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: Science Nordic
Jun 14, 2015
DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons shows that Europeans came from nomadic tribes who invaded during the Bronze Age.
Source: United with Israel
Jun 14, 2015
Spanish politician Guillermo Zapata joked about the Holocaust on Twitter and is now facing public criticism. He apologized, saying he is not an anti-Semite but enjoys black humor.
Source: BBC
Jun 13, 2015
The destruction of beautiful historic buildings in Yemen has provoked an online debate, with people asking if buildings are being valued more than human lives.
Source: Express
Jun 13, 2015
MPs face being evicted for five years while 3 billion pounds in repairs are made.
Source: Media Matters
Jun 12, 2015
Media Matters says Fox is hyping fears that "U.S. History May Be History"
Source: Mondoweiss
Jun 12, 2015
When Bshara Nassar arrived in Washington, DC, he strolled along the National Mall and passed myriad museums dedicated to exposing the painful history of oppressed peoples: the National Museum of the American Indian, the Holocaust Museum, Laogai Museum, the list goes on.
Source: NYT
Jun 12, 2015
It took a long time for Hillary Rodham Clinton to fully understand the story of her mother’s devastating childhood.
Source: Gawker
Jun 12, 2015
Rachel Dolezal may have been the most audacious person to ever attempt to pass herself off as black, but she certainly was not the first.
Source: citifmonline
Jun 12, 2015
Adams Bodomo is the Chair professor of African languages and literatures.
Jun 12, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
Do the readers of the NYT (Americans by and large) simply not care about Canada's Indians? Or is it that they don't care about Canada?
Source: NYT
Jun 11, 2015
Seeking to redress one of the darkest chapters of Spain’s history, the Spanish Parliament on Thursday approved a long-awaited law devised to open the way for citizenship for thousands of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors were expelled in 1492.
Source: NYT
Jun 11, 2015
Correspondence from the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written between 1956 and 1961 and estimated to be worth as much as $250,000, will be sold.
Source: NYT
Jun 10, 2015
The move comes after the library’s leader, James H. Billington, presided over a series of management and technology failures documented by government watchdog agencies.
Source: The Atlantic
Jun 9, 2015
The GOP backs legislation that would make the American Community Survey effectively voluntary.
Source: NYT
Jun 9, 2015
This week, Belgium decided to circumvent French resistance by invoking a little-known European Union rule that allows countries to issue euro coins of their choice, provided they are in an irregular denomination.
Source: Press Release
Jun 9, 2015
Scourge of War: Waterloo, a Real-time strategic game for PC is the most detailed game about the final battle of the War of the Seventh Coalition. The game boasts 20 historical scenarios (from the French, Prussian and British perspectives).
Source: AP
Jun 9, 2015
Turkey's Foreign Ministry says the ambassador to Brazil has been recalled after that country's senate passed a resolution recognizing the massacres of Armenians a century ago as genocide.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 9, 2015
The film, “Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot,” is being released this month by The Paragon Agency publishing house, along with an 80-page book of the same name.
Source: The New Republic
Jun 8, 2015
A new MoMA exhibit puts black films front and center
Source: The Korea Times
Jun 8, 2015
The move comes a little over a month after Abe did not apologize for and ignored the issue of wartime sexual slavery in a speech before U.S. Congress, drawing condemnation from South Koreans.
