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: Huffington Post
Mar 27, 2015
You know what they say: Looks like a Monet, feels like a Monet, has Monet's authentic signature in the corner as determined by a hyperspectral camera with an XRF device... Then it definitely is a Monet!
Source: Federation of American Scientists
Mar 25, 2015
Physicist Kenneth W. Ford, who participated in the design of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, has published a memoir of his experiences despite the objections of Energy Department reviewers who requested substantial redactions in the text.
Source: LC
Mar 25, 2015
Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked with annually selecting 25 recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and are at least 10 years old.
Source: ABC News
Mar 25, 2015
After amassing a huge collection of recorded voices in the United States and creating a popular fixture on public radio, the national oral history project StoryCorps is going global.
Source: WSJ
Mar 24, 2015
Conference panelists present different pictures of the 43rd president and his policies
Source: The Guardian
Mar 24, 2015
It features Syria’s war-scarred citadel of Aleppo — the oldest city in the world
Source: Foreign Policy
Mar 23, 2015
In the 1960s, hundreds of pounds of uranium went missing in Pennsylvania. Is it buried in the ground, poisoning locals — or did Israel steal it to build the bomb?
Source: The Guardian
Mar 23, 2015
Pan Macmillan announces it has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to book which is likely to tackle Mandela’s divorce from his second wife Winnie and why he opted to stand down after a single term.
Source: Stuff
Mar 23, 2015
A publicity stunt where prospective gun-buyers are told about the graphic history of each weapon has enraged US conservatives.
Source: WaPo
Mar 23, 2015
"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible."
Source: Southern Methodist University
Mar 23, 2015
When Southern Methodist University student Loy Williams hurriedly packed his bag before climbing aboard a bus bound to join civil rights protesters in Montgomery, Ala., he grabbed his Argus C3 camera.
Source: BBC
Mar 22, 2015
Two of the ancient cities now being destroyed by Islamic State lay buried for 2,500 years, it was only 170 years ago that they began to be dug up and stripped of their treasures.
Source: Yahoo News
Mar 22, 2015
It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece's Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler's genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train fare.
Source: NBC News
Mar 22, 2015
In 1980 he said: "I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned, if murderers were immediately killed as the Bible commands."
Source: CBS Evening News
Mar 22, 2015
Richard III was finally getting the ceremony and honor a king deserves, 530 years after his ignominious death in battle.
Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
Mar 21, 2015
Buoyed by a PBS documentary on the Roosevelts by Ken Burns, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in 2014 welcomed 173,000 visitors, the highest attendance since 1989.
Source: NBC News
Mar 21, 2015
The mayor wants a racist plaque taken down, but state law won't let him. It segregates black veterans who served and died in world wars 1 & 2.
Source: WSJ
Mar 20, 2015
Since the end of the 20-year Democratic run in the White House that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt and ended with Harry Truman, there have been six occasions when either major party could have extended its control of the White House to three terms.
Source: NYT
Mar 20, 2015
The National Endowment for the Humanities will announce a $125,000 grant it has awarded to the Department of Records and Information for the digitization of 30,000 of the pictures.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 20, 2015
Monday is the anniversary of the birth of the expression OK, 176 years ago, on the second page of the Boston Morning Post for Saturday, March 23, 1839.
