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 Washington Post
11-8-15
At the center of the dispute are the events of early 1987 in the White House of Ronald Reagan.
Source: NYT
11-7-15
Memories of overthrowing a Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship remain strong among the elders of Santiago de Cuba, the city where the fight began, but the younger generation is ready to move on.
Source: NYT
11-7-15
“My flag’s been flying for 33 years, and I’m not about to take it down.”
Source: Al Bawaba
11-8-15
In exchange, ISIS gets a nice chunk of the excavators' profits as "tax."
Source: 60 Minutes
11-8-15
An unorthodox musical with a diverse cast about the life of Alexander Hamilton is creating waves on Broadway and beyond while it smashes box office records.
Source: Politico
11-6-15
Carson's campaign on Friday conceded that a central point in his inspirational personal story did not occur as he previously described. West Point has no record of Carson applying, much less being extended admission.
Source: The Washington Post
11-5-15
It's not at all uncommon for a president's party to lose state legislative seats during his administration.
Source: Time Magazine
11-6-15
Comprising more than 7,500 linear feet of an estimated seven million documents and artifacts, the Time Inc. collection provides a detailed perspective of 20th-century history.
Source: Wall Street Journal
11-5-15
Actually, as Gordon Wood pointed out, many of the delegates had been elected to colonial assemblies. One had been elected governor.
Source: NY Review of Books
11-2-15
Documents recently released provide the best evidence yet of how hard the US was pushing for the eradication of the Communists and the routing of the pro-Chinese Sukarno.
Source: Buzzfeed
11-4-15
“…you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.”
Source: NYT
11-4-15
The stunning revelation is in Jon Meacham’s new biography of the senior Bush.
Source: NYT
11-4-15
Historians in South Korea estimate that at least 1.2 million Koreans were coerced, or sometimes duped, into laboring as part of Japan’s war efforts in Japan, China and elsewhere.
Source: Think Progress
11-4-15
In Colorado’s second-largest school district, residents overwhelmingly voted to recall three conservative school board members who floated a controversial proposal that the Advanced Placement U.S. history curriculum be changed to “promote patriotism.”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
11-3-15
“Fans of Jerusalem’s national soccer team enthusiastically chanted the name of Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, alongside the usual call of 'Death to Arabs.' ”
Source: Deutsche Welle
11-3-15
Historians are joining protests
Source: The Guardian
11-3-15
South Korea has pushed ahead with a highly controversial plan to introduce government-issued history textbooks in schools, despite angry protests by opposition parties and academics.
Source: WaPo
10-25-15
by Ishann Tharoor
True, the US didn't drop its barrel bombs in populated areas.
Source: Politifact
11-3-15
Actually, the word was dreamed up by a British doctor in 1905.
Source: New Historian
10-31-15
The animal to which the bones belonged lived 11.6 million years ago, according to the researchers who analysed it, an international team from the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and George Washington University.
