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: History Extra
Mar 11, 2015
Women are more attracted to war heroes than regular soldiers or men who display heroic traits in other lines of work, a study of Second World War veterans has revealed
Source: New Scientist
Mar 11, 2015
Several research groups are using technology and local contacts to try and document and save some of the treasures.
Source: Quartz
Mar 11, 2015
“To the degree that the current right-wing Republicans don’t think that Obama represents the best interests of the country, they felt the same way about Washington.” -- Historian Joseph Ellis
Source: AJC.com
Mar 11, 2015
The Georgia Senate voted Wednesday to suggest the state should all but ban Advanced Placement U.S. history courses statewide, saying state officials needed to protect students from a “radically revisionist view” of American history conservatives have deemed left-leaning and biased.
Source: Washington Decoded (Max Holland's website)
Mar 11, 2015
The real Clay Shaw simply does not emerge as the Kennedy-hater some have suspected he was.
Source: National Security Archive
Mar 11, 2015
That's when the USSR put Mikhail Gorbachev in charge.
Source: KSL.com
Mar 11, 2015
In his small ground-floor apartment just a few blocks from Beijing's landmark Bird's Nest stadium, Chinese language teacher, writer and do-it-yourself documentary maker Xu Xing is urgently preserving what he can of China's forbidden past.
Source: The Boston Globe
Mar 10, 2015
The barbarians of the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its ancillary hordes are pulverizing and plundering millennia-old heritage sites, museums, and ancient artwork across Syria and Iraq.
Source: History channel
Mar 10, 2015
The high-tech Apple Watch may never have come to fruition had World War I not erased the cultural stigma that used to surround wristwatches.
Source: NPR
Mar 10, 2015
"It's a new way to monitor a conflict, it's not just peeking in, but seeing images every couple of days."
Source: McClatchy DC
Mar 10, 2015
The U.S. Senate Historian’s Office has so far been unable to find another example in the chamber’s history where one political party openly tried to deal with a foreign power against a presidential policy.
Source: The Japan Times
Mar 9, 2015
Why has the Great Tokyo Air Raid never been properly memorialized in Japan?
Source: CBS Evening News
Mar 9, 2015
This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the fateful day the first U.S. troops went ashore in South Vietnam. But by then U.S. aircraft had already been bombing North Vietnam for seven months and downed American pilots had fallen into a hell that would last for the rest of the war.
Source: NYT
Mar 9, 2015
A volunteer organization’s profile was raised when local, state and federal authorities raided a Valentine’s Day meeting.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
Mar 8, 2015
How to teach members the messy part of LDS history, theology
Source: NYT
Mar 8, 2015
The ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq is the latest to be attacked by the Islamic State militant group.
Source: NYT
Mar 7, 2015
A temple in Hatra, an archaeological site from the first century B.C, has been destroyed.
Source: The Washington Post
Mar 6, 2015
Jackson's place of honor became a big topic once again this week after a nonprofit group called Women on 20's suggested that it was time to retire the Jackson $20 and replace it with a bill featuring women from American history.
Source: Mother Jones
Mar 6, 2015
Al-Azm and his Monuments Men were propelled into action in late 2012.
Source: New Historian
Mar 6, 2015
Archaeologists working in China have revealed details of a spectacular imperial palace.
