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
Nov 12, 2013
University of Southampton team finds evidence explaining why opulent Roman empire port was dismantled in 6th century.
Source: National Public Radio
Nov 12, 2013
Brazil has what may be the world's largest archive of photography of slavery.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 12, 2013
A new AA stadium will be located across the street from one of the central slave trading sites in the country.
Source: New York Times
Nov 12, 2013
The film by Fyodr Bondarchuk is very much backed by the Kremlin.
Source: New York Times
Nov 12, 2013
Should Vilnius preserve its severe Soviet-era statues?
Source: New York Times
Nov 12, 2013
Hundreds of couples plan to tie the knot under the gaze of a giant Mao statue.
Source: Fast Company
Nov 11, 2013
The nonprofit CyArk plans to digitally preserve UNESCO sites.
Source: Public Radio International
Nov 11, 2013
Henry Tandey could have killed a wounded Hitler in World War I. But he didn't.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Nov 11, 2013
The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot made the discovery.
Source: Washington Post
Nov 11, 2013
The web series is the brainchild of Azie Dungey, a former actor at Mount Vernon.
Source: New York Times
Nov 11, 2013
The John F. Kennedy taught in textbooks today is a Kennedy with warts and all.
Source: New York Times
Nov 11, 2013
The son of Erwin Rommel became a three-term mayor of Stuttgart.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Nov 9, 2013
Tacloban was the centerpiece of the World War II campaign to liberate Leyte from the Japanese.
Source: New York Times
Nov 9, 2013
The German president opened a week of commemoration by visiting a museum dedicated to Otto Weidt, a savoir of Jews during the Holocaust.
Source: New York Times
Nov 9, 2013
Deng was less a visionary reformer and more a masterful politician.
Source: NBC
Nov 9, 2013
'I failed': Cop handcuffed to JFK killer describes Oswald's death.
Source: Reuters
Nov 7, 2013
Oswald stored the rifle he used
to kill Kennedy in the garage.
Source: BBC News
Nov 7, 2013
The first ever statue of the naturalist will be unveiled at the Natural History Museum by Sir David Attenborough.
Source: Huffington Post
Nov 6, 2013
Dominic Winters auctions a rare book by photographer John Thompson who captured London's poverty in the 19th century.
Source: The Root
Nov 6, 2013
The network acquired the rights to the successful miniseries from Alex Haley's estate.