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: BBC
3-10-16 (accessed)
The lost cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria is now chronicled by the BBC.
Source: The Des Moines Register
3-8-16
When it rains, workers at the State Historical Building strategically place large potted plants around the atrium to catch water dripping from the leaky skylights.
Source: Toronto Star
3-9-16
A historian has been writing letters to politicians, Bank of Canada governors for years saying it is unacceptable not to have a female figure on the bills.
Source: Huffington Post
3-8-16
Microsoft is encouraging young women to #MakeWhatsNext.
Source: NYT
3-8-16
How different would the world look without the great minds of female inventors?
Source: Inside Higher ED
3-8-16
The political science textbook included maps showing Israel belonged originally to Palestinians.
Source: National Post
3-6-16
Book blasts JFK legacy north of 49.
Source: PRNewswire
3-7-16
This rare 1927 edition is bound in red leather and has the title in gold print attached to its spine. It was kept by a soldier's daughter until only a few years ago.
Source: Newsweek
3-5-16
The ICC is deciding whether to prosecute Al-Mahdi for allegedly destroying cultural heritage in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu
Source: Sputnik
3-5-16
Argentine human rights activists shame US President from country’s capital by reminding him of mass disappearances enabled by former US Governments.
Source: NYDailyNews
3-5-16
A clash between profanity-flinging Confederate flag supporters and counter-protesters during a Confederate Flag Day rally Saturday nearly escalated to violence at Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg National Military Park.
Source: BBC
3-6-16
Its leader dresses up like a Nazi.
Source: BooPow
3-5-16
British archaeologists have discovered evidence of a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon island hidden beneath a barley field, a find they tout as one of the country’s most important in decades.
Source: The Orange County Register
3-4-16
The exhibit will feature a 15-foot-tall image of Air Force One, which touched down in Peking on Feb. 21, 1972, making Richard Nixon the first U.S. president to visit China.
Source: The Harvard Crimson
3-4-16
A committee tasked with re-considering Harvard Law School’s seal in light of its ties to slavery recommended Friday that the Harvard Corporation revoke the emblem’s status as the school’s official symbol.
Source: Newsweek
3-3-16
Climate change might have sparked the war in Syria, a study said last year.
Source: The Chive
3-3-16
A group of computer programmers created a Python script that analyzes dated from Wikipedia articles and ranks them based on length of entry, number of links to pages, and how long the person in the article lived.
Source: NYT
3-3-16
Al Smith, who in 1928 was the governor of New York and the Democratic presidential nominee, later turned on Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and warned, much as Mr. Romney did on Thursday, that Roosevelt’s liberal policies would lead toward totalitarianism.
Source: Portside
2-9-16
That’s the controversial argument of a new book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by sociologist R. W. Connell.
Source: ESPN
3-2-16
In honor of Women's History Month, YouTube has partnered with the United Nations to highlight several trailblazers throughout history in hopes of inspiring female users on the site to create empowering content.
