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: OZY
Sep 14, 2015
Classrooms have long used games to teach history, but some education experts say today’s board games are maturing rapidly, allowing designers to tackle unprecedented subjects.
Source: The Independent
Sep 13, 2015
Dr Paul Booth said he has informed the Oxford English Dictionary of his discovery
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 12, 2015
"European states were the architects of the modern refugee regime."
Source: Independent Journal
Sep 11, 2015
This week, IJ returned to the iconic locations of that horrific day, to show what the streets of lower Manhattan look like today, compared to September 11th, 2001.
Source: Bloomberg
Sep 10, 2015
As U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew asks the public which famous woman he should put on new $10 bills, historians he’s surveyed privately are building a convincing argument for abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Source: The Tennessean
Sep 10, 2015
The amount of time spent on a world history course studying "the world of Islam," and what students are actually learning during that time, has some lawmakers and parents in an uproar and the state planning to review standards.
Source: Time
Sep 10, 2015
Several buildings have risen, and more are still under construction
Source: Raw Story
Sep 10, 2015
"[T]he Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren’t fully human."-- Mike Huckabee
Source: Pew Research Center
Sep 10, 2015
Since President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty 50 years ago, the characteristics of the nation’s poor have changed: A larger share of poor Americans today are in their prime working years and fewer are elderly.
Source: Politico
Sep 10, 2015
Now 89, Alexander Butterfield reveals his secrets.
Source: The Economist
Sep 10, 2015
The roster of antiquities damaged in the war in Yemen runs long.
Source: NYT
Sep 10, 2015
by James B. Stewart
“The people who know the least about business admire him the most, and those who know the most about business admire him the least.”
Source: The Guardian
Sep 10, 2015
Bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative, say researchers, but some experts are skeptical of find.
Source: NYT
Sep 10, 2015
The results of two DNA studies indicate that today’s Europeans descend from three groups of people who moved into Europe at different stages of history.
Source: YouGov
Sep 9, 2015
43% of Republicans could imagine supporting a military coup in the United States
Source: CBS Morning News
Sep 9, 2015
One dealer quickly dropped a price for a rare antiquity from $200,000 to $60,000 to get rid of the object quickly.
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 9, 2015
The legislation will impact at least two elementary schools in Long Beach and San Diego named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Source: Time
Sep 8, 2015
It was exactly 40 years ago that Leonard Matlovich tested the Air Force's ban on gay service members and ended up on Time Magazine’s cover.
Source: AP
Sep 8, 2015
She has lived longer than any of her predecessors, seen a dozen prime ministers come and go and presided over six decades of British history - from postwar recovery to the death of Princess Diana and terror attacks on London.
Source: Newsweek
Sep 7, 2015
The effort to study these Nazis “constituted a heroic effort on the part of researchers to try to understand the psychopathology of mass killers.”
