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
4-9-16
Carl Bernstein has a favorite shot — a powerful, wordless visual within a film rippling with verbiage. It is the moment when everything elevates as metaphor.
Source: The Sun
4-10-16 (accessed)
Aysegul Gurbuz’s suspension is the latest Anti-Semitism storm to hit the Labour party since the co-chairman of its Oxford University club resigned claiming a ‘large proportion’ of its members had a “problem with Jews”.
Source: My Dayton Daily News
4-9-16
For Kasich and his allies, the comparison is obvious: If Garfield could do it, why not Kasich?
Hitler himself paid no attention to the town of Braunau, but the fate of the privately owned home there has been debated since World War II ended.
Source: NYT
4-8-16
The most well-known developer in New York today may be a man with national aspirations and a propensity to talk off the top of his extravagantly coifed head, but a century ago, the headlines were commanded by a real estate family with an aversion to publicity and the trappings of wealth.
Source: NYT
4-6-16
The shrine, an unsteady 206-year-old structure held together by an iron cage, has become an uncomfortable symbol of Christian divisions.
Source: The New Yorker
4-9-16
A lay archaeologist made a discovery that could shift our current national narrative, in which American Colonial history begins with the British.
Source: Courier-Journal
4-8-16
College is privilege, not a right, Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton says.
Source: The Root
4-8-16
He disclosed this in a tweet on Twitter.
Source: Yahoo News
4-7-16
"The good thing about history is we’ve seen worse and survived it."
Source: OZY
4-7-16
Click here to see the pictures.
Source: Time Magazine
4-8-16 (accessed)
It was considered blasphemous by many. Even Bob Dylan criticized it.
Source: NYT
4-8-16
The College Board says it heard the critics out and made needed changes.
Source: AP
4-7-16
The museum, formerly housed on Clay Street, features over 12,000 square feet across two floors that illustrate the African-American experience in Virginia and beyond.
Source: The Washington Post
4-6-16
It’s a transition that happens once or twice a decade.
Source: Harvard Gazette
4-6-16
Joined by Congressman John Lewis, President Faust yesterday unveiled a plaque dedicated to Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba, who lived and worked at Wadsworth House in the 1700s.
Source: The Daily Beast
4-6-16
Stanford students are voting on a plan to reinstate the controversial Western Civilization curriculum more than 25 years after Jesse Jackson helped kill it.
Source: San Antonio Express-News
4-5-16
Kerry, who served in the Navy during the war, will speak April 27, in the middle of the three-day event, before accompanying President Obama on his first Vietnam visit in May.
Source: New Historian
4-5-16
Homo floresiensis, aka the ‘Hobbit’ people, were first discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia and ever since researchers have wondered how they were able to co-exist with early humans when no other group had. The answer? They didn’t.
Source: Opposing Views
4-5-16
The picture of the student dressed as a Klansman went viral after being posted on the social media app Snapchat and circulating on Facebook.
