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: NYT
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“We couldn’t believe that the history of Mosul has disappeared. I wanted to die.”
Source: UPI
July 30, 2014
A total of 76 current nations played a role in the 1914-1918 war.
Source: NYT
July 29, 2014
Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk took the plane’s bearings, using a hand-held sextant to guide with the stars.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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The militants espouse a radical, puritanical strain of Sunni Islam whereby all shrines or holy sites that honour beings lesser than their God are considered apostate.
Source: Spiegal
July 24, 2014
"They didn't even leave me a chair to sit on."
Source: Library of Congress
July 29, 2014
Taken as a whole, the correspondence sheds light on a man in love on the eve of his presidency and a country on the brink of World War I.
Source: Huffington Post
July 25, 2014
And humans are solely to blame
Source: The Conversation
July 28, 2014
Our book shelves would look very different.
Source: The Wilson Quarterly
July 29, 2014 (accessed)
When Roman soldiers destroyed Jerusalem’s Second Temple in AD 70, they unknowingly planted the seeds of centuries of Jewish flourishing.
Source: Al-Ahram
July 24, 2014
It has been customary for Egypt’s political right under business barons to try to demonize the Nasser revolution.
Source: Russia Today
July 25, 2014
The power to “censor history” should not be left in Google’s hands.
Source: BBC
July 25, 2014
Exactly 800 years ago on Sunday, in a field next to what is now the airport of Lille, a battle was fought which determined the history of England.
Source: IraqiCrisis
July 27, 2014
by Lamia Al Gailani Werr
"After the fundamentalists destroyed all the Shia mosques in Mosul and the other towns, they have now turned to the Sunni shrines."
Source: PLoS ONE
March 5, 2014
by Bhui K, Warfa N, Jones E
Youth, wealth, and being in education rather than employment were risk factors.
Source: Conflict Antiquities
July 25, 2014 (accessed)
The many photographs all correspond with each other. This has happened.
Source: Xinhuanet
July 7, 2014
"Anyone who intends to deny, distort or beautify history will not find agreement among Chinese people and people of all other countries."
Source: The Daily Beast
July 24, 2014
For centuries, scientists have been searching for an ancient temple dedicated to a winged warrior. Now, one archaeologist thinks he may have found it. Only problem: It’s in the middle of a war zone.
Source: CBS
July 23, 2014
CBS News looks back at the fight against segregation, and the continuing struggle for equal rights.
Source: AP
July 17, 2014
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has obtained a full copy of the U.N. War Crimes Commission archive that has largely been locked away for the past 70 years.
Source: AP
July 20, 2014
Germany on Sunday honored a group of Nazi-era officers who tried to kill Adolf Hitler 70 years ago.
