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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: http://www.monstersandcritics.com
5-23-08
The US political author and critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein was denied entry to the Jewish state on Friday, his lawyer said.
Finkelstein landed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv in the early morning and was told by a representative of the ministry of interior that he would not be allowed into the country on 'security' grounds, attorney Michael Sfard told dpa.
'This usually means a 10-year ban on entry,' Sfard added.
Finkelstein, who is J
Source: http://www.chieftain.com
5-24-08
A dangerous man visited Pueblo a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, he came in contact with only a few local citizens - a handful of teachers, students and curious observers.
To say the man is a radical bent on espousing his unpopular ideas, would be an understatement. Some would call him a historical heretic or revisionist who questions and challenges many of this nation's most revered truisms.
For example, he doesn't believe Columbus discovered America. According to hi
Source: Press Release--Emory University
5-23-08
U.S. Reps. Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) are expected to introduce today a bill to end "libel tourism," a phenomenon whereby plaintiffs seek judgments from foreign courts against American authors and publishers for making allegedly defamatory statements.
Two Emory University professors, Michael Broyde and Deborah Lipstadt, brought the problem of libel tourism to the attention of federal lawmakers in a co-written New York Times opinion piece (Oct. 11, 2007). Br
Source: Press Release
5-22-08
UW Tacoma Professor Michael Honey has received the Robert F.
Kennedy Book award for his book documenting the 1968 Memphis sanitation
strike and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in Memphis, Tenn.
Honey and his book, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin
Luther King's Last Campaign, will be recognized at a ceremony May 27 at 6:30
p.m. at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Given by the Robert F. Kennedy
Memorial, the award honors books which faithfully and forcefully re
Source: National Review Online
5-23-08
Rick Perlstein’s first book on Barry Goldwater, Before the Storm, made him one of the most celebrated young historians in the country. Surprisingly, Perlstein’s unabashed progressive political activism did not prevent his scholarship from generating praise from the right. Indeed, Before the Storm received glowing reviews for its scholarship on conservatism from perspectives as various as that of William F. Buckley Jr. and Markos Moulitsas. Picking up largely where Before the Storm left off, Perl
Source: NYT
5-23-08
J. C. Hurewitz, a Columbia University professor whose voluminous research, belief in the importance of local histories and evenhanded scholarship contributed depth and complexity to the emerging field of Middle Eastern studies starting in 1950, died on May 16 in Manhattan. He was 93.
The cause was pneumonia, said Lisa Anderson, a Columbia political science professor, a former student of Dr. Hurewitz’s and one of his successors as director of Columbia’s Middle East Institute.
Source: Paul Laity in the Guardian
5-17-08
Tony Judt has never fought shy of questioning long-cherished ideas. Postwar, his panoramic study of Europe after 1945, was loudly acclaimed in part because it dealt so bracingly with the lies and cover-ups on which the rebuilding of the continent depended - the number of Nazis and collaborators who retained positions of power, for instance, and the myths surrounding wartime resistance. Detail after striking detail documented how nations are never honest about their pasts, and how quickly inconve
Source: David Remnick in the New Yorker
5-19-08
Every weekday for the past twenty-seven years, a long-in-the-tooth history major named Phil Schaap has hosted a morning program on WKCR, Columbia University’s radio station, called “Bird Flight,” which places a degree of attention on the music of the bebop saxophonist Charlie Parker that is so obsessive, so ardent and detailed, that Schaap frequently sounds like a mad Talmudic scholar who has decided that the laws of humankind reside not in the ancient Babylonian tractates but in alternate takes
Source: Larry Elders at PatriotPost.us
5-22-08
One hundred nine historians already nearly unanimously agree. They call the presidency of George W. Bush a “failure." The History News Network (HNN), who polled the historians, failed to name them or where they work. Wonder why?
American Enterprise magazine, in 2002, examined voter registrations to determine the political affiliations of humanities professors at an assortment of colleges and universities, public and private, big and small, located in the North, South, East and
Source: Victor Davis Hanson in National Review
5-22-08
Who becomes a general — and why — tells us a lot about whether our military is on the right or wrong track. The annual spring list of Army colonels promoted to brigadier generals will be shortly released. Already, rumors suggest that this year, unlike in the recent past, a number of maverick officers who have distinguished themselves fighting — and usually defeating — insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq will be chosen.
