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: CNN
10-26-17
In terms of the total number of lost hours of electricity, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are in the midst of the largest blackout in US history, according to a report from an economic research company.
Source: The Guardian
10-24-17
The Stono rebellion of 1739 was the biggest slave rebellion in Britain’s North American colonies but it is barely commemorated – unlike Confederate leaders.
Source: WaPo
10-26-17
The CIA has until March to say why certain documents need to be withheld.
Source: Politico
10-26-17
The government is releasing thousands of long-secret files on Kennedy’s murder. Here are some tips for making sense of all the code names, redactions and confusing jargon.
Source: The Washington Post
10-25-17
And it's a history once again involving African-Americans.
Source: National Security Archive
10-25-17
This article draws on grand jury records that had been sealed for decades until historian Elliot Carlson, joined by the Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press, the National Security Archive, and other historians’ organizations, filed a lawsuit for their release.
Source: The Washington Post
10-16-17
“The museum has fence posts — limits. It doesn’t overtly say the Bible is good — that the Bible is true,” said Steve Green, the Hobby Lobby chief executive and chair of the museum.
Source: Balkan Transitional Justice
10-23-17
A historian who testified at a rehabilitation hearing for Serbia’s WWII Prime Minister, Milan Nedic, said the collaborationist leader’s loyalty to the German regime was “absolute until the very end.”
Source: NPR
10-24-17
More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today.
Source: Politico
10-23-17
There is little doubt that the political interests of the Klan and the Democratic Party, at least in the early years, intersected. But there is no evidence that it was founded as part of the Democratic Party, or that the party ever even had an official "military arm."
Source: TPM
10-24-17
“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”
Source: Pew Research Center
10-23-17
Reflecting growing partisan gaps across most of the individual questions in the scale – even those where both parties have shifted in the same direction – Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades.
Source: AJC.com
10-24-17
The DeKalb County Commission voted Tuesday to attempt to move a 109-year-old monument honoring the Confederacy.
Source: NYT
10-22-17
Bannon has declared a “season of war” to push out problematic Republicans in midterm elections just as Roosevelt tried to do to balky Democrats. But Roosevelt’s purge backfired.
Source: CNN
10-22-17
"If you're concerned about what's going on today, read history and figure out what to do because it's all right there."
Source: USA Today
10-21-17
To find a completely new species? Nobody expected that.
Source: The Post and Courier
10-22-17
Since the idea for the International African American Museum was publicly announced almost two decades ago, the project has swung on a pendulum of uncertainty. Until now.
Source: New York Post
10-21-17
Secret government documents to be released this week likely contain new details about what the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before he murdered President John F. Kennedy, assassination experts say.
Source: Politico
10-20-17
If the decision holds, it could contribute to the belief that the government has something to hide.
Source: Smithsonian
10-19-17
The fiery progressive Robert La Follette responded with a classic defense of free speech in wartime.
