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: Reason
2-22-14
Wow.
Source: Politico
2-25-14
A trove of Clinton White House records long processed for release remains hidden from public view.
Source: Daily Show
2-24-14
Andrew Napolitano questions the economic underpinnings of the Civil War and Lincoln's legacy, but Larry Wilmore argues that tea isn't the only black thing worth fighting for.
Source: Variety
2-25-14
Angelina Jolie Speaks to Tom Brokaw about Universal’s ‘Unbroken’.
Source: Public Radio International
2-24-14
Kolmanskop is being swallowed by the desert.
Source: Asahi Shimbum
2-25-14
The site is part of a necropolis that contains 1,000 or so grotto tombs that were first excavated nearly 200 years ago.
Source: BBC News
2-24-14
Dingell served for nearly sixty years.
Source: BBC News
2-24-14
Nearly 100,000 Ingush who were deported from their homes by the Soviets during World War II.
Source: Associated Press
2-25-14
Indian-Americans are doctors, engineers, motel
owners and spelling bee champs, based on a few takeaways from a new
exhibition at the Smithsonian.
Source: Associated Press
2-25-14
Nearly
all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated,
mint condition.
Source: New York Times
2-23-14
A champion of collectivism, Stalin undoubtedly would have frowned upon the renting of his summer home to a corporation.
Source: New York Times
2-24-14
. The award includes a $100,000 cash prize as well as assistance from the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University Libraries.
Source: The Guardian
2-21-14
Grosvenor also revealed famous portrait previously accepted as genuine was actually of prince's younger brother Henry.
Source: Politifact
2-18-14
Nugent made the remarks at a Las Vegas gun expo in January.
Source: The Guardian
2-23-14
The Royal Society is urging people to help it shine a light on the achievements of women in science in a forthcoming 'edit-athon.'
Source: Associated Press
2-13-14
The contest to host his presidential library has set off some classic Chicago infighting between activists in depressed neighborhoods and wealthy universities.
Source: Associated Press
2-20-14
A federal arts panel has given final approval for designs and materials to build a bronze color "corona" as the defining element of the Smithsonian's new black history museum being built on the National Mall.
Source: Popular Mechanics
2-19-14
by Simon Garfield
Author Simon Garfield doesn't consider himself nostalgic. But his two new books, "On the Map" and "To the Letter," chronicle just how much history we have lost due to the prevalence of digital maps and correspondence.
Source: The Atlantic
2-20-14
"I think it's been the gravest kind of error," Kennedy said of the Vietnam War.
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command Public Affairs
2-20-14
The Naval War College Library in Newport, R.I. will
publicly unveil online the 4,000-page "Gray Book" collection of Fleet
Adm. Chester Nimitz.
