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: Military.com
Jan 1, 2016
"These women have been fighting this battle, off and on, for over 50 years now."
Source: NYT
Jan 1, 2016
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who seeks to imbue his largely ceremonial office with sweeping powers, had cited Hitler when asked whether a strong presidency was possible in Turkey.
Source: NYT
Jan 1, 2016
A special classification once marked restricted materials, like pulp novels warning of “beatniks perverts” or William Faulkner’s secret drawings of sex with his mistress.
Source: The Authors Guild
Dec 31, 2015
At stake, the Guild claims, is the right of authors to determine what becomes of their works in the digital age.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dec 31, 2015
Exxon and other oil giants made a strategic decision in the late 1980s to publicly emphasize doubt and uncertainty regarding climate change science even as their internal research embraced the growing scientific consensus -- and they spent millions to guard against the risk.
Source: New Historian
Dec 31, 2015
An exhaustive new study has shown that societies with a high vulnerability to food shortages are more susceptible to climate induced disasters. This susceptibility can manifest itself in social changes, as well as environmental hazards.
Source: NYT
Dec 30, 2015
The comic, “The Book That Hitler Didn’t Want You to Read,” tells the story of how Alan Cranston — then a journalist, and years later a California senator — produced his own version of Hitler’s book, only to be sued by Hitler.
Source: WQOW
Dec 30, 2015
The order, which was signed on Dec. 24 and came into force Monday, will not only help the work of historians. It will also bring more citizens into the archives' lecture rooms to learn about what happened to their ancestors during World War II.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 29, 2015
New research from the National Women's History Museum reveals that the vast majority of us are more familiar with our nation's heroes, than our heroines.
Source: The Telegraph
Dec 29, 2015
Program claims Spanish villages were destroyed purely to test capabilities of new German bomber plane
Source: NYT
Dec 29, 2015
Some considered the station’s demolition an act of architectural vandalism. But by the time it was torn down in the 1960s, it hardly resembled the grand building it had been half a century earlier.
Source: NYT
Dec 29, 2015
The leaders of South Korea and Japan faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday from nationalists upset about a landmark deal aimed at resolving a dispute over Korean women who had been pressed into sexual servitude in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II.
Source: Reuters
Dec 29, 2015
A book to be published in Hong Kong in the new year says Zhou Enlai, Communist China's much-respected first premier, was probably gay despite his long marriage, and had once been in love with a male schoolmate two years his junior.
Source: NYT
Dec 28, 2015
Japan made an apology and promised an $8.3 million payment as part of a deal to resolve the longstanding dispute over Koreans forced into sexual slavery in World War II.
Source: The Daily Beast
Dec 27, 2015
She worked behind enemy lines—and was captured by the Soviets. But the U.S. never properly gave her full credit for her heroism. After seven decades, that may be about to change.
Source: NYT
Dec 27, 2015
Ghosts of the dark years linger in what was once the collaborationist capital, though historians note the government was to blame, not the city.
Source: NYT
Dec 27, 2015
Mrs. Clinton’s work, as a young law student in 1972, to determine whether an Alabama school discriminated against blacks was a moment of awakening for her.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2015
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States has evoked comparisons to episodes in American history in which foreigners or adherents of an unfamiliar religion were stigmatized.
Source: New Historian
Dec 26, 2015
A team of historians have claimed that an island off the coast of Canada has artifacts dating back to a time when the Roman Empire still ruled Europe and the Mediterranean.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 26, 2015
The flag is slated to go on display in a Civil War museum.
