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: Newsweek
August 5, 2015
It took millions, even billions, of years for these fuels to accumulate, and we’re running through them at a startlingly fast pace.
Source: The Conversation
August 5, 2015
It has been confirmed that British police are examining claims of child sexual abuse against a former prime minister, Edward Heath.
Source: LiveScience
August 1, 2015
Ground-penetrating radar is helping archaeologists locate the buried remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Lithuania.
Source: UPI
August 5, 2015
In the weeks since the U.S. Treasury announced it would put a woman on the newly redesigned $10 bill, Americans have changed their mind about who they think should be the first woman to be featured on paper currency in more than a century.
Source: Hakai
July 28, 2015
New archaeological research hints at a new reason for Vikings’ Greenland occupation.
Source: BBC
July 29, 2015
The Eagle was built by the Nazis and fought for Hitler in World War Two - so how did a tall ship that once flew the swastika end up as a training vessel for new US Coast Guard cadets?
Source: Buzzfeed
July 30, 2015
Four years into a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced millions, Syria’s immense history is being sold off on en masse as looters descend on ruins across the country.
Source: NPR
August 1, 2015
The story appears in the current issue of The Strand.
Source: The Washington Post
August 4, 2015
Mormons believe that 185 years ago, Smith found gold plates engraved with writing in ancient Egyptian in upstate New York. They say God helped him translate the text using the stone and other tools, and it became known as the Book of Mormon.
Source: CNN
August 4, 2015
Although Amazon won't release sales figures, publishers say the genre's growth is phenomenal.
Source: National Security Archive
August 5, 2015
A few months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General Dwight D. Eisenhower commented during a social occasion "how he had hoped that the war might have ended without our having to use the bomb."
Source: US News
August 4, 2015
As Islamic State militants set out to destroy Iraq's history and culture, including irreplaceable books and manuscripts kept in the militant-held city of Mosul, a major preservation and digitization project is underway in the capital to safeguard a millennium worth of history.
Source: NYT
August 4, 2015
A ruling is near in a lawsuit that claims the copyright on the much-sung song is not valid. That would be an unhappy day for Warner Music Group, which could lose millions in licensing fees.
Source: Pew Research Center
July 30, 2015
Most Americans believe a woman will be elected president within their lifetime, a milestone that would add the U.S. to a growing list of countries that have had a female leader.
Source: The Washington Post
August 1, 2015
India and Bangladesh began the exchange of over 160 enclaves – small areas of sovereignty completely surrounded on all sides by another country – and in so doing ended a dispute that has lasted almost 70 years.
Source: Harvard Gazette
August 3, 2015
Fuller’s body and manuscript were lost to the sea. But a recent Houghton Library acquisition is shedding new light on the tragedy and on what Thoreau found as he wandered the beach for clues and interviewed survivors.
Source: National Parks Traveler
July 31, 2015
There’s not even a visitor’s center.
Source: Vulture
July 31, 2015
Roland Emmerich's low-budget film tells the story of the 1969 Stonewall riots.
Source: The Independent
August 1, 2015
David Keys reveals the research that finally explains why HMS Victory went down with the loss of 1,100 lives
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 2, 2015
Hannah Schwarz explores a 1934 photo that appears to show Jewish children in Pittsburgh giving the Nazi salute
