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: AP
1-31-15
When Islamic State group militants invaded the Central Library of Mosul earlier this month, they were on a mission to destroy a familiar enemy: other people's ideas.
Source: NBC News
1-30-15
The hull of the Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship, has been recovered 150 years after it sank.
Source: NYT
1-29-15
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan on Thursday criticized an American textbook that he said inaccurately depicted Japan’s actions during World War II.
Source: NYT
1-25-15
‘Night Will Fall’ Examines the Making of a 1945 Holocaust Documentary
Source: NYT
1-28-15
Anthropologists exploring a cave in Israel have uncovered a rare 55,000-year-old skull fossil that they say has a story to tell of a reverberating transition in human evolution, at a point when and where some early humans were moving out of Africa and apparently interbreeding with Neanderthals.
Source: The Conversation
1-28-15
Countries producing lots of oil or those with higher reserves (and considerable market power) were more likely to attract military support.
Source: CBS News (Video)
1-28-15
The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the civil rights movement were tossed out Wednesday during an emotional hearing before a packed courtroom.
Source: JSTOR
1-26-15
It’s a conversation that goes back more than 100 years, as M. Susan Murnane describes in a 2004 paper for Law & Social Inquiry.
Source: NYT
1-27-15
Jordan M. Wright’s collection of political memorabilia has been unceremoniously sitting in boxes and crates behind the orange roll-up doors of storage units in Long Island City, Queens.
Source: Politico
1-12-15
Selma director Ava DuVernay may well have taken more license than artistically necessary in the confrontational scenes between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Johnson. But inaccuracies in other significant parts of the film were forced upon DuVernay by copyright law.
Source: dna India
1-27-15
"He was a politician, he was a political scientist, he was a social worker, he was a diplomat. And he came from an ordinary family. He could not even complete his education. But till today, his thoughts have an impact on American life."
Source: New Historian
1-28-15
A paper, written by Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes and Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid, suggests that the condition existed in the ancient world.
Source: Press Release -- Historic Columbia
1-28-15
Although often overshadowed in the popular imagination by the burning of Atlanta, Ga., the burning of Columbia, S.C. on the evening of February 17, 1865 was a major event in American history and a defining moment in the history of the state, city and the Civil War.
Source: History Extra
1-22-15
History textbooks are designed for the “supposedly minimal attention spans” of today’s pupils, a prominent history teacher has said.
Source: The History Blog
1-27-15 (accessed)
The false beard on the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, probably the single most recognizable ancient artifact in the world, had come off and was reattached with a sloppy mess of irreversible epoxy glue.
Source: AP
1-27-15
The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, is working to establish its first international museum outpost in London as that city redevelops its Olympic park, officials said Tuesday.
Source: The Washington Post
1-23-15
The 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp could mark the last major commemoration for many Holocaust survivors
Source: The Conversation
1-26-15
Chinese textbooks borrow the language and imagery of the Holocaust and apply them to the Nanjing massacres of 1937 by the Japanese army. Japanese textbooks likewise adopt the language of the Holocaust in presentations of the devastation of cities by atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
Source: WSJ
12-26-14
More States Mandate Tests on the Subject Amid a Movement for Use of Citizenship Exam
Source: Vox
1-26-15
It was a terrifying experience for the people there, in part, because so many things went horribly, unexpectedly wrong.
