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: History Extra
3-11-15
Women are more attracted to war heroes than regular soldiers or men who display heroic traits in other lines of work, a study of Second World War veterans has revealed
Source: New Historian
3-18-15
More than 60 Iraqi treasures, illegally smuggled into the USA, have been returned to the Republic of Iraq this week.
Source: The Japan Times
3-18-15
A group of 19 Japanese historians and scholars plan to file a protest with U.S. publisher McGraw-Hill, claiming a history textbook it published in 2011 contains a number of “factual errors” on the “comfort women” issue.
Source: Political Wire
3-17-15
“I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president of my lifetime, without question."
Source: The Conversation
3-18-15
Imagine the calmness of mind required to cope when something goes wrong, beyond the help of fellow cosmonauts – exactly what happened to Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov.
Source: NYT
3-17-15
He found the former president to be a meticulous editor and unusually sparing in personal invective — in print — because he rarely carried a grudge for long. One exception was Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
Source: Press Release by Anthony Clark
3-17-15
President Richard Nixon stole 4,000 acres from the United States Marine Corps to secretly build his presidential library on a spectacular piece of prime federal real estate and created a new federal bureaucracy to cover up the scheme.
Source: Politico
3-12-15
It’s been over 200 years since members of Congress wore white silk stockings and silver shoe buckles on the House floor, but if you read Tom Cotton’s letter to the leaders of Iran, you wouldn’t necessarily know it.
Source: New Scientist
3-11-15
Several research groups are using technology and local contacts to try and document and save some of the treasures.
Source: Quartz
3-11-15
“To the degree that the current right-wing Republicans don’t think that Obama represents the best interests of the country, they felt the same way about Washington.” -- Historian Joseph Ellis
Source: NYT
3-17-15
In a discovery that could create a new venue for literary pilgrims, Spanish investigators said on Tuesday that they might have located part of the remains of Cervantes, whose novel “Don Quixote” has enthralled readers over centuries.
Source: The Conversation
3-16-15
Eight hundred years after King John made history when he fixed his seal to the Magna Carta, the public is being re-introduced to one of the most famous documents in political history.
Source: NYT
3-16-15
Established by a General Assembly resolution adopted in December 2014, the Panel is expected to submit its report to the Secretary-General no later than 30 June 2015.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
3-15-15
This is not the first time a presidential library has been at the center of a land dispute.
Source: NYT
3-12-15
When Hillary Rodham Clinton disclosed that she had destroyed more than 30,000 emails about personal matters during her tenure as secretary of state, it was painful for historians and biographers.
Source: Seattle Times
2-25-15
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans polled in national survey back establishing Christianity as the “national religion” of the United States.
Source: WaPo
3-12-15
Rutherford B. Hayes was alive at the same time as John Adams and at the same time as Dwight Eisenhower.
Source: NPR
3-13-15
It's called Project South and it features recordings from King to Fannie Lou Hammer.
Source: Bowdoin College
3-12-15
Unfortunately, depredation of this sort has a long tradition in human history.
Source: The Boston Globe
3-10-15
The barbarians of the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its ancillary hordes are pulverizing and plundering millennia-old heritage sites, museums, and ancient artwork across Syria and Iraq.
