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: Politico
Mar 5, 2015
‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.
Source: Time
Mar 5, 2015
The actual title of Churchill’s speech was “Sinews of Peace,” though most people know it as the “Iron Curtain speech.”
Source: Yahoo
Mar 5, 2015
Nimrud, one of the jewels of the Assyrian era, was founded in the 13th century BC and lies near Mosul.
Source: New Jersey On-Line
Mar 5, 2015
The sign in the deli window says, "CELEBRATE YOUR WHITE HERITAGE IN MARCH, WHITE HISTORY MONTH."
Source: CBC News
Mar 4, 2015
The oldest fossil of the human genus Homo has been unearthed in Ethiopia, a groundbreaking discovery that pushes the history of human evolution 400,000 years further into the past.
Source: AP
Mar 4, 2015
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Mar 4, 2015
Scholars celebrate publishing first five volumes keyed to India’s cultural past, the first of 500 in the next century
Source: CBS News
Mar 4, 2015
by Anthony Mason
Frank Sinatra is being celebrated at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts to mark the upcoming centennial of his birth.
Source: New Historian
Mar 4, 2015
A recent expedition deep into the rainforest of Honduras has made a remarkable discovery, a mysterious lost city belonging to an unknown culture.
Source: Vintage Everyday
Mar 4, 2015
See Lincoln's famous tent tete-a-tete with McClellan
Source: USA Today
Mar 3, 2015
Photos of that terrible day were seen around the world. Historians credit the beatings, and the public outrage that followed, as a catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Source: AP
Mar 3, 2015
The fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 2, 2015
A small percentage of Germans say it’s okay to do so
Source: Harvard
Mar 2, 2015
By analyzing the genomes of 94 ancient Eurasians, scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide has uncovered evidence that herders on the Eurasian steppe did undergo a major migration into Europe.
Source: Political Wire
Mar 2, 2015
Pennsylvania artist Nelson Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News that he included a reference to Monica Lewinsky in his portrait of Bill Clinton.
Source: NYT
Mar 1, 2015
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea urged Japan to have the “courage and honesty” to admit to its historical wrongdoings against Koreans and other Asians, including its enslavement of Korean women in military brothels during World War II.
Source: AP
Mar 1, 2015
Now the $75 million International African American Museum to be built on the site is more than a vision.
Mar 1, 2015
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said on Saturday that Japan needs to look at its wartime history and face up to its past if it plans to regain trust from its neighboring countries.
Source: BBC
Feb 28, 2015
About 15,000 pieces were looted during the Iraq war, with one-third recovered
Source: NYT
Feb 26, 2015
For two centuries, Denmark’s strategy of not treating Jews differently has been highly successful. Yet the threat from violent extremists is now undeniable, and no one can guarantee that a similar attack won’t happen again.