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: WaPo
2-13-16
Here's the quote: "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down, you have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality." Only Stalin never said it.
Source: Politifact
2-13-16
The most recent contradiction of this claim would be Reagan’s nomination of Kennedy. Kennedy was nominated in November 1987 and confirmed during Reagan’s final year of office in February 1988.
Source: New Historian
2-11-16
An anthropologist from Washington State University says that, based on his research into modern hunter-gatherer societies, the desire to teach is hard-wired into humanity’s genetic code.
Source: The Washington Post
2-11-16
The video contextualizes historic racial disparity in the United States using the metaphor of a race track in which runners face different obstacles depending upon their racial background.
Source: The Frederick News-Post
2-11-16 (accessed)
The song lyrics denounce Lincoln as a tyrant.
Source: BBC
2-11-16
The suspect is a 94-year-old former Nazi SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp.
Source: ProPublica
2-11-16
He did it by cultivating an improbable source who risked everything to gather the key evidence.
Source: Monuments of Mosul
2-10-16 (accessed)
The project Monuments of Mosul in Danger aims to document and research Mosul monuments that have been destroyed by ISIS since June 2014.
Source: Harvard Business Review
2-3-16
Wherever government extends its tentacles, innovation follows.
Source: NPR
1-21-16
All across the country, people are re-creating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way.
Source: Daily Mail
2-3-16
Wentworth Woodhouse set to undergo £42m restoration so it can be opened as a tourist attraction
Source: The Guardian
2-6-16
From 1968 to 1972, photographer Nick Hedges toured the country for Shelter. His work galvanised politicians – and now the charity wants to find out what happened to those he portrayed.
Source: Huffington Post
2-7-16
"As far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men."
Source: NYDailyNews
2-8-16
New Yorkers relived the tragic sight of the Twin Towers crumbling apart while watching a Super Bowl 50 commercial for Colonial Williamsburg.
Source: Vox
2-5-16
Their answers were broadly consistent: Under some unlikely circumstances, Sanders could win a general election. But nominating him would make it significantly more difficult for Democrats to keep the White House.
Source: The Economist
1-21-16
It’s deja vu all over again, only this time Russia’s not turning westward.
Source: Harvard Gazette
2-5-16
Laurence Tribe said Cruz is disqualified.
Source: NYT
2-4-16
by Ashbell McElveen
James Hemings, the brother of Sally Hemings, introduced fine French cuisine to America.
Source: New Historian
2-7-16
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute For the Science of Human History have found evidence that a previously unknown major population shift took place in Europe 14,500 years ago.
Source: Huffington Post
2-4-16
New Hampshire's Jews -- yes, they exist -- aren't even talking about it.
