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: NYT
10-11-09
Robert M. Murdock, an art historian and curator of 20th-century and contemporary art who organized some notable exhibitions, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 67.
The cause was cancer, said his wife, Dez Ryan.
Mr. Murdock’s career spanned more than three decades and several important American museums, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center.
Born on Dec. 18. 1941, he earned a B.A. from Trin
Source: Sandbox
10-12-09
I've been tapped to serve as the president-designate of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college, which will go from plan to reality over the next three years. Elliot Jager, editorial page editor of the Jerusalem Post, interviewed me about the College for the Friday magazine. Here is that interview, which ran under the headline:"A progressive first from a conservative think tank." Ask Martin Kramer if spearheading the country's first libe
Source: Campus Watch Blog
10-12-09
The October 2 death of Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, is for Columbia University's Joseph Massad yet another opportunity to equate Israelis with Nazis.
An article posted today in the Socialist Worker quotes Massad's latest effort to belittle the Holocaust and delegitimize the modern state of Israel by claiming that contemporary Israelis are to Palestinians what the Nazis were to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. He even ma
Source: The Cutting Edge
10-12-09
Prize-winning investigative author Edwin Black, known for holding dozens of speaking events on each of his several books, has decided to participate in just a single presentation for the 25th anniversary re-release of his controversial volume The Transfer Agreement (Dialog 2009). The historic event, slated for October 30 in the Washington D.C. suburbs, is the first on the topic Black has agreed to in years, and will feature questions emailed from around the world. Articles and postings on the In
Source: The Buffalo News
10-11-09
I stopped cold on page 263 of Taylor Branch’s “The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.” Try as I might, I haven’t been able to get past the revealing story the author tells about himself on that page.
By now, everyone in political circles has heard about Branch’s book and the historical taping project this Pulitzer Prize-winning author and President Bill Clinton embarked upon in 1993. History will honor Clinton for caring enough about historiography that he allowed
Source: Russian Now
10-9-09
Albert Axell, the American military writer, historian and author of Marshall Zhukov: The Man Who Beat Hitler, explains just how much the West has undervalued the Soviet Union’s contribution to victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.Do you believe people are still interested in WWII, which was over a fairly long time ago?
My friend, a British professor, told me about a survey that revealed striking ignorance: 95pc of young people in the UK believe German
Source: University of Bristol
10-9-09
Professor Neville Morley of the Department of Classics and Ancient History has been awarded around £450,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a four-year project on the Greek historian Thucydides (c.460BC – c.395 BC).
The Athenian historian Thucydides (c.460-c.395 BCE) claimed that his account of the Peloponnesian War would be ‘a possession for ever’, valued by posterity more than by his contemporaries. The history of his reception since the Renaissance has proved him
Source: The Malaysian Insider
10-10-09
TANJUNG PINANG (Indonesia), Oct 10 — Indonesia and Malaysia can ease tension which flared recently over cultural heritage by reminding their citizens that the two neighbouring nations share common cultural and historical roots.
Historians from Malaysia and Indonesia who met in Tanjung Pinang, the capital of Indonesia's Riau Islands province, have suggested that both sides could achieve this by launching programmes designed to help their two peoples better understand their similariti
Source: Otto's Random Thoughts (blog)
10-9-09
On 13 September 2009, the FSB arrested and interrogated Mikhail Suprun of Pomorsky State University of Arkhangelsk in connection with his research on Stalin era repression of Russian-Germans. They seized his computers and databases as well as a large number of books and documents. He was working on creating a memory book for the Russian-German victims of the Gulag's labor camps and special settlements in Arkhangelsk. Assisting him in this endeavor was Aleksandr Dudarev, the Head of the Informati
Source: Wisconsin Radio Network
10-9-09
The legislative transportation committee discusses a handful of bills on Thursday.
One bill (AB-415) would designate a portion of U-S Highway 12 in the city of Whitewater as the Stephen Ambrose Memorial Highway.
“He dedicated his life to memorializing the citizen soldiers and band of brothers who fought for our freedom, particularly those in WWII.”
