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: BBC
Jan 13, 2015
by John Murphy
Whenever I tell anyone that my Irish grandfather translated Hitler's Mein Kampf, the first question tends to be, "Why did he do that?" Quickly followed by, "Was he a Nazi?"
Source: History channel
Jan 13, 2015
Clarence Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey were born within six weeks of each other and grew up in the same Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1930s. Their parallel lives came to an end on January 5, when both men died at home at the age of 91.
Source: ABC News
Jan 13, 2015
The tweet juxtaposes Hitler's visit to the vanquished city after his troops invaded in World War II, and Obama's failure to join dozens of world leaders at an anti-terror march through Paris on Sunday.
Source: Politico
Jan 12, 2015
Selma director Ava DuVernay may well have taken more license than artistically necessary in the confrontational scenes between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Johnson. But inaccuracies in other significant parts of the film were forced upon DuVernay by copyright law.
Source: NYT
Jan 12, 2015
The children of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continue to fight in court over, among other things, his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal.
Source: CBS News
Jan 12, 2015
The new movie "Selma' took in more than $11 million at the box office this weekend, second only to "Taken 3." There as been a lot of controversy about the historical accuracy of "Selma," especially its portrayal of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. We checked the record.
Source: IRNA
Jan 11, 2015
An archeological site with an age of three millennia BC has been identified and undergone primary archeological examination in the city of Nataz, Isfahan Province.
Source: Huffington Post
Jan 10, 2015
What really happened to the native Polynesians who once lived on Easter Island?
Source: AP
Jan 8, 2015
Many were of Jewish scholars who taught in the then-German city of Breslau. In total, some 2,000 German scholars were stripped of their degrees.
Source: Gizmodo
Jan 8, 2015
A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to make room to build the New York of the future.
Source: History Extra
Jan 8, 2015
The perception of Richard III as a nasty villain who murdered his nephews is “one of the greatest injustices of history” according to Philippa Langley, a screenwriter who led the search for the remains of the former king
Source: NYT
Jan 8, 2015
The roots of President Obama’s ambitious proposal for free community college can be found in a 2008 book by the economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz called “The Race Between Education and Technology.”
Source: Roll Call
Jan 8, 2015
Achieving approval to establish a national World War I memorial in the District of Columbia took longer than the war itself.
Source: WaPo
Jan 7, 2015
Reintroducing aurochs "into the German landscape was part of a larger project of constructing a national identity based on mythic foundations." Aurochs?
Source: NYT
Jan 7, 2015
Ms. Israel composed and sold hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman and others.
Source: Vox
Jan 7, 2015
It's the country's oldest time capsule, planted by Sam Adams and Paul Revere.
Source: New Historian
Jan 7, 2015
The Hongshan culture predates the Xia Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty described in chronicles, by 2,400 years.
Source: Political Wire
Jan 7, 2015
Every president in the last 50 years, save Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, has experienced at least one session of Congress in which the opposing party controlled both chambers of Congress.
Source: Politico
Jan 5, 2015
“I said when it started we were going to do everything possible to make sure that Chicago had its best foot forward so it was an easy choice for the president and the First Lady to pick the city of Chicago.”
Source: Telegraph
Jan 5, 2015
Academic qualifications of German Jews to be restored nearly 80 years after Nazis stripped them in a ceremony to be held later this month
