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: George Mason University's Center for History and New Media
April 17, 2014
Mallhistory.org offers 4 major sections to help visitors learn more about their National Mall.
Source: NYT
April 1, 2014
“Every time I see the structure, it makes me think about the ovens.”
Source: Legal History Blog
April 15, 2014
by Dan Ernst
Long secret historic dockets reveal how justices voted in various cases.
Source: CBS
April 14, 2014
Only blacks think he's black.
Source: UPI
April 14, 2014
The "Megiachile gentiles" specimen -- a species of bee still alive today -- was first excavated from Los Angeles' La Brea tar pits in the 1970s.
Source: Yahoo News
April 5, 2014
Conservative politicians in Australia have ordered a review of a new national curriculum they say imposes political correctness on shared historical events, such as the battle for Gallipoli.
Source: The Guardian
April 13, 2014
As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC.
Source: US National Library of Medicine
April 14, 2014
Key journals charting the development of modern medicine over the last 150 years will be digitized in their entirety .
Source: BBC
April 9, 2014
More than 150 files are being made available in the digitised release.
Source: NYT
April 10, 2014
The test results do not prove that Jesus had a wife, only that the fragment of papyrus with the phrase, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife,’” is likely not a forgery.
Source: NYT
April 8, 2014
“It is all here: the story of our time — with the bark off."--LBJ
Source: Talking Points Memo
April 9, 2014
DeMint dismisses the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to argue that the Constitution just ultimately led the country in the right direction.
Source: NYT
April 8, 2014
The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act is a painful reminder to President Obama that Lyndon B. Johnson might have been the last president able to push through such sweeping legislation.
Source: NYT
April 7, 2014
The German government on Monday announced an agreement with Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer, that would pave the way for the possible restitution of art wrongfully taken from Jewish owners and held in his private collection for decades.
Source: The Kansas City Star
April 7, 2014
The papers of A.B. Nichols, inaccessible for more than 80 years, are now part of a series of remembrances that will begin with an exhibit opening tonight at the library and culminate in October with a visit by historian David McCullough, author of a book about the canal.
Source: Google
April 7, 2014
41 or 43?
Source: Newsmax
April 7, 2014
Bush's breaking of his tax pledge is now seen as a plus by acolytes.
Source: Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
April 7, 2014
"We found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force."
Source: The Star Press
April 1, 2014
The auction took less than 30 minutes to dispense with a pair of items that had been in the Society's care for 81 years in the case of "The Birds of North America" and 63 years in the case of "Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America."
Source: National Post
April 6, 2014
“The Sikh history is not in the hands of Sikhs, it’s in private collections in the U.K.” said Mr. Dillion, who is bent on lending the artifact to any Canadian or Indian school or museum that wishes to exhibit it.
