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: Associated Press
9-22-13
A World War II soldier's
heartfelt letter to his daughter has finally reached her, seven decades
after it was written.
Source: Phys.org
9-23-13
A new evolutionary model predicts when and where complex societies arise in human history.
Source: USA Today
9-21-2013
A contractor finds four significant films thought to be lost, including Their First Misunderstanding featuring Mary Pickford.
Source: The National
9-21-2013
Developers of the September 11 Memorial Museum neglect Little Syria, a nearby New York neighborhood, forcing Arab Americans to fight for their presence in United States' history.
Source: AP
9-21-13
A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation’s east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.
Source: Salon
9-19-13
The novel has been banned after having been assigned as summer reading in a district under fire for school prayer.
Source: The Art Newspaper
9-17-13
Digital history meets the real world.
Source: The Guardian
9-14-13
Woody Guthrie's hometown finally recognizes its native son.
Source: Toronto Star
9-13-13
The pilots were killed in a 1940 training flight.
Source: Los Angeles Times
9-17-13
The 1911 short was found in a decaying barn.
Source: AP
9-18-13
Leary was the guru of LSD.
Source: The Guardian
9-18-13
Foucault one of the most influential physicists of the nineteenth century.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
9-18-13
Source: Scientific American
9-17-13
The ancient town may be Dalmanutha, described in the Gospel of Mark.
Source: The Local (Norway)
9-19-13
The Rwandan-Norwegian man proclaims his surprise and innocence.
Source: The Local (Norway)
9-17-13
The Lendbreen glacier near Lillehammer yields its secrets.
Source: BBC News
9-18-13
The former defector sees parallels between himself and Chelsea Manning.
Source: New York Times
9-19-13
Gregg Hecimovich, English chair at Winthrop University, has discovered the identity of the author of "The Bondwoman's Narrative."
Source: New York Times
9-18-13
G. Wayne Clough will step down in October 2014.
Source: Associated Press
9-17-13
The collection of oral histories is a joint effort by the
Kentucky Distillers' Association and the University of Kentucky's Louie
B. Nunn Center for Oral History.
