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: BBC
                                        March 10, 2016 (accessed)
            
            
            
            The lost cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria is now chronicled by the BBC. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Des Moines Register
                                        March 8, 2016
            
            
            
            When it rains, workers at the State Historical Building strategically place large potted plants around the atrium to catch water dripping from the leaky skylights.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Toronto Star
                                        March 9, 2016
            
            
            
            A historian has been writing letters to politicians, Bank of Canada governors for years saying it is unacceptable not to have a female figure on the bills.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huffington Post
                                        March 8, 2016
            
            
            
            Microsoft is encouraging young women to #MakeWhatsNext.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        March 8, 2016
            
            
            
            How different would the world look without the great minds of female inventors?
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Inside Higher ED
                                        March 8, 2016
            
            
            
            The political science textbook included maps showing Israel belonged originally to Palestinians.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Post
                                        March 6, 2016
            
            
            
            Book blasts JFK legacy north of 49.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: PRNewswire
                                        March 7, 2016
            
            
            
            This rare 1927 edition is bound in red leather and has the title in gold print attached to its spine. It was kept by a soldier's daughter until only a few years ago. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Newsweek
                                        March 5, 2016
            
            
            
            The ICC is deciding whether to prosecute Al-Mahdi for allegedly destroying cultural heritage in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source:  Sputnik
                                        March 5, 2016
            
            
            
            Argentine human rights activists shame US President from country’s capital by reminding him of mass disappearances enabled by former US Governments.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYDailyNews
                                        March 5, 2016
            
            
            
            A clash between profanity-flinging Confederate flag supporters and counter-protesters during a Confederate Flag Day rally Saturday nearly escalated to violence at Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg National Military Park.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: BBC
                                        March 6, 2016
            
            
            
            Its leader dresses up like a Nazi.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: BooPow
                                        March 5, 2016
            
            
            
            British archaeologists have discovered evidence of a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon island hidden beneath a barley field, a find they tout as one of the country’s most important in decades.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Orange County Register
                                        March 4, 2016
            
            
            
            The exhibit will feature a 15-foot-tall image of Air Force One, which touched down in Peking on Feb. 21, 1972, making Richard Nixon the first U.S. president to visit China.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Harvard Crimson
                                        March 4, 2016
            
            
            
            A committee tasked with re-considering Harvard Law School’s seal in light of its ties to slavery recommended Friday that the Harvard Corporation revoke the emblem’s status as the school’s official symbol.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Newsweek
                                        March 3, 2016
            
            
            
            Climate change might have sparked the war in Syria, a study said last year.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Chive
                                        March 3, 2016
            
            
            
            A group of computer programmers created a Python script that analyzes dated from Wikipedia articles and ranks them based on length of entry, number of links to pages, and how long the person in the article lived. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        March 3, 2016
            
            
            
            Al Smith, who in 1928 was the governor of New York and the Democratic presidential nominee, later turned on Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and warned, much as Mr. Romney did on Thursday, that Roosevelt’s liberal policies would lead toward totalitarianism.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Portside
                                        February 9, 2016
            
            
            
            That’s the controversial argument of a new book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by sociologist R. W. Connell.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: ESPN
                                        March 2, 2016
            
            
            
            In honor of Women's History Month, YouTube has partnered with the United Nations to highlight several trailblazers throughout history in hopes of inspiring female users on the site to create empowering content.