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: NYT
4-30-14
Dems response: "We’re talking about a son of Illinois who became president of the United States.”
Source: NYT
4-30-14
“I would think Marx would want the most prolific and free distribution of his ideas possible — he wasn’t in it for the money.”
Source: Post & Courier
4-30-14
"We have been waiting for this for years."
Source: Telegraph
4-30-14
British secret files show officials worried the ship actually did contain explosives.
Source: CBS News
4-30-14
The Air Force has finally recognized the sacrifice of fliers who ooh refuge in Switzerland when their planes ran into trouble during WW II.
Source: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
4-29-14
by John Fea
The WSJ says it is. Not everyone agrees.
Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
4-30-14
It opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) on July 2, which is also the anniversary of the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Source: Haaretz
4-28-14
Two-minute nationwide siren followed by memorial ceremonies and reading aloud the names of those who perished.
Source: Lansing State Journal
4-29-14
The site is in pristine condition.
Source: AP
4-28-14
"Has the world learned a lesson from the mistakes of the past? Today we are again faced with clear facts and before a real danger. Iran calls for our destruction, it develops nuclear weapons."
Source: Oxford University Press
4-29-14
70 new lives will be added to the American National Biography Online.
Source: The Root
4-29-14
It’s a field that supposedly sees no color, race or ethnicity, yet racism has reared its head in some pretty appalling ways.
Source: The Independent
4-29-14
"The LAPD photographs were originally documents... but if you select them carefully today, they become a piece of art."
Source: LAT
4-12-14
England has adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Henry VIII novels; we have the LBJ play 'All the Way.'
Source: deadline.com
4-28-14
Among those scheduled to be interviewed include historians; press secretaries Marlin Fitzwater, Mike McCurry, and Dana Perino; and the WHC Dinner’s past and current celebrity hosts.
Source: AP
4-28-14
The silver-and-bronze medal is a 10-pointed star bearing the Great Seal of the Confederate States and the words, "Honor. Duty. Valor. Devotion."
Source: AP
4-28-14
He died an obscure death.
Source: Toronto Star
4-27-14
“A beautiful place, so well kept, very moving and sadly still a lesson for today’s world,” wrote German tourists a month ago in the guest book.
Source: JNS.org
4-28-14
Hamas calls it “a made-up story without foundation.”
Source: 60 Minutes
4-27-14
Briton Nicholas Winton helped save hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war
