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: The Globe and Mail
February 10, 2015
A push by Japan to correct perceived bias in accounts of the country’s wartime past is creating a row that risks muddling the positive message in a mammoth public relations campaign to win friends abroad.
Source: NPR
February 10, 2015
Russian lawmakers are considering a bill that says Crimea was illegally given to Ukraine in 1954 and should have been part of Russia all along.
Source: New Historian
February 11, 2015
Along with the fragmentary codebreaking documents found in the roof were parts of an atlas, a pinboard and a fashion article from a magazine.
Source: Jackson Free Press
February 10, 2015
The construction began in December 2013 on the site of what was once called LeFleur's Bluff in downtown Jackson and is on track to be completed for its opening in December 2017.
Source: WSJ
February 11, 2015
Western Intelligence Officials Say Looting Is Islamic State’s Second-Largest Source of Finance
Source: WSJ
January 29, 2015
The New England Coach’s Love of History Has Players Scrambling to Wikipedia
Source: Slate
February 10, 2015 (accessed)
by Stefan Fatsis
But in an era of twerking and trolling, what should a dictionary look like? (And do we even need one?)
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
February 6, 2015
The mayor of Greenwood, S.C., wants to alter a war memorial to remove references to racial segregation, but historians claim it will destroy the memorial's historical integrity.
Source: Salon
February 9, 2015
Humans have been spewing pollution into the atmosphere for a long, long time
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 10, 2015
As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill grapples with striking a balance between history and sensitivity to students, similar debates are roiling universities across the country, particularly in the South.
Source: NYT
February 10, 2015
After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.
Source: New Historian
February 10, 2015
The researchers found that as time progressed, the skeltons' jawbones shrank, but their tooth size was unaffected.
Source: The Conversation
February 6, 2015
by Jon Hoover
Nowhere does he provide explicit justification for immolation.
Source: Metro
February 8, 2015
An edition of the Magna Carta which could be worth up to £10 million has been found after it lay forgotten in a council’s archives.
Source: New Historian
February 9, 2015
New research published on Friday in the Journal of Human Evolution indicates that Neanderthals may have disappeared 45,000 years ago.
Source: Reuters
February 6, 2015
The measure, sponsored by a Republican lawmaker, expands a bill passed by the state legislature in 1999 that stripped place names of the word "squaw," used as a pejorative term for Native American women.
Source: Politico
February 8, 2015
Serious presidential contenders used to run multiple times; today they can't. This is why.
Source: The Atlantic
February 9, 2015
Every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years has been indexed.
Source: Gallup
February 6, 2015
Throughout President Barack Obama's sixth full year in office, an average of 79% of Democrats, compared with 9% of Republicans, approved of the job he was doing.
Source: CBS News
February 8, 2015
For the interview, DuVernay returned to Selma to tour filming locations and visit with family members who were a part of the Civil Rights movement in the 1965.
