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
7-10-14
Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help thwart it.
Source: The History Blog
7-15-14
A tourist hiking in the foothills of a waterfall in Mexico two weeks ago fell from a branch onto a Mesoamerican monolith that was in the process of being carved out of the stone by looters.
Source: Johnson’s Russia List
6-21-14
Yet a half blames the enemies for the deaths of millions of people.
Source: The Independent
7-14-14
French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows.
7-16-14
by HNN Editor
Who's making the changes? That's unknown.
Source: BISI (British School of Archaeology in Iraq) blog
7-11-14
For now, the Tomb of Jonah appears to be safe.
Source: CNN
7-9-14
World War I ushered in an era of chemical weapons use that lingers, lethally, into the present day.
Source: Salon
The school, Heritage Academy, is using two of Skousen’s most popular books, “The 5,000 Year Leap” and “The Making of America.”
Source: NYT
7-12-14
Though she never held elected office, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely considered to be the most influential first lady ever.
Source: The Toronto Sun
7-12-14
Despite being the foundation of modern North American spy training, surviving structures were razed in 1969.
Source: The Florida Times-Union
7-10-14
The hunt is expected to wrap up in August.
Source: Informed Comment blog
7-14-14
A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn’t sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who’d apparently failed to sign up for the draft by their 18th birthday.
Source: BBC
7-12-14
Why does Italy have two police forces and what is so special about this one?
Source: Bloomberg
7-11-14
Sadly, Putin's nostalgia will come at great cost to the country's future.
Source: The Conversation
7-10-14
And there is much to lose.
Source: NYT
7-10-14
‘Blood Feud’ vs. ‘Hard Choices’ in Hillary Clinton Book Battle
Source: Vanity Fair
7-10-14
In an adaptation from their forthcoming book, Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley and historian Luke A. Nichter draw on 3,700 hours of President Nixon’s White House tapes to convey the inner workings of Nixon’s action-packed first term.
Source: Politico
7-8-14
Only 20 percent of today’s lawmakers have served in the military, the lowest rate since World War II and a dramatic fall from over 70 percent in the 1970s.
Source: Express
7-8-14
It started growing nearly 500 years before the Pharaohs built the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
7-9-14
Washington and Lee moves Confederate flags, apologizes for having owned slaves
