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
April 26, 2015
Is marriage necessary?
Source: Press Release -- Mobius Virtual Foundry
April 28, 2015
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
April 25, 2015
25 House members are urging Abe to address sensitive issues of history.
Source: Reuters
April 24, 2015
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
April 20, 2015
It took place 50 years ago this week in Philadelphia at a restaurant called Dewey's.
Source: New Historian
April 23, 2015
Researchers have found that historic droughts in Central America matched the patterns of disruption to Maya society.
April 23, 2015 (accessed)
There website debuts on the 100th anniversary of the genocide.
Source: NYT
April 23, 2015
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
April 20, 2015
A boisterous novel that imagines American history as a gay epic
Source: The Washington Post
April 19, 2015
“In McVeigh’s mind, he believed that he had definitely screwed up because he left the building still standing.”
Source: History channel
April 20, 2015
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
April 19, 2015
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.
April 22, 2015
by Rick Shenkman
Critics call out the organization for hypocrisy.
Source: Time
April 21, 2015
93-year-old Oskar Groening acknowledged working at Auschwitz
Source: NYT
April 19, 2015
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
April 17, 2015
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
April 19, 2015
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
April 15, 2015
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
April 16, 2015
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
April 16, 2015
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.
