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: National Coalition for History
12-23-09
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The Coalition is supported largely by the voluntary contributions of over
Source: http://www.examiner.com
12-28-09
Right now, America is experiencing a combination of economic conditions it has never seen before, and quite frankly, no one really knows exactly how this story is going to end.
While there are some who are oblivious to the new economy around them, those more directly effected believe that this is no ordinary recession. In some areas of the country, record unemployment has brought entire communities to their knees with images that make the Great Depression look like a picnic. Some es
Source: http://newsok.com
12-29-09
Historian, author and journalist Stanley Hoig died Saturday. He was 85.
Hoig was a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame and the Edmond Hall of Fame.
He wrote extensively about Western history, American Indian relations and the city of Edmond. His work has been recognized with many awards. This year, his book "The Chouteaus” was named a finalist in the nonfiction category of the Oklahoma Book Awards.
Hoig
Source: AHA
12-29-09
15-Session Miniconference,
"Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage,"
Will be Highlight of American Historical Association Annual Meeting in San Diego January 7-10, 2010
"Marriage is so far from having been an institution, fixed by permanent and unalterable laws, that it has been continually varying in every period, and in every country."
- 18th Century author William Alexander
(Washington, DC – December 28, 2010) A
Source: NYT
12-26-09
ALBANY — Henry Hudson bobblehead? Check.
One-legged Peter Stuyvesant statuette? Yes.
A mirror emblazoned with the logo of New Amsterdam beer? Absolutely.
These are office knickknacks that only a true connoisseur of Dutch Americana could love. And there surely is no one who loves Dutch Americana more than Charles T. Gehring.
How else to describe a man who has spent the past 35 years painstakingly translating 17th-century records that provide gro
Source: David Walsh, Assistant Editor of HNN
12-24-09
January is almost upon us, and it is time again for the American Historical Association’s annual meeting. The 2010 convention, themed “Oceans, Islands, Continents,” will take place in San Diego from January 7-10.
Protests by numerous history departments over the prominent support given to California’s Proposition 8 by the owner of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, one of the hotels where the meeting is to be headquartered, have prompted the AHA to sponsor a working group for “Historical
Source: Huffington Post
12-21-09
Gordon Wood, the wonderfully plain-spoken Pulitzer and Bancroft prize historian at Brown, thinks that Thomas Jefferson would find Barack Obama obnoxiously, over-reachingly Hamiltonian... and that Alexander Hamilton would likewise dismiss Obama as a Jefferson dreamer.
Empire of Liberty is the title of Gordon Wood's magisterial new history of the early American republic, 1789 to 1815: boom and transformation on our shores, the rise and fall of Napoleon in the wider world. "Empire
Source: http://www.radiotelecomando.org
12-22-09
As far as job titles go, ‘Historian of the Future’ is an absolutely doozy. However, as one of the leading practitioners of this fascinating trade, Dr James Bellini, can testify, the description can lead to a few misunderstandings: he is most definitely not, for instance, a magician.
“Let me be clear: I don’t have a cloak, a pointy hat and a magic wand,” Bellini jokes – and he absolutely can’t tell you who’s going to win the 3.30 at Ascot. What he can do, however, is draw upon a care
Source: Secrecy News
12-22-09
The U.S. State Department’s official Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series had another disappointing year in 2009 with only two softcopy volumes published to date, including one released last week on “Global Issues, 1973-1976.”The FRUS series is supposed to provide “comprehensive documentation of the major foreign policy decisions and actio
Source: MWC News
12-20-09
Early on Friday the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign that hung over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp, was stolen.
Commenting to the BBC on the theft of the Auschwitz sign, Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Director of the International Jewish Affairs of the rabid Zionist American Jewish Committee maintained that there should be no replicas to substitute the entrance monument. “There can be no copies or reproductions; visitors must see only what was real. I
Source: Palestine Herald
12-15-09
Some of Houston County’s history is gone now with the passing of former Houston County Historical Commission Chairman Eliza Bishop. She was 89.
For years Bishop was the face of historical research inside the county, as she was tireless in her efforts to document the area’s deep roots.
“All of Houston County is saddened by the death of Miss Eliza Bishop,” Houston County Judge Lonnie Hunt said. “We lost a true Texas treasure. In the past 89 years no other person has done
Source: Victoria Bynum at the Renegade South blog
12-10-09
Professor Stauffer is angry at me; I mean really angry. He’s furious that I don’t think more highly of his and Sally Jenkins’s book, State of Jones, but especially that I have the temerity to publicly say so. To get it all off his chest, he just let off more steam on page 2 of the December 10th issue of the Jones County ReView.Why, he
Source: Cynthia L. Haven in the Stanford News
12-17-09
The road back to Paris was paved with letters. Lots of them. The author of Candide wrote about 15,000 during his 83-year life, many from his base in Ferney, near the Swiss border.Voltaire's life was superbly successful – but it was a life with sorrows, too. Voltaire’s famously acerbic tongue caused his banishment on more than one occasion."His whole life, in a way, was an effort to get back to Paris," said Dan Edelstein, assistant professor of French. The French Enlightenm
Source: Juan Cole iPhone App
12-19-09
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Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
12-18-09
What was expected to be a non-controversial committee markup of legislation (S. 2872) to reauthorize the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) resulted instead in the elimination of a proposed significant increase in the Commission’s spending level over the next five years.
As introduced by Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE), S. 2872 would have increased the NHPRC’s authorized spending level by $500,000 each year beginning at $13 million in fiscal year (FY) 2010
Source: Jamie Glazov interview with Victor Davis Hanson at Frontpagemag.com
12-31-69
(Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and is the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz’s Left Illusions. His new book is United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. Email him at jglazov@rogers.com.)
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
12-14-09
Funding for the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching American History (TAH) program would remain at $119 million under the fiscal year 2010 omnibus spending bill passed by Congress on December 13. Funding for the program has remained relatively constant since FY 2004, fluctuating annually between $120 million and $118 million.
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission’s (NHPRC) budget would increase from the current fiscal year’s $11.25 million to $1
Source: The Hill
12-31-69
In his book The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, historian Thomas Fleming examines the personal lives of six familiar names in history: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Fleming examines how their relationships with their wives and families affected their roles in founding the country. Fleming, an author of numerous books, spoke to The Hill about his latest tome:
How did you pick these six men to profile?
Source: CBC News
11-12-09
A group of historians in Thamesville, Ont., say they'll need $1.5 million to upgrade a memorial for a native American chief who played a key role in the War of 1812.
Chief Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief from Ohio who allied with the British to help capture Detroit in August 1812. He was killed a year later, in the Battle of the Thames, in Thamesville, a community 24 kilometres northeast of Chatham.
His life story is described briefly on a plaque on the current monument.
Source: TPM (Liberal blog)
12-15-09
The celebrated historian John Hope Franklin was scrutinized by the FBI in the 1960s for supposed links to communists, particularly his opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and his vocal support for W.E.B. Du Bois."Dr. Franklin is an apologist for the late Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, a prominent crusader for civil rights and a sponsor of communist fronts who joined the Communist Party at the age of 93,"
