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: Mother Jones
May 22, 2015
"We were citizens, but now we were not."
Source: Houston Chronicle
May 22, 2015
'Texas Rising' miniseries seeks to stay true to history while exploring the fight for independence
Source: ABC
May 22, 2015
That’s what the researcher who found the bones of Richard III thinks with regard to Henry I.
Source: Mother Jones
May 22, 2015
The GOP candidate endorses a "Jewish Indiana Jones" who claims the CIA is interested in him because he knows the location of this legendary biblical artifact.
Source: Johnson's Russia List
May 21, 2015
Laws signed into effect by President Petro Poroshenko require the renaming of dozens of towns and hundreds of streets throughout the country to eliminate Soviet-era names.
Source: AP
May 21, 2015
The documents released Thursday, two years after state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sought the disclosure, say several witnesses to brutal crimes against prisoners weren't contacted or interviewed by criminal investigators.
Source: WTSP
May 21, 2015
Julian Chambliss, chair of the Department of History and coordinator of the Africa & African-American Studies program at Rollins College, plans to burn a Confederate flag on Memorial Day as a way to let go of a part of history.
Source: NYT
May 21, 2015
In this review NYT columnist Roger Cohen urges the film be widely distributed to combat Holocaust Denial.
Source: NYT
May 21, 2015
Nearly 80 documents and other materials, including books and press clippings, seized from Bin Laden’s compound during the raid by Navy SEAL members in May 2011, was declassified on Wednesday by the Obama administration.
Source: NYT
May 21, 2015
Islamic State militants swept into the desert city of Palmyra in central Syria on Wednesday, and by evening were in control of it.
Source: WSJ
May 20, 2015
South Korea opposes Japan’s plans to have Hashima certified by Unesco without recognition that Tokyo employed forced labor there
Source: New Historian
May 20, 2015
The international team of scientists looked into the Y chromosome specifics of 334 men from European and Middle Eastern descent, and by resequencing the DNA found that in 64% of the sequences three distinct genetic patterns could be observed.
Source: Mother Jones
May 19, 2015
On "Hardball," Michael Morell concedes the Bush administration misled the nation into the Iraq War.
Source: AP
May 19, 2015
Only recently did someone happen to notice this remnant from the country’s anti-Semitic past.
Source: Time
May 19, 2015
Mark Griffiths found the image in the 1598 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes written by the playwright's friend John Gerard
Source: New Historian
May 18, 2015
Three skulls found in Bolivia have revealed that torture for reasons other than religious rituals and trophy-head taking was not just an iconographic feature of the pre-Columbian cultures in the region, but a very real practice.
Source: The Courier-Journal
May 18, 2015
The event, which is free and open to the public, is an academic competition for elementary and middle school students that is designed to test their knowledge of a wide range of historical topics.
Source: The Washington Post
May 18, 2015
“Well, not only would I not have been in favor of it. President Bush would not have been in favor of it, and he said so.”
Source: 60 Minutes
May 17, 2015
It took over 80 years, but a museum dedicated to African-American history and culture is finally taking shape on the National Mall in Washington.
Source: Time Magazine
May 16, 2015
They date back over 100 years.
