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: AP
Dec 10, 2014
The short propaganda film commissioned by Thailand's military rulers was supposed to promote the "12 core values" every Thai student must now learn.
Source: Pacific Standard and The Miller-McCune Center for Research
Dec 9, 2014
Researchers present evidence that the Klan, in the 1960s, effectively moved working-class Southern whites into the Republican column.
Source: The Morning Call
Dec 9, 2014
Contractors on Tuesday restarted construction on the National Museum of Industrial History with the hopes of getting the south Bethlehem museum ready for a 2016 opening.
Source: NYT
Dec 9, 2014
"What surprised me was to see what a liberal firebrand she used to be."
Source: AP
Dec 8, 2014
The accord will compensate thousands of Holocaust survivors and their families who were deported to concentration camps by France's state rail company during Nazi occupation.
Source: Media Matters
Dec 8, 2014
North Carolina newspapers have largely missed the connection between a Koch-funded education non-profit organization contracted to help shape new statewide history curriculum materials.
Source: University of York
Dec 8, 2014
Researchers used the latest scientific techniques to extract ancient DNA and protein from tiny samples of parchment from documents from the late 17th and late 18th centuries allowing them to establish the species type of animals from which the parchment was made.
Source: Yahoo News
Dec 8, 2014
Scientists started conservation work on the mummy of Minirdis, the son of a stolist priest.
Source: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
Dec 8, 2014
It's dropped ten percent since 2003.
Source: Live Science
Dec 7, 2014
Vikings may have been familymen who traveled with their wives to new lands, according to a new study of ancient Viking DNA.
Source: National Geographic
Dec 7, 2014
During World War II, companies stayed in the public eye by advertising products—often with the government's help—that weren't available to civilians.
Source: National Geographic
Dec 7, 2014
There's evidence now that people cam to America, on both the east and west coasts, thousands of years ago.
Source: The Pennsylvania State University
Dec 7, 2014
New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living humans during most of the past 150,000 years.
Source: Miller Center - University of Virginia
Dec 7, 2014
There’s plenty of fodder for Hillary to worry about.
Source: NYT
Dec 6, 2014
by Andrew Cherlin
Social class differences in marriage have been tied to the extent of income inequality among white Americans for at least 130 years.
Source: ABC News
Dec 5, 2014
The auction company gave a presale estimated value of between $15,000 and $30,000.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Dec 5, 2014
Project uses Web participation, video games to digitize documents.
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 5, 2014
The geometrical engraving is believed to date back 430,000 to 540,000 years.
Source: Sabato’s Crystal Ball (Larry Sabato)
Dec 4, 2014
The surest price the winning party will pay is defeat of hundreds of their most promising candidates and officeholders for Senate, House, governorships, and state legislative posts.
Source: Harvard Gazette
Dec 3, 2014
Researchers discuss new theories on human migration revealed by sophisticated DNA tests.
