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: NPR
5-24-15
Yes. And now there’s a monument to remind people.
Source: AP
5-21-15
The documents released Thursday, two years after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sought the disclosure, say several witnesses to brutal crimes against prisoners weren't contacted or interviewed by criminal investigators.
Source: Houston Chronicle
5-22-15
'Texas Rising' miniseries seeks to stay true to history while exploring the fight for independence
Source: USA Today
5-24-15
In every conflict before World War II, nearly all of the country's defense budget was spent on direct conflict — classified as wartime spending.
Source: WTSP
5-21-15
Julian Chambliss, chair of the Department of History and coordinator of the Africa & African-American Studies program at Rollins College, plans to burn a Confederate flag on Memorial Day as a way to let go of a part of history.
Source: ABC
5-22-15
That’s what the researcher who found the bones of Richard III thinks with regard to Henry I.
Source: Mother Jones
5-22-15
The GOP candidate endorses a "Jewish Indiana Jones" who claims the CIA is interested in him because he knows the location of this legendary biblical artifact.
Source: Mother Jones
5-19-15
On "Hardball," Michael Morell concedes the Bush administration misled the nation into the Iraq War.
Source: NYT
5-21-15
In this review NYT columnist Roger Cohen urges the film be widely distributed to combat Holocaust Denial.
Source: New Historian
5-20-15
The international team of scientists looked into the Y chromosome specifics of 334 men from European and Middle Eastern descent, and by resequencing the DNA found that in 64% of the sequences three distinct genetic patterns could be observed.
Source: NYT
5-21-15
Nearly 80 documents and other materials, including books and press clippings, seized from Bin Laden’s compound during the raid by Navy SEAL members in May 2011, was declassified on Wednesday by the Obama administration.
Source: NYT
5-21-15
Islamic State militants swept into the desert city of Palmyra in central Syria on Wednesday, and by evening were in control of it.
Source: The Daily Beast
5-13-15
In Tyler Shields’ photographs the traditional victim of violent race-related injustice turns aggressor. For Shields, it’s a powerful and symbolic role reversal.
Source: New Historian
5-18-15
Three skulls found in Bolivia have revealed that torture for reasons other than religious rituals and trophy-head taking was not just an iconographic feature of the pre-Columbian cultures in the region, but a very real practice.
Source: AP
5-19-15
Only recently did someone happen to notice this remnant from the country’s anti-Semitic past.
Source: Time
5-19-15
Mark Griffiths found the image in the 1598 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes written by the playwright's friend John Gerard
Source: The Courier-Journal
5-18-15
The event, which is free and open to the public, is an academic competition for elementary and middle school students that is designed to test their knowledge of a wide range of historical topics.
Source: The Washington Post
5-18-15
“Well, not only would I not have been in favor of it. President Bush would not have been in favor of it, and he said so.”
Source: Variety
5-15-15
Shatterglass Films and Chaz Ebert are developing an Emmett Till movie based on the book “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America.”
Source: 60 Minutes
5-17-15
It took over 80 years, but a museum dedicated to African-American history and culture is finally taking shape on the National Mall in Washington.
