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
June 20, 2018
Two skeletons and the remains of 11 amputated limbs are leading to new knowledge of combat injuries and medical practices on long-ago battlefields.
Source: Time Magazine
June 19, 2018
He may have actually gotten it in a saloon.
Source: New Republic
June 19, 2018
Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story.
Source: Newsweek
June 19, 2018
The “round aircraft” stated in its product description that it was “the first object in the world capable of flying in space.”
Source: The Conversation
June 19, 2018
by Taasogle Daryl Rowe and Kamilah Marie Woodson
"We believe that the restorative memories developed in public spaces like the National Memorial for Peace and Justice create a shared story that can inoculate African-Americans from ongoing dehumanization."
Source: NYT
June 18, 2018
Curators across Europe are increasingly trying “rapid response collecting” to obtain items used in major events just after they happen.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
June 19, 2018
Eight private schools in Washington area -- including St. Albans and Sidwell Friends -- announce they will stop offering Advanced Placement courses.
Source: NYT
June 18, 2018
The hat is one of about 120 two-cornered military dress hats that Napoleon was said to have worn during his rule between 1799 and 1815. Historians have identified only 19 remaining hats, most of them now in museums.
Source: Huffington Post
June 19, 2018
“Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course,” the attorney general said of the comparisons.
June 18, 2018
by Lawrence Wittner
Even as he holds out the hope of denuclearizing North Korea, he wants to increase the size and scope of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Source: NYT
June 16, 2018
A new exhibit grapples with the reality of slavery and deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring or covering up what amounted to an open secret.
Source: The Washington Post
June 15, 2018
The verse that Sessions cited, Romans 13, is an unusual choice.
Source: NYT
June 15, 2018
The two sides agreed to the same thing after the 1953 armistice but have made only sporadic progress to accomplish it since then, and almost none in the last 13 years of mounting tensions over the North’s nuclear program.
Source: NYT
June 16, 2018
The quote, which reads “Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it,” is widely associated with Hitler and Goebbels’s use of propaganda to build the Nazi empire.
Source: The Washington Post
June 15, 2018
"You can’t just gloss over this history."
Source: The Texas Tribune
June 13, 2018
During a hearing on Tuesday, dozens of Mexican-American educators and activists implored the board to change the name of the course from “Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of Mexican Descent” to “Mexican-American Studies."
Source: The Guardian
June 15, 2018
Charles Sturt University investigates ‘politically incorrect’ themed student party.
Source: The Washington Post
June 13, 2018
On Saturday, Monticello will open the room to the public, with a small exhibition devoted to the life of Hemings and the Hemings family.
Source: The Way Improvement Leads Home (blog)
June 15, 2018
by John Fea
And it wasn’t Romans 13.
Source: The Washington Post
June 13, 2018
His diaries reveal a xenophobic, misogynistic side.
