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Source: Eye of Dubai
11-22-09
ABU DHABI– “From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates” will be published in its fourth language, German – the native tongue of author Dr Frauke Heard-Bey, a historian who documented at first-hand the country’s creation.
Heard-Bey, who has witnessed huge changes in her four decades as an Abu Dhabi resident, has seen her book become a valuable resource for students of Arabian Gulf history since it was first published in English in 1982 by Longman in London.
It is now in
Source: Times of Malta
11-21-09
A Vatican researcher rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
Experts said the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
Barbara Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, said in a new book that she used computer-enhanced images of the shroud to decipher faintly written words in Gr
Source: APP
11-20-09
MANTOLOKING — Robert Jahn, a writer and local historian whose work helped inspire a generation to preserve Barnegat Bay, died this week at age 62 after a battle with lung cancer.
Jahn was the author of "Down Barnegat Bay: A Nor'easter Midnight Reader," a popular cultural history of the bay that spanned prehistoric Indian times, shipwrecks and lifesaving, and the beginnings of Ocean County's tourism industry. First published in 1980, and updated and reissued in 2000, the bo
Source: Indian Express
11-21-09
Describing India as a fascinating federal system, Dr. Gordon Johnson, president, Wolfson College, Cambridge and the deputy vice–chancellor of the University gave an insightful peek into Indian history on Thursday.
Johnson was speaking on The Study of India: Half a century of intellectual enquiry and Universities and Society at Pune University. The talk was organised to mark 425 years and 800 years of the Cambridge University Press and University of Cambridge respectively.
Source: USA Today
11-20-09
Da Vinci Code fans may thrill to dark conspiracies surrounding the secret history of early Christianity, but how many know about the real scholarly debate surrounding the young church? Even without a sleuthing Harvard "symboligist" involved, scholars have found plenty of intrigue in how early Christianity grew.
"How did the Mediterranean world become predominantly Christian?" asks historian Adam Schor of Long Island University, in Brookville, N.Y., in the current
Source: Central Florida Future
11-20-09
"Most Americans do not know slavery not only exists in the world today, it flourishes," said Ron Soodalter, co-author of The Slave Next Door, in his presentation in the Pegasus Ballroom Monday morning.
"Somewhere around 27 million people are in bondage in the world today. Now, that's over twice the number as were trafficked in chains in the entire 350 years of the African slave trade."
Soodalter, an active abolitionist and historian, kicked off Inter
Source: Harvard University Institute of Politics
11-12-09
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Source: PR&D - Public Relations für Forschung & Bildung
11-20-09
Berne - 20 November, 2009 - An appeal to encourage education, training and research, and the recognition for the activity carried out by the International Balzan Foundation in this area were the themes addressed by the Vice President of the Federal Council and Head of the Federal Department for Economic Affairs, Doris Leuthard, on the occasion of the awards ceremony for the 2009 Balzan Prizes, which took place today in Berne in the Federal Council Hall.
The 2009 Balzan Prizes were a
Source: CBC News
11-20-09
Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean presented awards on Friday to seven Canadian history teachers as well as to actor Paul Gross and to writer Ian McKay for their efforts in promoting Canadian history.
The annual Governor General's Awards for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History was held at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
The ceremony honoured teachers who made learning history fun for students by incorporating film, dramatic re-creations, and comic books into their lesson plans...
Source: STV
11-18-09
A Drumchapel historian who used to play as a youngster in the ruins of Garscadden before it was demolished in 1927 is appealing for anyone who has memories of the 'lost village' to contact him.
The 19th century mining locale - which once boasted a school, a shop and its own church - was the proud home a thriving community of 650 people, with as many as 14 crammed into one home.
The location of the former mining village now hosts a council refuse depot. Eric Flack is a l
Source: The Bulletin (Emporia State University)
11-19-09
Children’s book historian Leonard Marcus presented his lecture, “A New Deal for the Nursery: Golden Books and the Democratization of American Children’s Book Publishing,” yesterday as a part of the Jones Distinguished Lecture series. The lecture was sponsored by the Jones Institute for Educational Excellence and the Emporia State Archives.
