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: The Guardian
Mar 25, 2014
Battered case, believed to have been lent to officer during first world war, part of reopening exhibition at Bank of England.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 25, 2014
For Ukraine and Russia, no era or actor is more omnipresent in their crisis today than World War II and Stepan Bandera.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 25, 2014
Memento Park in Budapest is one of Eastern Europe's major galleries of communist-era statuary.
Source: Washington Post
Mar 25, 2014
"The" word has a long, controversial political and social history.
Source: Talking Points Memo
Mar 25, 2014
The new College of Charleston president is an avid Civil War reenactor and is affiliated with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Source: The Daily Beast
Mar 25, 2014
The most comprehensive study of Saudi textbooks ever commissioned by the U.S. government was completed at the end of 2012, but to this date the State Department has kept it from the public.
Source: The Telegraph
Mar 24, 2014
A former dustman salvaged more than 5,000 historic photographs from the First World War from rubbish tips and wastebins.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 24, 2014
Nalanda University was one of the world's first institutions of higher learning -- and now it's coming back after nearly a millennium.
Source: New York Times
Mar 24, 2014
Suárez led a new generation of Spanish
politicians to power after Franco's death in 1975.
Source: New York Times
Mar 24, 2014
The museum has set aside the preceding week as a dedication period.
Source: The Guardian
Mar 23, 2014
The
Führer found himself reborn in the 21st century in a 2012 comic novel
by Timur Vermes, which sold 1.4m copies in Germany. Its success suggests
Germans now look at their former leader in the same way as the rest of
the world does.
Source: BBC News
Mar 22, 2014
But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh
line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home.
Source: Telegraph
Mar 21, 2014
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation.
Source: New York Times
Mar 21, 2014
Sergeant Woods and an Air Force and Army crew were on a plane that was shot down over Vietnam in 1964.
Source: AP
Mar 21, 2014
Illinois, New York and Hawaii are all expected to compete for Obama's library.
Source: New York Times
Mar 21, 2014
Walsh helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal.
Source: New York Times
Mar 21, 2014
2014 marks both the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I and the year in which British troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
Source: Livingston Daily
Mar 20, 2014
Tweets from what school officials said were “four or five” students made reference to the Ku Klux Klan, Adolf Hitler and white power.
Source: Time Magazine
Mar 20, 2014
NTT DATA said it would digitize 3,000 manuscripts totaling 1.5
million pages over the next four years.
Source: ABC News
Mar 20, 2014
Vladimir Putin recounted the post-Cold War history during a speech Tuesday marking Crimea's annexation.
