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: WSJ
December 18, 2014
At least one theater was prepared to run the movie before Sony pulled the plug.
Source: Huffington Post
December 19, 2014
Archaeologists studying Stonehenge and its environs say they've unearthed the remnants of an untouched, ancient encampment that dates back 6,000 years--a find that could rewrite British prehistory.
Source: NBC News
December 21, 2014
The jury convicted him in 10 minutes after a three hour trial.
Source: NYT
December 20, 2014
“You shouldn’t have to pass a test to be able to tell people where the best ice cream in Savannah is.”
Source: History channel
December 19, 2014
Although firmly entrenched as a Christmas icon, the tale of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is a piece of relatively modern folklore penned in 1939 by a department store adman enduring a time of great personal tragedy.
Source: New Historan
December 20, 2014
By using radiocarbon dating on the metal found in Gothic cathedrals, a team made up of specialists in various disciplines has found that iron was used to strengthen stone during the construction process.
Source: Smithsonian
December 19, 2014 (accessed)
One hundred and fifty years later, historians are discovering some of the earliest known cases of post-traumatic stress disorder
Source: The Cook Political Report
December 17, 2014
The votes have been tallied and all recounts completed.
Source: NPR
December 17, 2014
It's been a stalemate that has outlasted 10 U.S. presidents, a failed invasion, a nuclear crisis and countless boatloads of Cuban asylum seekers. Meanwhile, the Castro brothers have kept running Cuba for more than a half-century.
Source: The Advocate
December 17, 2014
Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” means something different than you think it does.
Source: New Historian
December 18, 2014
The ancient city of Tikal, located in modern-day Guatemala, was once a major Maya population centre.
December 17, 2014
by HNN Editor
What historians have concluded about our long stormy history with Castro's Cuba.
Source: Library of Congress
December 17, 2014
“Saving Private Ryan,” “Luxo Jr.” and “Rosemary’s Baby” Among Film Additions
Source: The Tico Times
December 15, 2014
La Tribuna, a Costa Rican newspaper, captured the surreal situation in an article dated Dec. 11, 1941 trumpeting the speedy construction of a “concentration camp” to be built in San José and designed to hold 400 men of German, Italian or Japanese descent.
Source: The Daily Beast
December 17, 2014
One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.
Source: Smart Politics
December 17, 2014
A Smart Politics analysis finds that the 14 years between Jeb Bush's last electoral victory in 2002 and the presidential election of 2016 is the longest such gap recorded by any victorious presidential candidate in more than 150 years.
Source: NYT
December 16, 2014
Jacob Lawrence’s 60 panels portraying the Great Migration of blacks from the South will be brought together in a show at MoMA next year.
Source: Huffington Post
December 16, 2014
The CIA insists it didn’t torture people. But in defense of its actions, it claimed the right to break the law.
Source: NYT
December 16, 2014
Sweden has asked the United Nations to reopen an investigation to establish whether an aerial attack brought down the secretary general’s plane over a mining town in Africa.
Source: NYT
December 15, 2014
In Paris, an exhibition at the National Archives looks at French people who were genuine supporters of the Nazis during World War II.
