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: Quarts
2-7-15
In surveying five prescribed textbooks in India, the study found that none of them makes a mention of the term “holocaust” or its Hebrew equivalent “shoah.”
Source: NYT
2-5-15
The composer was struck by the parallels between Hamilton — an illegitimate immigrant from the West Indies who rose to power largely by the sheer force of his rhetoric — and such hustlers-turned-moguls as Jay Z.
Source: NYT
2-5-15
Obama compared the atrocities of the Islamic State to the bloodshed committed in the name of Christianity in centuries past.
Source: National Coalition for History
2-5-15 (accessed)
by Lee White
Historians have been assured that the historical community will be consulted in identifying qualified historians to serve on the commission.
2-5-15
by HNN Editor
Maybe not, but his embrace of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero is encouraging to liberals.
Source: Star Tribune
2-5-15
The town of Edina admits its racist past, but one Wikipedia editor apparently doesn’t.
2-5-15
by HNN Editor
The website Counterpunch features an article attacking the mainstream media for ignoring US complicity.
Source: Press Release -- The Historial Jeanne d’Arc
2-5-15 (accessed)
The Historial Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc History Museum), an ambitious project spearheaded by Métropole Rouen Normandie, is the largest space dedicated to this historical figure of international renown. Opens 21 March 2015
Source: WaPo
2-5-15
John Kerry came in dead last.
Source: New York Magazine
2-4-15
"These are people who feel no empathy and have no sympathy for anybody outside of their immediate circle. They don't know what pity means."
Source: Chicagoist
2-3-15
Whether you're on the side of "progress" or "preserving history," this video is powerful, regardless, and is a stark reminder that change is constant.
Source: Harvard Gazette
2-3-15
A fossilized hipbone of an ape called Sivapithecus is challenging the belief that the upright body of Great Apes evolved just once.
Source: Gizmodo
2-3-15
A new video from the New York Times explains how we got to this terrifying point in American history — a seemingly upside down, dystopian world where we're witnessing the resurgence of diseases we thought were long since wiped out.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
2-2-15
Japan’s rightwing politicians are overlooking abundant historical evidence that Korean women were forced into sexual slavery.
Source: Live Science
2-2-15
Opium, "magic" mushrooms and other psychoactive substances have been used since prehistoric times all over the world, according to a new review of archaeological findings.
Source: Politico
2-2-15
The commission, he believes, was the victim of a “massive cover-up” by government officials who wanted to hide the fact that, had they simply acted on the evidence in front of them in November 1963, the assassination might have been prevented.
Source: AP
2-3-15
Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks' archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time.
Source: Boston Globe
2-1-15
Possible presidential candidate had tumultuous four years at Andover school
Source: The Moscow Times
2-1-15
Some 15 percent of the library's 15 million books were destroyed either by the fire or the water used to extinguish the blaze.
Source: Star Tribune
1-28-15
The "Treatise on Tolerance" is a cry against religious fanaticism and stemmed from Voltaire's conviction that religious differences were at the heart of world strife. He wrote at a time of bloody tension between French Protestants and Catholics.
