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 Daily Beast
                                        December 14, 2014
            
            
            
            A new exhibit claims to present the social history of Paris as seen through the lens of Magnum photographers over the past century. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Vox
                                        December 14, 2014
            
            
            
            In Greek, the language of the New Testament, the word Christos (Christ) begins with the letter "X," or chi.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Conversation
                                        December 16, 2014
            
            
            
            Researchers have discovered a period, some 55m years ago, when massive volcanic eruptions pumped so much carbon into the atmosphere that the planet warmed at what geologists would think of as breakneck speed.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Huffington Post
                                        December 15, 2014
            
            
            
            After taking a new look at a pair of ancient cobalt beads, archaeologists now believe these Bronze Age artifacts may have been manufactured in the same workshop as the blue glass on King Tut’s death mask.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Civil War Trust
                                        December 12, 2014
            
            
            
            Legislation expands successful federal Civil War battlefield grant program to include preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlefields.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Washington Decoded 
                                        December 11, 2014
            
            
                            by Merle L. Pribbenow
            
            The fate of MIA's during the Cold War -- in Korea and Vietnam -- might be in the archives of Russia. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Fox News
                                        December 13, 2014
            
            
            
            Braving snowy weather, Americans and Belgians gathered in the Ardennes region of Belgium on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the biggest and bloodiest U.S. battles of World War II--the Battle of the Bulge.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: CNN
                                        December 10, 2014
            
            
            
            The new biblical epic from director Ridley Scott, "Exodus: Gods and Kings," has a race problem.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Boston Globe
                                        December 11, 2014
            
            
            
            The 219-year-old capsule— a green box believed to contain Revere-era items— was concealed by Governor Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Scollay when the building was constructed in 1795. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Security Archive 
                                        December 11, 2014
            
            
            
            National Security Archive hails efforts by investigators, victim's families to uncover truth.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Live Science 
                                        December 7, 2014
            
            
            
            Vikings may have been familymen who traveled with their wives to new lands, according to a new study of ancient Viking DNA.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: ABC News
                                        December 5, 2014
            
            
            
            The auction company gave a presale estimated value of between $15,000 and $30,000.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: AP
                                        December 8, 2014
            
            
            
            The accord will compensate thousands of Holocaust survivors and their families who were deported to concentration camps by France's state rail company during Nazi occupation.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: AP
                                        December 10, 2014
            
            
            
            The short propaganda film commissioned by Thailand's military rulers was supposed to promote the "12 core values" every Thai student must now learn. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Advocate 
                                        April 9, 2014
            
            
            
            “There are places that don’t want to talk about it,” said Aaron Sheehan-Dean, a history professor at LSU. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Geographic
                                        December 7, 2014
            
            
            
            During World War II, companies stayed in the public eye by advertising products—often with the government's help—that weren't available to civilians.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Pacific Standard and The Miller-McCune Center for Research
                                        December 9, 2014
            
            
            
            Researchers present evidence that the Klan, in the 1960s, effectively moved working-class Southern whites into the Republican column.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Media Matters
                                        December 8, 2014
            
            
            
            North Carolina newspapers have largely missed the connection between a Koch-funded education non-profit organization contracted to help shape new statewide history curriculum materials.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Morning Call
                                        December 9, 2014
            
            
            
            Contractors on Tuesday restarted construction on the National Museum of Industrial History with the hopes of getting the south Bethlehem museum ready for a 2016 opening.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        December 9, 2014
            
            
            
            "What surprised me was to see what a liberal firebrand she used to be."