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: Live Science
Feb 2, 2015
Opium, "magic" mushrooms and other psychoactive substances have been used since prehistoric times all over the world, according to a new review of archaeological findings.
Source: Politico
Feb 2, 2015
The commission, he believes, was the victim of a “massive cover-up” by government officials who wanted to hide the fact that, had they simply acted on the evidence in front of them in November 1963, the assassination might have been prevented.
Source: Boston Globe
Feb 1, 2015
Possible presidential candidate had tumultuous four years at Andover school
Source: The Moscow Times
Feb 1, 2015
Some 15 percent of the library's 15 million books were destroyed either by the fire or the water used to extinguish the blaze.
Source: AP
Jan 31, 2015
When Islamic State group militants invaded the Central Library of Mosul earlier this month, they were on a mission to destroy a familiar enemy: other people's ideas.
Source: NBC News
Jan 30, 2015
The hull of the Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship, has been recovered 150 years after it sank.
Source: teleSUR
Jan 29, 2015
Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, said the U.S. presidential candidate was acting like Hitler, while the world acts as “bystanders” to the refugee crisis.
Source: WSJ
Jan 29, 2015
The New England Coach’s Love of History Has Players Scrambling to Wikipedia
Source: NYT
Jan 29, 2015
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan on Thursday criticized an American textbook that he said inaccurately depicted Japan’s actions during World War II.
Source: Star Tribune
Jan 28, 2015
The "Treatise on Tolerance" is a cry against religious fanaticism and stemmed from Voltaire's conviction that religious differences were at the heart of world strife. He wrote at a time of bloody tension between French Protestants and Catholics.
Source: NYT
Jan 28, 2015
Anthropologists exploring a cave in Israel have uncovered a rare 55,000-year-old skull fossil that they say has a story to tell of a reverberating transition in human evolution, at a point when and where some early humans were moving out of Africa and apparently interbreeding with Neanderthals.
Source: The Conversation
Jan 28, 2015
Countries producing lots of oil or those with higher reserves (and considerable market power) were more likely to attract military support.
Source: CBS News (Video)
Jan 28, 2015
The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the civil rights movement were tossed out Wednesday during an emotional hearing before a packed courtroom.
Source: New Historian
Jan 28, 2015
A paper, written by Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes and Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid, suggests that the condition existed in the ancient world.
Source: Press Release -- Historic Columbia
Jan 28, 2015
Although often overshadowed in the popular imagination by the burning of Atlanta, Ga., the burning of Columbia, S.C. on the evening of February 17, 1865 was a major event in American history and a defining moment in the history of the state, city and the Civil War.
Source: NYT
Jan 27, 2015
Jordan M. Wright’s collection of political memorabilia has been unceremoniously sitting in boxes and crates behind the orange roll-up doors of storage units in Long Island City, Queens.
Source: dna India
Jan 27, 2015
"He was a politician, he was a political scientist, he was a social worker, he was a diplomat. And he came from an ordinary family. He could not even complete his education. But till today, his thoughts have an impact on American life."
Source: The History Blog
Jan 27, 2015
The false beard on the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, probably the single most recognizable ancient artifact in the world, had come off and was reattached with a sloppy mess of irreversible epoxy glue.
Source: AP
Jan 27, 2015
The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, is working to establish its first international museum outpost in London as that city redevelops its Olympic park, officials said Tuesday.
Source: JSTOR
Jan 26, 2015
It’s a conversation that goes back more than 100 years, as M. Susan Murnane describes in a 2004 paper for Law & Social Inquiry.
