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: Washington Decoded (Max Holland's website)
3-11-15
The real Clay Shaw simply does not emerge as the Kennedy-hater some have suspected he was.
Source: AJC.com
3-11-15
The Georgia Senate voted Wednesday to suggest the state should all but ban Advanced Placement U.S. history courses statewide, saying state officials needed to protect students from a “radically revisionist view” of American history conservatives have deemed left-leaning and biased.
Source: National Security Archive
3-11-15
That's when the USSR put Mikhail Gorbachev in charge.
Source: KSL.com
3-11-15
In his small ground-floor apartment just a few blocks from Beijing's landmark Bird's Nest stadium, Chinese language teacher, writer and do-it-yourself documentary maker Xu Xing is urgently preserving what he can of China's forbidden past.
Source: The Guardian
3-12-15
Attack on Dur-Sharrukin, the latest by group on country’s heritage, comes as Brussels calls for creation of safe havens for Iraqi minorities
Source: History channel
3-10-15
The high-tech Apple Watch may never have come to fruition had World War I not erased the cultural stigma that used to surround wristwatches.
Source: NPR
3-10-15
"It's a new way to monitor a conflict, it's not just peeking in, but seeing images every couple of days."
Source: McClatchy DC
3-10-15
The U.S. Senate Historian’s Office has so far been unable to find another example in the chamber’s history where one political party openly tried to deal with a foreign power against a presidential policy.
Source: The Japan Times
3-9-15
Why has the Great Tokyo Air Raid never been properly memorialized in Japan?
Source: CBS Evening News
3-9-15
This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the fateful day the first U.S. troops went ashore in South Vietnam. But by then U.S. aircraft had already been bombing North Vietnam for seven months and downed American pilots had fallen into a hell that would last for the rest of the war.
Source: The Washington Post
3-6-15
Jackson's place of honor became a big topic once again this week after a nonprofit group called Women on 20's suggested that it was time to retire the Jackson $20 and replace it with a bill featuring women from American history.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
3-8-15
How to teach members the messy part of LDS history, theology
Source: NYT
3-9-15
A volunteer organization’s profile was raised when local, state and federal authorities raided a Valentine’s Day meeting.
Source: NYT
3-8-15
The ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq is the latest to be attacked by the Islamic State militant group.
Source: NYT
3-7-15
A temple in Hatra, an archaeological site from the first century B.C, has been destroyed.
Source: Mother Jones
3-6-15
Al-Azm and his Monuments Men were propelled into action in late 2012.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-2-15
A small percentage of Germans say it’s okay to do so
Source: New Historian
3-6-15
Archaeologists working in China have revealed details of a spectacular imperial palace.
Source: Politico
3-5-15
‘They’ve lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,’ one black lawmaker says.
Source: Time
3-5-15
The actual title of Churchill’s speech was “Sinews of Peace,” though most people know it as the “Iron Curtain speech.”
