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
April 26, 2014
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority issued a formal statement on Sunday calling the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era.”
Source: Smithsonian
April 25, 2014
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History celebrates the 50th anniversary of its opening to the public by showcasing a Ford Mustang made in 1964.
Source: LC
April 25, 2014
Seventy-five years ago, the Library opened a second building on Capitol Hill to house its growing collections.
Source: The Age
April 24, 2014
Ninety-nine years after Australian and New Zealand soldiers splashed ashore at Anzac Cove, the Gallipoli Peninsula continues to disgorge the bitter harvest of 1915.
Source: Media Matters
April 24, 2014
Here is the video of Cliven Bundy's racist tirade, in which he questioned whether black Americans were "better off as slaves."
Source: UPI
April 23, 2014
A museum dedicated to the history of fascism will be created in Predappio, Italy, the birthplace of dictator Benito Mussolini, Mayor Giorgio Frassineti announced.
Source: Historyextra
April 8, 2014
An 18th-century chastity belt and phallic Roman amulets are to be used to enrich sex education for secondary school pupils.
Source: Moscow Times
April 14, 2014
"Not a single record is being kept secret."
Source: AP
April 23, 2014
The horrible destruction was the work of radical Islamists and thieves.
Source: AP
April 24, 2014
Not enough to say Turkey shares their pain.
Source: WSJ
April 22, 2014
Oliver Stone: “You should open up your past the way the United States opened its past.”
Source: PolitiFact
April 3, 2014
Eric Foner thinks Jim DeMint should take his Civil War history class.
Source: SF Gate
April 24, 2014
The ship that hit the City of Chester had 74 Chinese crewmen and 1,062 Chinese steerage passengers.
Source: Green Cities
April 23, 2014
This year is the 44th anniversary of Earth Day.
Source: Google blog
April 23, 2014
If you see a clock icon in the upper left-hand portion of a Street View image, click on it and move the slider through time and select a thumbnail to see that same place in previous years or seasons.
Source: Dick Eastman blog
April 21, 2014
The film tells the story of how Acadians expelled during the Deportation made the arduous journey, some of them via France, to their new home in Louisiana.
Source: AP
April 23, 2014
"This is a place where their ancestors walked. You're not just in a museum looking at artifacts in a case."
Source: LA Times
April 22, 2014
It's the first stamp celebrating an openly gay elected official.
Source: NPR
April 23, 2014
"I just found this," says archaeologist Chris Parker, holding a small object in his hand, about 2 inches long. He's grinning.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
April 23, 2014
Under scrutiny is a copy of Jon Baret’s Alvearie, a "quadruple" or four-language dictionary published in London in 1580.
