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: Press Release
9-15-15
“These stories talk about a time when the sea started to come in and cover the land, and the changes this brought about to the way people lived – the changes in landscape, the ecosystem and the disruption this caused to their society.”
Source: Atlantic
9-17-15
The research confirms what historians already knew -- that the first millennium saw the greatest mixing of separate groups in western Europe -- but also discovered evidence for an influx of Mongolians into Europe that predated the reign of Ghengis Khan.
Source: NYT
9-17-15
Formerly a teacher and jewelry maker in Denmark, Jeppe Nordmann Garly last month began a new job on a hillside campus in central Norway as the director of Scandinavia’s first government-funded training course on how to live like a Viking.
Source: ABC News
9-16-15
Archaeologists are working quietly and methodically to catalogue, photograph and pack artifacts that are thousands of years old into wooden crates to be stored in top secret storage facilities in Damascus and elsewhere.
Source: Alliance for Justice
9-17-15
The Senate has confirmed only six judges in 2015, the slowest pace in over 60 years.
Source: Yahoo News
8-28-15
Academics have criticised the British government for creating a "climate of fear" after the national library declined to store the world's biggest collection of Taliban-related documents over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism laws.
Source: National Security Archive
9-16-15
Today the National Security Archive is proud to post a compilation of our ongoing work to shed light on these important documents. The collection is comprised of dozens of records and the Ninth Circuit Court ruling, which paved the way for today's disclosure.
Source: Variety
9-15-15
Reiner will direct from a script by Joey Hartstone, which follows Johnson’s ascension from the poor hill country of West Texas to the corridors of power in Washington.
Source: Facebook page of Christopher A. Tuttle
9-15-15
Baraqish in Yemen had been restored by the Italians. Now it's in ruin.
Source: The Times Higher Education
9-14-15
Seventeen universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses
Source: Cogent OA
9-14-15
A new study indicates it actually happens, especially involving art from Cambodia, Argentina and Syria.
Source: History channel
9-14-15
A Belgium-based Egyptologist has rediscovered the oldest known Egyptian leather manuscript, dating back more than 4,000 years to late Old Kingdom and early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000 B.C.).
Source: Politico
9-15-15
In a bid to burnish her image with voters, the Clinton campaign is flooding the Internet with nostalgic pictures of the Democratic front-runner.
Source: TPM
9-14-15
Sanders said the election of Barack Obama in 2008 was a great step forward for America, but the country's founding on "racist principles" and "institutional racism cries out for reform."
Source: Bloomberg
9-10-15
As U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew asks the public which famous woman he should put on new $10 bills, historians he’s surveyed privately are building a convincing argument for abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Source: Newsweek
9-14-15
It was back in 1965, during the depths of the Cold War and the peak of the civil rights movement, that the United States overhauled its immigration laws.
Source: Buzzfeed
9-14-15
“Simply put, Pat Buchanan has written too many inflammatory, outrageous, and controversial things to ever be elected president.”
Source: The Independent
9-13-15
Dr Paul Booth said he has informed the Oxford English Dictionary of his discovery
Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
9-14-15 (accessed)
From 2004 to 2012, every academic subject saw a declining percentage of students taught by a teacher with a postsecondary degree in that subject. The largest decline occurred in history.
Source: OZY
9-14-15
Classrooms have long used games to teach history, but some education experts say today’s board games are maturing rapidly, allowing designers to tackle unprecedented subjects.
