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 9, 2015
The 2016 Republican candidates can already be sorted into roles that tell us a lot about their chances of winning the nomination.
Source: NYT
April 8, 2015
After a 16-year legal battle, a former defense minister of El Salvador once embraced by Washington as a close ally during the civil war there in the 1980s, was deported on Wednesday after immigration courts found that he had participated in torture and killings by troops under his command.
Source: New Historian
April 8, 2015
According to scientists from Cambridge and Oxford Brookes Universities, modern humans, when they left Africa and entered Europe, brought with them diseases that the Neanderthals had never encountered before and could not fight as effectively as the newcomers.
Source: The Telegraph
April 8, 2015
Spanish history academy director wants to amend text which says regime was 'authoritarian but not totalitarian'
Source: New Historian
April 7, 2015
A new study has revealed that humans living in Europe had dark skin for the majority of the time they have inhabited the continent.
Source: BBC
April 7, 2015
Athens says Germany owes Greece nearly €279bn in war reparations for the Nazi occupation in World War Two.
Source: The Nation
February 10, 2015
It begins with the Memphis riots of 1866 and ends with the first anti-lynching conference, in New York City, in 1919.
Source: Yahoo News
April 3, 2015
The oldest is a copy of the letters of Saint Paul, some 1,100 years old.
Source: womenon20s
April 7, 2015
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks were selected by the people and Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller was added by the organizers.
Source: Politico
April 5, 2015
This time it’s Hillary’s brother
Source: AP
April 6, 2015
It’s got both the chair Lincoln was sitting ion when he was shot and JFK’s death limo.
Source: History channel
April 6, 2015
The estate, which Nixon dubbed “La Casa Pacifica” (“the house of peace”) and the “Western White House,” featured a sandy stretch of beach and a swimming pool surrounded by a bulletproof windscreen.
Source: Media Matters
April 5, 2015
Reagan's so-called million job month in September 1983 was simply an outlier inflated due to nearly 675,000 striking communication workers returning to work.
April 6, 2015
by HNN Editor
Why are we still honoring people who made war against the United States, asks the New Republic.
April 6, 2015
by Marc Stein
Fifty years ago, three teen-agers in Philadelphia took an extraordinary step by refusing to take a step. Their sit-in began on Sunday, April 25, 1965, at Dewey's restaurant near Rittenhouse Square
Source: Statesman
April 4, 2015
It happened between 1915 and 1919 when Rangers and vigilantes killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of Mexicans and Tejanos in South Texas.
Source: NYT
April 5, 2015
Channapha Khamvongsa has led a single-minded effort to clean up the fallout of a nine-year American air campaign that made Laos one of the most heavily bombed places on earth.
Source: Telegraph
April 4, 2015
Footage purports to show IS extremists damaging a UNESCO World Heritage site in Hatra, Iraq with sledgehammers and assault rifles
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
April 2, 2015
History tells us that plenty of U.S. treaties and accords have been met with firestorms of criticism and controversy.
Source: AP
April 1, 2015
On March 9, a South African student protester tossed feces on a statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, igniting nationwide calls to remove other statues of former white leaders.
