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: M.I.T. Media Lab project, Pantheon
Apr 7, 2014
"To celebrate our global cultural heritage we are compiling, analyzing and visualizing datasets that can help us understand the process of global cultural development."
Source: whoisbigger website
Apr 7, 2014
"We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages ."
Source: AlterNet
Apr 6, 2014
“Younger people don’t care so much about the past or the old stories."
Source: National Post
Apr 6, 2014
“The Sikh history is not in the hands of Sikhs, it’s in private collections in the U.K.” said Mr. Dillion, who is bent on lending the artifact to any Canadian or Indian school or museum that wishes to exhibit it.
Source: BBC
Apr 6, 2014
The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Source: BBC
Apr 6, 2014
The puzzling - and thus far indecipherable - nature of an old manuscript has confounded some of the world's greatest cryptologists. Is there truly a code to break, or is it all an elaborate hoax?
Source: NYT
Apr 6, 2014
José María Galante says he was tortured by an infamous enforcer of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s and is seeking to prosecute the man in an Argentine court.
Source: Yahoo News
Apr 5, 2014
Conservative politicians in Australia have ordered a review of a new national curriculum they say imposes political correctness on shared historical events, such as the battle for Gallipoli.
Source: NYT
Apr 5, 2014
They insist that the museum will, in the words of Hank T. Holmes, the director of the Department of Archives and History, “not be sugarcoated at all.”
Source: NYT
Apr 4, 2014
The world’s most distinctive gallery of world leaders, the work of George W. Bush, who took up painting after he left office, opens in Dallas on Saturday.
Source: News Release -- John M. Rossi,
Apr 4, 2014
Bankruptcy Court finds the Huber Breaker’s 900 tons of steel, valued at $85,000, was a much higher worth than preserving the keystone historic site.
Source: PolitiFact
Apr 3, 2014
Eric Foner thinks Jim DeMint should take his Civil War history class.
Source: Hoover
Apr 3, 2014
This vast array of digital files illuminates political conditions in, and governance of, Iraq during Saddam Hussein's regime.
Source: BBC
Apr 2, 2014
Only one other complete film by Pearson survives, making the discovery of Life, Love and Laughter "particularly significant", said the British Film Institute.
Source: Daily Beast
Apr 2, 2014
Watch Donald Rumsfeld Lie About Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, and 9/11.
Source: NYT
Apr 1, 2014
“Every time I see the structure, it makes me think about the ovens.”
Source: The Star Press
Apr 1, 2014
The auction took less than 30 minutes to dispense with a pair of items that had been in the Society's care for 81 years in the case of "The Birds of North America" and 63 years in the case of "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America."
Source: McClatchy
Apr 1, 2014
Putin's personal political agenda.
Source: Open Culture website
Mar 31, 2014
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads.
Source: NYT
Mar 31, 2014
National Geographic Channel said Monday that it would “indefinitely” pull a planned television series on unearthing Nazi war graves after days of blistering criticism from archeologists and others who said the show handled the dead with macabre disrespect.
