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: VICE
5-25-16
Harald Sandner got so annoyed by seeing the wrong dates being thrown around in historic works that he decided to take on the task of reconstructing each day of Hitler's life.
Source: AP
5-24-16
School teacher Mary Lou Bruner has lost her bid to join the Texas board that selects textbooks.
Source: NYT
5-24-16
While invoking Hiroshima has become a universal shorthand for the horrors of nuclear war, Nagasaki, where about 74,000 people were killed, has mostly lived in the other city’s shadow.
Source: NYT
5-25-16
Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings have argued that the United States will have moral authority only after it apologizes for the “original sin.”
Source: The Washington Post
5-24-16
Museum officials appealed to wealthy African Americans and their corporate, civic and religious institutions. They came through.
Source: Wired
5-24-16
New data indicate the Black Death killed 45% of East England's population.
Source: Vox
5-24-16
West represents a black intellectual critique of Hillary Clinton — and of a middle-class black establishment that's chosen comfort over change.
Source: TPM
5-24-16
Attendance was way up at a white nationalist conference this past weekend.
Source: The Daily Beast
5-20-16
Less than a century ago, top FBI agents were called in to investigate the first case of a passenger airplane being bombed—and the case is still unsolved.
Source: Time Magazine
5-21-16
The pilots were previously excluded from the cemetery under official policy.
Source: Mediaite
5-20-16
American Indian is out; Native American is in.
Source: Heavy
5-15-16
See the photos.
Source: Crosscut
5-20-16
All of the names in Washington state’s map that feature the words “Jim Crow” could be erased before the end of this year.
Source: CNN
5-20-16
Workers at the Auschwitz Museum this week found a gold ring and necklace that had been carefully wrapped in canvas before being concealed in a false base.
Source: WSJ
5-19-16
No modern candidate has entered the fray at this point of the race with deeper negatives than either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.
Source: Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction
5-19-16 (accessed)
A 5 year forensics study shows conclusively the bullet struck the mast of a traffic signal.
Source: The Hill
"Over 150 years ago, slavery was abolished. Why in the year 2016 are we still condoning displays of this hateful symbol on our sacred national cemeteries?" Rep. Jared Huffman asked.
Source: NYT
5-18-16
The 1493 letter was taken from a library in Florence, and eventually ended up as a donation to the Library of Congress. It was returned to Italy on Wednesday.
Source: The Washington Post
5-19-16
But Suzan Harjo, the lead plaintiff in the first case challenging the team’s trademark protections, questioned the validity of the poll results.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
5-19-16
This executive order is in keeping with the recommendations in the Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-sponsored by the Museum.
