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: PR Newswire
February 11, 2008
In commemoration of the
75th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, the National Archives
Experience, in collaboration with the Library of Congress's American
Folklife Center, is pleased to present programs in remembrance of the New
Deal and its enduring legacy. These events are free and open to the public.
National Archives events will be held in the William G. McGowan Theater of
the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., which is located on the
National Mall at Consti
Source: http://www.newdeal75.org/whycelebrate.html
March 1, 2008
[Why the celebration?]
To heighten public awareness and appreciation of America's New Deal experience, and its enduring legacy and relevance today.
Want to learn about the many New Deal programs and what the New Deal did for the people of America during the 1930s and 1940s? Visit the FDR Center's New Deal summary section to learn all about the New Deal.
Source: AP
March 5, 2008
This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was eight years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod. A staff member at the society discovered the photograph in a large photography collection recently donated to the society.
Source: AP
March 5, 2008
Barely a year into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suggested buying slaves for $400 apiece under a "gradual emancipation" plan that would bring peace at less cost than several months of hostilities.
The proposal was outlined in one of 72 letters penned by Lincoln that ended up in the University of Rochester's archives. The correspondence was digitally scanned and posted online along with easier-to-read transcriptions.
Accompanying them are 215 letters
Source: Telegraph (UK)
March 5, 2008
The mystery of the pioneering British Army surgeon who successfully fooled Victorian society into thinking she was a man throughout her extraordinary life has finally been solved.
Historians have been kept guessing over claims Dr James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, was in fact a woman for more than 140 years.
Now previously unknown letters, highlighted in this week's New Scientist, have proved the diminutive physician who fought for better conditions
Source: BBC
March 5, 2008
The assembly commission is to meet again on Thursday to discuss a Sinn Féin plan to celebrate the life of IRA member Maireád Farrell at Stormont.
The cross-party body, which is charged with looking after the estate, has been asked to rule on the event, to mark International Women's Day.
A number of meetings on the issue have already been postponed this week.
Farrell was shot dead in Gibraltar in 1988 along with two other IRA members by the SAS.
Source: Jonathan Jones in the Guardian
March 5, 2008
In the misty, rainy morning, pairs of bright white lights keep appearing on the near horizon, and across the grass there is the unholy spectacle of a continuous flow of cars and trucks on the A303. Amazingly, this crowded road is soon going to get worse. In February, it was revealed that Tesco plans to build a gigantic warehouse near Andover, from which it is estimated a Tesco juggernaut will emerge every minute - many of them on to the A303.
The Tesco "MegaShed" is just t
Source: McClatchy
March 1, 2008
El Salvador's President Tony Saca , a close U.S. ally, can scarcely contain his frustration.
He calls U.S. politicians ''shortsighted'' for failing to reform U.S. immigration laws. He says Latin American populism is ''a pendulum swing toward disaster'' that deserves more U.S. attention....
President Bush has increased aid to Latin America by record amounts and visited Latin America more than any of his predecessors, but his legacy may be the biggest loss of U.S. influe
Source: Fox News
March 5, 2008
An Israeli researcher suggests the biblical Israelites who followed Moses may have been inspired by substances closer to earth, according to a Reuters report.
Benny Shanon, a psychology professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, writes that the ancient Jews may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when the prophet delivered the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, Reuters reported.
The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet recorded in the Book of Exodus co
Source: http://www.journalnow.com
March 4, 2008
OLD FORT - It has been a curiosity for decades: a town named for something that’s just not there.
Old Fort has been lacking one - new or old - since 1916. But that’s about to change.
A devoted group of volunteers is erecting a replica of the Revolutionary War-era fort that once stood as a gateway to the western frontier, an endeavor that organizers and local leaders say should give a boost to regional tourism and the small town’s sense of history.
“It could
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
February 29, 2008
With millions of county tax dollars at stake, Montgomery County officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the direction the American Revolution Center is taking.
"All we are hearing is malarkey," said Montgomery County Commissioners Chairman Jim Matthews. "People like straight talk, and I sense we really did not have straight talk from the beginning."
