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 Boston Globe
4-26-15
Is marriage necessary?
Source: Press Release -- Mobius Virtual Foundry
4-28-15
Using live actors and a vintage bus, Möbius has created a virtual reality that places attendees in Montgomery, Ala. on December 1, 1955.
Source: ABC News
4-25-15
25 House members are urging Abe to address sensitive issues of history.
Source: Reuters
4-24-15
Britain's Prince Charles and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan led commemorations on the Gallipoli peninsula on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of a World War One battle that helped shape the birth of new nations.
Source: Out-History
4-20-15
It took place 50 years ago this week in Philadelphia at a restaurant called Dewey's.
Source: New Historian
4-23-15
Researchers have found that historic droughts in Central America matched the patterns of disruption to Maya society.
4-23-15 (accessed)
There website debuts on the 100th anniversary of the genocide.
Source: NYT
4-23-15
Many ethnic Armenians who are rediscovering their roots have found it easier to discard their Kurdish or Turkish identities than to relinquish their religion.
Source: The Washington Post
4-20-15
A boisterous novel that imagines American history as a gay epic
Source: The Washington Post
4-19-15
“In McVeigh’s mind, he believed that he had definitely screwed up because he left the building still standing.”
Source: History channel
4-20-15
After reevaluating Caesar’s symptoms and looking into his family history, a pair of doctors now believes that the famed dictator may have actually been the victim of a series of “mini-strokes” that damaged his health and affected his mental state.
Source: The Washington Post
4-19-15
by Anne Applebaum
In two poorly worded sentences, he sounded to Polish readers as if he were repeating the World War II myth that most drives them crazy: Namely, that somehow, those who lived in occupied Eastern Europe shared full responsibility for a German policy.
4-22-15
by Rick Shenkman
Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.
Source: Time
4-21-15
93-year-old Oskar Groening acknowledged working at Auschwitz
Source: NYT
4-19-15
From the moment the doors close until they reopen 47 seconds later on the 102nd floor, a seemingly three-dimensional time-lapse panorama will unfold on three walls of the elevator cabs, as if one were witnessing 515 years of history unfolding at the tip of Manhattan Island.
Source: NYT
4-17-15
While Turkey acknowledges that atrocities took place, it refuses to take responsibility for the deaths, claiming that a large number of people — many of them Turks — were also killed as a result of civil war and famine.
Source: NBC News
4-19-15
Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the program.
Source: Scientific American
4-15-15
Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction.
Source: Live Science
4-16-15
Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus.
Source: National Security Archive
4-16-15
Newly declassified Clinton White House e-mails and notes detail a decisive U.S. role in the tragic pullout of United Nations peacekeepers during the first two weeks of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
