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
September 22, 2013
A World War II soldier's
heartfelt letter to his daughter has finally reached her, seven decades
after it was written.
Source: Phys.org
September 23, 2013
A new evolutionary model predicts when and where complex societies arise in human history.
Source: USA Today
September 21, 2013
A contractor finds four significant films thought to be lost, including Their First Misunderstanding featuring Mary Pickford.
Source: The National
September 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
September 21, 2013
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
September 19, 2013
The novel has been banned after having been assigned as summer reading in a district under fire for school prayer.
Source: The Art Newspaper
September 17, 2013
Digital history meets the real world.
Source: The Guardian
September 14, 2013
Woody Guthrie's hometown finally recognizes its native son.
Source: Toronto Star
September 13, 2013
The pilots were killed in a 1940 training flight.
Source: Los Angeles Times
September 17, 2013
The 1911 short was found in a decaying barn.
Source: AP
September 18, 2013
Leary was the guru of LSD.
Source: The Guardian
September 18, 2013
Foucault one of the most influential physicists of the nineteenth century.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
September 18, 2013
Source: Scientific American
September 17, 2013
The ancient town may be Dalmanutha, described in the Gospel of Mark.
Source: The Local (Norway)
September 19, 2013
The Rwandan-Norwegian man proclaims his surprise and innocence.
Source: The Local (Norway)
September 17, 2013
The Lendbreen glacier near Lillehammer yields its secrets.
Source: BBC News
September 18, 2013
The former defector sees parallels between himself and Chelsea Manning.
Source: New York Times
September 19, 2013
Gregg Hecimovich, English chair at Winthrop University, has discovered the identity of the author of "The Bondwoman's Narrative."
Source: New York Times
September 18, 2013
G. Wayne Clough will step down in October 2014.
Source: Associated Press
September 17, 2013
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.
