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 Conversation
11-14-17
It’s complicated.
Source: The Washington Post
11-15-17
by Michael Todd Landis
The senator they expelled? A proslavery Democrat who recognized Jefferson Davis as the legitimate president of the Confederacy.
Source: NYT
11-15-17
by Sergey Ponomarev
The 200 days of fighting along the Volga River came to be a defining event of World War II.
Source: Iraqi News
11-13-17
Abdul Sattar Bir Qadar, spokesperson for the High Judicial Council, said in a statement that the court sentenced the suspect to death “Over conviction for taking part in terrorist crimes including the smashing of monuments in Mosul.”
Source: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
11-14-17
These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007.
Source: WNCT
11-14-17
Durham County’s District Attorney Roger Echols said there was no evidence that those charged “physically participated in taking the statue down.”
Source: Children and Youth in History (GMU)
11-15-17 (accessed)
Because the age of consent laws changed. Here’s the background.
Source: Newsweek
11-14-17
There is definitive proof of whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election — and it exists in the email inboxes of Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, Hope Hicks and others.
Source: CBC News
11-12-17
The museum backed by fundamentalist Hobby Lobby CEO promises its goal is education, not indoctrination.
Source: NYT
11-12-17
Whenever Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his cabinet ministers speak in certain parts of Ontario or Quebec, they begin by acknowledging they are on “unceded Algonquin territory.”
Source: The Washington Post
11-11-17
Twice Bao Tong rose within the Chinese Communist Party’s hierarchy, and twice he was dramatically cut down.
Source: AP
11-10-17
Refresh your memory. There are more scandals than you may recall.
Source: NYT
11-9-17
Not since the days of Mao Zedong has one figure so dominated Chinese life.
Source: Scientific American
11-9-17
War deaths have increased dramatically in the modern era, new research contends, despite other statistics that suggest the risks of becoming a victim of violence have lessened.
Source: Smithsonian
11-9-17
A new project from Northeastern University traces the journeys of 80 women who attempted to escape Europe and find new lives in America during World War II.
Source: Vox
11-9-17
In the mid-1800s, politics were indispensable to making friends, becoming an adult, and even getting a girlfriend.
Source: WaPo
11-9-17
The National Archives posted another huge trove of records related to the John F. Kennedy assassination Thursday, though nearly all of the 13,000 files are previously released documents that apparently contain fewer redactions.
Source: The Washington Times
11-9-17
Those who argue the song is racist point to a rarely sung and little-known line in the third verse that says, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.”
Source: History channel
11-8-17
The honorees are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose statues will mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, with which many women won the right to vote.
Source: USA Today
11-7-17
Elon Musk isn't the only high-profile figure concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence.