For example, scholar-soldier Col. H. R. McMaster, Special Forces
Source: NY Post
5-21-08
A sticky-fingered historian has 'fessed up to lifting two prized letters by George Washington and another by Abraham Lincoln and selling them for nearly $100,000.
Edward Renehan, former director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association in Oyster Bay, LI, is facing 24 to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty yesterday to transporting stolen goods across state lines.
The letters by Washington, dated 1778 and 1791, and Honest Abe, written in 1840, sold for $97,000 at a
Source: Benny Morris in a letter to the Irish Times
5-1-08
ISRAEL-HATERS are fond of citing my work in support of their arguments.
Let me offer some corrections. In defiance of the will of the
international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly resolution
of November 29, 1947, (Palestinian Arabs) launched hostilities against the
Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the
Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost; and one
of the results was the displacement of 700,000 of them from
Source: Press Release
5-20-08
Cities, counties and states continue to debate who has ownership of the first Memorial Day, but a Purdue University historian says credit really belongs to thousands of Southern white women.
"If Confederate men would have organized memorials to honor their fallen soldiers in 1866, a year after the Civil War ended, it would have been considered treason against the United States," says Caroline Janney, an assistant professor of history. "Instead, women organized
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
5-21-08
A memorial service will be held June 12 for H. Brett Melendy, a prominent historian who taught for many years at San Jose State University and the University of Hawaii. He also wrote seven books on Asian immigration to the United States and the history of Hawaii.
Professor Melendy died April 19 at his home in Cupertino at the age of 83. He had been suffering from cancer.
He was born in Eureka and educated in Humboldt County schools. He received his bachelor's, master's and do
Source: Jonathan Dresner at Froginawell.et
5-21-08
The Needham Question is hot, hot, hot! Thanks to Simon Winchester’s The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Source: NYT
5-20-08
Beverly Rae Kimes, who, after failing to find work as a theater writer, parlayed a job as a secretary at a fledgling car magazine into a career as one of the nation’s pre-eminent historians of automobiles, died on May 12 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 68.
Her husband, James H. Cox, announced the death but did not give a cause.
When Ms. Kimes became the first employee hired at Automobile Quarterly — which aimed to define elegance in cars, mainly antique one
Source: Boston Globe
5-19-08
In a heartfelt ode to the power and joys of education, acclaimed historian David McCullough exhorted Boston College graduates this morning to "make the love of learning central to your life."
In his keynote address at the college's commencement on its Chestnut Hill campus, the award-winning historian extolled the "transforming miracle of education" and warned more than 3,300 graduates not to confuse plain facts with deeper truths.
"Information h
Source: Times (UK)
5-18-08
SCOTLAND’S history is weaved from a “fraudulent” fabric of “myths and falsehoods”, according to an explosive new study by one of the world’s most eminent historians.
The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, is the last book, and one of the most controversial, written by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Now, five years after his death, the book is to be published at one of the most pivotal periods in Scottish political history.
It will provide an inflammatory
Source: J. PATRICK COOLICAN at Politico.com
5-15-08
The liberal historian Rick Perlstein has just published his second book on the rise of the conservative movement, and if he isn’t exactly like the fox guarding the henhouse, he’s the fox who’s been invited in, shown a plush sofa and bathed in effusive praise.
The late William F. Buckley called Rick Perlstein’s first book “engrossing” and referred to Perlstein as a “skilled writer with an eye for detail.” Given the subject of “Before the Storm” — Barry Goldwater’s insurgent 1964 camp
Source: Bangkok Post
5-15-08
A well-known art historian, arrested in Los Angeles in connection with a federal investigation into illegal trafficking of pilfered Southeast Asian art, died early Wednesday of a heart attack at a Federal Detention Centre.
Roxanna Brown, 62, wheelchair-bound was suffering from flulike symptoms severe enough to postpone her initial court appearance.
She was indicted on a single count of wire fraud for allegedly allowing her electronic signature to be used on appraisal forms of items donated
