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: Huffington Post
October 23, 2013
Social Security faced the problem of enrolling 26 million people in less than a year in 1935... without computers.
Source: New York Times
October 20, 2013
A group of fourteen nations has sought legal aid against the governments of the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands.
Source: Slate Magazine
October 22, 2013
Slate Magazine features cartoon artists capturing Hollywood films. This week features a cartoonist drawing the tale of Radium Girls, women during World War II who contracted radium poisoning while painting glow-in-the-dark watch dials.
Source: Irish Times
October 22, 2013
Sakharov prize for freedom of thought honours Burmese figure’s battle for democracy.
Source: Associated Press
October 21, 2013
Russell Shorto's engaging history of Amsterdam hits all the highlights.
Source: New York Times
September 21, 2011
New York landmark laws create huge rent disparities in the Belnord.
Source: The Associated Press
September 21, 2013
Budget cuts become so severe the Smithsonian may need to resort to furloughs and museum closings.
Source: BBC News
October 20, 2013
The spread of the Black
Death in the 14th Century reveals our medieval ancestors' social
networks and shows how connected they were.
Source: Huffington Post
October 18, 2013
A former history teacher hopes to use ground-penetrating radar to
uncover a network of Nazi tunnels believed to be beneath Oslo's city
streets.
Source: New York Times
October 16, 2013
Belafonte's collection of King memorabilia lays at the center of the dispute.
Source: New York Times
October 20, 2013
The St. Louis Browns (since 1953, the Baltimore Orioles) still have their fans in the old hometown.
Source: New York Times
October 15, 2013
Pig Point has become a tantalizing window into prehistoric gatherings on the hilltop thousands of years ago.
Source: New York Times
October 21, 2013
Mellerio dits Meller in Paris is celebrating its 400th birthday.
Source: The Independent
10-1813
The skulls probably belong to homo erectus, but that means that the earlier hominid homo habilis may be the same as homo erectus.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
October 18, 2013
The Bull's Head was a haunt of George Washington.
Source: New Yorker
October 17, 2013
Lincoln often poured over a map of slave density by county.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
October 18, 2013
Blame the media.
Source: New York Post
October 21, 2013
And is this headline clickbait? You bet!
Source: BBC News
October 20, 2013
Local church leaders outside of Leipzig have objected to the "glorification" of war.
Source: The Guardian
October 18, 2013
China's secret salvage of Britain's sunken submarine, HMS Poseidon