“It was interesting to hear the history behind Golden Books,” said Courtney Cohen, elementary education major said. “It’s just interesting to hea
Source: North Jersey
11-19-09
Park Ridge - The Pascack Historical Society will host guest speaker Kevin Wright, a noted historian and author, whose talk is titled, "1609 – A Country That Was Never Lost," on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.
Wright is past president of the Bergen County Historical Society and his presentation coincides with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage and the release of Wright's new book, which bears the same name as his lecture.
The Society advises that Wright w
Source: The National
11-19-09
It is not often that an Israeli history book is translated into Arabic with a view to finding a mass readership. And it is even rarer when that book is to be translated into two other major languages of the Islamic world, Turkish and Indonesian, not to mention Japanese, Russian, German, Italian and Portuguese.
The work is The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University. When it was first published in Israel last year, it spent 19 week
Source: The Australian
11-18-09
ACADEMIC duty and a sense of outrage drove Brij Lal to speak out against Fiji's military-installed prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, for expelling Australian and New Zealand diplomats over alleged judiciary interference two weeks ago.
Retribution was swift. The Indo-Fijian Australian citizen was soon detained. His three-hour interrogation included an hour of haranguing by a lieutenant-colonel, after which Lal agreed to leave Fiji within 24 hours.
"I take the view
Source: PR News Channel
11-18-09
The late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts prevented the release of his brother's 1963 assassination file, says presidential historian Tim Miller. Which is why as the 46th annivesary of President John F. Kennedy's death approaches Sunday, Miller is pulling out all stops to get secret files finally released.
"The time is now for the American people to get the real answers,” says Miller. "I believe there is information damaging to President Kennedy and his family
Source: National Book Foundation
11-19-09
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With deep and imaginative research and graceful writing, T. J. Stiles’s The First Tycoon tells the extraordinary story of a brutally competitive man who was hard to love but irresistibly interesting as a truly pivotal historical figure. With few letters and no diaries, and with layers of legend to carve through, Stiles captures Cornelius Vanderbilt as a person and as a force who shaped the transportation revolution, all but invented unbridled American capitalism, and left h
Source: The China Beat
11-17-09
Prominent Qing specialist Pamela Crossley of Dartmouth College has a new book coming out in February, The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: An Interpretive History, 374_Pamela_Crossleywhich is aimed at general readers and is designed to be suitable as well for classes devoted to modern Chinese history. One theme in the book that is likely to be of special interest to those who follow this blog is her frequent discussion of similarities and differences over time in patterns of unrest and the way
Source: Big Think
11-17-09
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Rick Perlstein: I’m Rick Perlstein. I’m the author of “Nixonland.”Question: Has Obama succeeded on his promise of being a “post-partisan” President?Rick Perlstein: Well, the problem with Obama’s post-partisan agenda is that he came into it. He came into his presidency at a time when millions of A
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
11-18-09
Before making legislative history, Sen. Robert Byrd – on Wednesday he became the longest-serving member of Congress since 1789 – spent a lifetime mastering it.
The Democrat for West Virginia once dazzled a British delegation, complaining that Americans didn’t know English history, by reciting all the kings and queens of England, from Egbert (829-839) through Elizabeth II, including riffs on their children and notable moments in their reign.
His four-volume history of th
Source: WalesOnline
11-18-09
THE Welsh are a nation of “grant junkies”, more heavily dependent on the public sector than almost every other country in the free world, a leading historian claims.
The only nation more dependant on the state is the special case of Northern Ireland, which is recovering from decades of terrorism, Hywel Williams will say tomorrow in the third of his six-part series for S4C.
Referring to statistics from a recent international survey by the independent think tank, Centre f
