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: WaPo
9-24-16
‘This place is more than a building. It is a dream come true.’
9-22-16
Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly because of the Balfour Declaration in which Britain said it favored the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine but that this should not undermine the rights of others living there.
Source: The Guardian
9-23-16
War veterans are horrified that Blenheim Palace has been draped in swastika flags for Michael Bay’s latest film
Source: National Security Archive
9-23-16
A CIA special intelligence assessment in 1987 concluded that Chilean General Augusto Pinochet ordered an “act of state terrorism” on the streets of Washington, D.C., that took the lives of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier.
Source: NYT
9-21-16
Experts using a computer imaging program have virtually unwrapped a charred ancient scroll and recovered a fragment of the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible.
Source: NYT
9-21-16
Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggest that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.
Source: Atlas Obscura
9-20-16
Cecilia Bembibre, a doctoral candidate at University College London, is attempting to preserve history like very few before her. She’s cataloging the smells.
Source: New Historian
9-19-16
Jane Haining was a missionary with the Church of Scotland when she gave her life protecting Jewish schoolgirls.
Source: The Washington Post
9-20-16
Similar packages have recently turned up in communities around the country — from California to Kansas to New Jersey.
Source: The Poynter Institute
9-20-16
A federal court has rejected a Justice Department attempt to keep secret the testimony from a 74-year-old prosecution of The Chicago Tribune for revealing that the U.S. had cracked Japanese codes.
Source: The Guardian
9-20-16
Black men’s average hourly wages went from being 22.2% lower in 1979 to 31.0% lower in 2015; for black women the wage gap went from 6% to 19%
Source: Forward
9-20-16
The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after public outcry over its suspension last week.
Source: NYT
9-19-16
Mr. Trump has said that as president he would “rip up” international trade deals. And there’s very little Congress can do to stop him, even if the result is a costly trade war.
Source: The Washington Post
9-17-16
In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.
Source: ABC News
9-19-16
A review of data since 1960 suggests that past debates have almost never directly and measurably changed the candidates' relative standings.
Source: NYT
9-16-16
Appropriately for a public museum at the heart of Washington’s cultural landscape, the museum’s creators did not want to build a space for a black audience alone, but for all Americans.
Source: The Guardian
9-18-16
Decades after it was first dreamed of, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, completed by British architect David Adjaye, opens this week. While the building is striking, its collection is more remarkable.
Source: NYT
9-18-16
Aging and often infirm and isolated, the remaining survivors require more help even as traditional sources of funding are starting to taper off.
Source: The Daily Beast
9-16-16
Some courts say too much time has passed for descendants to get back the masterpieces the Nazis stole. Families say no—and Congress is stepping in.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
9-17-16
Two centuries later, the National Park Service and the nonprofit that runs Washington's Mount Vernon estate now have exhibits showing that the first family's family tree has been biracial from its earliest branches.
