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: WBEZ, This American Life
Oct 16, 2015
They assassinated Rabin 20 years ago this month to stop the peace process. It worked.
Source: Fusion
Oct 16, 2015
The FBI maintains a national genetic database with samples from convicts and arrestees, but this was the most public example of cops turning to private genetic databases to find a suspect.
Source: NYT
Oct 16, 2015
Seymour Hersh claims the original story is flawed. But there's no way to verify his sources' account that a tipster eager for a $25 million reward was responsible for disclosing the terrorist's whereabouts.
Source: Penn State News
Oct 15, 2015
Climate variability is one of the major forces in the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru, according to a team of researchers looking at both climate and archaeological records.
Source: The Washington Post
Oct 15, 2015
A set of 47 human teeth found in China have been dated as at least 80,000 years old -- perhaps even older.
Source: Newsweek
Oct 15, 2015
The World Monuments Fund announced its 2016 watch list for heritage sites on Thursday. Jordan’s popular archeological tourist destination of Petra, the town of Amedy in Iraqi Kurdistan and an Albanian hilltop prison are among the sites included in the list.
Source: Al-Monitor
Oct 15, 2015
These sites are neglected, abandoned, lack organized protection, and are covered by sand and exposed to tampering by modernists and thieves.
Source: WaPo
Oct 14, 2015
White House chief technology officer Megan Smith on Wednesday launched a nationwide search for the original "Declaration of Sentiments," the document signed in July 1848 at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y..
Source: NYT
Oct 14, 2015
A public showing of one of the few surviving copies of the 13th-century document was shifted to the British ambassador’s residence, with no explanation given.
Source: NYT
Oct 14, 2015
An American professor happened upon a manuscript by one of the Bible’s translators at Cambridge, a discovery that may shed light on how the translators worked.
Source: NYT
Oct 14, 2015
by Alan E. Steinweis
The Republican presidential candidate’s statements about weapons and Germany trivialize history.
Source: National Security Archive
Oct 14, 2015
Seymour Hersh wrote a story claiming the State Department had minimized the danger of Pakistan's attempt to secure nuclear trigger technology. Now there's some hard evidence.
Source: Salon
Oct 14, 2015
She also insisted that only the United States abolished slavery. Huh?
Source: NYT
Oct 13, 2015
The president argued that the government’s aim was partly to prevent the country from ever again being dominated by a foreign power.
Source: WSJ
Oct 13, 2015
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday said Japan may cut its financial contribution to an agency of the United Nations after the organization added documents on the Nanjing Massacre to its International Memory of the World Register last week.
Source: OUPBlog
Oct 13, 2015
by Don Ritchie
The federal government is considering a rule to exclude historians from the regulations governing Institutional Review Boards.
Source: Huffington Post
Oct 13, 2015
The decision affects more than a dozen members of a group called Respect The Flag.
Source: CTV News
Oct 13, 2015
Experts from Historic England believe the wreck that lies buried in mud in the River Hamble near Southampton is the "Holigost" (Holy Ghost).
Source: HeritageDaily.com
Oct 12, 2015
By Combining Genetic Data, Ancestry Information, And Electronic Health Records, Scientists Are Able To Identify Neighborhood-Level Patterns Of Migration In The New York City Area, According To Research Presented At The American Society Of Human Genetics (Ashg) 2015 Annual Meeting In Baltimore.
Source: HNN
Oct 12, 2015
Nasty comments posted on the site suggest that the Columbus holiday has become a lightning rod for discontent with the history liberals back.
