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
October 19, 2018
The Bank of England isn’t taking nominations yet, but that hasn’t stopped people from offering names and placing bets.
Source: NYT
October 17, 2018
According to the Library of Congress, its collection of Roosevelt’s papers has become the world’s largest, with 276,000 documents and more than 460,000 images.
Source: Bloomberg
October 17, 2018
From the Ottoman Empire to interviewing Osama bin Laden, the family’s ties are a tapestry of intrigue.
Source: The Times Literary Supplement
October 18, 2018
by Mary Beard
There have been a splurge of headlines over the last couple of days that talk about the rewriting of the history of Pompeii: it was not destroyed on August 24, Pliny said, after all, but in October. It all comes down to a graffito recently discovered.
Source: NYT
October 16, 2018
Would they?
Source: The Washington Post
October 16, 2018
The story referenced by Trump was probably fake news.
Source: NYT
October 15, 2018
Nearly a half-century after Lee Soo-keun’s execution, a court in Seoul absolved him of espionage, ruling that he had been wrongfully executed based on fabricated charges and a confession obtained through torture.
Source: Science Daily
October 15, 2018
A radical new approach combining archaeology, genetics and microscopy can reveal long-forgotten secrets of human diet, sanitation and movement from studying parasites in ancient excrement, according to new research.
Source: NYT
October 15, 2018
The European Union was created to end strife and promote economic prosperity — with the support, not opposition, of the United States.
Source: Smithsonian
October 15, 2018
Using original archival research and FBI blacklist documents, a new book pieces together the intersectional narratives that never made it on air.
Source: NBC News
October 14, 2018
A makeshift memorial in New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic Union soldiers during the Battle of Glorieta Pass "looks like just a taco stand, without any tacos."
Source: History channel
October 12, 2018
The same clouds of ash that blanketed Pompeii preserved the colors and paintings on the walls in this newly rediscovered room by keeping out all light and water.
October 13, 2018
“I offer our university’s deepest apology for the profound injustices of slavery, our full acknowledgment of the strength of enslaved peoples in the face of their suffering, and our respect and indebtedness to them,” Dr. Folt said in a speech for the University Day celebration at Memorial Hall.
Source: The Hill
October 13, 2018
“Last night I was disheartened to hear Donald Trump, our president, make comments about Robert E. Lee as a great general, as an honorable man. These were far from the true,” Robert Lee IV said in a video he posted on Twitter.
October 15, 2018
A recent poll placed Confederate monuments nearly last among the 18 biggest issues facing Alabama this campaign season.
Source: NYT
October 13, 2018
Democrats are largely ducking the topic on the campaign trail, but few people in Washington doubt that it will be on the table if they win the House.
Source: The Guardian
October 11, 2017
Labour leader also wants greater focus on history of British empire and colonialism.
Source: Time Magazine
October 11, 2018
Now they're for sale.
Source: Politico
October 11, 2018
A federal judge has ordered the partial release of a Watergate report that fueled an impeachment drive against President Richard Nixon and could serve as a precedent for a similar effort aimed at President Donald Trump.
Source: Snopes
October 12, 2018 (accessed)
President Eisenhower did say that if a political party doesn’t advance a moral cause, then it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
