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: The Virginia Gazette
May 21, 2014
“It's not a house, it's an incredible, authentic experience.”
Source: USA Today
May 21, 2014
Denson-Rogers, a historian for the Lee County Black History Society, would like to see the victims' recognized.
Source: National Security Archive
May 21, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit joined the CIA's cover-up of its Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 by ruling that a 30-year-old volume of the CIA's draft "official history" could be withheld from the public.
Source: Independent (UK)
May 21, 2014
French politicians and institutions in particular appear nervous about marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's exile.
Source: The Independent
May 20, 2014
By cutting open the mummies, scholars and collectors destroyed the fragile layers of embalmment, arranged with care after death in order to ensure the person's existence in the afterlife.
Source: Imperial Valley News
May 20, 2014
"After the Civil War, southern men would have appeared treasonous if they had organized memorials to honor their fallen, so women - perceived as apolitical - instead organized tributes and events."
Source: Coalition for History
May 20, 2014
by Lee White
Legislation to build the museum has been stalled for 10 years.
Source: NYT
May 20, 2014
Combing Through the Public Library’s Tom Wolfe Archive
Source: NYT
May 20, 2014
Documents obtained by a gay-rights group offer new details about the views that drove the federal government’s sometimes-obsessive effort to identify and fire gays in government jobs.
Source: The Kansas City Star
May 20, 2014
Stakeholders and lawmakers agree the 2-mile stretch from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol is maxed out.
Source: Huffington Post
May 20, 2014
All along the East Coast, sites like the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument, are imperiled by rising seas and storm surges.
Source: BBC
May 19, 2014
The baths were intended to resemble an ocean liner, with different levels, white railings and circular windows.
Source: NPR
May 18, 2014
Hortense McClinton graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s and became the first black professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Source: BBC
May 18, 2014
When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue.
Source: NYT
May 18, 2014
The relics had survived the rise and fall of dynasties, modern wars and the Cultural Revolution. But the scourge of a more prosperous China — industrial pollution — had been eating away at the sandstone.
Source: NYT
May 17, 2014
Much of what occurred in that quixotic campaign shaped what the Kochs have become today — a formidable political and ideological force determined to remake American politics.
Source: Guardian
May 17, 2014
Photographer saving the art for the ages.
Source: Raw Story
May 17, 2014
The ad: “Islamic Jew-hatred: It’s in the Quran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop Racism. End all aid to Islamic countries.”
Source: thewrap.com
May 16, 2014
Network says it has found examples ” in about 50 published stories.”
Source: BBC
May 16, 2014
Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say.
