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Source: Philip Smallwood in http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
9-3-09
It is a strange fact that until the recent appearance of History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood, the world had no "life" of the greatest philosopher of history writing in English, nor England's leading 20th-century philosopher of art, and no apparent attempt at one.
One reason for this absence, until nearly 70 years after Collingwood's death aged 53, may be sought in the prophylactic success of his autobiography. Collingwood's account of a sometimes frenetic and intell
Source: The Independent
9-7-09
Charles Harrison's work as an art historian provides inspiration to a generation of artists, historians and theorists. A prolific writer, author of books on history and aesthetics, he engaged directly in the practice of art and worked closely with artists. Harrison became editor of Art-Language in 1971 and since then has continuously associated with the artistic production of the Art & Language group. In his writing and teaching Harrison found a natural way to express the issues. His combina
Source: NWO Observer
9-6-09
Eminent historians have condemned a Spanish newspaper’s decision to interview the controversial historian David Irving as part of its coverage to mark the 70th anniversary of the Second World War.
The Hitler specialist Sir Ian Kershaw, whose interview last Monday launched El Mundo’s commemorative series, said he – and most historians – would have pulled out had they known of Mr Irving’s participation.
In the interview published yesterday, Mr Irving once again played dow
Source: NYT
9-3-09
Drew Gilpin Faust was an acclaimed historian before she became the 28th president of Harvard in 2007, and history has always been a part of her life.
She grew up in rural Virginia in the 1950s and ’60s, surrounded by Civil War monuments to the Lost Cause and by unreconstructed Southerners. Her grandmother used to sing to her: “I’m a good old rebel / That’s just what I am / For this fair land of freedom / I do not give a damn.” Faust attended an all-white school and an all-white chur
Source: NYT
9-4-09
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Response of Betsy McCaughey to NYT article
... Ms. McCaughey’s role as a central, if disputed, player in the national health care debate has surprised friend and foe alike, coming after a rise-and-fall story rare even by the standards of New York’s wild and woolly politics.
For the last few years, Ms. McCaughey has worked in
Source: Google New
9-3-09
MADRID — A Spanish newspaper is defending its plans to publish an interview this weekend with a British writer who denies the Holocaust, despite a furious complaint from Israel.
The center-right daily El Mundo plans to run the interview Saturday with David Irving, who served 13 months in prison in Austria after being convicted there in 2006 over charges he denied the Nazis exterminated 6 million Jews.
It is part of a series of six interviews with World War II experts, t
Source: UVA Today (University of Virginia)
9-3-09
William Wright Abbot III, a former editor of The Papers of George Washington and an expert in early American history, died Aug. 31 in Charlottesville. He was 87.
Abbot taught early American history, but among historians he was best known as the chief editor of The Papers of George Washington, housed in the University of Virginia Library, from 1977 until '92. One of the founders of the Association for Documentary Editing, he also edited The William and Mary Quarterly from 1961 to '66
Source: Humanities
9-1-09
Soon after earning her bachelor’s degree in English from Tufts, Jill Lepore started working at Harvard, but not as a member of the faculty. The future David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History was clocking hours as a secretary on temporary assignment. But she was also writing up a storm, auditing courses, and thinking about attending grad school. In a conversation that opens with high-school recollections before venturing into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, Lepore descri
Source: The Faster Times
9-3-09
Shlomo Sand is pissed off. Sand, an Israeli historian, contends that there is no such thing as the “the Jewish people,” not now, not ever. Sure, Jews exist, but the people is an invention, a lie constructed by Zionist intellectuals in search of a national myth. But what really gets him boiling is that this myth-of an exiled people returning to their land, and of the “ethno-biological” ties between all Jews-has been used to create a country that “grossly discriminates” against its non-Jewish c
Source: The Huffington Post
9-3-09
Two Kings County historians are sparring over factual inaccuracies in one of their books, and the fight is getting so intense that it seems they actually believe the adage that only the winner gets to write history.
