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: NYT
Jan 3, 2015
A plaster sculpture of the 16th president’s hand, proudly displayed for years at the Kankakee County Museum, has been missing from its shelf since at least Dec. 11.
Source: New Historian
Jan 3, 2015
37 shipwrecks from the Byzantine Empire have been discovered as part of archaeological excavations that began in Turkey in 2004.
Source: The Economist
Jan 2, 2015
Before Donald Trump, there was Patrick Buchanan.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 2, 2015
The Missouri History Museum is gathering images and items cataloguing the unrest that followed the August shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.
Jan 1, 2015
Cuomo challenges the Reagan orthodoxy.
Source: NYT
Dec 31, 2014
Was Lyndon B. Johnson a civil rights mastermind, or a reluctant follower pulled along by activists led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Source: NYT
Dec 31, 2014
If the Census Bureau proceeds with a recently released plan, then in a few years’ time, we will know very little about how the contours of family life are changing.
Source: New Historian
Dec 31, 2014
It will soon be possible to view this dungeon online, as a part of a project to digitally as well as physically restore the castle.
Source: New Historian
Dec 31, 2014
Located in the hills surrounding the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, the vast site covers an area of up to 75 acres.
Source: NYT
Dec 30, 2014
Since the 1960s visitors have come to this living history museum to see life as the Shakers experienced it, but attendance is down by nearly a third compared with a decade ago.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
Dec 30, 2014
“There are major concerns with the three potential sites in the University of Chicago proposal given the fact that neither the school nor the City of Chicago control the sites.”
Source: NYT
Dec 30, 2014
This year produced many deaths that stunned the country if not the world, in the fields of news, arts, sciences, politics and athletics.
Source: Deseret News
Dec 30, 2014
Government officials from the country's Ministry of Culture determined the film was tainted by historical mistakes.
Source: AP
Dec 30, 2014
He was one spy who left many others out in the cold.
Source: New Historian
Dec 30, 2014
An earthquake apparently destroyed the place, according to a new study.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 30, 2014
Johnson aide’s contention that civil-rights drama Selma falsely portrays the former president at odds with Martin Luther King Jr is “jaw-dropping and offensive”, says director Ava DuVernay.
Source: Hurriyet Daily News
Dec 28, 2014
The city is thought to date back 5,000 years and is located around the Nevşehir fortress. Escape galleries and hidden churches were discovered inside the underground city.
Source: NPR
Dec 28, 2014
The radium girls had a profound impact on workplace regulations.
Source: NYT
Dec 27, 2014
Prompted by record low interest rates, the British government is planning to pay off some of the debts it racked up over hundreds of years, dating as far back as the South Sea Bubble.
Source: WSJ
Dec 26, 2014
More States Mandate Tests on the Subject Amid a Movement for Use of Citizenship Exam
