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: Associated Press
Oct 11, 2013
Priebke carried out a massacre during the German occupation of Italy in 1944.
Source: New York Times
Oct 11, 2013
Football used to be seen as the testing ground for leadership. Not so much anymore.
Source: NYT
Oct 11, 2013
Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple.
Source: Associated Press
Oct 10, 2013
Carpenter's death leaves John Glenn as the only member of the Mercury Seven still living.
Source: Detroit Free Press
Oct 10, 2013
Gaines is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to
overturn the ban.
Source: The Economist
Oct 9, 2013
The two soldiers had evidently fallen at the Battle
of Presena in May 1918 and were buried in a crevasse.
Source: New York Times
Oct 9, 2013
‘So I Told Hitler’ and Other Film Re-Enactments
Source: New York Times
Oct 9, 2013
The Maspeth firehouse had a critical role to play on 9/11.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct 9, 2013
Einstein's papers will be made available in digital form by the digital-publishing-platform company Tizra.
Source: The Raw Story
Oct 9, 2013
The one hundred items are on display in Brasilia.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 9, 2013
Huffington Post Science features the strange background of Isaac Newton.
Source: The Atlantic
Oct 9, 2013
The Atlantic uses a women's historical framework to show the significance of Janet Yellen's appointment as Fed Chair.
Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly
Oct 9, 2013
William Ruckelshaus was deputy attorney general during the Watergate scandal.
Source: Michigan Record
Oct 8, 2013
Sayles's films include the historical epics "Matewan" and "Amigo."
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Oct 8, 2013
The Smithsonian features alcohol as medical prescriptions.
Source: The Telegraph
Oct 8, 2013
The Battle of Leipzig is forgotten in Britain, but British troops played a key role there in the defeat of Napoleon.
Source: BBC News
Oct 8, 2013
Excavations in the Republic of Georgia reveal insights into early hominid dentistry.
Source: Fortune
Oct 7, 2013
"[The] validity of the public debt of the United States ... shall not be questioned."
Source: BBC News
Oct 7, 2013
Seventy years ago this month, an extraordinary mass escape happened from Nazi-occupied Denmark.
Source: CBS
Oct 6, 2013
Lara Logan reports on a defining moment in the history of U.S. Special Operations: the first battle between American forces and al Qaeda.
