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
August 7, 2017
Fabrications have long been a part of American politics.
Source: CNN
August 4, 2017
It's hard to be as unpopular as President Donald Trump when the economy is going so well.
Source: Time Magazine
August 2, 2017
The poem was engraved onto a plaque placed on the pedestal in 1903 — nearly two decades after the statue was unveiled — and that the monument wasn't always associated with immigration.
Source: Haaretz
August 6, 2017
Archaeologists believe Julias, the home of Jesus' apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip, was located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Source: The Seattle Times
August 3, 2017
“From the very beginning, we made a commitment that this would be a complete story, not only of the (bombs’) development but also their deployment.”
Source: The Daily Beast
August 2, 2017
The Detroit Riots of 1967 resulted in at least 43 deaths and a vastly changed city. 50 years later, the city's people and officials commemorated the riots and what happened next.
Source: Huffington Post
August 2, 2017
(Don't) “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Source: The Post and Courier
August 2, 2017
She made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy" and pledged “we’re not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.
Source: The Daily Beast
July 31, 2017
‘We wrote the book on what not to do’ with Watergate, says John Dean. Trump doesn’t seem to have any knowledge of what’s in that book.
Source: NYT
August 1, 2017
Presidents often try to influence senators’ votes with threats of retaliation. Those efforts have often backfired, and have sometimes prompted senators to switch parties.
July 29, 2017
The date was August 1619. That's when pirates brought 20 or so black captives to Jamestown and sold them.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
July 31, 2017
With a bass drum pounding a steady beat, young women in hooded robes and face paint — and nooses around their necks — rounded up her and other first-year students.
Source: Smithsonian
July 31, 2017
Researchers are finding animal DNA in the parchment pages as well as genetic fingerprints from humans (like kissing priests).
Source: Smithsonian
July 28, 2017
Seized 80 years ago as a ‘degenerate art,’ the heirs of the Paul Klee masterpiece have finally reached a settlement with the city of Munich.
Source: Vox
August 1, 2017
The newly announced series, from "Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder and "Girls Trip" producer Will Packer, envisions a world where freed slaves formed their own nation.
Source: WaPo
July 30, 2017
Different administrations tell very different stories about the past and the present.
Source: The Daily Beast
July 30, 2017
A discovery of skulls in Mexico City was just the latest in our obsession with Mesoamerican human sacrifice. But Native Americans were far from the only practitioners.
Source: NYT
July 29, 2017
The key to understanding North Korea’s strategy may lie in the recent past of another Asian nuclear state: China.
Source: The Daily Beast
July 30, 2017
As leak accusations rock the White House, Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump should know that American politics' first major leak came at a formative moment—by a founding father.
Source: AP
July 28, 2017
Old South grandeur, leavened with a cold look at slavery: Stories of the enslaved are a growing part of plantation tours.
