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
7-18-18
“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
7-18-18
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
7-17-18
Will Russia’s fallen royal family finally receive a full burial from the Orthodox Church?
Source: Time Magazine
7-17-18
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Putin said death comes to all sorts of people involved in politics.
Source: The Economist
7-16-18
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
7-17-18
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
7-17-18
Here's what lawyers say.
Source: Smithsonian
7-16-18
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
7-15-18
It’s not.
Source: The Washington Post
7-12-18
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
7-14-18
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
7-12-18
You’ll recognize his name: He’s the Smoot in Smoot-Hawley.
Source: CBS News
7-16-18 (accessed)
In the last year archaeologists have made stunning discoveries at Pompeii thanks to a multi-million dollar subvention from the EU.
Source: NPR
7-13-18
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
7-13-18
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
7-12-18
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
7-12-18
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
7-9-18
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
7-11-18
by Kelly McFarland
History shows us that Trump isn’t the first leader to take a brutish approach to international affairs.
