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 Atlantic
Feb 20, 2014
"I think it's been the gravest kind of error," Kennedy said of the Vietnam War.
Source: Naval History and Heritage Command Public Affairs
Feb 20, 2014
The Naval War College Library in Newport, R.I. will
publicly unveil online the 4,000-page "Gray Book" collection of Fleet
Adm. Chester Nimitz.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Feb 20, 2014
People in Bangladesh are protesting against a new Bollywood action
thriller that they say portrays their country’s 1971 struggle for
independence from Pakistan wrongly.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Feb 20, 2014
Critics said the monument is an attempt on the part of the governing
Fidesz party to rewrite history and downplay the role Hungarians had in
the Holocaust.
Source: New York Times
Feb 20, 2014
An aide to Prime Minister Abe criticized Obama for expressing disappointment in the PM's visit to the Yasukuni shrine.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Feb 19, 2014
by Simon Garfield
Author Simon Garfield doesn't consider himself nostalgic. But his two new books, "On the Map" and "To the Letter," chronicle just how much history we have lost due to the prevalence of digital maps and correspondence.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Feb 19, 2014
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is sponsoring a commemorative license plate in Georgia. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is not happy.
Source: Politifact
Feb 18, 2014
Nugent made the remarks at a Las Vegas gun expo in January.
Source: Seattle PI
Feb 18, 2014
The
villa-style home in Columbia, S.C., built in 1871, is one of four historic sites for Wilson.
Source: Associated Press
Feb 18, 2014
University police found the rope noose and a pre-2003 Georgia state flag
with the Confederate "stars and bars" on its face Sunday morning.
Source: New York Times
Feb 18, 2014
Lake Placid in 1980 was as unprepared for the games as Sochi in 2014.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 17, 2014
A new donation has brought 60,000 CDs and 4,000 LPs to the University of Texas.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 17, 2014
Inquiry chairman writes to Kim Jong-un warning he could face trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
Source: Austin Chronicle
Feb 16, 2014
Among the participant will be Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Julian Bond, Taylor Branch, Julian Castro, Luci Baines and Lynda Bird Johnson, and Jon Lewis.
Source: Nature
Feb 16, 2014
Model also links avian influenza strains to deadly horse flu.
Source: France24
Feb 15, 2014
At the time, the French military authorities said the fallout from
the explosion was limited to the desert and that radiation levels were
“generally low”....
Source: The Telegraph
Feb 15, 2014
American president sometimes seems to be suffering under a barrage of paranoid criticism, but so did Barack Obama's most illustrious predecessors
Source: CNN
Feb 15, 2014
A new research consortium begins a conservation phase that might add an important piece to the puzzle of what happened to the submarine.
Source: Bloomberg
Feb 14, 2014
Nazi scientists were working on ways to use malaria-carrying mosquitoes as a weapon, researchers have uncovered. Until now, experts have disputed whether Germany was working on biological warfare during World War II.
Source: The Guardian
Feb 14, 2014
Gallery claims it was ‘fraudulently induced’ by New York based art dealership to buy allegedly stolen 11th century sculpture.
