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
May 5, 2016
The long-missing manuscript for Federalist No. 2 has been located at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Source: WQAD
May 5, 2016
Even if you strip out history subreddits, there’s really no avoiding Hitler on Reddit.
Source: CBS News
May 5, 2016
A trove of Palmyra's smaller treasures were saved by dedicated archaeologists -- Syria's very own Monument men and women, led by Chief of Antiquities Maamoun Abdulkarim.
Source: The Washington Post
May 5, 2016
The entire drama of human history is encoded in our DNA.
Source: Tulsa World
May 5, 2016
John Rogers, a prominent attorney who died in 1977, was a TU trustee for 40 years and the law school’s founding dean, but belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and another vigilante organization in the 1920s.
Source: NYT
May 4, 2016
Victors are said to write history. But in California, history is being written by a committee that is at the center of a raging debate over how to tell the story of South Asia.
Source: The New Yorker
May 4, 2016
Is treasure buried beneath the mountains of Poland?
Source: The Conversation
May 4, 2016
Precisely 100 years ago, in the midst of World War I, a family of Quakers in Cambridge set up a youth organization designed to offer outdoor coeducational experiences without the militarism and imperialism that they perceived in the Boy Scouts. They called the group the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry.
Source: The Guardian
May 4, 2016
Miao Deshun, who was 25 when he was jailed in 1989, has been in prison for almost three decades and has had no contact with outside world for years.
Source: KXXV TV
May 3, 2016
Thousands came out to watch as he was castrated, fingers cut off, lynched and burned.
Source: NYT
May 3, 2016
The White House is considering the creation of a national monument to the gay rights movement on a small piece of Greenwich Village parkland across the street from the Stonewall Inn, where a 1969 uprising helped inspire the push for equality.
Source: Forward
May 3, 2016
It is based on an analysis of the genomes of 367 people, mostly from the United States, who reported having Ashkenazi lineage.
Source: Constitution Daily
May 2, 2016
While one-in-three Texans think that the state has the right to secede, a vast majority of those polled would chose to stay in the United States if they were voting on the issue.
Source: The Washington Post
May 2, 2016
The Marine Corps has opened an investigation into whether it misidentified one of the six men shown raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima in February 1945.
Source: Huffington Post
May 2, 2016
The new discovery could end a centuries-old maritime mystery.
Source: The New Yorker
Apr 30, 2016
The colonial carve-up was always vulnerable. Its map ignored local identities and political preferences.
Source: New Historian
Apr 30, 2016
After a two-decade legal battle sparked by the discovery, it’s been determined that Kennewick Man is in fact related to modern populations of Native Americans and can be claimed and buried under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Source: Courier Journal
Apr 29, 2016
The decision came less than two weeks after Ricky L. Jones, professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at U of L, wrote a column in the Courier-Journal calling for the university to take the statue down.
Source: Yale News
Apr 29, 2016
At a boisterous town hall Yale president Peter Salovey faced hundreds of angry students.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 29, 2016
Parag Khanna is the author of the new book “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization,” in which he argues that the arc of global history is undeniably bending toward integration.
