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: Yahoo
3-5-15
Nimrud, one of the jewels of the Assyrian era, was founded in the 13th century BC and lies near Mosul.
Source: AP
3-4-15
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago.
Source: CBC News
3-4-15
The oldest fossil of the human genus Homo has been unearthed in Ethiopia, a groundbreaking discovery that pushes the history of human evolution 400,000 years further into the past.
Source: New Jersey On-Line
3-5-15
The sign in the deli window says, "CELEBRATE YOUR WHITE HERITAGE IN MARCH, WHITE HISTORY MONTH."
Source: Harvard Gazette
3-4-15
Scholars celebrate publishing first five volumes keyed to India’s cultural past, the first of 500 in the next century
Source: CBS News
3-4-15
by Anthony Mason
Frank Sinatra is being celebrated at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts to mark the upcoming centennial of his birth.
Source: New Historian
3-4-15
A recent expedition deep into the rainforest of Honduras has made a remarkable discovery, a mysterious lost city belonging to an unknown culture.
Source: Vintage Everyday
3-4-15 (accessed)
See Lincoln's famous tent tete-a-tete with McClellan
Source: USA Today
3-3-15
Photos of that terrible day were seen around the world. Historians credit the beatings, and the public outrage that followed, as a catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Source: NYT
3-1-15
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea urged Japan to have the “courage and honesty” to admit to its historical wrongdoings against Koreans and other Asians, including its enslavement of Korean women in military brothels during World War II.
Source: Harvard
3-2-15
By analyzing the genomes of 94 ancient Eurasians, scientists at Harvard Medical School and the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide has uncovered evidence that herders on the Eurasian steppe did undergo a major migration into Europe.
Source: AP
3-1-15
Now the $75 million International African American Museum to be built on the site is more than a vision.
Source: AP
3-3-15
The fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge.
Source: The Nation
2-25-15
Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.
Source: Political Wire
3-2-15
Pennsylvania artist Nelson Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News that he included a reference to Monica Lewinsky in his portrait of Bill Clinton.
Source: NPR
2-25-15
The Museum of the Bible will house the more than 40,000 artifacts in Green's personal collection, including Jewish Torah scrolls and papyrus fragments of the New Testament.
3-1-15
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said on Saturday that Japan needs to look at its wartime history and face up to its past if it plans to regain trust from its neighboring countries.
Source: NYT
2-26-15
For two centuries, Denmark’s strategy of not treating Jews differently has been highly successful. Yet the threat from violent extremists is now undeniable, and no one can guarantee that a similar attack won’t happen again.
Source: BBC
2-28-15
About 15,000 pieces were looted during the Iraq war, with one-third recovered
Source: NYT
2-26-15
It opened in Louisiana in December.