Matthews said he found it "troubling" that the museum plan has evolved from a structur
Source: http://www.clarionledger.com
March 2, 2008
City leaders have made their feelings known: Downtown Jackson is a better location than Tougaloo College for the National Civil Rights Museum of Mississippi.
The museum's site in recent weeks has pitted powerful Jackson business and civic leaders against a proud group of alums who support Tougaloo, the small, predominately African-American college northwest of the city.
But it shouldn't be that way. So said Wilma Mosely Clopton, president of the Historic Farish Street Distric
Source: http://www.swissinfo
February 27, 2008
Swiss volunteers fought alongside the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, incurring punishments when they returned home. They have still not been pardoned.
A group fighting for their rehabilitation has published a list of the volunteers' names to heighten awareness of this forgotten chapter of Swiss history – 70 years on.
"We are in a state of enthusiasm. It's not pure anarchism here. Our Spanish companions have shown that you can live without masters... We are experie
Source: MCT News Service
March 4, 2008
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - For more than a century, the bodies of more than 300 black soldiers who died in the Civil War have lain in unmarked graves on the bank of Skull Creek harbor.
These former slaves who fled the plantations to fight for freedom on the side of the Union Army are unknown heroes that few people know about.
The small plot of land where they are buried is overshadowed by multimillion-dollar condos and a private marina - symbols of the transformation th
Source: BBC
March 4, 2008
The last surviving Scot who fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War has died.
Stevie Fullarton, who was born in Glasgow, died in a nursing home in Edinburgh. He was 87.
Mr Fullarton went to Spain in 1938 with the democratically elected government forces facing defeat by the fascists of Francisco Franco.
He was wounded during the Battle of the Ebro, the last-ditch offensive by the government forces, but recovered.
Source: CBC
March 3, 2008
An exhibit at a Vienna museum displaying art alleged to have been looted by the Nazis has added fuel to the debate over the restitution of stolen art.
Clemens Jabloner, the president of the Administrative Court, one of the three highest courts of the Austrian judiciary, believes they should be returned to their rightful owners.
"On principle, everything of dubious origin should be returned," Jabloner told the Agence France Presse.
The alleged stol
Source: Prague Post
February 27, 2008
Members of Plzeň's Jewish community are suing police for allowing extremists at Saturday's demonstration to raise their arms in a "Sieg Heil" salute and to shout anti-Semitic slogans in front of the town's main synagogue, Radio Impuls reports.
In spite of protests from the Jewish community and other members of the public, the Supreme Administrative Court allowed some 200 neo-Nazi sympathizers, heavily guarded by police, to march through the center of Plzeň
Source: http://news-record.com
March 3, 2008
GREENSBORO - The NAACP is requesting the federal government launch an investigation into allegations that records of the 1979 Klan Nazi shootings were thrown out.
The organization sent out two two-page letters on Thursday and Friday requesting a federal investigation of the Greensboro Police Department with full witness protection for officers that have and will come forward with information pertaining to the destruction of the files.
The letters were sent to the office
Source: AP
March 5, 2008
A retired steelworker from Sharon [PA] who served as a Nazi concentration camp guard should not be deported because the State Department — rightly or wrongly — granted him a visa in 1956, his lawyer argued Monday.
Anton Geiser, 83, of Cedar Avenue, did not cite his Nazi ties on his visa application, but neither is he accused of lying about the matter. Geiser’s investigative file from the period is lost, so it is not clear whether the person who would have interviewed him for the vis
Source: Reuters
March 4, 2008
The German town of Brandenburg plans to open a new centre to commemorate more than 9,000 mentally ill people murdered there by the Nazis.
Historians estimate that more than 100,000 people were killed between 1940 and 1945 as part of a euthanasia policy outlined by Adolf Hitler in the 1920s in his book "Mein Kampf."
Hitler prepared the ground for his campaign, called Operation T4, with propaganda films which portrayed the mentally handicapped and the incurably
