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 Daily Beast
6-2-16
As the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre approaches, China is still trying to come to terms with the contradictory legacies of Mao and Deng.
Source: The Times of Israel
5-31-16
27 candles were lighted to symbolize the 27 centuries of Jewish life in the Iraqi capital.
Source: NYT
6-2-16
The Anglican God inherited over generations from Henry VIII’s day has long ceased to represent an exclusive franchise.
Source: Slate
6-1-16
These letters show that many were greatly disturbed by the series and felt the producers went too far.
Source: Russia Today
6-2-16
The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.
Source: The Marshall Project
5-25-16
White-on-black murders rarely result in a death sentence. Roof might be an exception.
Source: The New Historian
5-31-16
A new experiment has shown that the difficulty of moving the stones from Wales to Wiltshire wasn’t nearly as high as everyone thinks.
Source: The Daily Beast
5-30-16
After WWII, the city’s bureaucrats decided ‘equal treatment’ for the few Jews not exterminated was to fine them. Now the municipality is trying to make amends.
Source: The Guardian
5-29-16
The conflict between Republicans and Nationalists that erupted in 1936 was distorted by Franco and largely neglected by later governments. Now a campaign is under way to open the first international museum telling all sides of the story.
Source: The Washington Post
5-29-16
The 10-month battle at Verdun — the longest in World War I — killed 163,000 French and 143,000 German soldiers and wounded hundreds of thousands of others.
Source: NYT
5-30-16
… Sharing liquor bottles online that look like the famous image of a man standing defiantly in front of a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square.
Source: NYT
5-28-16
Mr. Trump’s campaign has engendered impassioned discussion about the nature of his appeal and warnings from critics on the left and the right.
Source: NYT
5-27-16
Geneticists have studied clues in the DNA of African-Americans about the history of slavery and the Great Migration.
Source: Adweek
5-27-16
It will help African-American families trace their ancestors.
Source: The Washington Post
5-28-16
Today he’s honored as a devout Muslim. In the 1950s he was honored as a secularist.
Source: ABC News
5-26-16
The copy sold is one of 14 signed by Lincoln, his vice president, the speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and in this case, by 36 senators.
Source: CBS
5-26-16
The images from the aftermath of Hiroshima are haunting, but for Susan Archinski and her husband Tony, they're also personal.
Source: The Washington Post
5-27-16
Obama called for the courage to “spread peace and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.” In later remarks, he said that scientific strides must be matched by moral progress or mankind was doomed.
Source: Fast Company
5-26-16
Visitors to the library can download a free app from Layar, point their smartphone at 10 "trigger images," and read a more balanced view of the information presented.
Source: Ars Technica
5-25-16
Rock designs suggest a complex social structure and ritual behavior.
