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: ABC News
1-13-15
The tweet juxtaposes Hitler's visit to the vanquished city after his troops invaded in World War II, and Obama's failure to join dozens of world leaders at an anti-terror march through Paris on Sunday.
Source: CBS News
1-12-15
The new movie "Selma' took in more than $11 million at the box office this weekend, second only to "Taken 3." There as been a lot of controversy about the historical accuracy of "Selma," especially its portrayal of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. We checked the record.
Source: Huffington Post
1-10-15
What really happened to the native Polynesians who once lived on Easter Island?
Source: Politico
1-5-15
“I said when it started we were going to do everything possible to make sure that Chicago had its best foot forward so it was an easy choice for the president and the First Lady to pick the city of Chicago.”
Source: History Extra
1-8-15
The perception of Richard III as a nasty villain who murdered his nephews is “one of the greatest injustices of history” according to Philippa Langley, a screenwriter who led the search for the remains of the former king
Source: NYT
1-8-15
The roots of President Obama’s ambitious proposal for free community college can be found in a 2008 book by the economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz called “The Race Between Education and Technology.”
Source: WaPo
1-7-15
Reintroducing aurochs "into the German landscape was part of a larger project of constructing a national identity based on mythic foundations." Aurochs?
Source: Roll Call
1-8-15
Achieving approval to establish a national World War I memorial in the District of Columbia took longer than the war itself.
Source: NYT
1-7-15
Ms. Israel composed and sold hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and others.
Source: Vox
1-7-15
It's the country's oldest time capsule, planted by Sam Adams and Paul Revere.
Source: Reuters
12-11-14
He successfully contacted 11 families and registered the POWs with the city authority.
Source: New Historian
1-7-15
The Hongshan culture predates the Xia Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty described in chronicles, by 2,400 years.
Source: Political Wire
1-7-15
Every president in the last 50 years, save Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, has experienced at least one session of Congress in which the opposing party controlled both chambers of Congress.
Source: Telegraph
1-5-15
Academic qualifications of German Jews to be restored nearly 80 years after Nazis stripped them in a ceremony to be held later this month
Source: New Historian
1-3-15
37 shipwrecks from the Byzantine Empire have been discovered as part of archaeological excavations that began in Turkey in 2004.
Source: NYT
12-31-14
Was Lyndon B. Johnson a civil rights mastermind, or a reluctant follower pulled along by activists led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Source: NYT
12-30-14
Since the 1960s visitors have come to this living history museum to see life as the Shakers experienced it, but attendance is down by nearly a third compared with a decade ago.
1-1-15
Cuomo challenges the Reagan orthodoxy.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
12-30-14
“There are major concerns with the three potential sites in the University of Chicago proposal given the fact that neither the school nor the City of Chicago control the sites.”
Source: NYT
12-30-14
This year produced many deaths that stunned the country if not the world, in the fields of news, arts, sciences, politics and athletics.
