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Source: Deseret News (Utah)
10-17-09
The United States is learning that, in many ways, Iraq is three nations in one — just as the British and Ottoman Empire learned, a University of Utah military historian said.
Speaking to about 25 military history buffs at the Fort Douglas Military History Symposium on Saturday, U. historian John Reed said Iraq comprises the Kurd majority in the north, the Sunni majority in the so-called "Sunni triangle" in the central part of the country including Baghdad, and the Shiites
Source: Southern Highland News (Australia)
10-19-09
IT is the site earmarked for a major Landcom residential development, but Renwick was once the home base for displaced and orphaned children and wards of the state.
In fact, more than 30,000 both boys and girls were accommodated in farm homes across the 234-hectare property as well as Cottage Homes around Mittagong from 1881-1994.
The homes, over the years accommodated children from various walks of life, including orphans, state wards, mentally challenged and ill young
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
10-18-09
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. -- John Brown has spent 150 years locked in our national attic, the mad uncle no one wanted to acknowledge but over whose corpse soldiers would sing praises during the war he triggered.
The bearded messiah of the antislavery movement was hanged for his futile raid on the federal armory here. After 15 decades of neglect, historians are now praising, damning and pondering Brown's legacy on the sesquicentennial of the Harpers Ferry raid.
In an era in w
Source: Times of India
10-17-09
Renowned Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal has chronicled the spread of jihad in South Asia over three centuries. Jalal, a professor of history at Tufts University and author of Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, spoke to TOI Crest about Pakistan's war on Taliban.Is Pakistan losing its war on the Taliban given the string of recent attacks on targets such as the heavily guarded army headquarters in Rawalpindi?
I would not say Pakistan is 'losing' the war against the
Source: WTRF 7 (West Virginia)
10-16-09
WHEELING -- Newt Gingrich spoke about 45 minutes, on a variety of topics at Capitol Theatre Friday.
The event was free to the public, and it drew people from all ages and walks of life.
Gingrich is a writer and historian as well as a politician.
He spoke of the book he wrote with his daughter, "The Five Principles Of A Successful Life."
He listed the five principles as: dream big, work hard, learn every day, do things you enjoy and be
Source: The Daily Citizen
10-15-09
Bill Potter says the Civil War changed the kinds of liberties Americans enjoy today — and not just for slaves.
Potter, a historian and curator at Circa, a history guild and museum in Alpharetta, spoke to a gathering at Dalton State College on Thursday as part of the city’s Liberty Tree Festival this week.
“There were many in the North and the South who thought that the tree of liberty was tottering in 1861,” he said. “Certainly the tree of liberty has been watered with
Source: chroniclelive.co.uk
10-16-09
FOR the past 10 years it has been an obsession for local historian Mick Hardy, and now his project is complete.
Mick has painstakingly sifted through thousands of documents, old news paper cuttings, death records, interviewed residents and put out appeals through the Chronicle to find as much information as possible about the 565 people who died in the First and Second World Wars from his village and surrounding area.
And now he, with pals Iain Mutch and Malcolm Anderso
Source: JuraForum
10-16-09
A faked telegram from a sick relative, knockout drops in a glass of beer or simply brute force - the methods used by the East German secret police, the "Stasi", were varied and imaginative when it came to kidnapping opponents and critics of the East German regime in West Germany and putting them on trial in the GDR. Historian Susanne Muhle (29) has found over 400 cases in the files of the Birthler Agency (named after Marianne Birthler, who heads the agency that oversees the archives ho
Source: Google News
10-16-09
MOSCOW — When the police stopped Mikhail Suprun's car last month, he did not expect to be questioned over his research into mass deportations that took place in Russia more than six decades ago.
But Suprun, a history professor in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk, discovered that his research into the 1940s deportations had drawn the interest of the FSB, the successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB.
Briefly detained by the FSB, Suprun was told he was suspected of i
Source: Offaly Express
10-14-09
THE death took place on Friday last at his home at 10 Clonminch Avenue, Tullamore, of Mr John Clarke, a noted authority on Gaelic games. Aged 82, the deceased was originally from Convent View.
He had a lifelong interest in Gaelic games, but as he was diagnosed with curvature of the spine in his teens, he could not play. That did not, however, prevent his building up a fund of knowledge of sport, as he began keeping a scrapbook of GAA matters in 1939.
