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: Time
Sep 23, 2014
A new PSA shows the lengths that women have gone to in order to prevent unwanted pregnancy
Source: ANSAmed
Sep 23, 2014
Ancient natatio and small charterhouse cloister now on show
Source: NYT
Sep 23, 2014
"Scattered attacks have raised alarm about how Europe is changing and whether it remains a safe place for Jews."
Source: Yahoo News
Sep 23, 2014
This is considered America’s oldest bar. Where is it? Read on to find out.
Source: NYT
Sep 22, 2014
Most observers call for a no-holds-barred hunt for the Holocaust perpetrators who have evaded justice for decades, but others point to their old age, legal issues and difficulty in proving the crimes, arguing that after nearly 80 years, the pursuit should come to a conclusion.
Source: Pew Research Center
Sep 22, 2014
Nearly three-quarters of the public (72%) now thinks religion is losing influence in American life, up 5 percentage points from 2010 to the highest level in Pew Research polling over the past decade.
Source: WSJ
Sep 22, 2014
“No one has bothered to tell this story,” Mr. Greenberg said. “So I said, we’re telling the story through them, and their families.”
Source: Priceonomics
Sep 22, 2014
Dangling from the ceiling of a California firehouse is a bulb that’s burned for 989,000 hours -- nearly 113 years.
Source: U.S. State Department
Sep 22, 2014
"Ancient treasures in Iraq and in Syria have now become the casualties of continuing warfare and looting."
Source: NYT
Sep 20, 2014
After years of research, a historic find has emerged: what MoMA curators say is the earliest surviving footage for a feature film with a black cast.
Source: History
Sep 19, 2014
On the 80th anniversary of the capture of Bruno Hauptmann, read how a New York City gas attendant and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s monetary policy contributed to the big break in the “crime of the century.”
Source: NYT
Sep 18, 2014
by Matt Bai
In a long piece in the NYT Magazine, Matt Bai reports on "How Gary Hart’s Downfall Forever Changed American Politics."
Source: Investor's Business Daily
Sep 18, 2014
He was the longest serving Treasury Secretary in US history.
Source: The Independent
Sep 17, 2014
Seven decades after Margot Wölk was forced into life at Hitler’s bunker, she has told her full story.
Source: New Republic
Sep 17, 2014
by Alice Robb
"Eight pages long, with three illustrations of the child’s anatomy, the pamphlet may describe one of the earliest instances of sex-change surgery."
Source: Live Science
Sep 17, 2014
When archaeologists uncovered her remains they found she wore "a very complex coiffure with approximately 70 extensions fastened in different layers and heights on the head."
Source: BBC
Sep 17, 2014
The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years.
Source: Daily Beast
Sep 17, 2014
History teaches us that the Vikings were brutal, thieving invaders, but much of that history was written by Viking victims: European monks. New evidence says otherwise.
Source: World Bulletin
Sep 16, 2014
540 Ottoman sailors drowned on September 16, 1890 when the Ertugrul Firkateyni sank on its return journey.
Source: The Times-Picayune
Sep 16, 2014
Originally called the National D-Day museum until its name change in 2003, the National World War II Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of the Second World War through oral history, films, special exhibits and displays of equipment and artifacts.
