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: Politico
12-2-18
When he feared communists were infiltrating America, Larry McDonald took extreme measures — building his own intelligence-gathering arm.
Source: NYT
12-2-18
“The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends,” the message reads.
Source: The Guardian
11-30-18
Change prompts concern that country’s media is trying to rewrite wartime history under rightwing pressure.
Source: NYT
11-20-18
The ring was discovered in the late 1960s, but it was not until recently that researchers, analyzing those objects with advanced photography, were able to decipher the ring’s inscription.
Source: NYT
11-29-18
The top court upheld a lower-court ruling that ordered Mitsubishi to pay each of five women 100 million won to 150 million won, or about $89,000 to $133,000.
12/9/2018
What historians and others are saying about him.
Source: The New Indian Express
11-29-18
Over 7000 researchers from India, Republic of Korea, Japan, China and Brazil were interviewed for the survey conducted by Editage, a global scholarly communications firm.
Source: NYT
11-28-18
Former Barack Obama and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III call for bipartisanship in a partisan era.
Source: NYT
11-28-18
Many see the lack of civics in schools as a national crisis. A federal lawsuit says it also violates the law.
Source: Politico
11-28-18
Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.
Source: NYT
11-27-18
The argument was made up of equal parts history, much of it dark, and an assessment of the practical implications of a ruling that Congress had never clearly destroyed the sovereignty of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over the area, covering about half the state.
Source: Smithsonian
11-29-18 (accessed)
In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
Source: Smithsonian
11-29-18 (accessed)
One of the war’s greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long. At last, the real history is being restored.
Source: NYT
11-26-18
The book, “The Making of a Justice: My First 94 Years,” will be published in May, not long after Justice Stevens’s 99th birthday.
Source: NYT
11-26-18
For years, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, one of the most powerful people in Myanmar, presided over ruthless campaigns targeting minority groups along Myanmar’s borders.
Source: NYT
11-26-18
An estimated 600,000 paintings had been stolen during the war and 100,000 remain missing.
Source: hyperallergic.com
11-27-18
Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile.
Source: The Guardian
11-26-18
Bank of England has received nearly 175,000 nominations in search for notable person.
Source: History channel
11-26-18
Our DNA has revealed many more encounters.
Source: NYT
10-24-18
Ukrainians lit candles on their tables or windowsills to commemorate the famine, called the Holodomor, which means death by hunger in Ukrainian.
