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: The Washington Post
10-31-18
Decades before they would serve together on the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor were engaged in a different type of courtship.
Source: CNN
10-31-18
The documents, known as the Watergate Road Map, as released Wednesday contained redactions and never-before-seen remnants of the investigation into Nixon.
Source: NYT
10-30-18
A museum established to reveal details about the slave trade shocks visitors.
Source: Reuters
10-30-18
Bomb disposal experts are still digging up munitions sunk in the killing fields of eastern France — and it could be another 100 years before they are done.
Source: Vanity Fair
10-30-18
It can be traced to a paper that came out of the right-wing Claremont Institute in the 1990s.
Source: NYT
10-30-18
South Korea’s top court stirred decades-old resentments that threaten to inflame relations with Japan, ordering a leading Japanese steel maker to compensate Korean men forced to work as slave laborers during World War II.
Source: My Northwest
10-30-18
The Make It Right Project recently put up a billboard in Capitol Hill, reminding Seattleites of the presence of a Confederate memorial right in its backyard. That memorial can be found in Lakeview Cemetery.
Source: History channel
10-30-18
America didn’t always extend citizenship to those born within its borders.
Source: Smithsonian
10-30-18
The museum’s collections were among 300,000 artifacts hidden by officials as violence spread in Syria.
Source: The Washington Post
10-30-18
An executive order would be certain to spark a constitutional debate about the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
Source: Haaretz
10-29-18
Lethal attacks on U.S. Jews in their homeland have been very rare, with Saturday’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh more than doubling the total number of fatalities – but white supremacists have targeted the community over the years.
Source: Smithsonian
10-26-18
Personal stories take the place of military artifacts at the new National Veterans Memorial & Museum.
Source: The Washington Post
10-29-18
So big, in fact, that it will give India bragging rights to the world’s tallest statue — a nearly 600-foot creation that says as much about India’s global aspirations as it does about the political ego of its leader.
Source: Smithsonian
10-26-18
Steel and zinc industries provided Donora residents with work, but also robbed them of their health, and for some, their lives.
Source: NYT Editorial
10-27-18
by Brent Staples
In an extraordinary full-page editorial the Times recounts Sugarland's gruesome convict leasing system and its forgotten history.
Source: The Washington Post
10-27-18
Some critics say the move aims to boost embattled Kentucky Republican.
Source: Atlas Obscura
10-25-18
Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
Source: Smithsonian
10-26-18 (accessed)
A turn-of-the-century trial, the focus of a new book, took aim at the Victorian double standard.
Source: Smithsonian
10-25-18
During an 1897 raid, the British army plundered 4,000 artifacts from the kingdom of Benin.
Source: NYT
10-25-18
One of London’s main rail stations is being redeveloped, prompting the excavation of a burial ground containing the remains of an estimated 45,000 Londoners, including the boxer Bill Richmond, a freed American slave.
