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
12-15-16
The German owner of the 1,500 artworks was of sound mind when he bequeathed them to a museum in Switzerland, a court in Munich ruled.
Source: NYT
12-14-16
The conventional belief is that only small tribes could have inhabited the Amazon jungle, but new discoveries call that into question.
Source: Euronews
12-14-16
On loan when Russian forces took control of Crimea in 2014, the collection was assembled from four museums and represented fragments of the ancient empires that used the region as a trade crossroads.
Source: The Root
12-14-16
Ted Bonner, an Arkansas school board member, was called on to resign after dressing up in blackface at a Halloween party.
Source: THE Conversation
12-11-16
by John Broich
They treated Hitler as a joke and praised Mussolini for restoring the economy.
Source: Forbes
12-13-16
by Kristina Killgrove
The Times claimed a new study reflects the consensus view of medical historians. This is far from the case.
Source: National Security Archive
12-12-16
New documents shed light on OPERATION CONDOR, including planned missions in Europe and assassinations of leaders in Amnesty International.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
12-11-16
"Recent research has shown us that most enslaved persons in the Americas before 1700 were Indians; that Indians constituted a sizable proportion of the global slave population thereafter; and that Europeans enslaved Indians from Quebec to New Orleans, and from New England to the Carolinas."
Source: National Security Archive
12-12-16
Newly declassified documents show that the risk of nuclear proliferation at the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 was even greater than publicly known at the time, with 3,429 Soviet strategic warheads scattered outside of Russia in various former Soviet republics.
Source: The Washington Post
12-11-16
For several centuries, many political communities in Europe and the Americas used electors chosen from different territorial and political units to select a main magistrate. The United States is the only country in the world to still use the system to elect a president.
Source: The Guardian
12-11-16
by Carole Cadwalladr
When you search for whether the Holocaust happened Google answers: no.
Source: The Washington Post
12-10-16
Hillary Clinton may have lacked Obama’s personal appeal among younger voters, but she still carried the under-30 vote by an 18-point margin over Trump.
Source: NYT
12-9-16
The first town chartered by African Americans has battled two 100-year storms in under 20 years. Some see the ruins of homes, many covered in mold, as a lost cause. Others vow to rebuild.
Source: NYT
12-9-16
Norman Ohler, the author of “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany,” unearthed this startling fact about the Third Reich rummaging through military archives.
Source: USA Today
12-9-16
“The United States forever will be grateful to the residents of Guam for their steadfast loyalty to the United States, as demonstrated by the countless acts of courage they performed despite the threat of Imperial Japanese military forces that occupied Guam during World War II."
Source: National Security Archive
12-7-16
The White House didn't think so, but a secret CIA report – published for the first time – believed it might have been.
Source: Newsone
12-7-16
Scores of women, men and children in California suffered under a government mandated program in the early 1900s.
Source: Los Angeles Times
12-8-16
There have been a total of 157 faithless voters to date.
Source: Time Magazine
12-7-16
U.S. government officials say Treasury Secretary Jack Lew could release early images of redesigned $5, $10 and $20 bills in an effort to pressure the Trump Administration away from reversing their plans.
Source: NYT
12-8-16
Using a big data set of millions of tax returns they show how the chance that you’ll make more money than your parents has dramatically declined since 1940.
