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: National Security Archive
May 29, 2015
It was known as Nixon's Madman Theory. This is the first time the memo's been published.
Source: Smithsonian
May 28, 2015
Smithsonian Magazine asked David Bruce Smith, founder of the Grateful American Foundation, how we can fix this problem.
Source: UN
May 28, 2015
The General Assembly called for the preservation of the cultural heritage of Iraq by protecting cultural and religious properties and sites consistent with international humanitarian law.
Source: Slate
May 28, 2015
The archive is a unique artifact of 19th-century ordinary American kids (not the children of the wealthy).
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 28, 2015
St. Louis University has moved a controversial sculpture from outside a residence hall to inside a museum in response to criticism from faculty and students who say the work reinforces the idea of white supremacy.
Source: News and Observer
May 28, 2015
The board of trustees said the school made a mistake in 1920 when it named the building, citing the KKK leader's membership in the Klan as a qualification.
Source: IBTimes
May 27, 2015
The process of obliterating the horde of ancient statues has already begun. It commenced almost as soon as the militants seized control of their quarry.
Source: NYT
May 27, 2015
Seven decades after the end of World War II, the threat of aerial bombs still disrupts life in Germany with surprising regularity.
Source: AP
May 27, 2015
From Galileo to genetics, the Roman Catholic Church has danced with science, sometimes in a high-tension tango but more often in a supportive waltz. Pope Francis is about to introduce a new twist: global warming.
Source: Live Science
May 27, 2015
A prehistoric cemetery containing hundreds of tombs, some of which held sacrificed humans, has been discovered near Mogou village in northwestern China.
Source: History Today
May 27, 2015
by Larry Gragg
It was said to be Bugsy's obsession according to the movie starring Warren Beatty. And the gangster probably met Goring. But there's no proof he tried to kill him despite the claims of various websites.
Source: Daily Mail
May 26, 2015
A lack of Holocaust education on the sub-continent means that the brand is not offensive there
Source: Politico
May 26, 2015
While his marriage to the divorcee was controversial, it was his backing of civil rights for blacks that doomed his presidential chances.
Source: NYT
May 26, 2015
Thousands of Sephardic Jews in Turkey who trace their ancestry to Spain are applying for Spanish citizenship in anticipation of a bill granting nationality to Jews expelled during the Inquisition.
Source: IMGUR
May 26, 2015
The Dhamar Museum in Yemen, the repository of all work done in the province, including the Oriental Institute's work from 1978 onwards, has been destroyed.
Source: The National Security Archive
May 25, 2015
The disclosure is contained in the now-published diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev.
May 25, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
The famed social scientist Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb is out with a new paper that claims violence in the past and present has been underestimated.
Source: NPR
May 24, 2015
Yes. And now there’s a monument to remind people.
Source: USA Today
May 24, 2015
In every conflict before World War II, nearly all of the country's defense budget was spent on direct conflict — classified as wartime spending.
Source: The Conversation
May 23, 2015
Remarkably similar carvings and simple cross sculptures mark special sites or places once sacred, spanning a zone stretching from the Irish and Scottish coasts to Iceland.
