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: National Security Archive
Sep 16, 2014
It's just been revealed that thousands of COINTELPRO documents were destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.
Source: South China Morning Post
Sep 16, 2014
Collection sheds light on daily life in the capital dating back a century
Source: Fox News
Sep 16, 2014
In the latest research, published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, scientists used computer scans and other methods to analyze the king's skeletal wounds.
Source: NYT
Sep 16, 2014
In France, they say they’re puzzled by the humor. In Germany, they say it will be difficult to market.
Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Sep 16, 2014
While little more than a third of respondents (36 percent) could name all three branches of the U.S. government, just as many (35 percent) could not name a single one.
Source: Guardian
Sep 15, 2014
From the African Choir posing like Vogue models to an Abyssinian prince adopted by an explorer, a new exhibition spotlights the first black people ever photographed in Britain.
Source: WSJ
Sep 15, 2014
The physicist, Joe Shonka, said he was surprised during his research at how close residents lived to the Trinity blast—in some cases within 20 miles.
Source: AP
Sep 15, 2014
Oskar Groening is accused of helping operate the death camp in occupied Poland between May and June 1944.
Source: Live Science
Sep 15, 2014
Archaeologists previously thought the structure was part of a city wall.
Source: Philly.com
Sep 15, 2014
Noting that he had already shown his executors the location of "all of my personal letters, journals and diaries," he ordered them, upon his death, to be destroyed.
Source: BBC
Sep 14, 2014
One self-taught photographer used his camera to challenge racial barriers and capture the diversity of the American South.
Source: USA Today
Sep 14, 2014
The document has never been available to the public — until now.
Source: BBC
Sep 14, 2014
One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic more than 160 years ago has been found, Canada's prime minister says.
Source: NYT
Sep 13, 2014
As marine navigation tools have become more sophisticated, lighthouses have become less necessary, and automated technology has eliminated the need for people to actually operate them.
Source: ArtNet
Sep 12, 2014
It shows his route through the desert of Saudi Arabia in the spring of 1917 amid the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Source: AHA
Sep 12, 2014
“The difference between what museums used to do and what they do today is we actively engage the visitor in their experience. It’s not a passive experience.”
Source: Archaeology
Sep 12, 2014
The pieces were snipped off the flag by its various keepers and given away as keepsakes until about 20 percent of the flag was missing by the 1880s.
Source: National Security Archive
Sep 12, 2014
Top officials at the Pentagon were especially supportive of applying pressure on Israel. Nixon overruled them.
Source: Iraq Heritage
Sep 12, 2014
More than 4000 archaeological sites that are located in areas that have been controlled by ISIS are facing a serious threatening either by looting or destruction.
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 11, 2014
In May 1899, a storm on Lake Superior caused a boat to sink so quickly that, as an eyewitness put it, the vessel "disappeared as suddenly as one could snuff out a candle."
