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: Inside Higher ED
4-6-16
It’s about Lloyd Gaines. Lloyd who? Exactly.
Source: Newsweek
4-5-16
No one who witnessed the war in Bosnia came out of it untouched, and it would be hard to find someone there today whose life was not affected by the master plan of Karadzic and his henchmen.
Source: New Historian
4-4-16
“This closely matches the historical reports of a major demographic collapse immediately after the Spaniards arrived in the late 1400s.”
Source: Quinnipiac University
4-5-16
Only 36 percent of Democrats agree.
Source: The Herald Bulletin
4-3-16
“Living in Alex and knowing I was the only black person in town wasn’t a comfortable situation. It was different walking to the store and to the park and to the library.”
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
4-4-16
A committee of trustees has met nine times since December and made recommendations for an “expanded and more vigorous commitment to diversity and inclusion at Princeton,” the statement says.
Source: NYT
4-4-16
During the talk to members of the Stasi, recently discovered by the BBC, he described his successes and urged colleagues to “deny everything.”
Source: Time Magazine
4-1-16
It's only the second one ever found in North America.
Source: NPR
4-1-16
In the years before he battled Hitler, Churchill was sunk in debt and booze.
Source: The Root
4-1-16
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, set to open in September in Washington, D.C., was met with controversy over the accusations after noting that items belonging to Cosby would be on display.
Source: CBS News
3-31-16
After 10 months under ISIS' control, who would have believed Palmyra could look so good. But up close, there are monumental gaps.
Source: San Antonio Express-News
3-30-16
Kyle Biedermann has a simple explanation. It was for charity.
Source: NYT
3-30-16
A new book, “The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich,” reveals how two men uncovered a Nazi artifact.
Source: NYT
3-28-16
Cultural organizations have been working to create precise 3D digital models of the threatened heritage monuments in Palmyra, Syria, in case the originals are damaged beyond repair.
Source: Time Magazine
3-30-16
Having an abortion—not just providing one—used to be illegal in many places in the U.S.
A leading university published guidelines advising teachers to tell students that Britain "invaded" rather than "settled" the island, in a controversy which reveals the acrimonious division in Australian society over the country's colonial history.
Source: The Guardian
3-30-16
German historian shows how news agency retained access in 1930s by promising not to undermine strength of Hitler regime.
Source: Politica Wire
3-29-16
Since the Civil War, the Republican party has had eight candidates which took multiple ballots to decide while the Democratic party has had ten.
Source: USA Today
3-28-16
A group of advocates are working to finalize a nonprofit organization called Guam World War II Reparations Advocates Inc., which plans to sue the U.S. government in hopes that survivors finally receive compensation the group believes they deserve.
Source: Time Magazine
3-28-16
The front runner's new catchphrase has old roots.
