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 Daily Beast
July 18, 2018
“I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong,” he said.
Source: The Conversation
July 18, 2018
by Ian Anson
Historic surveys reveal a deep, long-lasting and bipartisan dissatisfaction with the U.S. government that started over three decades ago.
Source: Smithsonian
July 17, 2018
Will Russia’s fallen royal family finally receive a full burial from the Orthodox Church?
Source: Time Magazine
July 17, 2018
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Putin said death comes to all sorts of people involved in politics.
Source: The Economist
July 16, 2018
Israel’s prime minister has reasons to suck up to nationalist politicians in eastern Europe, even if they revise their countries’ controversial history regarding Jews.
Source: Newsweek
July 17, 2018
Archaeologist Amaia Arranz-Otaegui and colleagues found crumbs in the ancient fireplaces of a Natufian hunter-gatherer site believed to date between 14,600 and 11,600 years ago.
Source: Newsweek
July 17, 2018
Here's what lawyers say.
Source: Smithsonian
July 16, 2018
The Dillingham Commission conducted one of the most extensive investigations on immigration to the U.S. But in the end, bias hijacked its recommendations.
Source: The Washington Post
July 15, 2018
It’s not.
Source: The Washington Post
July 12, 2018
Trump came to the country during the big wave of German immigration to the United States. The 1880s to the early 1900s was a period of high immigration for young migrants under adult age.
Source: NYT
July 14, 2018
Whether in Helsinki or elsewhere, a summit meeting held by any American president with a Kremlin counterpart has proved to be a momentous occasion, particularly during the Cold War when such talks held the promise of staving off Armageddon.
Source: KUER
July 12, 2018
You’ll recognize his name: He’s the Smoot in Smoot-Hawley.
Source: CBS News
July 16, 2018 (accessed)
In the last year archaeologists have made stunning discoveries at Pompeii thanks to a multi-million dollar subvention from the EU.
Source: NPR
July 13, 2018
Author Anthony Murphy was flying a drone near Newgrange, a famous prehistoric stone monument in County Meath, taking pictures of the known archaeological attractions. Then he saw something strange — a perfect circle, etched in the color of the crops.
Source: NYT
July 13, 2018
The discovery of the sarcophagus on a construction site last month was a rare find in Alexandria, a fabled port city where most traces of Egypt’s ancient civilizations have crumbled into the waves or lie buried beneath urban sprawl.
Source: The Hill
July 12, 2018
It is unclear what poll the president was referring to in the interview, as presidential approval polling did not exist during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Source: AP
July 12, 2018
A 2017 book that revealed lies by a key figure in the Emmett Till case has prompted the U.S government to renew its investigation into the brutal 1955 slaying, a federal official said Thursday.
Source: Axios
7/12/18
"Why would anyone want to discard an Air Force One design that evokes more than a half-century of American history?" – Michael Beschloss
Source: New Historian
July 9, 2018
DNA studies have unearthed the troubling history of dogs in North America – and their fate of extinction at the hands of European colonists.
Source: The Conversation
July 11, 2018
by Kelly McFarland
History shows us that Trump isn’t the first leader to take a brutish approach to international affairs.
