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: The Financial Times
May 17, 2016
A Hindu nationalist campaign on Twitter wants to abolish the Mughals.
Source: Time Magazine
May 16, 2015
They date back over 100 years.
Source: Huffington Post
May 16, 2016
A religious zealot shows a sudden business interest in multicultural education.
Source: The Washington Post
May 17, 2016
Trade agreements aren't the main reason the United States has lost manufacturing jobs.
Source: USA Today
May 17, 2016
The parliament passed a bill requiring its government to demand compensation from the United States for "spiritual and material" damages.
Source: The Washington Post
May 17, 2016
The Israel Antiquities Authority confirmed that two divers discovered the shipwreck of a merchant ship dating back to the Late Roman period, on the seabed of Caesarea's ancient harbor.
Source: Newsweek
May 16, 2016
A CIA agent gave the tip-off to South African authorities that led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, according to a filmmaker's interview with the agent on his deathbed.
Source: The Washington Post
May 15, 2016
He has compared the European Union’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler, arguing that the 28-nation bloc is creating a superstate that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent.
Source: The Japan Times
May 15, 2016
Fifty years after Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China’s founder still exerts a powerful pull.
Source: New Historian
May 14, 2016
A zooarchaeologist from the University of Colorado Denver says he’s found evidence that European Neanderthals may have weathered periods of extreme cold brought about by climate change, based on signs of nutritional stress left behind in their remains.
Source: Time Magazine
May 13, 2016
“This museum will reveal American history through the lens of the African-American experience. That’s literally and figuratively” said Philip Freelon, a lead architect on the project.
Source: NYT
May 14, 2016
The president has approached conflict, and dealings with terror groups, as a chronic but manageable security challenge rather than an all-consuming national campaign.
Source: The Washington Post
May 13, 2016
The researchers say the find is unequivocal proof that people were in Florida more than 1,000 years earlier than anyone had imagined.
Source: ABC News
May 15, 2016
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.
Source: The Daily Beast
May 14, 2016
The pontiff again stirred the pot this week by hinting at allowing female deacons. The history of the early Church might just give him the cover to do so.
Source: ABC News
May 11, 2016
A vast majority of white Americans say there should not be reparations for African-American descendants of slaves, but more than half of blacks say it's a good idea and Hispanics are almost evenly split, according to a new poll.
Source: Press Release -- The Trustees of the Sulgrave Manor Trust
May 12, 2016
This is what happens when you clean a painting.
Source: The Washington Post
May 11, 2016
Not exactly.
Source: The Washington Post
May 11, 2016
With Donald Trump almost certainly the Republican Party’s candidate for president, pundits in and out of the conservative movement are predicting devastating effects for the party.
Source: New Historian
May 9, 2016
The relics have been lying underground, buried for more than 600 years, beneath the feet of museum experts.