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
1-19-15 (accessed)
45 songs and recordings inspired by or about MLK.
Source: Reuters
1-17-15
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
1-18-15
An interactive graphic shows the 1,410 different spots on the globe presidents have referenced in 224 speeches.
Source: IRNA
1-11-15
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
1-15-15
King’s voice can again be heard — this time online
Source: History Extra
1-15-15
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
1-16-15
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
1-14-15
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
1-14-15
James Barker, a photographer from Alaska, shares his memories of documenting the famed event
Source: BBC
1-13-15
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
1-15-15
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
1-14-15
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
1-2-15
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
1-8-15
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
1-14-15
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
1-13-15
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.
1-14-15
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
1-14-15
Here's a historical reminder that persistence sometimes pays.
Source: New Historian
1-14-15
By analysing mummified faecal matter, researchers have discovered a medieval warlord was poisoned.
Source: NYT
1-12-15
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.
