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.
Dec 17, 2014
by HNN Editor
What historians have concluded about our long stormy history with Castro's Cuba.
Source: Library of Congress
Dec 17, 2014
“Saving Private Ryan,” “Luxo Jr.” and “Rosemary’s Baby” Among Film Additions
Source: The Daily Beast
Dec 17, 2014
One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.
Source: Smart Politics
Dec 17, 2014
A Smart Politics analysis finds that the 14 years between Jeb Bush's last electoral victory in 2002 and the presidential election of 2016 is the longest such gap recorded by any victorious presidential candidate in more than 150 years.
Source: NYT
Dec 16, 2014
Jacob Lawrence’s 60 panels portraying the Great Migration of blacks from the South will be brought together in a show at MoMA next year.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 16, 2014
The CIA insists it didn’t torture people. But in defense of its actions, it claimed the right to break the law.
Source: NYT
Dec 16, 2014
Sweden has asked the United Nations to reopen an investigation to establish whether an aerial attack brought down the secretary general’s plane over a mining town in Africa.
Source: The Conversation
Dec 16, 2014
Researchers have discovered a period, some 55m years ago, when massive volcanic eruptions pumped so much carbon into the atmosphere that the planet warmed at what geologists would think of as breakneck speed.
Source: The Tico Times
Dec 15, 2014
La Tribuna, a Costa Rican newspaper, captured the surreal situation in an article dated Dec. 11, 1941 trumpeting the speedy construction of a “concentration camp” to be built in San José and designed to hold 400 men of German, Italian or Japanese descent.
Source: NYT
Dec 15, 2014
In Paris, an exhibition at the National Archives looks at French people who were genuine supporters of the Nazis during World War II.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 15, 2014
After taking a new look at a pair of ancient cobalt beads, archaeologists now believe these Bronze Age artifacts may have been manufactured in the same workshop as the blue glass on King Tut’s death mask.
Source: The Daily Beast
Dec 14, 2014
A new exhibit claims to present the social history of Paris as seen through the lens of Magnum photographers over the past century.
Source: Vox
Dec 14, 2014
In Greek, the language of the New Testament, the word Christos (Christ) begins with the letter "X," or chi.
Source: Fox News
Dec 13, 2014
Braving snowy weather, Americans and Belgians gathered in the Ardennes region of Belgium on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the biggest and bloodiest U.S. battles of World War II--the Battle of the Bulge.
Source: The Civil War Trust
Dec 12, 2014
Legislation expands successful federal Civil War battlefield grant program to include preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlefields.
Source: Reuters
Dec 11, 2014
He successfully contacted 11 families and registered the POWs with the city authority.
Source: Washington Decoded
Dec 11, 2014
by Merle L. Pribbenow
The fate of MIA's during the Cold War -- in Korea and Vietnam -- might be in the archives of Russia.
Source: Boston Globe
Dec 11, 2014
The 219-year-old capsule— a green box believed to contain Revere-era items— was concealed by Governor Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Scollay when the building was constructed in 1795.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 11, 2014
National Security Archive hails efforts by investigators, victim's families to uncover truth.
Source: CNN
Dec 10, 2014
The new biblical epic from director Ridley Scott, "Exodus: Gods and Kings," has a race problem.
