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: Thewire.com
Aug 9, 2014
Hinkley in theory could charged with homicide.
Source: thewire.com
Aug 9, 2014
Most of the world's Yazidis live in Iraq.
Source: Worldcrunch
Aug 7, 2014
A century ago, those reporting on wars were little more than military puppets. Since Vietnam, journalism is freer and more complicated. Now social media is changing the equation again.
Source: PBS
Aug 6, 2014
The Open University in the United Kingdom hired a photo restoration specialist to restore and color a handful of images.
Source: NBC News
Aug 6, 2014
He's got the same name as ever, but now he's on social media.
Source: Bloomberg
Aug 6, 2014
Born in one American war, the Army’s newest general is helping end another.
Source: The Boston Globe
Aug 6, 2014
Eroni Kumana found Lieutenant Kennedy and his crew six days after the wreck of PT-109.
Source: NYT
Aug 6, 2014
The NYT reviews three apps that will help you brush up on past events ranging from the Roman era to World War I.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Aug 6, 2014
For the sake of the U.S. Department of Education, if only it were still this easy.
Source: NYT
Aug 6, 2014
More than 1.7 million people died under Khmer Rouge rule between 1975 and 1979.
Source: The Daily Beast
Aug 6, 2014
As city rents skyrocket and small businesses close to be replaced by chain cafes and glass condos, Jeremiah Moss’s blog, Vanishing New York, keeps a rueful eye on the ‘progress.’
Source: Huffington Post
Aug 6, 2014
Were scientists all wrong about prehistoric "hobbits?"
Source: The Washington Post
Aug 6, 2014
The factor that really influences whether people think the elections are fair? Whether their preferred candidates win.
Source: AFP
Aug 6, 2014
The Islamic State group Tuesday defended its destruction of religious sites in the Iraqi city of Mosul on the grounds that the use of mosques built on graves amounted to idolatry.
Source: Daily Beast
Aug 5, 2014
As the generation that survived the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki begins to pass, the grandson of President Truman works to end the threat of nuclear weapons.
Source: AP
Aug 5, 2014
The complete remains, which had been kept in a coffin-like box, were missing documentation until researchers recently began digitizing the museum's collection from an expedition to Ur, an ancient city near modern-day Nasiriyah.
Source: Arab News
Aug 5, 2014
“The first thing that makes this find significant is that it is a mixed text, known as Nabatean Arabic, the first stage of Arabic writing.”
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Aug 4, 2014
To most University of Mississippi students and alumni, calling the institution "Ole Miss" is just natural. But not everyone likes the name.
Source: NYT
Aug 3, 2014
Memorial Plan Called a ‘Five-Star Folly’
Source: NYT
Aug 2, 2014
The pilgrims tramped toward the storied monastery by the thousands — chanting prayers, singing and embracing the kind of nationalist fervor that President Vladimir V. Putin seeks to harness as his own.
