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: CNN
Jun 23, 2014
Inside, exhibits in the nearly 43,000-square-foot museum link the historic stories of the American civil rights movement and modern human rights struggles around the world.
Source: NYT
Jun 23, 2014
There is a poem children in Wales learn about the sunken kingdom of Cantre’r Gwaelod, swallowed by the sea and drowned forever after.
Source: Johnson’s Russia List
Jun 21, 2014
Yet a half blames the enemies for the deaths of millions of people.
Source: BBC
Jun 21, 2014
The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof.
Source: Radio Free Europe
Jun 21, 2014
Jan Karski, an eyewitness to the Holocaust whose daring wartime attempts to call attention to the slaughter of Polish Jews were largely ignored by the United States and Britain.
Source: NYT
Jun 21, 2014
Civil and Human Rights Museum to Open in Atlanta
Source: NYT
Jun 21, 2014
The Battle of Kohima and Imphal was the bloodiest of World War II in India, and it cost Japan much of its best army in Burma.
Source: WSJ
Jun 20, 2014
In France, one commander estimated that if women in arms factories halted work for 20 minutes, the war would be lost.
Source: History
Jun 20, 2014
The origins of the Qhapaq Ñan (“great road” in the Quechua language of the Incas) can be traced to trails that formed as early as 1000 B.C.
Source: News Next
Jun 20, 2014
The necklace, called a lunala, was worn by the early kings of Ireland.
Source: ChinaTopix
Jun 20, 2014
Jing Shenghong, a history professor with Nanjing Normal University, said Japanese troops ran more than 40 "comfort women" stations in the city during World War II, making them the largest war-related brothel in Asia.
Source: The Daily Beast
Jun 20, 2014
The woman at the center of the scandal over Hillary Clinton’s defense of an alleged child rapist speaks out in depth for the first time.
Source: Gallup
Jun 20, 2014
Americans' current confidence in Congress is not only the lowest on record, but also the lowest Gallup has recorded for any institution in the 41-year trend.
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 20, 2014
The release will help the Brazilian Truth Commission investigation.
Source: Nature World News
Jun 19, 2014
Based on his discovery, professor Olaf Kaper now argues that the army didn't disappear but was defeated.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 19, 2014
They didn’t have the large skulls or other robust skeletal features seen in the prototypical Neanderthals who, hundreds of millennia later, roamed Ice Age Europe.
Source: Art Daily
Jun 19, 2014
Residents have complained that the monument will take up too much space in the popular park.
Source: Science Magazine
Jun 19, 2014
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, born a thousand years ago in Central Asia, inferred the existence of the land mass known as America--5 centuries before Columbus.
Source: Politico (Mike Allen)
Jun 19, 2014
The title of the book? "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics."
Source: Inside Higher ED
Jun 19, 2014
Students at Duke had pushed in recent months to change the name of Aycock Hall, a freshman residence that had been named in 1914 for the former North Carolina governor Charles B. Aycock, who pushed for both expanded public education and for segregation.
