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: Voice of America
Mar 20, 2015
The Mosul Museum is the latest target of the group’s campaign of terror and destruction, and is of grave concern to archaeologists around the world.
Source: NYT
Mar 18, 2015
Researchers found that the modern British population falls into 17 clusters that are all very similar but genetically distinguishable.
Source: New Historian
Mar 18, 2015
More than 60 Iraqi treasures, illegally smuggled into the USA, have been returned to the Republic of Iraq this week.
Source: The Japan Times
Mar 18, 2015
A group of 19 Japanese historians and scholars plan to file a protest with U.S. publisher McGraw-Hill, claiming a history textbook it published in 2011 contains a number of “factual errors” on the “comfort women” issue.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 18, 2015
Imagine the calmness of mind required to cope when something goes wrong, beyond the help of fellow cosmonauts – exactly what happened to Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov.
Source: Forbes
Mar 17, 2015
For the past decade, StoryCorps has put 65,000 people through their mobile or temporary studios to be interviewed for 40 minutes. The largest body of recorded voices ever.
Source: Political Wire
Mar 17, 2015
“I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president of my lifetime, without question."
Source: NYT
Mar 17, 2015
He found the former president to be a meticulous editor and unusually sparing in personal invective — in print — because he rarely carried a grudge for long. One exception was Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
Source: Press Release by Anthony Clark
Mar 17, 2015
President Richard Nixon stole 4,000 acres from the United States Marine Corps to secretly build his presidential library on a spectacular piece of prime federal real estate and created a new federal bureaucracy to cover up the scheme.
Source: NYT
Mar 17, 2015
In a discovery that could create a new venue for literary pilgrims, Spanish investigators said on Tuesday that they might have located part of the remains of Cervantes, whose novel “Don Quixote” has enthralled readers over centuries.
Source: The Conversation
Mar 16, 2015
Eight hundred years after King John made history when he fixed his seal to the Magna Carta, the public is being re-introduced to one of the most famous documents in political history.
Source: NYT
Mar 16, 2015
Established by a General Assembly resolution adopted in December 2014, the Panel is expected to submit its report to the Secretary-General no later than 30 June 2015.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Mar 15, 2015
This is not the first time a presidential library has been at the center of a land dispute.
Source: NPR
Mar 13, 2015
It's called Project South and it features recordings from King to Fannie Lou Hammer.
Source: The Brookings Institution
Mar 12, 2015
There are very few Americans alive today who can remember the last time that the secretary at a national convention called the roll and no one won on the first ballot.
Source: Politico
Mar 12, 2015
It’s been over 200 years since members of Congress wore white silk stockings and silver shoe buckles on the House floor, but if you read Tom Cotton’s letter to the leaders of Iran, you wouldn’t necessarily know it.
Source: NYT
Mar 12, 2015
When Hillary Rodham Clinton disclosed that she had destroyed more than 30,000 emails about personal matters during her tenure as secretary of state, it was painful for historians and biographers.
Source: WaPo
Mar 12, 2015
Rutherford B. Hayes was alive at the same time as John Adams and at the same time as Dwight Eisenhower.
Source: Bowdoin College
Mar 12, 2015
Unfortunately, depredation of this sort has a long tradition in human history.
Source: The Guardian
Mar 12, 2015
Attack on Dur-Sharrukin, the latest by group on country’s heritage, comes as Brussels calls for creation of safe havens for Iraqi minorities
