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: NY Times
12/26/19
Their breakthroughs were in law, science, music and business, and, like the more famous who died this year, they left indelible legacies.
Source: Washington Post
12/22/19
In a lengthy response published online over the weekend, New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein addressed each concern from the professors but stood firmly behind the reporting and declined to correct it.
Source: NY Times
12/22/19
The American-born Lady Astor was the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament. A century later, her legacy is still being debated.
Source: NBC News
12/18/19
The official said the brutal killings in her city bear no resemblance to what the president is talking about.
Source: NY Times
12/17/19
When white mobs obliterated a thriving black district nearly 100 years ago, as many as 300 people died. Researchers have found clues to where some of those bodies may be.
Source: History.com
12/18/19
Learn why we decorate trees, swap cookies and hide pickles and elves, among other traditions.
Source: Washington Post
12/16/19
One is a paper discard from the 1990s. Researchers believe the other, made from clay, may have held wine before it was thrown out after an ancient party on the island of Crete.
Source: Washington Post
12/18/19
Here’s the history behind the quote.
Source: Washington Post
12/17/19
Trump isn’t the first president to face an impeachment vote just before the holidays. It happened two decades ago to Bill Clinton.
Source: NY Times
12/15/19
The president said he wanted to target anti-Semitic speech on campuses, but in the time of new nationalism, nothing is really that simple.
Source: NY Times
12/15/19
“I’m not an Easterner who has to apologize. I’m not an Easterner who needs to grovel,” he said in an interview at his newspaper’s offices.
Source: The Conversation
12/12/19
by Shawn Flynn and Kristine Garroway
The choices that societies make concerning the treatment of children can bring about the greatest of debates and prompt significant political action.
Source: NY Times
12/14/19
An estimated 72 people died during construction of a rail tunnel through the Montana mountains. After more than 100 years, their final resting place has been found.
Source: The Atlantic
12/13/19
The name Walter Flowers has vanished from historical memory but on the eve of impeachment, Americans should remember him.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
12/14/19
"As survivors age their needs are growing ever greater," said Claims Conference executive vice-president Greg Schneider.
Source: Washington Post
12/14/19
Bass Reeves is finally getting his due in popular culture.
Source: Washington Post
12/15/19
A settlement announced abruptly by the University of North Carolina System and its board of governors last month gives the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans all rights to the statue, bans the monument from any of the 14 counties with a UNC institution and creates a $2.5 million independent charitable trust for its preservation.
Source: Washington Post
12/17/19
Hamilton’s name appears 35 times in a 658-page report formally recommending impeachment that was released earlier Monday by the House Judiciary Committee.
Source: Washington Post
12/17/19
The Army unit posted a glamorous, colorized photo of Peiper alongside an intimate narrative depicting the Nazi writing in his diary.
Source: Time
12/16/19
Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in World War II — the Battle of the Bulge, which stopped Adolf Hitler’s last-ditch offensive to turn the tide of the war.
