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.
Sep 4, 2014
by HNN Staff
"For 16 months, working under the noses of his clueless Nazi overseers ... a Jewish doctor managed to send fake typhus vaccine to the Nazi soldiers at the front, even as he provided the real thing to inoculate his fellow condemned Jews in a concentration camp."
Source: National Geographic
Sep 3, 2014
Amid the devastation and danger of civil war, Syrian archaeologists and activists are risking their lives in the battle against looting.
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 2, 2014
A prolonged drought has revealed that the mysterious monument's ancient stones, which currently arc in a semicircle, likely once formed a complete circle.
Source: Salon
Sep 2, 2014
"Fred Ryan, who's just been named the Post's new publisher, is among the more Reagan-y people to ever walk the earth -- somewhat less Reagan-y than Ronald Reagan himself, but probably more Reagan-y than Nancy Reagan or other members of the Reagan family."
Source: BBC
Sep 2, 2014
The owners of one the most infamous buildings in Paris have been ordered to put back a commemorative plaque recalling the role of the "French Gestapo" in World War Two.
Source: NYT
Sep 2, 2014
ISIS is indeed involved in the illicit antiquities trade, but in a way that is more complex and insidious than we expected.
Source: NYT
Sep 2, 2014
The victims of the direct medical killings by the Nazis were given their own memorial in the heart of Berlin.
Source: NYT
Sep 2, 2014
More than 50 years after its publication, Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” remains enduringly controversial."
Source: Huffington Post
Sep 2, 2014
It looks like a game of tic tac toe, but engravings found deep inside a cave in Gibraltar might be a Neanderthal masterpiece.
Source: Philly
Sep 1, 2014
Villanova professor's quest reveals LBJ vendetta against George Hamilton.
Source: NYT
Sep 1, 2014
by Julia Baird
For more than a century, biographers have tried to fathom the improbable friendship Queen Victoria had with her Scottish servant John Brown.
Source: AP
Aug 31, 2014
Invasion of Alaska? Yes. It seemed like a real possibility in 1950.
Source: Colossal
Aug 31, 2014
To commemorate the centennial of Britain’s involvement in the First World War, ceramic artistPaul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper conceived of a staggering installation of ceramic poppies planted in the famous dry moat around the Tower of London.
Source: NYT
Aug 30, 2014
The market has a tendency to rally no matter which party wins a midterm election.
Source: Responding to Climate Change website
Aug 30, 2014
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum lasted 200,000 years and temperatures soared by at least 5° and perhaps 9°C.
Source: BBC
Aug 29, 2014
An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images.
Source: OUP blog
Aug 29, 2014
by Julian Richards
In March a blockbuster exhibition opened in the new BP Gallery at the British Museum and tens of thousands have flocked to see the largest collection of Viking treasure ever to be displayed in the British Isles.
Source: AP
Aug 29, 2014
Howard G. Buffett told The Associated Press that his foundation plans to give the items, which include Parks' Presidential Medal of Freedom, to an institute or museum he hasn't yet selected.
Source: Science Daily
Aug 28, 2014
In the course of ongoing excavations at Timna Valley, archaeologists analyzed remnants of food eaten by copper smelters 3,000 years ago. This analysis indicates that the laborers operating the furnaces were in fact skilled craftsmen who enjoyed high social status and adulation.
Source: Radio Diaries
Aug 28, 2014
A box of recordings was found in a basement that contained the recollections of people who witnessed or took part in the events of that day.
