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: Huffington Post
8-26-15
A new campaign launched on the 99th anniversary of the National Park Service looks to spark debate about conservation.
Source: New Historian
8-26-15
New tests of the ink used on an ancient papyrus known as the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife have suggested it might be authentic, adding fuel to an ongoing debate as to the nature of the document.
Source: NYT
8-26-15
The foundation overseeing the Chicago library’s development has invited firms worldwide to apply for the project, which is to include a community garden.
Source: The New Jersey Jewish News
8-25-15
“Both leading candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have machatunim,” Jewish in-laws of their daughters.
Source: NYT
8-25-15
This September marks the 75th anniversary of the Blitz. London’s robust tourism industry will commemorate the capital’s time under siege.
Source: The Washington Post
8-25-15
For nearly a century, Alaska has served as mainly a toe-touch state for presidents. Next week, President Obama will change all that.
Source: NPR
8-24-15
Now, 60 years after the tragedy, Florida State University is creating an Emmett Till Archive.
Source: The Daily Beast
8-24-15
Day after sweltering Arkansas day, an anonymous RNC staffer toils inside the Clinton Library, opening file after file—in search of the detail from the past that’ll sink the front-runner.
Source: NYT
8-23-15
The church, like many others in its day, supported slavery and profited from it even after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was outlawed and slavery had been banned in the state.
Source: Mother Jones
8-21-15
The courts have overruled many efforts.
Source: The Conversation
8-21-15
by Gabriel Gorodetsky
Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the most pivotal events of the interwar era, recording them in the only diary to have been written by a major Soviet official during Stalin’s great terror.
Source: National Journal
8-20-15
Proposed amendments include: Ending birthright citizenship, letting states define marriage and overturning Citizens United.
Source: NYT
8-23-15
Islamic State militants have detonated explosives around the Temple of Baalshamin, one of the most grand and well-preserved structures at the ancient ruins.
Source: Belfast Telegraph
8-22-15
Orange Order historian disputes gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell's claim that King Billy was bisexual.
Source: AP
8-17-15
"It was either torture or mutilation."
Source: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
8-21-15
The party’s record over the past six years has made clear that when Barack Obama leaves office in January 2017 the Democratic Party will have ceded vast sections of the country to Republicans.
Source: The Washington Post
8-21-15
The daughter of the man directly responsible for Kenneth Starr investigating the Clintons is now gunning to keep Bill and Hillary from returning to the White House.
Source: Texas Monthly
8-22-15 (accessed)
Publishers didn't actually cave. Students will still be learning about Jim Crow.
Source: The Independent
8-14-15
The Profumo Affair – one of Cold War Britain’s most famous political scandals – was a much greater threat to the UK’s security interests than previously understood.
Source: New Yorker
8-21-15
In the last quarter century, Russia has repeatedly attempted to reclaim the ashes of its émigrés and bring them home, after they have been silent for decades.
