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: NYT
February 18, 2016
The more people are told about the history of Supreme Court nominations, the more they tend to agree that the Senate should consider the president’s nomination, not delay it.
Source: NYT
February 17, 2016
Many in the town are convinced that the Kremlin lopped 3,000 years off Derbent’s age to avoid having a Muslim city named the oldest urban settlement in a country that presents itself as the defender of traditional Christian values.
Source: Think Progress
February 18, 2016
“That’s history,” said Tammi Lawton, who attended Trump’s rally in Walterboro with four friends. “No matter which way you look at it, that is history. That’s Southern history, and she’s a stupid idiot.”
Source: NYT
February 18, 2016
Mr. Walesa, in interviews, has said that as a dissident, he “played a game” with the Communist authorities, but that he never actively served them.
Source: NY Daily News
February 17, 2016
St. John's University was at the center of a firestorm after current and former students expressed their anger over the school failed to post recognition of Black History Month.
Source: CNN
February 17, 2016
Predappio is a pilgrimage site for far-right militants and people nostalgic for the Mussolini era.
Source: NYT
February 16, 2016
A proposal by the Institute for Advanced Study to build faculty housing has drawn criticism from preservationists of a 1777 battleground.
Source: Think Progress
February 16, 2016
These leaders had a much different perspective in July 2008, the final year of George W. Bush’s presidency, when they convened a meeting entitled “Protecting American Justice: Ensuring Confirmation of Qualified Judicial Nominees.”
Source: Press Release
February 16, 2016
It will replace the Yorktown Victory Center.
Source: Freedom Trail Foundation
February 16, 2016
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Freedom Trail Foundation announces a first-time ever opportunity to experience and discover the women who took part in the American Revolution, and the generations of women that followed, inaugurating their own struggles for freedom and equality.
Source: Public Policy Polling
February 16, 2016
38% of Trump voters say they wish the South had won the Civil War to only 24% glad the North won and 38% who aren’t sure.
Source: NYT
February 15, 2016
The Lincoln Memorial will undergo some of its most extensive renovations to date, including efforts to wash away dirt and debris, repair damage sustained during a 2011 earthquake, and build a substantial space for educational programs under the memorial.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
February 15, 2016
Mayor Kevin Faulconer has bowed to pressure from a conservative legal group that protested long-standing guidelines in the city's correspondence manual asking employees not to refer to the nation's "founding fathers," but to instead just call them "founders."
Source: The Daily Beast
February 14, 2016
The battle over plans for a Washington memorial to Dwight Eisenhower drags on, but meanwhile more and more of the Greatest Generation fades away each day.
Source: NYT
February 13, 2016
Despite mountains of evidence, the church says it doesn’t believe the remains are those of the Czar Nicholas II and his family.
Source: BBC
February 15, 2016
Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II's close relationship with a married woman, which lasted more than 30 years, have been shown to the BBC.
Source: NYT
February 13, 2016
The North halted its inquiry into the fate of Japanese said to have been kidnapped decades ago, retaliating for new sanctions imposed by Tokyo.
Source: Journal News
February 14, 2016
For some, the notion of Black History Month is a throwback to a bygone era and not consistent with the so-called post-racial era that began with President Barack Obama’s election.
Source: Time Magazine
February 13, 2016
He showed modern presidents and political parties that it is possible to pick a Supreme Court justice who shines brightly without shifting shape.
Source: The Washington Post
February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders's indignation at Clinton's embrace of Kissinger is the indignation of a generation of Democrats who loathed Nixon and Kissinger with every fiber of their being.
