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.
Oct 28, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
Historian Andrew J. Bacevich calls out the Times for using "faked" footage.
Source: Associated Press
Oct 27, 2013
The Velvet Underground frontman died Sunday at 71.
Source: CBS Face the Nation
Oct 27, 2013
Former New York Times reporter Philip Shenon on how much the FBI and CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination.
Source: Dallas Morning News
Oct 26, 2013
Veteran Dallas police officers are still haunted by that terrible day in 1963.
Source: The Daily Mail
Oct 26, 2013
Bruce Jackson documented the South's prison camps, direct descendants of nineteenth-century slave plantations.
Source: National Public Radio
Oct 26, 2013
That Southeast Asian classic actually has a history in Europe.
Source: New York Times
Oct 26, 2013
Ms. Broz was a glamorous symbol of Yugoslav unity.
Source: The Daily Beast
Oct 25, 2013
Lech Walesa is one hell of an
obdurate man.
Source: Alaska Dispatch
Oct 25, 2013
The SS Princess Sophia disaster killed 343 people.
Source: New York Times
Oct 25, 2013
The Hoboken Historical Museum is collecting oral histories of Hurricane Sandy's effect on the city.
Source: CBS
Oct 25, 2013
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro actually submitted to questioning by the Warren Commission following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, a new book reveals.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 24, 2013
The painting has been hidden from view for five centuries.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 24, 2013
A Viking parliamentary site that dates to the 11th century has been found beneath a parking lot in Scotland.
Source: Chicagoist
Oct 24, 2013
Email historybowl@chicagohistory.org with your suggestions.
Source: PennLive
Oct 24, 2013
A P-51 Mustang crashed into the ocean near Galveston.
Source: New York TImes
Oct 24, 2013
EC’s glory (and gory) years were 1950-1955.
Source: New York Times
Oct 24, 2013
“We thrived here."
Source: Time Magazine
Oct 23, 2013
Time Magazine interview's the White House stenographer on her thirty years of service in the White House.
Source: Mother Jones
Oct 23, 2013
Among the other speakers were Al Benson, former head of the Southern Independence Party and the author of a book claiming Lincoln was a Marxist.
Source: BBC News
Oct 23, 2013
The secret UK manual on how to be a resistance fighter will be hitting the auction block.
