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: Press Release: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dec 3, 2014
Largest Single Gift Will Ensure the Museum’s Vital Educational Mission
Dec 3, 2014
by HNN
"The Government's promotional video for 'Ireland 2016', the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising, provides a fairly obvious clue to what is wrong with it. There is only the briefest mention of 1916 and none of 'The Rising' or freedom."
Source: NYT
Dec 3, 2014
The director’s drawing media attention. She’s black and a woman — rare in Hollywood.
Source: Press Release: Readex
Dec 3, 2014
Featuring essential historical newspapers collected by the American Antiquarian Society, Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899 will be launched in December 2014 by Readex, a division of NewsBank.
Source: NPR
Dec 2, 2014
The vote was unanimous.
Source: NYT
Dec 2, 2014
Takashi Uemura, a former journalist, is under attack for his reporting on “comfort women.”
Source: BBC
Dec 2, 2014
Analysis of DNA from Richard III has thrown up a surprise: evidence of infidelity in his family tree.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dec 2, 2014
College students and alcohol have mixed poorly for decades.
Source: Press Release: The Trust for Public Land
Dec 2, 2014
Dec. 9 marks 150 years since the tragic Ebenezer Creek crossing that led to the “40 acres” proclamation. The site of that event has been permanently protected and will become part of a planned public greenway, natural area, and park connecting to the Savannah River.
Source: NYT
Dec 2, 2014
The high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s is starting to look like a historical anomaly, not a trend.
Source: BuzzFeed
Dec 1, 2014
The ad, which ran on the radio, says what's worse is that her opponent wants to impeach President Obama.
Source: Washington University in St. Louis
Dec 1, 2014
Most are destined to be forgotten within 50-to-100 years of their serving as president.
Source: Motherboard
Dec 1, 2014
Pinochet, convinced that a ground invasion was imminent, purchased landmines from the US and Belgium and buried them at a feverish pace.
Source: NYT
Dec 1, 2014
Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s “right-hand man” and responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to death camps, died at least four years ago, Efraim Zuroff said.
Source: Japan Focus- Asia-Pacific Journal
Dec 1, 2014
by Vaclav Smil
In 50 years the shinkansen never had a fatality.
Source: New York Post
Nov 30, 2014
It was the first time the women has seen each other since Weglowski’s family hid Wexler on their farm to escape German soldiers in 1942.
Source: Boston Globe
Nov 30, 2014
by Judith Giesberg
With all the rumors circulating about her while she mourned the loss of her sons and tried to take care of her surviving children and a grandchild, Lydia Bixby might have welcomed the anonymity that finally came to her at the end of her life. But does she still deserve it today?
Source: NYT
Nov 29, 2014
The young have joined the old in looking for the remains of missing Japanese soldiers at the site of one of World War II’s most ferocious battles.
Source: AP
Nov 28, 2014
It said non-Japanese people have difficulty understanding the term "comfort women," used in Japan to describe the women.
Source: BBC
Nov 28, 2014
Evocative of an aristocratic and glorious history, there are many mansions around England that now stand empty or abandoned. These impressive buildings may look lonely and forlorn but behind every mansion is a story.
