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
6-20-18
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
6-19-18
He may have actually gotten it in a saloon.
Source: New Republic
6-19-18
Zora Neale Hurston’s drive to tell the story.
Source: Newsweek
6-19-18
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
6-19-18
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
6-18-18
Curators across Europe are increasingly trying “rapid response collecting” to obtain items used in major events just after they happen.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
6-19-18
Eight private schools in Washington area -- including St. Albans and Sidwell Friends -- announce they will stop offering Advanced Placement courses.
Source: NYT
6-18-18
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
6-19-18
“Well, it’s a real exaggeration, of course,” the attorney general said of the comparisons.
6-18-18
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
6-16-18
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
6-15-18
The verse that Sessions cited, Romans 13, is an unusual choice.
Source: NYT
6-15-18
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
6-16-18
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
6-15-18
"You can’t just gloss over this history."
Source: The Texas Tribune
6-13-18
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
6-15-18
Charles Sturt University investigates ‘politically incorrect’ themed student party.
Source: The Washington Post
6-13-18
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)
6-15-18
by John Fea
And it wasn’t Romans 13.
Source: The Washington Post
6-13-18
His diaries reveal a xenophobic, misogynistic side.
