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
April 14, 2015
As he tried to find a sewage pipe, Luciano Faggiano dug his way past a Messapian tomb, a Roman granary, a Franciscan chapel and even etchings from the Knights Templar.
Source: National Security Archive
April 15, 2015
Now we know how the US learned about it and when.
Source: NYT
April 15, 2015
The foundation that raises money to maintain the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau has had a guiding philosophy: “To preserve authenticity.”
Source: NYT
April 15, 2015
Michelle Robinson Obama, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, has deep roots in the city of her birth.
Source: Special to HNN
April 14, 2015
by James Loewen
The Department of Defense has its Vietnam. Activists have another.
Source: Live Science
April 10, 2015
These molecules, which could be up to 170,000 years old, could one day help yield the most complete picture yet of Neanderthal life, researchers say.
Source: The Washington Post
April 11, 2015
From Washington to Lincoln’s resting place in Springfield, Illinois, the commemoration of his death echoes past grief and a nation’s defining struggle.
Source: Time
April 13, 2015
Conservative activists, citing opposition in the 19th century to the Dred Scot decision, say the other 2 branches don’t have to enforce an order of the Supreme Court.
Source: Vox
April 11, 2015
The typical presidential candidate explodes onto the national scene as something of an enigma. Hillary Clinton is different.
Source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
April 14, 2015
As in the first such contest, this one invites contributors to create cartoons questioning the historical truth of the Holocaust.
Source: Yahoo News
April 14, 2015
Clinton has long capitalized on her affinity with Mrs. Roosevelt.
Source: CBS
April 13, 2015
His security guard left to get a drink at a tavern.
Source: NYT
April 13, 2015
Mr. Grass was called his country’s moral conscience by many, but he stunned Europe when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
Source: NYT
April 12, 2015
In addressing the Armenian question, Francis quoted from a 2001 declaration by Pope John Paul II and Catholicos Karekin II, the Armenian Apostolic Church’s supreme patriarch, in which the two leaders called the Armenian slaughter a campaign of extermination that was “generally referred to as the first genocide of the 20th century.”
Source: CBS
April 12, 2015
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released a new video showing what appears to be the terror group's destruction of an ancient city in Iraq.
Source: CBS
April 9, 2015
Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was where confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered 150 years ago, effectively ending the Civil War. And as David Martin explains, it's also the place no one should ever take for granted.
Source: NYT
April 8, 2015
The 20-foot segment, which features striking paintings of grotesque faces, had been on display in a plaza on Madison Avenue since 1990 before it disappeared in September for conservation work.
Source: CBS News
April 8, 2015
"I tell people when they say, 'Why is a white man involved in this?' I say, 'Don't you remember it was a white man that caused all this?"
Source: New Historian
April 9, 2015
In examining attitudes towards people who chose to stay in New Orleans despite the danger of Katrina, Anja Nadine Klopfer has reached an interesting conclusion. She argues that choosing to stay was a conscious decision based on local identity stemming from the Civil War-era.
Source: WSJ
April 8, 2015
The book relies on interviews with an extensive roster of butlers, ushers and other professional staff who’ve kept the White House up and running through the years.
