Breaking News

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.

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• SOURCE: WMUR
  4-22-14
  

  New Hampshire professors at odds with library over discarded books

  “I don’t know what they think they’re doing. I mean, you need those books to have a sense of the history of your discipline, even if they’re not the latest thing off the press.”

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  4-21-14
  

  Troubled history fuels Japan-China tension

  The Tokyo shrine and the memorial hall in Nanjing, as Nanking is now called, are physical embodiments of divergent views of history that still strain China-Japan relations, 70 years after the war. 

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  4-21-14
  

  Independent Scotland's last gasp forgotten in Panama jungle

   In less than two years, disease and attacks from the Spanish Empire had wiped out more than half the 2,800 Scottish settlers, and the colony was abandoned.

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• SOURCE: Daily Caller
  4-21-14
  

  LBJ was the ‘most-threatened president in American history’

  "Hey, hey LBJ, how many death threats did you get today?"

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• SOURCE: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
  4-22-14
  

  New exhibit at the World War I Museum ... Over by Christmas: August-December 1914

  "War was romantic. War was colorful flags, spiked helmets and flashing sabers. War was an adventure."

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  4-21-14
  

  Twitter's discovered history

  Twitter accounts that distribute historical pictures, called “history pics accounts,” are amassing staggering numbers of followers.

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• SOURCE: Telegraph
  4-17-14
  

  British Pathe uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube

  Thousands of hours of historical footage showing major events, celebrities and simple day-to-day life from 1896 until 1976 has been uploaded to YouTube

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-19-14
  

  Legal Twist in Bid to Reclaim Nazi-Looted Hospital

  Feuds among multiple heirs led to the indictment in a Holocaust restitution case.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-20-14
  

  1964 NY World's Fair -- It's Been 50 Years!

  Fifty years ago on April 22, the first fairgoers arrived to see the future. Little did they know, then, how one trip to the fair — or dozens — would affect their own lives.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  4-20-14
  

  New accounts emerge of Charge of the Light Brigade

  Dozens of graphic first-hand accounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade emerge to shed new light on the military blunder immortalised by Tennyson's poem.

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• SOURCE: HNN
  4-18-14
  

  1995 Clinton right-wing conspiracy memo released

  "Who's behind all this?"

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  4-18-14
  

  The most interesting tidbits from the Clinton document dump

  Nothing to worry about for Hillary in this latest document dump.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4-14-14
  

  T. rex fossils arrive at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

  “It’s like Christmas morning,” declared dinosaur curator Matt Carrano.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine Newsletter
  4-17-14
  

  Quote of the Day -- Time Magazine's Top 100 People

  Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga and al-Sisi?

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  4-16-14
  

  Investigation: The Resegregation of America's Schools

  In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened.

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• SOURCE: Alternet
  4-15-14
  

  5 Explosive Revelations Leaked from Senate Report Exposing CIA Torture

  While the official inquiry has not been published, dogged journalists have published key—and disturbing—details of what is contained in it.

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• SOURCE: AlterNet
  4-6-14
  

  In Parts of the South, Glorifying Slavery No Longer Pays the Bills

  “Younger people don’t care so much about the past or the old stories."

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  4-17-14
  

  Russian history professor says Russians are being manipulated by propaganda

  "If you watch Russian TV you will see that Russia has no problems other than the adaptation of Crimea. "

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• SOURCE: Andrew Sullivan blog
  4-16
  

  Andrew Sullivan assails new history of marriage equality movement

  Journalist Jo Becker's new history of gay marriage is woefully incomplete, says Sullivan.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  4-17-14
  

  Art in the 1980s: The Forgotten History of PAD/D

  Despite the institutional preservation of its vast archive, PAD/D's history and achievements remain virtually unknown in the art world.