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: Cleveland Plain Dealer
October 28, 2013
The bombing killed 241 American servicemen and wounded another 128.
Source: The Daily Mail
October 26, 2013
Bruce Jackson documented the South's prison camps, direct descendants of nineteenth-century slave plantations.
Source: Toronto Star
October 22, 2013
Virginian veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force have their names inscribed at the Virginia War Memorial.
Source: National Public Radio
October 26, 2013
That Southeast Asian classic actually has a history in Europe.
Source: Associated Press
October 27, 2013
The Velvet Underground frontman died Sunday at 71.
Source: New York Times
October 25, 2013
The Hoboken Historical Museum is collecting oral histories of Hurricane Sandy's effect on the city.
Source: New York Times
October 26, 2013
Ms. Broz was a glamorous symbol of Yugoslav unity.
Source: The Guardian
October 28, 2013
Proceeds from manuscripts, letters and diaries – including notes for The Female Eunuch – to go to rainforest rehabilitation.
October 28, 2013
by David Austin Walsh
Historian Andrew J. Bacevich calls out the Times for using "faked" footage.
Source: CBS Face the Nation
October 27, 2013
Former New York Times reporter Philip Shenon on how much the FBI and CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination.
Source: CBS
October 25, 2013
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro actually submitted to questioning by the Warren Commission following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, a new book reveals.
Source: Mother Jones
October 23, 2013
Among the other speakers were Al Benson, former head of the Southern Independence Party and the author of a book claiming Lincoln was a Marxist.
Source: Huffington Post
October 22, 2013
A handy map that will teach you Middle East diplomacy in two-and-a-half minutes.
Source: Chicagoist
October 24, 2013
Email historybowl@chicagohistory.org with your suggestions.
Source: PennLive
October 24, 2013
A P-51 Mustang crashed into the ocean near Galveston.
Source: BBC News
October 23, 2013
The secret UK manual on how to be a resistance fighter will be hitting the auction block.
Source: New York Times
October 23, 2013
Climate change-triggered drought may be the culprit.
Source: Al Jazeera America
October 23, 2013
“This is going to make a powerful statement, I think, not only to the state but to the country."
Source: New York TImes
October 24, 2013
EC’s glory (and gory) years were 1950-1955.
Source: New York Times
October 24, 2013
“We thrived here."