Whitewater Democrat Assemblyman Kim Hixson calls Ambrose the best known historian in the last 100 years, citin
Source: Fox News
10-9-09
Giving President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is a "premature canonization" and an "embarrassment" to the process of designating a laureate, a presidential historian says.
"The jury is still out as to what his presidency is going to add up to," Fred Greenstein, author and professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, told FOXNews.com.
"It's more of an embarrassment to the Nobel process."...
... Greenstein sai
Source: The Australian
10-10-09
CHRISTOPHER Andrew, the Cambridge University historian who this week published the first authorised history of MI5, says he has a cunning plan.
"All I have to do is get my book banned and have a farcical court case about it in an Australian court, then I might sell a million copies," he says. He is joking about the 1986 saga in a NSW court over Spycatcher, the memoirs of former British spy Peter Wright that the British government tried unsuccessfully to suppress.
Source: couriermail.com.au
10-9-09
WHEN Australian PoWs gathered for their annual memorial service in Ballarat last February none suspected that there was a traitor among them – their newly-elected national association president.
Although aged 82, Queenslander Arthur Rex Crane was considered young for a World War II prisoner of war...
... Crane appeared to be beyond reproach, however, because he had worked with the ex-PoW Association in Brisbane for years, helping others get the service and disability pe
Source: Standard Net Live
10-8-09
It goes without saying that Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's historian and PR man, has a veritable boatload of DayGlo-colored memories attached to his 20 heady years with the band.
He documented it all, good and bad, in his definitive biography, "A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead" (Broadway, 2002).
McNally comes to Weber State University on Tuesday to teach several classes and to present a public multimedia lecture on the band.
Source: Hometownannapolis.com
10-8-09
The American appetite for credit is likely to be the undoing of the world's greatest power, a prominent conservative Harvard University historian told several hundred midshipmen last night at the Naval Academy.
Speaking at the 30th annual Bancroft Lecture, economic historian Niall Ferguson warned that China is about to overtake the United States as the world's superpower.
"The U.S. has fatally underestimated its biggest rival," Ferguson said.
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Source: Haaretz
10-9-09
Israeli news Web sites in English contribute in part to the waning love between American Jews and Israel, a prominent U.S. historian asserted this week, adding that Anglos in Israel can help counter the trend. Since the advent of the Internet and exposure to more critical coverage of Israel, the once-utopian view of Israel Americans held has eroded, according to Jonathan Sarna, who teaches American Jewish history at Brandeis University and is currently on sabbatical in Jerusalem.
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Source: Winnipeg Free Press
10-8-09
A Dutch historian who wanted information on two Manitoba airman buried in his small village now has half his answers.
Lieuwe Boonstra wrote to the Free Press a month ago, wanting to know more about RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Albert George Makay and RCAF Flight Sgt. Charles Reginald Patton.
The two young men -- Makay was 20 and Patton was 23 -- died in a plane crash on Oct. 31, 1942.
Here's what Boonstra knew:
Mackay was the son of Mrs. Jerry
Source: The Press and Journal
10-8-09
One of Scotland’s leading historians, Professor Tom Devine, has joined the billing for the Scotland’s Global Impact Conference in Inverness later this month.
The event, from October 22 to 24, unites the world’s leading historians of the Scottish diaspora for three days of presentations, discussions and debate, all surrounding the impact this country has made on the world.
Mr Devine, who has published more than 30 books including bestseller The Scottish Nation, will pres
Source: The Grand Island Independent
10-7-09
HASTINGS -- Historian Olga Olivares said you can learn a lot about the Mexican culture from its dichos -- or Spanish proverbs.
"Whenever you ask a Mexican for directions, you may never get to where you want to go, but you made yourself a friend," Olivares said Tuesday night. "That's very true -- we like to talk, we are a friendly people."
"When we say, 'Mi casa es su casa. My house is your house,' we mean it," she said. "A Mexican frie
Source: http://www.3news.co.nz
10-8-09
Auckland historian Hazel Petrie is mounting the first in-depth study of slavery in New Zealand.
Dr Petrie said today that war captives or "slaves" made up as much as 50 percent of the Maori population in the early nineteenth century but had been given little attention by academics.
She is taking up a $300,000 Marsden Fund grant, over three years, to investigate the purpose and function of war captives in Maori society.
