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: AP
July 18, 2015
Researchers believe they found the grave of a man who could be considered the first black male slave freed by Abraham Lincoln, tracking his final resting place to the cemetery of a former Minnesota psychiatric hospital.
Source: NYT
July 19, 2015
Mrs. Clinton rarely talks publicly about her father, Hugh E. Rodham, who exerted a powerful, if sometimes bruising, influence on her life before he died in 1993.
Source: Huffington Post
July 17, 2015
Here are some of the mistakes he keeps apologizing for.
Source: Coalition for History
July 17, 2015
by Lee White
S. 1177 includes promising developments for history and civics education. It restores limited federal funding for both those subjects although a specific amount is not specified in the bill.
Source: Guardian
July 19, 2015
Buckingham Palace has been urged to disclose documents that would finally reveal the truth about the relationship between the royal family and the Nazi regime of the 1930s.
Source: IFC Films
July 18, 2015 (accessed)
What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong?
Source: National Security Archive
July 17, 2015
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds National Security Archive Victory in Fruit Company's "Reverse-FOIA" Action
Source: Charlotte Observer
July 17, 2015
The 39th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans – at the time, an event hailed as a symbol of the country’s unity – drew as many as 150,000 observers in 1929.
Source: Kansas City Star
July 13, 2015
“It’s taken a long time, but things that are worthwhile sometimes take a lot of effort and I guess this is one of those things.”
Source: AP
July 16, 2015
Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that the book is called "The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters."
Source: Inside Higher ED
July 16, 2015
South Africa's Constitution exempts hate speech from the normal protections of free speech -- and many in the country said that praising Hitler was hate speech.
Source: NYT
July 15, 2015
A newly released grand jury transcript provides some supporting evidence to Mrs. Rosenberg’s defenders, who believe that she was unfairly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
Source: The National Security Archive
July 13, 2015
While its intended target was the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it impacted “180-200 miles south of the Mexican border,” according to a recently released memorandum sent from the desk of Henry Kissinger, then serving as National Security Advisor to President Nixon.
Source: Cleveland.com
July 14, 2015
"Of course, Democratic critics might suggest Boehner has been able to hold onto as many GOP seats as he has thanks to Republican-friendly redistricting maps."
Source: The Washington Post
July 15, 2015
The United States handed over more than 400 ancient artifacts to Iraq on Wednesday, part of ongoing efforts to repatriate the country’s looted heritage.
Source: Huffington Post
July 15, 2015
Groening has testified that he guarded prisoners' baggage after they arrived at Auschwitz and collected money stolen from them.
Source: The Des Moines Register
July 13, 2015
“He said what he was going to do and he did what he said he was going to do, and then he left,” Bush said.
Source: Brisbane Times
July 13, 2015
The volume is not intended to "rewrite history but instead be informed by 25 years of new knowledge and interviews with Vietnam War veterans."
Source: AP
July 8, 2015
Lew said that Hamilton's image would be retained in some way on the redesigned bill.
Source: AP
July 12, 2015
Legal experts suggest that history might hint at how the coming months will unfold, as a handful of defiant clerks across the South and Midwest refuse to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling last month that legalized gay marriage.
