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 Guardian
3-28-16
Memos show media mogul William Randolph Hearst’s executives conspired to undermine Welles and stop release of film.
Source: CBS News
3-28-16
The ceremony came more than seventy years after they helped America win World War 2.
Source: The Root
3-28-16
Some of Cosby’s accusers are angered by the exhibit.
Source: Inside Higher ED
3-28-16
Many students initially assumed that someone in their library or residence hall had printed the flier. But as the day went on, more campuses reported the same flier on their printers.
Source: Forward
3-28-16
You can even buy a birthday card. Seriously.
Source: OZY
3-27-16
They’ve tried before. It hasn’t worked.
Source: Mashable
3-27-16
The hashtag #BlackWomensHistoryMonth is highlighting women who have contributed greatly to American history, but are rarely given credit.
Source: New York Post
3-27-16
According to National First Ladies’ Library historian Carl Anthony, the first smear campaign aimed at a first lady came way back in 1808.
Source: NYT
3-26-16
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in Washington in September, had some delicate decisions to make about slavery, Bill Cosby and President Obama.
Source: PSYBLOG
3-27-16
People born between 1988 and 1994 — so-called “millennials” — are the most narcissistic generation ever.
Source: CBS News
3-27-16
Some of the most important heritage sites seem ok.
Source: The Washington Post
3-24-16
Edenfield will be sentenced on July 21 and faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The government has recommended probation.
Source: Reuters
3-24-16
Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar.
Source: Financial Times
3-24-16
Study #1: Why did the industrial revolution start in northwest Europe? Because, argue James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou, of a “uniquely high female age at first marriage — around 25 — from at the latest the fifteenth century.”
Source: Forward
3-24-16
Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate.
Source: The Daily Beast
3-24-16
He’s actually German.
Source: Mondoweiss
3-23-16
A document has surfaced showing that the Israeli army in 1948 committed atrocities.
Source: Forward
3-23-16
A review of documents released in the 1980s but unexamined until now shows the extent to which Jews were spying on Jews.
Source: WTKR
3-23-16
On social media some students at the school, Isle of Wight, said they don’t understand what the fuss is about.
Source: National Security Archive
3-23-16
Prior U.S. Government Releases Have Detailed Human Rights Abuses and U.S. Policymaking in Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador.
