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: National Security Archive
February 5, 2016
The document disproves the claim of CIA historian Benjamin B. Fischer that Tolkachev "was the perpetrator of an elaborate KGB hoax."
Source: Daily Beast
February 5, 2016
The photos show U.S. troops posing with corpses and simulating forced sodomization.
Source: Buzzfeed
February 4, 2016
In a war-ravaged suburb of Damascus, rebel fighters nurture a library of 15,000 books to keep the hopes of revolution alive.
Source: CTV News
February 3, 2016
"There's a lot of circumstantial evidence."
Source: EpicTimes
February 3, 2016
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Source: Aeon
February 5, 2016
by Andrew George
The inside story behind the discovery.
Source: The Guardian
February 3, 2016
Woolly tale about Explorers Club soiree falls over as leftover gobbet turns out to be sea turtle after 21st-century DNA analysis
Source: BBC
February 4, 2016
They date back 150 years to the dawn of photography.
Source: NYT
February 3, 2016
The victims had been accused of spying for communist China by Taiwan’s authoritarian government.
February 3, 2016
It’s in reaction to protests against Columbus Day.
Source: Salon
February 3, 2016
by Matthew Delmont
Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation in February 1964 and it barely made the history books.
Source: Smithsonian
February 2, 2016
Thirteen years in the making, the museum says it will open its doors September 24, 2016.
February 2, 2016
by Allen Mikaelian
A visual record of the lies, fibs, and ignorance of politicians based on Politifact's database.
Source: BBC
January 28, 2016
A former Soviet agent says he has found evidence that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong, among others, by analysing excrement to construct psychological portraits.
Source: Huffington Post
January 31, 2016
The Google Cultural Institute has made rare historical artifacts -- including writings by Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass -- digitally accessible.
Source: Time Magazine
January 29, 2016
Two very important birthdays helped activists choose when to celebrate
Source: NYT
January 29, 2016
The anniversary of the British evacuation of New York in 1783 has been so forgotten that City Council lawyers are resisting efforts to name a street after the historical event the holiday commemorates.
Source: NYT
January 31, 2016
The moon dust’s fate was revealed by Britain’s National Archives, which released 178 pages of correspondence on the subject going back 30 years.
Source: NYT
February 1, 2016 (accessed)
The paper will be making new images public throughout February, black history month.
Source: USA Today
January 29, 2016
So Iowa's got an oversized importance in national politics? Blame Jimmy Carter.