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
Dec 8, 2015
The Magdala Stone, found in Israel, is forcing scholars to revisit ideas about synagogues and their relationship to the Second Temple around the dawn of Christianity.
Source: Newsweek
Dec 8, 2015
Pascal Cotte, a French scientist, claims to have found another portrait beneath that of the world-famous Mona Lisa using reflective light technology.
Source: NYT
Dec 8, 2015
Middle East analysts say that when it comes to the Islamic State, the West is acting as if overwhelming firepower alone could guarantee success.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 8, 2015
The new finding, published on Monday in the journal Antiquity, traces the bluestones -- or the smaller stones used at the 5,000-year-old monument -- to two quarries in Wales.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Dec 7, 2015
Citing history, they say it’s time to heal an old wound.
Source: Press Release -- FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Dec 7, 2015
"This is a huge leap forward in the digitization of presidential records and an important new resource for presidential studies."
Source: New Jersey On-Line
Dec 6, 2015
By the end of the week, all of Camden's 372 current officers and recruits in training will have cycled through the Center's "Policing in a More Perfect Union" training module, which focuses on the role of the Bill of Rights in the American justice system and explores the history of policing in communities.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 5, 2015
The Republican frontrunner at this point usually wins the nomination
Source: VICE
Dec 5, 2015
"My first reaction is that he is not principled enough to be a Fascist." -- Historian
Source: NYT
Dec 5, 2015
The bombers were scheduled for retirement years ago, but they are expected to keep flying until at least 2040.
Source: BBC
Dec 5, 2015
The wreck of a Spanish ship laden with treasure that was sunk by the British more than 300 years ago has been found off the Colombian coast, says President Juan Manuel Santos.
Source: jns
Dec 4, 2015
In 2009, Brown University inaugurated a chair known as the Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 4, 2015
The holiday is confusing—and not just its spelling
Source: philly.com
Dec 3, 2015
A 10 year search finally turned up an obituary.
Source: WBUR
Dec 3, 2015
Heather Campion served almost two years as CEO of the library foundation, a private nonprofit started by the Kennedy family.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 2, 2015
Reagan Overruled Cabinet Members Opposed to Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 2, 2015
A team of historians is publishing a two-volume, 2,000-page German edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for the first time in seven decades.
Source: Global News
Dec 1, 2015
Some historians say Lady Liberty evolved from another statue designed to be a peasant Arab woman overlooking the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Source: NPR
Dec 1, 2015
George Edwin Taylor — often forgotten in the discussion of black American political pioneers — ran for president as the candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party, sometimes known as the National Liberty Party.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 1, 2015
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz may have amused his supporters Monday when he joked about the “condom police” during a presidential campaign stop in Iowa — but bans involving birth control were no laughing matter in the past.
