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: The Guardian
9-9-16
Norway’s largest newspaper published a front-page letter to the Facebook CEO lambasting the company’s decision to censor a photograph of the Vietnam war
Source: The Conversation
9-8-16
Study suggests his accent could’ve been to blame.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
9-8-16
School Board President Matt Haney wants to rename Washington High School after poet Maya Angelou, a San Francisco native.
Source: Cleveland.com
9-8-16
The school joins other colleges across the country that have examined ties to slaveholding and the Confederacy.
Source: The Washington Post
9-8-16
Each year, companies across the United States employ remarkably tone-deaf marketing strategies that somehow reference 9/11.
Source: NBC News
9-7-16
It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Source: KXAN
9-6-16
A group of educators and students called on the State Board of Education to keep a controversial Mexican American studies textbook out of Texas classrooms.
Source: NYT
9-6-16
The flag, which was featured in a famous photograph of ground zero and disappeared soon after the attack, will again become a prominent part of Lower Manhattan.
Source: CBC News
The great rotunda reopened after a 13-month, $97 million project to save the Capitol Dome.
Source: NYT
6-7-16
It has become practically routine for President Obama, in his final year in office, to acknowledge the United States’ unsavory history in a country he was visiting.
Source: CBC News
9-5-16
A U.S. secret operation in Laos that ended 43 years ago is still creating fresh wounds.
Source: Politico
9-15-16
The 37th president’s renovated library could mark a new standard for honesty over hagiography.
Source: NYT
9-5-16
For all that has been written about Mr. Trump, relatively little attention has been paid to the time he spent at Marble Collegiate Church and his relationship with the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale.
Source: NYT
9-4-16
Frederick, Md., is debating how to remove a bronze bust of Roger Brooke Taney, the Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision.
Source: USA Today
8-31-16
CIA Director Richard Helms misled the FBI in June 1972 to cover up his agency's role in helping to smear the reputation of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked a secret history of the Vietnam War to the press, a newly released CIA document shows.
Source: OZY
9-2-16
Congress passed the Presidential Records Act of 1978, mandating that presidents and their staff could no longer arbitrarily deem what constituted personal papers. But they continued to do so.
Source: Yale Daily News
8-26-16
They taped Osama bin Laden's name over the name of the college.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
9-2-16
No other university has given descendants of its slaves legacy status in the admission process.
Source: The Washington Post
9-1-16
by Josh Pacewicz
"My research showed that the collapse of traditional business associations was a turning point in the party’s shift."
Source: CNN
8-31-16
"I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world." - Jackie Robinson
