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: UPI
Mar 31, 2014
Proposed field trip includes visits to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and American Jazz Museum.
Source: AP
Mar 31, 2014
An 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's `Fuehrer Museum' was handed back to Poland on Monday, a move Germany hopes will revive thorny talks over a vast trove of historical documents that Berlin wants to recover from Poland.
Source: UPI
Mar 31, 2014
"There is no doubt that the ossuaries were recently looted from a magnificent burial cave in Jerusalem," said Dr. Eitan Klein.
Source: Huff Post
Mar 30, 2014
Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers.
Source: NYT
Mar 30, 2014
Unlike the process of planning the museum, which incorporated years of public outreach, discussion and review, the museum’s rollout was organized by a small group of museum staff members who quietly worked to satisfy competing demands while staying true to the museum’s mission.
Source: The Guardian
Mar 29, 2014
Evidence from skulls in east London shows plague had to have been airborne to spread so quickly.
Source: BBC History Magazine
Mar 28, 2014
Archaeologists “cannot say with any confidence” that bones found in Leicester are those of Richard III, leading experts have claimed.
Source: NYT
Mar 28, 2014
Some of the most riveting material involves the administration’s scramble to contain the Lewinsky scandal.
Source: New York Times
Mar 28, 2014
?“The
cold war dinosaurs who still tramp the corridors and editorial columns
of London and Washington seem almost to pine for the virile certainties
of 1945-1989,” the columnist Simon Jenkins writes.
Source: Yahoo News
Mar 27, 2014
Russia and Ukraine are ruthlessly using history as a weapon in the battle to paint their opponents as dangerous aggressors, ripping open old wounds from World War II that may not easily heal.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 27, 2014
The U.N.'s top human rights body has approved an international criminal
investigation into alleged abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended
in 2009.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 27, 2014
Seven humanities projects in Virginia have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Source: New York Times
Mar 27, 2014
The tactic of employing artists to support state policies harkens back to at least Stalin -- and illustrates the continuing importance of the intelligentsia in Russian life.
Source: Inside Higher ED
Mar 26, 2014
Trustees at the College of Charleston are facing heat from faculty and students for picking South Carolina’s lieutenant governor as the college’s next president.
Source: Fox News
Mar 26, 2014
A mummy of an Egyptian woman dating back to 700 A.D. has been scanned and stripped to reveal a tattoo on her thigh that displays the name of the biblical archangel Michael.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 26, 2014
The artifact will go on display at the National Museum of American
History.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 26, 2014
The footage was found in the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections.
Source: LiveScience
Mar 25, 2014
The remains of the supposed compass — known as the Uunartoq disc— were found in Greenland in 1948 in an 11th-century convent.
Source: TIME Magazine
Mar 25, 2014
Putin is reviving the program "Ready for Labor and Defense" with leftover cash from the Sochi games.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 25, 2014
Obama will visit the Belgian cemetery Wednesday.
