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: WaPo
Jul 3, 2014
A fascinating selection of the Post's stories 50 years ago.
Source: The National Security Archive
Jul 2, 2014
Document Casts Doubt over Accuracy of US Reports from Tehran -- and Adds to Debate over Responsibility for the Coup.
Source: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Jul 2, 2014
Voters also say America would be better off if Mitt Romney had won the 2012 presidential election by a 45% to 38% margin.
Source: Huffington Post
Jul 2, 2014
"Birthrates were as high, or even higher, than anything we know in the world today."
Source: WDEF
Jul 1, 2014
The movie will center on the 10th Mountain Division, a group of Army soldiers made up of professional athletes and college scholars trained to rock climb and ski.
Source: The Telegraph
Jul 1, 2014
Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 1, 2014
The two-story house was built in 1834 and at the time of the battle was occupied on one side by Mrs. Mary Thompson, know locally as the Widow Thompson.
Source: Huffington Post
Jun 30, 2014
Huppenthal declined to criticize the Founding Fathers for owning slaves, saying they were above reproach.
Source: History
Jun 30, 2014
The 2001 convention originally applied only to sites sunk more than 100 years ago.
Source: The Telegraph
Jun 29, 2014
Geoffrey Spilman has sold fake works through several eBay identities and was arrested and cautioned in 2012.
Source: Mediaite
Jun 29, 2014
"Now you could say that’s horrible, that’s terrible. Well, maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t."
Source: Forward.com
Jun 29, 2014
Mass Conversion Claim Cast Doubt on Mideast Origins
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 28, 2014
Around the world, older generations are becoming the dominant demographic groups.
Source: NYT
Jun 28, 2014
Fun and games at the site where the archduke was killed?
Source: The Globe and Mail
Jun 27, 2014
Oddly, the immediate reaction to the assassination was muted.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Eduacation
Jun 27, 2014
Mr. Dajani submitted his letter of resignation last month, shortly after he was expelled from the staff and faculty union and fiercely denounced in a statement issued by student political groups at Al-Quds.
Source: NYT
Jun 27, 2014
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Source: The Telegraph
Jun 26, 2014
Eighteen per cent believe of Britons believe that the country become embroiled in war in 1914 to stop the rise the Nazis, survey shows.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
For the Turks and the Australians, the Gallipoli campaign has taken on an outsize importance as the bloody event that became the foundation of a modern national consciousness.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
A century after World War I began, German leadership in Europe is both desired and resented, an ambivalence keenly felt by both the Germans and their wary neighbors.