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: New York Times
October 9, 2013
The Maspeth firehouse had a critical role to play on 9/11.
Source: New York Times
October 11, 2013
Football used to be seen as the testing ground for leadership. Not so much anymore.
Source: New York Times
October 12, 2013
If judicial activism is
defined as the tendency to strike down laws, the court led by Chief
Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is less activist than any court in the last
60 years.
Source: CBS
October 13, 2013
John Riordan reunites with his friend Tuan from Saigon. Tuan explains why he didn't leave with Riordan and what happened to him after he stayed.
Source: NYT
October 11, 2013
Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple.
Source: WaPo
September 19, 2013
In 1973, when Richard Nixon was president, Democrats in the Senate sought to attach a campaign finance reform bill to the debt ceiling.
Source: Detroit Free Press
October 10, 2013
Gaines is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to
overturn the ban.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
October 9, 2013
Einstein's papers will be made available in digital form by the digital-publishing-platform company Tizra.
Source: Michigan Record
October 8, 2013
Sayles's films include the historical epics "Matewan" and "Amigo."
Source: The Raw Story
October 9, 2013
The one hundred items are on display in Brasilia.
Source: Huffington Post
October 9, 2013
Huffington Post Science features the strange background of Isaac Newton.
Source: The Atlantic
October 9, 2013
The Atlantic uses a women's historical framework to show the significance of Janet Yellen's appointment as Fed Chair.
Source: Fortune
October 7, 2013
"[The] validity of the public debt of the United States ... shall not be questioned."
Source: Princeton Alumni Weekly
October 9, 2013
William Ruckelshaus was deputy attorney general during the Watergate scandal.
Source: Daily Mail
September 30, 2013
Modern nomadic groups draw from traditional historical culture while still using technology.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
October 8, 2013
The Smithsonian features alcohol as medical prescriptions.
Source: Los Angeles Times
October 5, 2013
Ballast stones found in the Connecticut River may be tied to a
battle in which the British set fire to 25 vessels, the war's largest
maritime loss.
Source: BBC News
October 7, 2013
Seventy years ago this month, an extraordinary mass escape happened from Nazi-occupied Denmark.
Source: The Telegraph
October 8, 2013
The Battle of Leipzig is forgotten in Britain, but British troops played a key role there in the defeat of Napoleon.
Source: The Telegraph
October 2, 2013
The original autobahn is to be repaved.
