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: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 27, 2015
A student disciplinary process at George Washington University might not seem like hot news in India, but this weekend it was receiving attention in The Times of India, The Hindustan Times and elsewhere.
Source: Montreal Gazette
Apr 27, 2015
The history of Montreal will come to life, projected in grand moving videos on the sides of buildings and trees or via historical vignettes available on smartphones and tablets starting this June, throughout Old Montreal and the Old Port.
Source: AP
Apr 27, 2015
In Brazil. There’s a reason for that.
Source: The Boston Globe
Apr 26, 2015
Is marriage necessary?
Source: ABC News
Apr 25, 2015
25 House members are urging Abe to address sensitive issues of history.
Source: The Chicago Tribune
Apr 24, 2015
Dreamed of for decades by African-American leader Ernie Broadnax, finally turned into reality over the past two years by director Phil Broxham with the help of the Elgin History Museum, the documentary has finally debuted.
Source: Reuters
Apr 24, 2015
Britain's Prince Charles and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan led commemorations on the Gallipoli peninsula on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of a World War One battle that helped shape the birth of new nations.
Source: New Historian
Apr 23, 2015
Researchers have found that historic droughts in Central America matched the patterns of disruption to Maya society.
Apr 23, 2015
There website debuts on the 100th anniversary of the genocide.
Source: NYT
Apr 23, 2015
Many ethnic Armenians who are rediscovering their roots have found it easier to discard their Kurdish or Turkish identities than to relinquish their religion.
Apr 22, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.
Source: Time
Apr 21, 2015
93-year-old Oskar Groening acknowledged working at Auschwitz
Source: Out-History
Apr 20, 2015
It took place 50 years ago this week in Philadelphia at a restaurant called Dewey's.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 20, 2015
A boisterous novel that imagines American history as a gay epic
Source: History channel
Apr 20, 2015
After reevaluating Caesar’s symptoms and looking into his family history, a pair of doctors now believes that the famed dictator may have actually been the victim of a series of “mini-strokes” that damaged his health and affected his mental state.
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 19, 2015
“In McVeigh’s mind, he believed that he had definitely screwed up because he left the building still standing.”
Source: The Washington Post
Apr 19, 2015
by Anne Applebaum
In two poorly worded sentences, he sounded to Polish readers as if he were repeating the World War II myth that most drives them crazy: Namely, that somehow, those who lived in occupied Eastern Europe shared full responsibility for a German policy.
Source: NYT
Apr 19, 2015
From the moment the doors close until they reopen 47 seconds later on the 102nd floor, a seemingly three-dimensional time-lapse panorama will unfold on three walls of the elevator cabs, as if one were witnessing 515 years of history unfolding at the tip of Manhattan Island.
Source: NBC News
Apr 19, 2015
Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program.
Source: NYT
Apr 17, 2015
While Turkey acknowledges that atrocities took place, it refuses to take responsibility for the deaths, claiming that a large number of people — many of them Turks — were also killed as a result of civil war and famine.
