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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: Science Daily
April 26, 2006
What the experts were able to ascertain from their brief encounter with Kennewick is that he did not look like a Native American. In fact, Dr. Hugh Berryman says Kennewick’s facial features are most similar to those of a Japanese group called the Ainu, who have a different physical makeup and cultural background from the ethnic Japanese.
Some Ainu’s facial features appear European. Their eyes may lack the Asian almond-shaped appearance, and their hair may be light and curly in color
Source: Guardian
April 24, 2006
Deep in the dark heart of a passage grave on Anglesey, archaeologists have discovered a decorated slab carved 4,500 years ago for the dead and their guardians, missed when the tomb was originally excavated over half a century ago.
The newly revealed carving at Barclodiad y Gawres, a chevron design pecked into the rock with a stone chisel, brings to six the number of decorated slabs with lozenges, cupmarks, concentric circles and spirals in a tomb already regarded as one of the most specta
Source: Press Release -- NYU's BRADEMAS CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CONGRESS
April 26, 2006
With 33 members of Congress announcing by April of 2006 that they will not seek re-election at the end of this term of office, New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress is launching an unprecedented exit interviews project entitled “The Reflections Project: Retiring Members of Congress Assess the Institution.” Starting in the closing months of this term and in subsequent terms, the Reflections Project will create the nation’s most extensive rep
Source: The Washington Post
April 26, 2006
The Society of American Historians, a group that promotes excellence in historical writing, has suspended Smithsonian Books from its ranks in protest over the Smithsonian Institution's "increasingly commercial approach to its mission."
The suspension itself will have little impact, but it is the latest symptom of friction between the Smithsonian's top managers and many of the nation's scholars.
The latest criticism follows a month of public debate over partner
Source: NYT
April 25, 2006
TRIER, Germany: Karl Marx's birthplace is a stately three-story house that has been a fixture of this ancient town on the Mosel River since it was built in 1727. What is changing are the large groups that visit almost every day from China, one of the few countries in the world still under the control of something calling itself a Communist Party.
Chinese tourists have started to become common in Europe as China has become richer and tourist agencies have sprung into action. Trier is
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
April 25, 2006
A top official at the National Archives and Records Administration said on Monday that the main purpose of the organization's controversial deal with the CIA was to make sure agents did not mishandle documents as they reviewed them for possible reclassification.
Last week the National Archives acknowledged that, soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it struck a secret, classified agreement with the Central Intelligence Agency spelling out how the two federal agenc
Source: WLOX
April 25, 2006
These are the graves of the men who fought under the confederacy during the Civil War, risking their lives for each state to be able to govern itself.
And these are the veterans hundreds of people, which included many of their descendants, honored Saturday afternoon.
"Well over a million Americans were casualties of that conflict. The South was totally destroyed in the process. Just as the ideals and virtues, families and fortunes were laid upon the altar of indepe
Source: Clarion Ledger
April 25, 2006
The former home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina, should be rebuilt as quickly as possible, say many Civil War buffs as well as officials at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
But civil rights groups and at least one congressional budget hawk decry congressional plans to provide money for rebuilding Beauvoir, the majestic house in Biloxi built in the 1850s that served as Davis' retirement home after the Civil War. Damage to th
Source: Yahoo
April 24, 2006
A team of scientists from Tennessee, including experts from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are looking at the mystery of the sinking of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.
The group, which also includes scientists from the University of Tennessee and the Y12 National Security Complex, was here Monday examining the sub.
The visit is the result of the university's relationship with best-selling crime author Patrici
Source: Columbus Dispatch
April 25, 2006
Are the footprints of surprisingly ancient Americans preserved in 40,000-year-old volcanic ash in southern Mexico? In December, an article in the journal Science cast a cloud of doubt over that claim.
The authors, Michael Waters and Paul Renne, argue that the ash dated to 1.3 million years ago, much too old for humans on this continent, and that the so-called footprints were nothing more than marks made by the tools of modern workers quarrying the stone with crowbars.
