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: Spotify
January 19, 2015 (accessed)
45 songs and recordings inspired by or about MLK.
Source: Reuters
January 17, 2015
Unlike other plantation museums along the Great River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the newly opened and under-construction Whitney Plantation focuses squarely on the plight of slaves.
Source: The Atlantic
January 18, 2015
An interactive graphic shows the 1,410 different spots on the globe presidents have referenced in 224 speeches.
Source: IRNA
January 11, 2015
An archeological site with an age of three millennia BC has been identified and undergone primary archeological examination in the city of Nataz, Isfahan Province.
Source: UCLA
January 15, 2015
King’s voice can again be heard — this time online
Source: History Extra
January 15, 2015
They reveal the trends, tastes and spending habits of the times, and now the items in our shopping baskets are being used to chart the culinary history of the UK since 1947
Source: New Historian
January 16, 2015
Our current understanding of human evolution and behavior may change completely, now that University of Montreal researchers have discovered a bone tool from the Neanderthal era which appears to have had multiple uses.
Source: The Guardian
January 14, 2015
Warnings from history: Angkor was a thriving metropolis of 750,000 before a series of mega-monsoons made it unliveable. Can modern flood-threatened cities learn from its downfall?
Source: Smithsonian
January 14, 2015
James Barker, a photographer from Alaska, shares his memories of documenting the famed event
Source: BBC
January 13, 2015
by John Murphy
Whenever I tell anyone that my Irish grandfather translated Hitler's Mein Kampf, the first question tends to be, "Why did he do that?" Quickly followed by, "Was he a Nazi?"
Source: New Historian
January 15, 2015
Although little is known about the Native Americans who lived in the East St. Louis area, a team of archaeologists who worked on a dig to clear land for the Stan Musical Veterans Memorial Bridge are ready to share their latest discoveries.
Source: Time
January 14, 2015
Some, like Peniel Joseph, a history professor at Tufts University, have argued that the recent backlash against the film for its supposed misrepresentation of Lyndon Johnson is an attempt by white viewers to maintain control over the Civil Rights narrative.
Source: The Washington Post
January 2, 2015
The Missouri History Museum is gathering images and items cataloguing the unrest that followed the August shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.
Source: Gizmodo
January 8, 2015
A Really Greater New York. That was the title of the 1911 proposal by an engineer and planner who imagined paving over massive amounts of New York Harbor to make room to build the New York of the future.
Source: Media Matters
January 14, 2015
O'Reilly, who has written a series of books focused on the deaths of prominent historical figures, has been criticized by historians and critics for shoddy scholarship and ahistorical claims.
Source: History channel
January 13, 2015
Clarence Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey were born within six weeks of each other and grew up in the same Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1930s. Their parallel lives came to an end on January 5, when both men died at home at the age of 91.
January 14, 2015
by HNN Editor
A pundit fight has broken out over Ronald Reagan's legacy. Was he or wasn't he responsible for cutting inflation?
Source: Bloomberg
January 14, 2015
Here's a historical reminder that persistence sometimes pays.
Source: New Historian
January 14, 2015
By analysing mummified faecal matter, researchers have discovered a medieval warlord was poisoned.
Source: NYT
January 12, 2015
The children of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continue to fight in court over, among other things, his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal.
