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: Newsweek
October 15, 2015
The World Monuments Fund announced its 2016 watch list for heritage sites on Thursday. Jordan’s popular archeological tourist destination of Petra, the town of Amedy in Iraqi Kurdistan and an Albanian hilltop prison are among the sites included in the list.
Source: Al-Monitor
October 15, 2015
These sites are neglected, abandoned, lack organized protection, and are covered by sand and exposed to tampering by modernists and thieves.
Source: NYT
October 16, 2015
Seymour Hersh claims the original story is flawed. But there's no way to verify his sources' account that a tipster eager for a $25 million reward was responsible for disclosing the terrorist's whereabouts.
Source: HeritageDaily.com
October 12, 2015
By Combining Genetic Data, Ancestry Information, And Electronic Health Records, Scientists Are Able To Identify Neighborhood-Level Patterns Of Migration In The New York City Area, According To Research Presented At The American Society Of Human Genetics (Ashg) 2015 Annual Meeting In Baltimore.
Source: NYT
October 14, 2015
A public showing of one of the few surviving copies of the 13th-century document was shifted to the British ambassador’s residence, with no explanation given.
Source: NYT
October 14, 2015
An American professor happened upon a manuscript by one of the Bible’s translators at Cambridge, a discovery that may shed light on how the translators worked.
Source: NYT
October 14, 2015
by Alan E. Steinweis
The Republican presidential candidate’s statements about weapons and Germany trivialize history.
Source: National Security Archive
October 14, 2015
Seymour Hersh wrote a story claiming the State Department had minimized the danger of Pakistan's attempt to secure nuclear trigger technology. Now there's some hard evidence.
Source: Salon
October 14, 2015
She also insisted that only the United States abolished slavery. Huh?
Source: NYT
October 13, 2015
The president argued that the government’s aim was partly to prevent the country from ever again being dominated by a foreign power.
Source: WSJ
October 13, 2015
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday said Japan may cut its financial contribution to an agency of the United Nations after the organization added documents on the Nanjing Massacre to its International Memory of the World Register last week.
Source: Pew Research Center
October 7, 2015
Despite Mexico’s large numbers, immigrants come to the U.S. from all over the world.
Source: OUPBlog
October 13, 2015
by Don Ritchie
The federal government is considering a rule to exclude historians from the regulations governing Institutional Review Boards.
Source: Huffington Post
October 13, 2015
The decision affects more than a dozen members of a group called Respect The Flag.
Source: CTV News
October 13, 2015
Experts from Historic England believe the wreck that lies buried in mud in the River Hamble near Southampton is the "Holigost" (Holy Ghost).
Source: CNN
October 11, 2015
Georgia's Stone Mountain, a site that once hosted Ku Klux Klan cross-burnings and remains a home for Confederate tributes, will soon be adding a very different symbol: a tower in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: HNN
October 12, 2015
Nasty comments posted on the site suggest that the Columbus holiday has become a lightning rod for discontent with the history liberals back.
Source: NYT
October 12, 2015
A basement flood on Saturday sent water cascading over the file cabinets, shelves and storage boxes in which The Times keeps its historical photos.
Source: The Washington Post
October 11, 2015
A trove of thousands of documents taken from the White House by Alexander P. Butterfield, deputy to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, have been made public. Watch the interview.
Source: The Washington Post
October 11, 2015
If only Anne Frank had a gun.
