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 Historian
12-31-15
An exhaustive new study has shown that societies with a high vulnerability to food shortages are more susceptible to climate induced disasters. This susceptibility can manifest itself in social changes, as well as environmental hazards.
Source: NYT
12-30-15
The comic, “The Book That Hitler Didn’t Want You to Read,” tells the story of how Alan Cranston — then a journalist, and years later a California senator — produced his own version of Hitler’s book, only to be sued by Hitler.
Source: Huffington Post
12-29-15
New research from the National Women's History Museum reveals that the vast majority of us are more familiar with our nation's heroes, than our heroines.
Source: The Telegraph
12-29-15
Program claims Spanish villages were destroyed purely to test capabilities of new German bomber plane
Source: WQOW
12-30-15 (accessed)
The order, which was signed on Dec. 24 and came into force Monday, will not only help the work of historians. It will also bring more citizens into the archives' lecture rooms to learn about what happened to their ancestors during World War II.
Source: NYT
12-29-15
Some considered the station’s demolition an act of architectural vandalism. But by the time it was torn down in the 1960s, it hardly resembled the grand building it had been half a century earlier.
Source: NYT
12-29-15
The leaders of South Korea and Japan faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday from nationalists upset about a landmark deal aimed at resolving a dispute over Korean women who had been pressed into sexual servitude in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II.
Source: The Guardian
12-20-15
Carvings on the wall of the tomb of Maia, the boy king’s wet nurse, have led archaeologists to suspect she may have been his sister Meritaten
Source: Reuters
12-29-15
A book to be published in Hong Kong in the new year says Zhou Enlai, Communist China's much-respected first premier, was probably gay despite his long marriage, and had once been in love with a male schoolmate two years his junior.
Source: The Daily Beast
12-27-15
She worked behind enemy lines—and was captured by the Soviets. But the U.S. never properly gave her full credit for her heroism. After seven decades, that may be about to change.
Source: NYT
12-27-15
Ghosts of the dark years linger in what was once the collaborationist capital, though historians note the government was to blame, not the city.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
12-26-15
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States has evoked comparisons to episodes in American history in which foreigners or adherents of an unfamiliar religion were stigmatized.
Source: New Historian
12-26-15
A team of historians have claimed that an island off the coast of Canada has artifacts dating back to a time when the Roman Empire still ruled Europe and the Mediterranean.
Source: Time Magazine
12-25-15
Officials in Hope, Ark. are investigating the blaze, which broke out at about 3:20 a.m. Friday, CBS News reports. The building, where the 42nd president spent the first four years of his life, is a designated National Historic Site.
Source: NYT
12-27-15
Mrs. Clinton’s work, as a young law student in 1972, to determine whether an Alabama school discriminated against blacks was a moment of awakening for her.
Source: Huffington Post
12-26-15
The flag is slated to go on display in a Civil War museum.
Source: NYT
12-28-15
Japan made an apology and promised an $8.3 million payment as part of a deal to resolve the longstanding dispute over Koreans forced into sexual slavery in World War II.
Source: The Conversation
12-22-15
by Joe Perry
While some Germans did resist the heavy-handed, politicized appropriation of Germany’s favorite holiday, many actually embraced a Nazified holiday that evoked the family’s place in the “racial state,” free of Jews and other outsiders.
Source: TPM
12-23-15
"The problem with the Confederate flag isn't the Confederacy, the problem with the Confederate flag is what it began to represent later," Bush said while on a campaign stop.
Source: NYT
12-24-15
Buried in the omnibus spending bill signed into law last week are provisions to give each of the former hostages or their estates up to $4.4 million.
