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
12-15-15
“There may be a tunnel,” said Janusz Madej, the head of the scientific team, “but there is no train.”
Source: NYT
12-15-15
Thanks to centuries of legislating by Parliament, which bans the wearing of suits of armor in its chambers, Britain has accumulated many laws that nowadays seem irrelevant, and often absurd.
Source: NYT
12-14-15
A broad examination of heads of government and their unsuccessful challengers across 17 countries from 1722 to 2015 found that the leaders lived 2.7 fewer years.
12-14-15
by Brian D. Johnson
The latest to do so is Baltimore.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
12-7-15
Citing history, they say it’s time to heal an old wound.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
12-13-15
The map is “a powerful smack in the forehead,” said John Kneebone, a professor of history who researched the second wave of the Klan after it was reborn in Atlanta in 1915 with the premiere of “The Birth of a Nation.”
Source: The Guardian
12-9-15
Historian says ‘in all certainty’ remains found near Szigetvar in southern Hungary point to resting place of 16th-century sultan of Ottoman Empire
Source: NYT
12-11-15
That was the year Ronald Reagan rattled insiders with his insurgent campaign against President Gerald R. Ford, with party members arriving at the convention without a clear nominee.
Source: The Washington Post
12-11-15
For 90 years the school’s stadium has honored a football star who later as president of the university sought to deny black students admission to the state’s flagship campus.
Source: National Security Archive
12-11-15
The documents suggests a number of parallels with the Obama experience.
Source: VOX
12-11-15 (accessed)
by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, Christoph Trebesch
The study by two economists found that on average, far-right votes increase by about a third in the five years following systemic banking distress.
Source: IBTimes
12-10-15
How Reparations Debate For Black Americans Has Kept Congress From Apologizing For Slave History
Source: NYT
12-8-15
The Magdala Stone, found in Israel, is forcing scholars to revisit ideas about synagogues and their relationship to the Second Temple around the dawn of Christianity.
Source: NYT
12-9-15
“The French elite used to say the same things that the Indian elite now say, that inequality would be reduced with rising development.”
Source: Pew Research Center
12-9-15
No longer the majority and falling behind financially
Source: Newsweek
12-8-15
Pascal Cotte, a French scientist, claims to have found another portrait beneath that of the world-famous Mona Lisa using reflective light technology.
Source: Inside Higher ED
12-9-15
Early campaigns to abolish the holiday form a largely forgotten chapter in American history.
Source: NYT
12-8-15
Middle East analysts say that when it comes to the Islamic State, the West is acting as if overwhelming firepower alone could guarantee success.
Source: Time Magazine
12-5-15
The Republican frontrunner at this point usually wins the nomination
Source: Huffington Post
12-8-15
The new finding, published on Monday in the journal Antiquity, traces the bluestones -- or the smaller stones used at the 5,000-year-old monument -- to two quarries in Wales.
