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: China Rising Radio Sinoland
7/2/19
An examination of Douglas Valetine's The CIA As Organized Crime.
Source: Fstoppers
7/14/19
For those struggling to put the facts and visuals together, documentary photography accompanied with words can be a godsend.
Source: Popular Mechanics
7/12/19
In a new study, scientists say that particles of lead trapped in ice in the north pole tell the story of commercial and industrial processes dating back to the Middle Ages.
Source: AP
https://www.apnews.com/33adc66aee4c40cea19d6049bb6
Hurricanes, thievery and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can keep up.
Source: NY Times
7/11/19
Colin A. Palmer, a historian who broadened the understanding of the African diaspora, showing that the American slave trade was only one part of a phenomenon that spanned centuries and influenced cultures worldwide, died on June 20 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 75.
Source: NY Times
7/9/19
What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish?
Source: Business Insider
7/14/19
"Interviews: silence is the weapon, silence and people's need to fill it — as long as the person isn't you, the interviewer," Caro writes.
Source: NY Times
7/15/19
Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it.
Source: Washington Post
7/14/19
They have tenure. She does not.
Source: The Japan Times
7/14/2019
The space race was always going to be won by filmmakers and science-fiction writers.
Source: NPR
7/14/2019
Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.
Source: NY Times
7/9/19
After her American publisher delayed her new book, “Outrages,” over accuracy concerns, she is responding with a strategy mixing scholarly peer review and damage control.
Source: Boston Globe
7/7/19
Mr. Howland was 81 when he died at home on June 21 of lung cancer, and though he sold textbooks early on, he later charted a memorable path as an editor and antiquarian bookseller in Boston’s literary world.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
7/3/2019
The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.
Source: CNN
7/8/2019
"The museum has a long commitment to telling the complex and complicated history of the United States and to documenting that history as it unfolds," according to a statement from the museum
Source: New York Times
7/8/2019
In a new book, the archaeologist makes the case that ancient history illuminates solutions to modern problems.
Source: US News
7/7/2019
The University of Southern Mississippi and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) worked together to discover and characterize two unexplored shipwrecks in the Gulf and study marine life on and around the wrecks.
Source: Nature
7/8/2019
Alexandra Witze savours seven books commemorating the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings.
Source: NPR
7/4/2019
Cokie Roberts answers listener questions and talks with NPR's Rachel Martin about the role women played in America's fight for independence from Great Britain.
Source: US News
7/7/2019
In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.
