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
2-25-15
Book of legal and philosophical advice on king’s efforts to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled helped change the course of English history
Source: NY Review of Books
6-5-15
Britain has got Waterloo fever. With the anniversary coming on June 18, documentaries are presenting Wellington, the Iron Duke, as more malleable than first appears, and lauding Napoleon as a hero, rather than as the megalomaniac “Boney.”
Source: The Conversation
6-8-15
by Karina Urbach
He has always been known for his pro-Nazi sympathies. However, the extent of his betrayal could never be fully verified due to the secrecy of the Royal Archives.
Source: NYT
6-5-15
A Czech series has, not surprisingly, stirred intense reactions about mixing such a dark period in history into an entertainment format more often associated with the Kardashians.
Source: ThinkProgress
6-4-15
Fifty years after the events of Bloody Sunday transpired on the Edmund Pettus Bridge — a bridge named after a former Ku Klux Klan leader — the Alabama Senate voted on a resolution to change the landmark’s name.
Source: The Washington Post
We haven’t seen a commander-in-chief regularly sporting specs since Harry Truman and those round wire-rims.
Source: The Washington Post
6-1-15
Cobbling together the history of the House is significantly trickier than the 50 governors or the 100 senators.
Source: NYT
5-27
How does one memorialize a failed war that most people don’t even know about or would rather forget?
Source: Politico
6-3-15
It is the first time in more than a decade that Americans have expressed a favorable view of Bush.
Source: NPR
6-2-15
Moscow this year is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its subway system — the Moscow Metro — a crowning achievement of the Soviet Union's unprecedented forced industrialization in the 1930s.
Source: The Root
6-2-15
After starring as Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed movie Selma, David Oyelowo revealed in a recent interview that Steven Spielberg is trying to get him to reprise his role as the civil rights leader.
Source: New Historian
6-2-15
A startling archaeological find in southern Russia has revealed proof that the ancient Scythians, a nomadic race that ruled the region some 2,400 years in the past, smoked a concoction of cannabis and opium regularly enough to craft ornate devices to do so.
Source: CBC News
6-2-15
"Residential schooling was always more than simply an educational program: it was an integral part of a conscious policy of cultural genocide," the TRC's summary report states.
Source: BBC
5-31-15
An exhibition in Liverpool investigates the significance of hair in black culture.
Source: NYT
6-2-15
Pvt. Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin of the Army will be recognized for valor for risking their lives to protect others on the French front line in 1918.
Source: NYT
5-30-15
The millions of dollars paid out indicate the ease with which thousands of former Nazis managed to settle into new lives in the United States with little scrutiny after the end of World War II.
Source: NYT
6-1-15
A language scholar sets out to find the missing pages of an ancient, influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon.
Source: NYT
5-31-15
Director Lonnie Bunch says he's been searching for such a slave ship since he took the job in 2005.
Source: National Security Archive
5-29-15
It was known as Nixon's Madman Theory. This is the first time the memo's been published.
Source: Smithsonian
5-28-15
Smithsonian Magazine asked David Bruce Smith, founder of the Grateful American Foundation, how we can fix this problem.
