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: The Portugal News Online
11-28-09
There is still much to tell about Portugal’s role during World War II, says noted British historian Antony Beevor, whose father served London as a spy in Lisbon during the conflict, provoking the ire of Portuguese dictator António Oliveira Salazar.
Antony Beevor, whose latest book, “D Day: The Battle for Normandy”, was released in a Portuguese translation earlier this month, told the Lusa News Agency this week that his curiosity about Portugal’s role - especially the part played by
Source: France 24
11-26-09
Historian and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco publishes "Retour sur la question juive" (Back to the ‘Jewish Question’), an inquiry into anti-Semitism, anti-Judaism, and Zionism’s supporters and opponents.
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Source: The Jerusalem Post (via OpEdNews)
11-25-09
A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry.
Sir Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, told The Independent newspaper this week that the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian and Winston Churchill biographer, and Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies and vice-principal of King's College London, would be seen as &
Source: Resource Shelf
11-28-09
Budding historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash boost from JISC.
The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, and King’s College London, will create an innovative search engine for a wide range of electronic resources relating to early modern and
Source: North Jersey
11-26-09
Four-hundred years ago, Henry Hudson set sail from Europe in an attempt to discover a new route to Asia by heading east. His mission was not successful, but he traveled along what has become the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.
River Edge resident and local historian Kevin Wright explores the quadricentennial of Hudson's voyage in his new book, "1609: A Country That Was Never Lost: 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson's Visit with North Americans of the Middle Atlanti
Source: The Herald Scotland
11-26-09
TELEVISION historian Neil Oliver has been likened to a “pygmy on a giant’s territory” by a leading academic as the bitter row over the BBC’s flagship A History of Scotland series intensifies.
Jenny Wormald, honorary fellow in Scottish History at Edinburgh University, has joined the debate about the authenticity and quality of the series while revealing she left her role as advisor to the programme after just two meetings.
She also condemned recent comments by Mr
Source: NYT
11-24-09
Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply don’t hold up: there was no sudden expulsion of all Jews from Jerusalem in A.D. 70, for instance. What’s more, modern Jews owe their ancestry as much to converts from the first millennium and early Middle Ages as to the Jews of antiquity.
Other theories, like the notion that many of today’s Palestinians can legitimately claim to be descended from t
Source: ABC News
11-25-09
Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his home state became ensnared in a bloody confrontation over integration.
More than 1,200 miles and a cultural universe away from the land of cotton, the white freshman found himself answering questions about the violent resistance to James Meredith's court-ordered admission as the first black student at the University of Mississippi.
"I was r
Source: National Geographic
11-25-09
Recent reports have held up a remote Brazilian town—filled with blonde, blue-eyed twins—as evidence of Mengele's postwar attempts to add to the ranks of an Aryan "master race."
But research announced today says Cândido Godói's "Nazi twins" are nothing more than a myth.
The outback town of about 7,000 has a twin rate nearly 1,000 percent higher than the global average.
The twins' fair features are no mystery—Cândido Godói (map) is largel
Source: Edmonton Sun
11-25-09
The city is touting a newly created post as history in the making.
Council yesterday approved plans to hire a historian laureate to chronicle the city's past, present and future, making Edmonton the first Canadian city to create such a role.
The city will now search for a candidate, with a historian's background, to fill the two-year position, which includes a $5,000 annual honorarium.
Michael Payne, the city's archivist, said as the first historian laurea
Source: The Journal (UK)
11-25-09
An Edinburgh historian has put together the first roll of honour to list all those from Ireland who died during the Second World War.
The list, which was compiled by Yvonne McEwen of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, includes the names of 9,100 Irish men and women who died in active service.
Ms McEwen, who presented the list to the Irish parliament, said: "We covered over 200 corps of the British Army alone.
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Source: Foster's Daily Democrat
11-24-09
DURHAM — In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 "Free Negros" in South Carolina and possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites — who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot — of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British.
In the new book The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty (Yale University Press, 2009), J
Source: Frontpage
11-24-09
Every once in a while, you come across a great book whose premise seems so obvious that you think, “Why hasn’t anyone done this before?” People have talked all around this topic, or dealt with it in pieces, but why hasn’t there been a serious book-length treatment of this-or-that much discussed subject?
Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism fit that bill. Now comes historian Thomas Fleming’s The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, which will no doubt have other historians saying, “
Source: AHA Blog
11-24-09
See below for the winners of the 2009 AHA Election. These individuals will begin their terms of office following the 124th Annual Meeting in San Diego.
President
Barbara Metcalf (Univ. of California at Davis, emerita)
President-elect
Anthony Grafton (Princeton Univ.)
Vice-President, Teaching Division
Patricia Nelson Limerick (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)
Councilor Profession
Laura Isabel Serna (Florida State Univ.)
Source: Globe Investor
11-23-09
There's nothing like a long-running equity rally, a return to something resembling normalcy in the credit world and fresh signs of economic recovery to lift the gloom of a dreary late November day.
Sure, there are still occasional rough waters. Take last week, when weaker than expected U.S. housing stats, a downbeat profit report, downgrades in tech land and yet another warning from an inflation-fearing central banker reminded jittery investors it's not only free-spending government
Source: Arthur Herman in the WSJ
11-19-09
'There is the East, there is India and China," said Missouri Sen. Thomas Hart Benton in the Senate chamber in 1855—as he pointed over his shoulder due west.
Both the statement and the paradoxical gesture neatly sum up the argument of "Dominion From Sea to Sea." Bruce Cumings traces American history along its inexorable drive westward, not merely to California and the limits of the continent's frontier but all the way to the Pacific Rim. He argues that such westward ou
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
11-22-09
In his essay"Hate Radio," Jeffrey Herf, a professor of modern European and German history at the University of Maryland at College Park and author of Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009), argues that collaboration between Arab political leaders and Nazi officials during World War II decisively influenced the development of radical Islam."The toxic mixture of religious and secular themes forged in Nazi-era Berlin, and disseminated to the Middle East, continues to shape
Source: Brooklyn College
11-23-09
The Harvard University scholar chosen to coauthor the latest revision of John Hope Franklin's seminal text, "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans," told an audience of educators gathered to honor the former chair of the Brooklyn College history department (the first black scholar to head a history department at a predominantly white U.S. college) that there will be much new material in the ninth edition of his work when it is published in January.
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Source: The Chronicle Herald
11-22-09
For many years the acknowledged expert on the reactions of modern infantrymen in battle was the American writer S.L.A. Marshall, based on his classic 1947 book, Men Against Fire. In this slim volume, Marshall maintained — on the basis of supposedly numerous and extensive mass interviews conducted immediately after battle — that most American soldiers in the Second World War did not return enemy fire. Most of them (75 to 85 per cent) did not even fire their weapons at all; a trait assigned by ex
Source: Tallahassee.com
11-22-09
Tallahassee's most historic site reaches another milestone Dec. 13 when Mission San Luis opens its new visitor center. The Spanish-styled, 24,000-square-foot facility provides a modern introduction to the ancient village of Spanish settlers and Apalachee Indians.
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But the man who's arguably done the most to tell the mission's story will miss the debut: John Hann died Nov. 7 after a year-long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Hann, 86, was the lead
