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 Washington Post
July 24, 2015
In a review in the WaPo he says Tim Weiner leaves a cartoonish portrait of Nixon while Evan Thomas takes too seriously Nixon’s own view of himself.
Source: The Guardian
July 27, 2015
Craig Lambert from Southampton University says contrary to reports of 1,500 ships, the king set sail for France with far fewer vessels
Source: Huffington Post
July 27, 2015
"We gasped and looked in, and there's the face of a king just staring straight out at us."
Source: NYT
July 26, 2015
The filmmakers have been attuned to sensitivity and integrity regarding the case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed and sexually assaulted while her neighbors allegedly listened in 1964.
Source: Slate
July 26, 2015
How? By accusing Jewish partisans who fought the Germans of war crimes.
Source: The Washington Post
July 26, 2015
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called on the former Arkansas governor to “apologize to the Jewish community and to the American people for this grossly irresponsible statement.”
Source: ctpost.com
July 23, 2015
Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.
Source: The Guardian
July 22, 2015
News agency combines with British Movietone to provide footage of momentous events that have helped to shape the world
Source: NYT
July 22, 2015
The pieces of the manuscript, which were found in the library of the University of Birmingham, are probably at least 1,370 years old, researchers say.
Source: Atlantic
July 21, 2015
by David A. Graham
The history is especially painful because Waller County, where the arrest was made, was for a time a beacon of black progress.
Source: Foreign Policy
July 21, 2015
Critics say the new history curriculum is an attempt to appease Beijing and sway Taiwanese youth toward unification.
Source: The Washington Post
July 22, 2015
“How could we still find in the museum of the facility the remains of Jews killed by Hirt 70 years ago?”
Source: The Washington Post
July 22, 2015
Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science has been derided as an oppressive eyesore ever since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin built it as his personal gift to the city.
Source: New Yorker
July 14, 2015
It removed the Soviet-established statues to Lenin and others.
Source: The Washington Post
July 20, 2015
This story will horrify you.
Source: The Washington Post
July 22, 2015
There is little room for subtlety at the Museum of Chinese People’s Resistance Against the Japanese Invasion.
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
July 20, 2015
The $15 million makeover will include interactive exhibits appealing to younger, tech-savvy visitors.
Source: U.S. Department of State
July 22, 2015 (accessed)
On May 15, 2015, U.S. Special Operations Forces recovered a cache of hundreds of archaeological and historical objects and fragments during a raid in al-Amr (eastern Syria) to capture ISIL leader Abu Sayyaf.
Source: WaPo
July 20, 2015
He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women and outrageous clubs. Most important, he had a job in his father’s real estate company and a brain bursting with money-making ideas that would make him a billionaire.
Source: The Independent
July 20, 2015
20 were jailed. They have now been sent home.
