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: Time Magazine
2-21-18
"I Loved 'Em All."
Source: The Washington Post
2-20-18
The 1963 children’s crusade changed history.
Source: The Atlantic
2-21-18
The district attorney in Durham, North Carolina, dismissed all remaining charges in the August case. What does that mean for the future of statues around the country?
Source: New York Magazine
2-20-18
A new finding from Public Policy Polling helps shows why the racism suspicion persists, and why it enrages those who are suspected.
Source: The Telegraph
2-21-18 (accessed)
The British operation to create documents for its agents and allies in occupied Europe was a highly sophisticated affair, run along the lines of a modern same day delivery service.
Source: Salon
2-19-18
Most of the log cabin memorials built to presidents are based on nothing more than myths and dreams.
Source: NYT
2-19-18
The first bombing of the WTC has mostly been forgotten, but some people who lived through it came away scarred.
Source: NYT
2-19-18
What Influences a Justice’s Decision
Source: WaPo
2/19/18
We’re just four presidential lives away from the Founding Fathers. John Adams.
Source: The Washington Post
2-18-18
Only recently did it resurface.
Source: The Washington Post
2-18-18
It was Feb. 16, 1968, a Friday, and a sign of what was coming that Monday in Florida: the nation’s first statewide teachers strike.
Source: Vox
2-19-18
Why was Rutherford B. Hayes the healthiest US president of all time?
Source: NYT
2-19-18
Researchers are working to use DNA to identify whether a human bone recovered from a Cape Cod shipwreck belongs to the infamous pirate Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy.
Source: ABC News
2-18-18
Mateusz Morawiecki said Sunday that dialogue with Israel about the Holocaust is necessary and would serve as a warning to prevent such "exceptionally terrifying" crimes from happening again.
Source: New York Magazine
2-18-18
by Jill Abramson
With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to talk seriously about impeachment, argues Jill Abramson.
Source: NYT
2-18-18
A librarian going through a book at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., found a thin envelope that may add to the odd history of a founding father’s hair.
Source: NYT
2-19-18
According to the 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section who filled out this survey, Trump ranks worst.
Source: NYT
2-17-18
“We’ve been doing this kind of thing since the C.I.A. was created in 1947,” said Mr. Johnson, the dean of American intelligence scholars, who began his career in the 1970s investigating the C.I.A. as a staff member of the Senate’s Church Committee.
Source: The Post and Courier
2-15-18
A South Carolina museum is sending a $350,000 request to lawmakers for displaying a pair of Confederate flags that flew over the Statehouse grounds, but its leaders have another suggestion: showcase the banners someplace else.
Source: AP
2-14-18
Savannah renaming its 143-year-old Confederate monument to honor all soldiers killed in the Civil War.
