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 Washington Post
5-2-16
The Marine Corps has opened an investigation into whether it misidentified one of the six men shown raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945.
Source: Forward
5-3-16
It is based on an analysis of the genomes of 367 people, mostly from the United States, who reported having Ashkenazi lineage.
Source: Huffington Post
5-2-16
The new discovery could end a centuries-old maritime mystery.
Source: Hartford Courant
4-28-16
A major donor to the University of Hartford's DeWitt collection of political memorabilia said he'll sue to block the school's plan to sell the collection, even as a former senior U.S. Senate aide expressed new doubt Thursday about whether such a sale would be legal.
Source: The New Yorker
4-30-16
The colonial carve-up was always vulnerable. Its map ignored local identities and political preferences.
Source: New Historian
4-30-16
After a two-decade legal battle sparked by the discovery, it’s been determined that Kennewick Man is in fact related to modern populations of Native Americans and can be claimed and buried under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Source: Courier Journal
4-29-16
The decision came less than two weeks after Ricky L. Jones, professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at U of L, wrote a column in the Courier-Journal calling for the university to take the statue down.
Source: New Historian
4-28-16
It’s Acra, a citadel constructed by the Greeks more than two thousand years ago in the middle of old Jerusalem.
Source: Yale News
4-29-16 (accessed)
At a boisterous town hall Yale president Peter Salovey faced hundreds of angry students.
Source: The Washington Post
4-29-16
Parag Khanna is the author of the new book “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization,” in which he argues that the arc of global history is undeniably bending toward integration.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4-28-16
Middle Tennessee State University’s president, Sidney A. McPhee, is recommending the renaming of Forrest Hall, which honors the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Source: The Washington Post
4-27-16
With a number of states still to vote — including the largest, California — Trump is poised to set a new record vote total in Republican presidential primaries.
Source: The Times
4-28-16
Ken Livingstone made his comments in course of a defense of an MP accused of anti-Semitism.
Source: The Washington Post
4-28-16
It turns out that the home preserved on the estate — and marketed for years as the residence where the president laid his head — is in fact a guest quarters.
Source: The New Yorker
4-26-16
For many people in the West, Chernobyl has served as a kind of referendum on nuclear power.
Source: NYT
4-27-16
As the number of Jews in Iraq has dwindled to nearly none, Iraqi Jews in Israel are taking fresh interest in a heritage once considered unseemly.
Source: ARCA blog
4-27-16
Late in the day, April 26, 2016 and with final House passage, the US government has approved its final amended version of H.R. 1493, "The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act" agreed to in the Senate by Unanimous Consent.
Source: Syria Direct
4-26-16
“Specialists are still working to estimate the exact scale of the damage, but it’s around 30 percent.”
Source: The Washington Post
4-27-16
That’s a problem for some.
Source: The Washington Post
4-26-16
It isn't clear that the young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though.
