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: BBC History Magazine
March 28, 2014
Archaeologists “cannot say with any confidence” that bones found in Leicester are those of Richard III, leading experts have claimed.
Source: The Root
March 17, 2014
by Henry Louis Gates Jr
4 percent of whites have at least 1 percent or more of African ancestry.
Source: Huff Post
March 30, 2014
Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers.
Source: NYT
March 30, 2014
Unlike the process of planning the museum, which incorporated years of public outreach, discussion and review, the museum’s rollout was organized by a small group of museum staff members who quietly worked to satisfy competing demands while staying true to the museum’s mission.
Source: The Guardian
March 29, 2014
Evidence from skulls in east London shows plague had to have been airborne to spread so quickly.
Source: Inside Higher ED
March 26, 2014
Trustees at the College of Charleston are facing heat from faculty and students for picking South Carolina’s lieutenant governor as the college’s next president.
Source: Livingston Daily
March 20, 2014
Tweets from what school officials said were “four or five” students made reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Adolf Hitler and white power.
Source: NYT
March 28, 2014
Some of the most riveting material involves the administration’s scramble to contain the Lewinsky scandal.
Source: New York Times
March 21, 2014
Sergeant Woods and an Air Force and Army crew were on a plane that was shot down over Vietnam in 1964.
Source: Associated Press
March 27, 2014
The U.N.'s top human rights body has approved an international criminal
investigation into alleged abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended
in 2009.
Source: BBC News
March 22, 2014
But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh
line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home.
Source: The Telegraph
March 24, 2014
A former dustman salvaged more than 5,000 historic photographs from the First World War from rubbish tips and wastebins.
Source: LiveScience
March 25, 2014
The remains of the supposed compass — known as the Uunartoq disc— were found in Greenland in 1948 in an 11th-century convent.
Source: Fox News
March 26, 2014
A mummy of an Egyptian woman dating back to 700 A.D. has been scanned and stripped to reveal a tattoo on her thigh that displays the name of the biblical archangel Michael.
Source: Associated Press
March 26, 2014
The artifact will go on display at the National Museum of American
History.
Source: Washington Post
March 26, 2014
The footage was found in the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections.
Source: Associated Press
March 27, 2014
Seven humanities projects in Virginia have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source: New York Times
March 28, 2014
?“The
cold war dinosaurs who still tramp the corridors and editorial columns
of London and Washington seem almost to pine for the virile certainties
of 1945-1989,” the columnist Simon Jenkins writes.
Source: New York Times
March 27, 2014
The tactic of employing artists to support state policies harkens back to at least Stalin -- and illustrates the continuing importance of the intelligentsia in Russian life.
Source: TIME Magazine
March 25, 2014
Putin is reviving the program "Ready for Labor and Defense" with leftover cash from the Sochi games.
