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: WSJ
7-5-16
In one of his museums he even gives credit to Chiaing Kai-shek for helping expel the Japanese from China..
Source: New Historian
7-4-16
A Buddhist temple in Nanjing, China may have been harboring a major cultural artifact after archaeologists found what they say could be a skull fragment from Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha himself.
Source: SFGate
7-1-16
Boston-based publishing company has decided to donate proceeds from Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" to a local organization that works with aging Holocaust survivors.
Source: AHA Today
7-5-16
by Sam Lebovic
Amid the recent hubbub about leaks and whistleblowers and Hillary Clinton’s rogue server, it has been easy to forget what a state secret actually is.
Source: NPR
7-5-16
No president has campaigned strongly for his chosen successor in at least 100 years.
Source: The Atlantic
7-5-16
Georgia’s highest court allowed a lawsuit by a KKK chapter to move forward, setting the stage for a trial.
Source: Newsweek
7-5-16
California Republicans paid a steep price for immigrant bashing in 1994.
Source: Atlas Obscura
6-29-16
The world’s oldest working library at the al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez, Morocco is once again open and ready for visitors, having been closed for massive restorations since 2012.
7-6-16
The exhaustive report, which historian Martin Gilbert helped prepare before his death, will identify what went wrong. It will be published Wednesday.
Source: NYT
6-29-16
One reason may be that the $540 million National Museum of African American History and Culture is set to open on the Mall in Washington this fall.
Source: The Washington Post
7-1-16
by Felicity Vabulas
Here’s why nations leave international organizations.
Source: WSJ
6-21-16
A crowdsourced initiative in which anyone can help decipher Civil War telegrams, including messages from Lincoln himself.
Source: National Security Archive
7-1-16
Fifty years ago on July 4, 1966, Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Freedom of Information Act while vacationing at his Texas ranch. But he hated the concept.
Source: Yahoo News
6-30-16
The Klan is trying to reshape itself for a new era.
Source: CBC News
6-29-16
Barack Obama will be the seventh president to address a joint session of Parliament.
Source: The Washington Post
7-1-16
Among the various incidents in Donald Trump's pre-political past that have rumbled through the public's awareness over the past year was a moment when he said that the operators of Native American casinos as "don’t look like Indians to me."
Source: Telegraph
7-1-16
On Friday, exactly 100 years after the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, everyone remembered the men who got on and did it, without stopping to question their orders.
Source: The Washington Post
6-30-16
It is easy to forget that democracy in Europe is a relatively recent development.
Source: NYT
6-29-16
The finding is based on a family coat of arms he had a hand in protecting.
Source: Salon
6-29-16
“It was dug out by spoons. By people who were shackled around the ankles”
