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: NYT
5-2-18
The artifacts, which are from the second and third millennium B.C., will eventually be taken to the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
5-1-18
"I didn’t do anything that was violent. I was adding context to the statue.”
Source: Politically Georgia
5-2-18
“I cringe at the idea that we would destroy art for political purposes,” Shafer said. “It reminds me of when the Taliban was toppling all of the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. That’s not something I agree with or support.”
Source: The Guardian
5-2-18
Abbas accused by US and Israel of stirring religious hatred in speech blaming Jewish role in banking for historical massacres.
Source: The Washington Post
5-2-18
For one thing he vastly overstated his wealth.
Source: Haaretz
5-2-18
High-resolution photography finds writing not visible with the naked eye on fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and paleo-Hebrew writing that hints at a scroll never seen before.
Source: Time Magazine
5-1-18
The history’s more complicated than he realizes.
Source: The Post and Courier
5-1-18
"These students, they have a great social conscience," Nathaniel Walker, an architectural history professor at the College of Charleston said. "They want our historic landscapes to be more empowering for everybody."
Source: History channel
4-30-18
Here’s why he’s so controversial.
Source: AP
5-1-18
The presidential news conference, a time-honored tradition going back generations, appears to be no longer.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
4-28-18
"It's kind of hypocritical to turn around and pass a bill commemorating something that they don't honor today.” – Devin Oldman, deputy director of the Northern Arapaho Tribal Historic Preservation Office
Source: The Los Angeles Times
4-27-18
While no official breakdown behind Prince Louis’ name was given, among other things it appears to acknowledge Lord Mountbatten, born Prince Louis of Battenburg in 1900. A beloved mentor of Prince Charles, he was assassinated in 1979 by the Irish Republican Army.
Source: CNN
4-27-18
The skeletal remains of more than 140 children and 200 baby llamas were found on the country's northern coast.
Source: Smithsonian
4-26-18
By looking at the DNA of Tsimshian people before and after European contact, researchers paint a more nuanced history.
Source: Newsweek
4-26-18
Scientists have performed DNA analysis on ancient stool samples from Northern Europe and the Middle East to get a glimpse of what our ancestors were eating.
Source: Houston Public Media
4-25-18
Houston Matters learns about efforts create the Sam Houston Republic of Texas Presidential Library at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville.
Source: The Washington Post
4-26-18
In a White House memo, Trump said that the nation’s intelligence community persuaded him to keep some documents secret because their exposure could harm “identifiable national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.”
Source: NYT
4-25-18
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.
Source: National Security Archive
4/26/18
The Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser
4-26-18
"Our shame: The sins of our past laid bare for all to see.”
