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
6-20-16
Man tells reporter at controversial sale in Germany that he came from Argentina and bought the relics for a museum.
Source: The Conversation
6-21-16
by Roger Mortimore
The wane and wax of Euroscepticism in Britain.
Source: Aljazeera
6-10-16
Israel is concealing vital records to prevent darkest periods in its history from coming to light, academics say.
Source: The Washington Post
6-20-16
Over the next nine months, a team of Greek conservationists will restore the collapsing chapel built above and around the burial cave where the faithful believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead after the Crucifixion.
Source: Newsweek
6-20-16
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder just signed a bill into law and Rhode Island's legislature just passed one, while other states are trying.
Source: NYT
6-20-16
The bodies of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were found on a remote road 52 years ago. Nine people have been convicted in the case.
Source: NYT
6-20-16
The country’s vote on leaving the European Union recalls in some ways England’s break five centuries ago with the papacy, another great power across the Channel.
Source: The Washington Post
6-17-16
Cohn showed Trump how to exploit power and instill fear through a simple formula: attack, counterattack and never apologize.
Source: New Historian
6-18-16
They were found in Eritrea.
Source: Politico
6-19-16
by Joseph Cummins
Think he’s the first to hand out vicious epithets to his opponents? Just ask “Tricky Dick,” “the Beast of Buffalo” and “Rutherfraud.”
Source: NYT
6-18-16
Letters written long ago by Barack Obama Sr. shed new light on a young Kenyan whose ambitions helped change the course of U.S. history. But for the president, they may also revive old pain.
Source: The Daily Beast
6-19-16
The 1973 arson of the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans was the deadliest day for LGBT people in America until the massacre at Pulse.
Source: NYT
6-17-16
To some, a classified section of an inquiry into the terrorist attacks points to Saudi involvement, while the country’s foreign minister says, “There is no there there.”
Source: NYT
6-19-16
The Air Force says that there was no harmful radiation at the crash site, but interviews with dozens of men and details from declassified documents disagree.
Source: NYT
6-17-16
After the sentencing of Reinhold Hanning, who may be the last former Nazi sentenced for war crimes, reflections on how Germany has addressed its history.
Source: AP
6-15-16
Mass violence has "a long, ugly history" in America, said Katherine Grandjean, history professor at Wellesley College. "It's a pattern as old as the nation and goes back long before even into the colonial roots."
Source: Mo4ch News
6-16-16
Fifty years ago this Thursday, a pivotal speech in Greenwood, Mississippi radically changed the direction of the global civil rights movement forever – when Trinidadian immigrant Stokely Carmichael popularized the phrase “Black Power.”
Source: PennLive
6-15-16
Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, D-Philadelphia, noticed the flag late Tuesday, removed it on her own and turned it over to House Speaker Mike Turzai's office.
Source: evonomics
6-17-16 (accessed)
Polarization in Congress has increased steadily over the past four decades, but a new study found that it rose more sharply after banking crises and market crashes.
Source: Compton Herald
6-14-16
On Sunday, 17 bicycle riders gathered around the monument at New Echota south of Resaca and began retracing the route their ancestors were forced to make in the summer of 1838.
