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: New York Times
Jan 17, 2014
A proposed monument to Union Civil War veterans at the site of the Battle of Olustee draws controversy.
Source: Times of Israel
Jan 17, 2014
Clay plaques at The Israel Museum, made 1,500 years before the Kama Sutra, display graphically that Old Babylonian culture held an ‘exalted’ view of sex.
Source: New York Times
Jan 16, 2014
The move comes as a collaboration between the city’s Department of Records and Ancestry.com.
Source: Moscow Times
Jan 16, 2014
Some analysts have accused the Kremlin
of using the new textbooks to promote its ideological agenda and crack
down on academic freedom.
Source: Irish Times
Jan 16, 2014
Military Service Pensions Collection published online.
Source: The Telegraph
Jan 16, 2014
Two new pieces of research into the First World War claim that previous figures for the conflict's death toll and the numbers who suffered from shell shock have been vastly underestimated.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 16, 2014
From exhibitions and concerts to a movie and football match, a host of events will take place to commemorate anniversary.
Source: Reuters
Jan 15, 2014
The LBJ Library is locking horns with the Air Force Museum over LBJ's Air Force One.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 15, 2014
Nearly 16,000 pieces of art are awaiting the opening of the National Museum of the United States Army.
Source: Phys.org
Jan 15, 2014
The newly-discovered pharaoh Senebkay ruled 3,700 years ago.
Source: NBC News
Jan 15, 2014
New findings suggest corpses of defeated gladiators fed to dogs.
Source: The Guardian
Jan 15, 2014
Karl Habsburg-Lothringen says major powers were ready for war anyway when heir to Habsburg empire was assassinated.
Source: CBS News
Jan 15, 2014
Forty-four boxes of letters, some 7,000 in all, were kept in Jackie Kennedy's personal collection.
Source: BBC News
Jan 14, 2014
Diaries from British
soldiers describing life on the frontline during World War One are being
published online by the National Archives.
Source: Washington Post
Jan 13, 2014
The National Museum of American History is marking the 100th anniversary of one of its most popular exhibitions, “The First Ladies,” by displaying Michelle Obama’s second inaugural gown.
Source: New York Times
Jan 13, 2014
In death as well as in life, Sharon remains a polarizing figure.
Source: New York Times
Jan 13, 2014
Growing numbers of aging Red Guards have declared their contrition
for violence perpetrated from 1966.
Source: Der Spiegel
Jan 13, 2014
The Soviets swept Russia's World War I under the historical rug. But now Putin is bringing it back.
Source: Phys.org
Jan 13, 2014
Could Alexander the Great have been poisoned by white hellebore?
Source: The Telegraph
Jan 13, 2014
The glaciers of the Italian Alps are slowly melting to reveal horrors from the Great War, preserved for nearly a century.
