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: Imperial Valley News
5-20-14
"After the Civil War, southern men would have appeared treasonous if they had organized memorials to honor their fallen, so women - perceived as apolitical - instead organized tributes and events."
Source: Coalition for History
5-20-14
by Lee White
Legislation to build the museum has been stalled for 10 years.
Source: NYT
5-20-14
Combing Through the Public Library’s Tom Wolfe Archive
Source: NYT
5-20-14
Documents obtained by a gay-rights group offer new details about the views that drove the federal government’s sometimes-obsessive effort to identify and fire gays in government jobs.
Source: Independent (UK)
5-21-14
French politicians and institutions in particular appear nervous about marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's exile.
Source: The Kansas City Star
5-20-14
Stakeholders and lawmakers agree the 2-mile stretch from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol is maxed out.
Source: Huffington Post
5-20-14
All along the East Coast, sites like the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument, are imperiled by rising seas and storm surges.
Source: BBC
5-19-14
The baths were intended to resemble an ocean liner, with different levels, white railings and circular windows.
Source: NPR
5-18-14
Hortense McClinton graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s and became the first black professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Source: BBC
5-18-14
When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue.
Source: Capital New York
5-13-14
Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam wrote in the majority opinion that injury to reputation is within the intent of the statute used to prosecute for criminal impersonation.
Source: Indian Country Today Media Network
5-12-14
According to archaeologists, the most sought after artifacts are found in burials.
Source: WaPo
5-15-14
And the family's selling it.
Source: NYT
5-17-14
Much of what occurred in that quixotic campaign shaped what the Kochs have become today — a formidable political and ideological force determined to remake American politics.
Source: Guardian
5-17-14
Photographer saving the art for the ages.
Source: NYT
5-18-14
The relics had survived the rise and fall of dynasties, modern wars and the Cultural Revolution. But the scourge of a more prosperous China — industrial pollution — had been eating away at the sandstone.
Source: Raw Story
5-17-14
The ad: “Islamic Jew-hatred: It’s in the Quran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop Racism. End all aid to Islamic countries.”
Source: thewrap.com
5-16-14
Network says it has found examples ” in about 50 published stories.”
Source: BBC
5-16-14
Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say.
Source: BBC
5-16-14
"Placing the torpedo in the middle of the street he lighted it, and the machine at once started down the street at a terrific pace."
