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
11-13-15
Her father brought her diary to the world. Now, with the copyright expiring in Europe, a Swiss foundation is arguing that his role was larger.
Source: Politico
11-12-15
CIA officials told Condi Rice face to face we needed to go to war
Source: WDTV
11-12-15
They said that West Virginians projected ideas on them based on stereotypes about an entire group.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
11-13-15
"One day, my father didn't come home. My brother and I were left without a father. We never saw him again."
Source: Time Magazine
11-12-15
Image of the candidate's civil rights activism under spotlight
Source: WBEZ, This American Life
10-16-15
They assassinated Rabin 20 years ago this month to stop the peace process. It worked.
Source: Newsweek
11-11-15
Founded in 2012 by Roger Michel, the Institute for Digital Archaeology is a joint effort between Harvard University and Oxford University to create an open-source database of high-resolution images and three-dimensional graphics of things like paper and papyrus documents, epigraphs and small artifacts.
Source: The Conversation
11-10-15
The lead role in the drama went to Günter Schabowski, a high-ranking East German apparatchik who recently died at the age of 86 – and whose answers at the briefing have become the stuff of legend.
Source: New Historian
11-10-15
According to the present chief architect, Jordi Faulí, the building is currently 70 percent finished and on schedule to be completed in 2026, the 100-year anniversary of Gaudí’s death.
Source: Huffington Post
11-10-15
"All over the Hebrew Bible, this is what it says to do when you steal — you give it back sevenfold," says Drake University ethicist Jennifer Harvey.
Source: Newsletter of the New York American Revolution Round Table
11-11-15
The Institute for Advanced Studies wants to build faculty housing on the site. A court has stopped them (for now).
Source: Art News
11-7-15
41 major cultural heritage sites and monuments have been lost to history thus far.
Source: The Boston Globe
11-11-15
The seal, depicting three bundles of wheat, is meant to pay tribute to Royall, a wealthy merchant who donated his estate to create the first law professorship at Harvard University. But Royall made much of his wealth through the slave trade.
Source: NYT
11-10-15
The foundation does not have the money it needs to maintain the memorial on the National Mall, and what it does have came from South Korean corporations.
Source: Harvard Gazette
11-4-15
It’s part of Harvard’s Colonial North American Project.
Source: Huffington Post
11-10-15
Thermal scans of the Great Pyramid of Giza have revealed an "impressive" anomaly in the rock -- a change in temperature that could indicate something behind the 4,500-year-old walls.
Source: NYT
11-9-15
The family narrative that has provided such inspirational fire and biographical heft to Mr. Cruz’s campaign is, his father’s former comrades and friends say, an embroidered one.
Source: New Historian
11-9-15
At least ten ships, described as ancient, medieval and from the nineteenth century, were recently discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Source: NYT
11-9-15
Discoveries in the past decade have revealed more about the people for whom Stonehenge and nearby monuments held great meaning.
Source: Israeli National News
11-9-15
Organizers in Umeå claim the event is a 'security risk', downplay Holocaust's horrors.