The book feud — the borough’s biggest since Park Slope and Prospect Heights battled it out for literary supremacy – started when history writer and memorabilia collector Brian Merlis sent The Brooklyn Paper a scathing review of former Brooklyn Borough Historian John Manb
Source: BBC (Radio 4)
9-2-09
Historians Helen Rappaport and Lisa Hilton discuss whether women are guilty of "feminising" their subject and inflating the role of women in history. Go to Podcast
Source: Press Trust of India
9-3-09
Kochi, Sept 3 (PTI) Former Naval vice-chief Admiral (Retd) G M Hiranandani died of heart attack at Malakkara village near Chengannur, 117 km from Thiruvananthapuram, in Kerala's Alappuzha district.
Hiranandani, also an eminent Naval historian, died on Tuesday. He was 78 and is survived by a son and daughter...
... Hiranandani, a gallantry award winner, joined the Indian Navy in 1949. He had undergone extensive training in United Kingdom with the Royal Navy at different
Source: Luton Today
9-3-09
A historian stopped in Luton as part of a 300 mile walk to raise awareness for a World Heritage bid.
Ged Lynn, 37, is promoting two monasteries near to his home in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, which are the UK's only bid to gain World Heritage status in 2010.
He left Jarrow on August 9 and arrived in Luton on the 17th day of his mammoth journey, after trekking the hardest part of the trip - from Leicester to Luton.
He hoped to reach his last spot, Guildford, on T
Source: telegraph.co.uk
9-4-09
Götz Aly, the popular historian, accused black Allied soldiers of the systematic rape of German women during the Second World War.
He also dismissed their contribution to defeating the Nazis on the grounds that they were forced to fight.
Mr Aly, the author of the controversial Hitler's Beneficiaries, made the remarks during a press conference at "The Third World in the Second World War", a Berlin exhibition aimed at recognising the role of thousands of African
Source: Washington Post
9-2-09
Whole Foods chief executive John Mackey wrote a piece in The Wall Street Journal last month advocating health care reform but arguing that new health-care entitlements were not the answer. He proposed ways to achieve reform without expanding the government and with greater emphasis on individual responsibility. Some consumers took issue with Mackey's views, creating a web site, Boycott Whole Foods, and arguing that his piece suggested "healthcare is a commodity that only the rich, like him,
Source: http://www.medievalists.net
9-3-09
Rodney Stark, Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University is a well-known scholar of religious history who has published over two dozen books. In his latest work, God’s Battalions, Professor Stark puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression.
According to its publisher, “Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated by Islam
Source: SF Gate
9-1-09
"The Death of Conservatism" (Random House, 120 pages, $17), by Sam Tanenhaus: Its provocative title notwithstanding, "The Death of Conservatism" does not eulogize what author Sam Tanenhaus rightly calls the dominant U.S. political force of the past 30 years. Instead, he argues that contemporary conservatism is outmoded, overly ideological and has failed to adapt to changing times and changing demographics.
Even in the face of the current economic crisis, "co
Source: DailyProgress.com
9-2-09
William Wright Abbot III of Charlottesville, Virginia, died peacefully in his sleep on Monday, August 31, 2009, at the age of 87.
Professor Abbot was born in Louisville, Georgia, on May 20, 1922, the son William Wright Abbot Jr. and Lillian Carswell Abbot.
He graduated from Louisville Academy, a public high school, in 1939 and attended Davidson College for two years. In 1941 he transferred to the University of Georgia, where he was awarded the baccalaureate degree upon
Source: The Independent
9-1-09
Christopher Elrington devoted the whole of his professional life as a historian to the Victoria County History, that magnificent encyclopaedic work attempting to provide fully researched and properly referenced historical accounts of all the counties of England and their more than 10,000 individual parishes. Some 250 large red volumes of the VCH have appeared since the endeavour began in 1899. Elrington had an increasingly influential hand in all the volumes that have appeared in the last 50 yea
Source: The Harvard Crimson
8-31-09
After a worldwide search for a candidate to fill Harvard’s new professorship in Chinese social history, former Associate Professor Michael Szonyi was selected to assume the post on July 1, 2009.
Szonyi is a social historian who, in addition to reading historical texts, seeks to challenge historical accounts by speaking with village elders, collecting documents from villagers, and observing lineage and temple rituals in order to see history from a local perspective, he said.