Mr Clarke had a sho
Source: Campus Watch
10-16-09
[Jonathan Schanzer, an adjunct scholar at campus-watch.org, is deputy executive director of the Jewish Policy Center, and author of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave, 2008).]
Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, produces a steady stream of writings that downplays the threat radical Islam poses to America and the West. His opinions are at odds with the beliefs of most Americans. Now, through a project de
Source: NYT
10-15-09
Dietrich von Bothmer, who was regarded by art historians as the world’s leading expert on ancient Greek vases and who was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than 60 years, died in Manhattan on Monday. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan and Oyster Bay, N.Y.
The death was confirmed by his son, Bernard von Bothmer.
Dr. von Bothmer (pronounced BOAT-mare) made his reputation working with the legendary Sir John Beazley, his teacher at Oxford. Together, in an
Source: PBS
10-12-09
JEFFREY BROWN: It's an intimate look at the modern presidency compiled from late-night conversations at the White House between Bill Clinton and his friend, journalist and historian Taylor Branch.
The talks recorded from 1993 to 2001 range from personal observations, to domestic politics, and international flash points, and became the basis for a new book,"The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President."
Taylor Branch is Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a three
Source: Tablet
10-13-09
The key assumptions about Israel and the Jews are indelible. Forced from Jerusalem into exile, the Jews dispersed throughout the world, always remaining attached to their ancient homeland. Psalmists wept when they remembered Zion. A people were sustained by an unflagging determination to return to their native soil. “Next year in Jerusalem!” The triumph of Zionism—the founding of Israel—is the fulfillment of that ancient vow. The Israeli Declaration of Independence states it plainly: “Eretz Yisr
Source: Washington and Lee University
10-12-09
Gary Gallagher, author of "Lee and His General in War and Memory" along with numerous other Civil War studies, presented the lecture at the annual "Remembering Robert E. Lee" program on Monday, Oct., 11, the 139th anniversary of Lee's death
Presented by the Lee Chapel and Museum, Gallagher's presented as titled "Robert E. Lee Confronts Defeat: Duty in the Wake of Appomattox."
Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor of History at the Uni
Source: Digital Journal
10-13-09
The Hungarian historian who was reported to have ‘discovered’ a house belonging to the real “Dracula,” says the claims were inaccurate. Dr Tamás Fedeles says the cellar can indeed be linked to Wallachian Duke Vlad III, but not with any certainty.
Dr. Fedeles, of the Medieval and Early Modern Department at Pécs University’s Historical Studies Institute, said in an interview with Digital Journal that there was no definite proof that Duke Vlad III ”Tepes” (The Impaler) of Wallachia own
Source: Think Spain
10-10-09
FEDERICO García Lorca's family’s insistence on the writer’s remains being left in his anonymous common grave has caused heavy criticisms from historians.
Emilio Silva, president of the Association for the Recuperation of Historic Memory (ARMH), slammed the 'media circus' that the poet and playwright's descendents have created.
"His family, who said they did not want to turn this issue into a media circus, have done just that," stated Silva.
Federi
Source: guardian.co.uk
10-12-09
[David Cesarani is research professor in history at Royal Holloway, University of London.]
We are going through another of those odd periods when corners of our daily newspapers look as if they are reporting things that happened over 65 years ago. There are rows over what the Latvians did or did not do in the second world war, arguments about why the German Luftwaffe bombed Coventry and, most recently, Stephen Fry has upset the Poles with a careless remark about Auschwitz. What all
Source: Diamondback Online: The University of Maryland's Independent Daily Student Newsletter
10-13-09
James Loewen said Christopher Columbus discovered America the way the speaker discovered oregano.
The historian and author of the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, came to the Stamp Student Union yesterday for a different sort of Columbus Day celebration. His lecture, titled “Columbus Didn’t Discover Us,” revolved around what Loewen sees as lies and misinformation ingrained in U.S. history textbooks. The event echoed sentiments of on
Source: Chron (Houston Chronicle)
10-2-09
WhenMad Men rang, Mark Young answered.
Writers from the ultrastylish AMC series called the University of Houston historian in February, looking for specifics on Conrad Hilton and his hotel chain, circa 1963.
“They wanted to know, was Connie Hilton a milquetoast, or was he charismatic and gregarious,” said Young, who runs the Hospitality Industry Archives at UH's Hilton College of Hotel & Restaurant Management.
They also asked for Hilton ads from the ear
