House tapes to convey the inner workings of Nixon’s action-packed first term.
