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: BBC News
3-4-14
A book stored in Cambridge for the last two centuries has been identified as a rare record of early Chinese music.
Source: New York Times
3-4-14
The hit Broadway play "All the Way" includes some historical inaccuracies.
Source: Reuters
3-4-14
The centenary year
of the start of World War I is being marked on the London stage as a
bloodbath that wasted millions of lives and ended in failure, setting
the world on the destructive path for World War II.
Source: CBS News
3-3-14
The U.S. Army has been on the front lines of history for well over two centuries, but in all that time, it has never had a national museum of its own.
Source: New York Times
3-2-14
Indonesian society remains remarkably sanguine about its 1965/1966 genocide.
Source: Associated Press
3-2-14
The long-lost site of the Battle of St. George has been found by a 61-year-old retired state police investigator.
Source: New York Times
2-28-14
Mrs. Herz-Sommer was widely described as the oldest known Holocaust survivor.
Source: New York TImes
2-27-14
The game is provocatively titled "Shoot the Devils."
Source: New York Times
3-1-14
The National Archives will make public on Friday afternoon a trove of
secret documents detailing the inner workings of Bill Clinton’s White
House.
Source: BBC News
2-27-14
Thankful villages are those municipalities that didn't lose a single casualty to World War I.
Source: BBC News
2-27-14
Israel's embassy in Japan
has donated more than 300 Anne Frank-related books to public libraries
in Tokyo, after many were found vandalised.
Source: BBC News
2-27-14
An MI5 agent pretending
to have Gestapo links secretly controlled a vast network of UK-based
Nazi sympathisers, newly-released files reveal.
Source: BBC News
2-28-14
Japan will form a team to
review the lead-up to a 1993 statement which acknowledged its wartime
use of sex slaves, its top spokesman says.
Source: Politico
2-27-14
The Clinton Presidential Library "will make its first release on Friday of records that were previously withheld from the public under legal provisions that expired early last year."
Source: LiveScience
2-26-14
This could have been possible if the ruler had sex
about once a day for 32 years.
Source: Phys.org
2-26-14
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that an abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon affected northwest India 4,100 years ago.
Source: LiveScience
2-26-14
An ancient Roman gladiator school has been discovered in Austria, complete with cell blocks, a training arena and a bath complex, archaeologists say.
Source: BBC News
2-26-14
America's most notorious prison continues to reveal its secrets.
Source: BBC News
2-26-14
Japan hopes to immortalise its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men
who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in World War Two - by
seeking Unesco World Heritage status for a collection of their letters.
Source: Wall Street Journal
2-25-14
Bryan Cranston is a bit surprised to find himself defending former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
