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
March 4, 2014
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
March 4, 2014
The hit Broadway play "All the Way" includes some historical inaccuracies.
Source: Reuters
March 4, 2014
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
March 3, 2014
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
March 2, 2014
Indonesian society remains remarkably sanguine about its 1965/1966 genocide.
Source: Associated Press
March 2, 2014
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
February 28, 2014
Mrs. Herz-Sommer was widely described as the oldest known Holocaust survivor.
Source: New York TImes
February 27, 2014
The game is provocatively titled "Shoot the Devils."
Source: New York Times
March 1, 2014
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
February 27, 2014
Thankful villages are those municipalities that didn't lose a single casualty to World War I.
Source: BBC News
February 27, 2014
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
February 27, 2014
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
February 28, 2014
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
February 27, 2014
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
February 26, 2014
This could have been possible if the ruler had sex
about once a day for 32 years.
Source: Phys.org
February 26, 2014
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
February 26, 2014
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
February 26, 2014
America's most notorious prison continues to reveal its secrets.
Source: BBC News
February 26, 2014
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
February 25, 2014
Bryan Cranston is a bit surprised to find himself defending former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
