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: NYT
5-16-15
With some legal sleight of hand, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell obtained a marriage license in Minnesota four decades before the state legalized same-sex unions.
Source: BBC
5-15-15
Islamic State militants move to within a few miles of one of the world's oldest and most important archaeological cities, Palmyra, in the latest stage of their campaign in Syria.
Source: The Root
5-15-15
Critics say the story is a celebration of colonialism
Source: AP
5-14-15
For decades, Mihailovic's fate has fueled divisions in Serbia, where many see him as a political martyr.
Source: Tampa Bat Times
5-14-15
Earlier this spring, Mayor Rick Kriseman announced a plan to buy the city's only African American history museum, ending months of controversy over its future.
Source: The Dallas Morning News
5-13-15
Now 90, Bush consented to an email interview for this story.
Source: NYT
5-13-15
The regular discovery of World War II remains in mass graves in western Ukraine reignites resentments over which invading army or partisan group was to blame.
5-11-15
When a reporter for the New York Post asked him about being a fan of the series, Snoop replied: “I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here.”
Source: The Times-Picayune
5-12-15
In January 2014, Walter Block, the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar endowed chair in economics at Loyola, was quoted in a New York Times article as saying slavery "was not so bad -- you pick cotton and sing songs."
Source: 60 Minutes
5-10-15
With over 50 percent of our nation lying underwater, huge discoveries await, says explorer Robert Ballard
Source: The Nation
5-11-15
by Richard Kreitner
The African American Civil War Memorial & Museum will honor black soldiers who were not welcome at the original Grand Review celebration.
Source: Yahoo News-Reuters
5-12-15
Twenty-dollar bills could soon be known as "Tubmans" if a grassroots campaign succeeds in persuading President Barack Obama to remove Andrew Jackson's portrait from circulation on U.S. paper currency in favor of a famous woman in U.S. history.
Source: PsyBlog
5-7-15
How beliefs about what makes us happy have changed in the last 80 years.
Source: NYT
5-11-15
The would-be president is now parroting the worst propaganda about the run-up to the war.
Source: Star Tribune
5-11-15
Russian leader praises WWII pact with Hitler.
Source: Asharq Al-Awsat
5-12-15
Experts speculate that large pieces are destroyed for the benefit of the cameras, while more portable items are smuggled to dealers in Turkey
Source: The Conversation
5-12-15
by Matthias Mauch
The Billboard charts changed most rapidly around three distinct periods: 1964 when the charts turned to guitar rock; 1983, when technologies like synths and drum machines altered production, and hence timbre, forever; and 1991, when rap and hip hop finally made it into the charts big time.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
5-12-15
Chicago's diverse South Side has long yearned for economic development and improved amenities. Will the Barack Obama Presidential Center deliver?
Source: NYT
5-11-15
Archaeologists believe the discovery, unearthed in January, is part of the cemetery of a medieval hospital called the Hôpital de la Trinité.
Source: WUSA
5-7-15
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is three quarters finished.
