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: YouGov UK
July 26, 2017
By three to one, British people think the British Empire is something to be proud of rather than ashamed of – they also tend to think it left its colonies better off, and a third would like it to still exist.
Source: The Washington Post
July 27, 2017
How Alice Collins Plebuch’s foray into “recreational genomics” upended a family tree.
Source: Huffington Post
July 28, 2017
The anti-lynching protest became known as the first mass demonstration by African Americans.
Source: Time Magazine
July 27, 2017
Here's what changed.
Source: NYT
July 27, 2017
by William D. Ruckelshaus
Mr. President, don’t worry whether you have the power to pardon yourself. But do consider the wisdom of firing the man charged by your own deputy attorney general with investigating Russian intervention into your election.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
July 27, 2017
A 1963 protest placard in the Smithsonian collections could almost be mistaken for any of the Black Lives Matter marches of today.
Source: The Washington Post
July 27, 2017
Perhaps the most epic White House feud was the smackdown between Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Source: Newsweek
July 27, 2017
KGB defector Yuri Nosenko was imprisoned after the CIA grew suspicious of claims he had intimate information regarding the assassination.
Source: Time Magazine
July 27, 2017
The repairs will be expensive and it's not at all clear who is prepared to foot the bill. Under France's strict secular laws, the government owns the cathedral, and the Catholic archdiocese of Paris uses it permanently for free.
Source: The Washington Post
July 26, 2017
Albert Cashier served in the army as a man, lived his life as man and was buried at 71 with full military honors in 1915, as a man. But beneath the uniform in which he fought and was buried, he was biologically a woman.
Source: NYT
July 26, 2017
More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, taking heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close.
Source: Politico
July 26, 2017
A Politico/Morning Consult poll out early Wednesday found 49 percent of Trump voters think he won the popular vote, compared to just 40 percent who think Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won it.
Source: National Geographic
July 14, 2017
Pictures captured by photographer Herbert Ponting in the early 20th century show the coldest continent before climate change took hold.
Source: The Atlantic
July 24, 2017
by James Fallows
Half a century ago, a senator battling a brain tumor took to the Senate floor, and secured his legacy.
Source: The National Coalition for History
July 21, 2017
They include funding for the NEH & NHPRC, with only limited cuts.
Source: NYT
July 23, 2017
Indigenous people in Canada stand in line to receive a $5 payment. Yes, they're upset about that.
Source: Times Live
July 24, 2017
German car giant Volkswagen aided Brazil's 1964-85 military government in identifying and persecuting political dissenters among its workforce in the country.
Source: The Washington Post
July 24, 2017
Duterte has repeatedly criticized the United States for killing thousands of Filipinos during the Philippine-American war.
Source: Newsweek
July 24, 2017
Those gubernatorial cases could provide a precedent if Trump chooses to pardon himself.
Source: Politifact
July 21, 2017
President Donald Trump’s private discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit is highly unusual but not completely without precedent.
