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: CBS News
11-17-09
On this week's edition of CBSNews.com's @katiecouric, military historian Kimberly Kagan told Katie Couric that while "al-Qaeda has a global focus," the Taliban "has a slightly more narrow focus in Afghanistan."
That isn't to say that the groups don't share goals and know each other, however.
"What we have in Afghanistan is a network of enemy groups who are tied by close personal relationships between their leaders," said Kagan.
Source: Chicago Tribune
11-17-09
MACOMB, Ill. - Two Western Illinois University librarians are making western Illinois history more accessible online.
A grant allowed librarians Bill Thompson and Jeff Hancks to put the contents of several historical societies' newsletters on the Web.
Included in the collection are newsletters from historical societies in the western Illinois counties of Hancock, McDonough, Rock Island and Schuyler.
Source: ANGOP
11-17-09
Brazzaville - The Angolan historian, Simao Souindoula, arrived Tuesday in Brazzaville, Congo, to attend the international colloquium on the work by Congolese painter, Marcel Gotene, on November 18-21.
The official who is also the vice president of the Unesco International Scientific Committee on the “Slavery Route”, has travelled at the invitation of the Congolese minister to the Presidency for Defence, Zacharie Bowao.
Source: The Washington Post
11-17-09
[Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His most recent book is Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.]
The writing of academic history seems to be in crisis. Historical monographs -- scholarly works on highly specific subjects -- pour from the university presses (at least 1,200 or so a year) and yet have very few readers. Sometimes, sales of academic history books number only in the hundreds;
Source: AHA Blog
11-17-09
The first recipient of the Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History will be announced at the annual meeting in January, but the endowment for the award still needs your support.The award was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig to honor his life and work as a pioneer in the
Source: American Historical Association
11-10-09
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Taskforce of the AHA was created by AHA Council at the January 2009 annual meeting. The Taskforce is composed of five members (with the vice president and a member of the Professional Division and AHA serving as co-chairs), one additional AHA member appointed by the Professional Division (PD), and two appointed by the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History (CLGBTH), an affiliate society of the AHA. The Taskforce has a th
Source: Deadline
11-15-09
FURIOUS Scottish World War Two veterans are demanding an apology from a renowned historical writer after he accused them of COWARDICE.
Anthony Beevor’s eagerly anticipated new work – titled “D-Day – The Battle for Normandy” – contends that Scottish troops failed in key objectives during the landing, badly letting down Allied forces.
And now livid vets are “disgusted” by the passages, and say that Beevor should have interviewed them rather than relying on secondary sourc
Source: The Hawler Tribune
11-15-09
Top Egyptian historian, investigative journalist and thinker Mohammad Hassanein Heikal said he believes history would harshly blame Arabs for their irresponsible approach towards Iran. “I think our [Arab states’] approach towards Iran is a big mistake which measures up to historical crimes. There is an incoherence between Iran and us, but what’s important is that this incoherence has led to hostility and there is a difference between an incoherence that leads to negotiation and one that leads to
Source: Enid News
11-14-09
Called “Oklahoma’s Greatest Historian” by Gov. Brad Henry, Angie Debo was born Jan. 30, 1890, in Beattie, Kan.
She came to Oklahoma in a covered wagon with her parents and younger brother at age 9 to Marshall, Oklahoma Territory, her home for much of her life.
She taught in rural schools at age 16 in 1906 and graduated from Marshall High School at age 23 in 1913.
She majored in history at the University of Oklahoma, studying under Edward Everett Dale, and r
Source: Boston.com
11-15-09
[Drake Bennett is the staff writer for Ideas. E-mail drbennett@globe.com.]
With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this week, the news was filled with images of that epoch-ending night, and of the equally historic events that led up to and followed it. Those images, for the most part, are of crowds: strikers in Poland, the multitudes at the reburial of Hungary’s former prime minister Imre Nagy (executed in 1958 on or
Source: The New Nixon
11-14-09
[Robert Nedelkoff, a resident of Silver Spring, MD, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville and his Juris Doctor degree from Monterey College of Law in 1996. From 1997 until March 2009, he worked on behalf of the Richard Nixon Foundation at the National Archives in College Park, MD. He has published articles in several magazines, including GQ and McSweeney’s.]
The new issue of the New York Review of Books has a short op-ed, which first appeared as a blogpost
Source: Wired
11-14-09
A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour.
The hackers posted Irving’s e-mail correspondence online, as well as the user name and password for his web site account and AOL e-mail account, which shared the same password. The hackers also posted the
Source: Wired
11-14-09
A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour.
The hackers posted Irving’s e-mail correspondence online, as well as the user name and password for his web site account and AOL e-mail account, which shared the same password. The hackers also posted the
Source: Brooklyn College
11-12-09
The late historian John Hope Franklin, a major figure in the writing of American and African-American history, and 1995 winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be honored by former colleagues and fellow historians during a daylong John Hope Franklin Memorial Conference at Brooklyn College to be held Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the library.
Franklin, who died earlier this year at the age of 94, was an Oklahoma native who earned a bachelor's degree from Fi
Source: Focus Information Agency
11-13-09
Georgi Markov, director of the Institute for History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), says in an interview with FOCUS Radio that Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov will have to apologize publicly to BAS staff for saying "BAS does not do science, there are some feudal old men in BAS who collect salaries."
Markov says the minister's words only show he does not know the meaning of the words feudal lord. He notes the BAS staff are not "old men."
Source: Fredericksburg.com
11-13-09
Out in the countryside of Orange County, historians are working to breathe new life into an old battle.
When complete, their efforts should help the public appreciate one of the Civil War's least-known campaigns, called Mine Run, after the creek of the same name off State Route 20.
Mine Run may be as notable for what didn't happen as what did. It involved 145,000 troops and set up what could have been a full-bore, bloody series of battles between the armies led by Union
Source: CBC
11-12-09
A University of Calgary instructor is drawing attention to the nearly 8,000 Canadian nurses who served in the two world wars but often remain forgotten in the November ceremonies honouring the country's war heroes.
Nurse historian Diana Mansell researched the role of Canada's nurses in the two world wars for a Remembrance Day lecture she gave in Calgary Wednesday night.
"[I] found it very interesting, and I think they are, in many ways, not acknowledged for their e
Source: Boston Herald
11-12-09
Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson, whose “The Ascent of Money” book and TV series traced the world’s financial system, last night painted a pessimistic prognosis for U.S. recovery unless the government takes decisive action.
To a packed audience at the annual International Place Executive Event, hosted by Hub real estate developer Donald Chiofaro, Ferguson said that while we barely avoided a second Great Depression, the nation is still in deep trouble because no reforms have
Source: Eric Golub at Frontpage Magazine
11-10-09
Responses by Gershon Shafir and Zachary Lockman below.
[Eric Golub is the publisher of the Tygrrrr Express blog. He wrote this article for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.]
Last week, the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) co-sponsored a seminar with the ungainly title, “Invasion Is a Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism Past and Present.” It was billed as a “two-day event organiz
Source: All Headline News
11-11-09
Ottawa, Ontario (AHN) - Ottawa will issue this week a new guide to citizenship. The new guide, to be used by 250,000 immigrants yearly who subsequently acquire Canadian citizenship, will give more emphasis on Canada's military history. It would veer away from the old study guide which portrays the nation merely as a peacekeeper, said Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
An expert panel helped craft the new guide. Among the members of the panel are former Canadian Gover
