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: LA Times
8-19-15
Not far from the spectacular Roman ruins he had spent decades safeguarding, 82-year-old Khaled Asaad met a brutal end at the hands of the militants of Islamic State, relatives and colleagues said Wednesday.
Source: National Security Archive
8-19-15
President Ford "Offended", Kissinger "Almost Blind with Rage" over Israeli Behavior during 1975 Talks over Sinai
Source: NYT
8-18-15
Rumors about his racial ancestry formed a subplot that played out during his lifetime.
Source: Acadian Advocate
8-15-15
“Governor Jindal opposes the tearing down of these historical statues."
Source: NYT
8-14-15
in a potentially contentious break with previous expressions of contrition by Japanese leaders, he did not offer a new apology of his own.
Source: Atlantic
8-12-15
Reports spread this week that the English language’s most celebrated writer might have smoked marijuana, but the fuss only reveals how little is known about the Bard of Avon.
Source: USA Today
8-13-15
Many LGBT groups are saying that Emmerich’s film whitewashes the story and erases the important role that transgender people of color played in the riots.
Source: NYT
8-12-15
Long before Lucy Mercer, Kay Summersby or Monica Lewinsky, there was Nan Britton, who scandalized a nation with stories of carnal adventures in a White House coat closet and endured a ferocious backlash for publicly claiming that she bore the love child of President Warren G. Harding.
Source: Yahoo
8-12-15
Before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.
Source: NBC News
8-11-15
For now, Donald Trump continues to be the "Teflon Don" of the 2016 presidential race, with very early indicators showing his frontrunner status is still intact after the first GOP debate. But just how much does it matter?
Source: Salon
8-11-15
Col. Ty Seidule, head of the department of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point "lowers the boom,” says Salon, on “idiots” who think slavery wasn’t the cause.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
8-12-15 (accessed)
In the half-century since South Los Angeles exploded in a violent uprising, the civil rights movement splintered, whites fled to the suburbs, African Americans’ power waxed and waned, Watts became 70% Latino.
Source: CNN
8-11-15
Nefertiti has continued to capture our collective imagination throughout the ages. No trace has been found of the legendary "beautiful one" who ruled across Egypt at her husband's side... until, possibly, now.
Source: NYT
8-10-15
Archaeological finds in North Carolina may provide clues to the fate of at least some of the Roanoke Island colonists who vanished in the late 1500s.
8-11-15
by HNN Editor
In an op ed in the NYT, the Metropol brothers -- sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the accused atomic spies, claim that grand jury testimony that was just released exonerates their mother.
Source: History channel
8-3-15
This summer, pieces of the wreckage as well as personal effects of the 14 astronauts killed aboard the two doomed shuttles are on display for the first time, as part of a new permanent memorial at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Source: ABC News
8-9-15
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in response to the lynching, is marking the anniversary with a push for Georgia to pass a hate-crime law.
Source: Yahoo
8-7-15
Moody’s model does not predict which candidate will win, only which political party.
Source: NYT
8-6-15
The town was founded in 1877, in the midst of America’s rapid westward expansion, by freed slaves from Kentucky who envisioned a black oasis on the prairie. And every year there's a celebration.
Source: The Guardian
7-29-15
Museum branded a ‘sick joke’ after obtaining planning permission by promising ‘the only dedicated resource in the East End to women’s history’