Source: fredericknewspost.com
April 25, 2006
Chance Enterprises is a long way from No Casino Gettysburg. Instead of a phone, laptop and fax machine in the living room of a rustic farmhouse, Chance Enterprises has lined up a collegiate economic study, public relations executives, lawyers, architects and the backing of financial giant Morgan Stanley.
Chance Enterprises is the parent company of Crossroads Gaming Resort and Spa. Crossroads is a proposed $300 million, 3,000-slot casino at the U.S. 15-U.S. 30 intersection at Gettysb
Source: Star-Telegram (Texas)
April 23, 2006
Wayne Pricer's funeral should be quite a spectacle.
When the chariot swings low and it's time for him to go, Pricer has instructed his wife, Scarlet, to drape the casket with a rebel flag and bury him in his gray Confederate soldier's uniform.
At his grave, a boombox will strike up Dixie.
"I'm a Southerner," Price proudly -- almost fiercely -- declared.
Source: psychiatryonline.org
April 21, 2006
Younger soldiers who served in the U.S. Civil War and those who saw more of their comrades die were at greater risk for heart, stomach, and nervous illnesses decades after the war, reveals a study of individual and unit records of more than 15,000 veterans.
Parallels with earlier wars and soldiers may offer insight into the aftereffects of contemporary combat, co-author Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California,
Source: Wa Po
April 24, 2006
PATERSON, N.J. -- Situated in the heart of one of the Garden State's grittiest cities, the Great Falls National Historic Landmark District embodies an odd mix of industrial decay and roaring natural beauty. Water rushes down 70-foot cliffs into the polluted Passaic River below, just yards away from a shuttered red-brick plant with streaked, aging windows.
One of America's founding fathers once believed Paterson would be the model of how Americans could build a manufacturing center t
Source: Wa Po
April 25, 2006
For emotional wallop, there are few rivals to the windswept, grassy field outside of Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.
But for three years, that field has made do with a makeshift monument while one member of Congress, Rep. Charles H. Taylor (R-N.C.), has blocked a $10 million request to buy the land for a permanent memorial to the 40 passengers and crew members who overpowered hijackers bent on crashing their jet into the Capitol or the Wh
Source: LA Times
April 25, 2006
A lawsuit questions how Massachusetts schools portray the Armenian tragedy. But for victims on the 91st anniversary, there can be no doubt.She was only 3 when her family fled their Turkish homeland 91 years ago. Alice Shnorhokian and her brother were too small to walk the long road to safety in the Syrian desert, so their parents strapped them in boxes on the sides of a donkey that carried the family possessions.
On the eve of what came to be called the Armenian
Source: Jewish United Fund
April 25, 2006
Poland has long wanted its name not to be used in reference to concentration camps that existed on Polish soil during World War II. Now Poland has made an official request to change Auschwitz's name -- to mixed reviews. The Polish government made the request last month to change the name of the site from ``Auschwitz Death Camp" to ``former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp" to UNESCO, the U.N. cultural organization since the site of the death camp is a U.N.
Source: News Release -- Society of American Historians
April 25, 2006
On April 25, 2006, the Society of American Historians, Inc. passed the following resolution suspending Smithsonian Books as a publisher-member of the SAH:
The SAH has noted with mounting concern the Smithsonian Institution’s increasingly commercial approach to its mission.
Earlier this year Smithsonian Books withdrew from publication hundreds of works of history or transferred publication rights to trade presses, often with no consultation with the authors.
Now S
Source: NYT
April 25, 2006
Native Canadian protests spread across southern Ontario on Friday over a land dispute dating back to the Revolution, with Mohawks stopping at least a dozen freight trains and interrupting passenger train service between Montreal and Toronto.
There were no reported arrests or injuries. The demonstrations began at the end of February, when Mohawks of the Six Nations, a confederacy of Native groups, occupied a road outside Caledonia, an Ontario farming
Source: New-York Historical Society
April 25, 2006
The SteepleChase Films production The New-York Historical Society: A Celebrationcan now be viewed at the New-York Historical Society's new Media Center. This compelling and visually engaging production is a tribute to the first 200 years of the New-York Historical Society as well as a look toward the future and the Society's continued importance and relevance as one of the premier cultural and educational resources in the nation. Directed by renowned documentary
