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: WMUR
4-22-14
“I don’t know what they think they’re doing. I mean, you need those books to have a sense of the history of your discipline, even if they’re not the latest thing off the press.”
Source: WaPo
4-21-14
The Tokyo shrine and the memorial hall in Nanjing, as Nanking is now called, are physical embodiments of divergent views of history that still strain China-Japan relations, 70 years after the war.
Source: Reuters
4-21-14
In less than two years, disease and attacks from the Spanish Empire had wiped out more than half the 2,800 Scottish settlers, and the colony was abandoned.
Source: Daily Caller
4-21-14
"Hey, hey LBJ, how many death threats did you get today?"
Source: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
4-22-14
"War was romantic. War was colorful flags, spiked helmets and flashing sabers. War was an adventure."
Source: AHA Perspectives
4-21-14
Twitter accounts that distribute historical pictures, called “history pics accounts,” are amassing staggering numbers of followers.
Source: Telegraph
4-17-14
Thousands of hours of historical footage showing major events, celebrities and simple day-to-day life from 1896 until 1976 has been uploaded to YouTube
Source: NYT
4-19-14
Feuds among multiple heirs led to the indictment in a Holocaust restitution case.
Source: NYT
4-20-14
Fifty years ago on April 22, the first fairgoers arrived to see the future. Little did they know, then, how one trip to the fair — or dozens — would affect their own lives.
Source: The Telegraph
4-20-14
Dozens of graphic first-hand accounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade emerge to shed new light on the military blunder immortalised by Tennyson's poem.
Source: HNN
4-18-14
"Who's behind all this?"
Source: WaPo
4-18-14
Nothing to worry about for Hillary in this latest document dump.
Source: Washington Post
4-14-14
“It’s like Christmas morning,” declared dinosaur curator Matt Carrano.
Source: Time Magazine Newsletter
4-17-14
Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga and al-Sisi?
Source: ProPublica
4-16-14
In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened.
Source: Alternet
4-15-14
While the official inquiry has not been published, dogged journalists have published key—and disturbing—details of what is contained in it.
Source: AlterNet
4-6-14
“Younger people don’t care so much about the past or the old stories."
Source: Radio Free Europe
4-17-14
"If you watch Russian TV you will see that Russia has no problems other than the adaptation of Crimea. "
Source: Andrew Sullivan blog
4-16
Journalist Jo Becker's new history of gay marriage is woefully incomplete, says Sullivan.
Source: Hyperallergic
4-17-14
Despite the institutional preservation of its vast archive, PAD/D's history and achievements remain virtually unknown in the art world.
