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: http://www.jewishjournal.com
5-9-08
Kevin MacDonald had just completed the first in a series of books that would come to define him. Awaiting feedback from his publisher 15 years ago, MacDonald sent his manuscript to a colleague in the psychology department at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). The feedback was not encouraging.
"What troubles me most is that your criticism of Jews may be taken seriously by groups and individuals who both fear and hate Jews," Martin Fiebert wrote in a 12-point re
Source: HNN Staff
5-11-08
A last-minute appeal by the Society of American Historians has helped save American Heritage, Thomas Fleming reports.
The magazine, owned for many years by Forbes, was threatened with closure when the buyer, Edwin S. Grosvenor, had trouble raising the money needed to complete the purchase on a tight deadline. Last Monday at the Society's annual New York banquet Fleming, then in his final moments as president of the organization, revealed that Grosvenor had been able to finalize the deal
Source: Radio Free Europe
5-9-08
Norman Stone, former regius professor at Oxford University and now modern history professor at Turkey's Bilkent University, has a reputation for upsetting conventional thinking with his short, sharp assessments. In this interview with RFE/RL correspondent Breffni O'Rourke, coinciding with the 63rd anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, Stone ponders the impact of that war and other wars of the 20th century on the Soviet Union, Turkey, and the Balkans.
RFE/RL: Ho
Source: http://crookstontimes.com
5-8-08
As a historian and an academic - and, yes, Garrison Keillor's brother - it took Steven J. Keillor a while to realize that if he was going to write a book on Minnesota's history, it wouldn't be of much good to most average Minnesotans if they didn't take the time to read it, especially if part of the problem is how long it would take them to read it.
"I suggested to the Minnesota Historical Society several years ago that I write a multi-volume set (on Minnesota's history), but,
Source: AP
5-6-08
The Smithsonian Institution on Monday ruled out plans to outsource the renovation and operation of one of its oldest buildings on the National Mall, keeping open the possibility that it could one day become a Latino history museum.
The Smithsonian's governing board declined to move forward with any of the 11 proposals solicited from outside groups that involved plans to lease and refurbish the 127-year-old Arts and Industries Building. Proposals called for using the building as a fo
Source: Inside Higher Ed
5-8-08
History departments are experiencing an increase in doctoral applications, and anticipating a related increase in enrollments at a time that many programs have serious retention problems.
Those are conclusions from an American Historical Association study released this week in Perspectives. And the data come at a time that the job market for new historians is better than it has been in recent years – and that concern remains high about how long it takes to complete Ph.D. programs an
Source: http://www.niu.edu
5-5-08
Once a little understood tool of last resort, impeachment has become a political weapon of choice in recent decades, and one that is leading to an increasingly toxic culture in American politics.
So says Northern Illinois University’s prize-winning historian David Kyvig. His new book, “The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960” (University of Kansas Press), chronicles the rise of a culture of impeachment that extends well beyond the infamous scandals surroun
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
5-7-08
On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the Committees on Appropriations of the U.S. Congress. This report is the National Archives response to concerns raised by the Committees that the complete papers of America’s Founding Fathers are not available online. The Founders Online is a plan for providing online access, within a reasonable timeframe, to researchers, students and the general public.
The
Source: WaPo
5-8-08
Stoned on speed, Elvis Presley arrived at the White House wearing a purple velvet suit and bearing gifts for President Richard Nixon -- a Colt .45 pistol and some silver bullets.
It was Dec. 21, 1970, and Elvis had a mission: He wanted Nixon to give him a federal narcotics agent's badge so he could carry dope and guns wherever he went. Nixon didn't give Elvis the badge, but he did pose for pictures with the King of Rock-and-Roll.
Nineteen years later, newspapers reporte
Source: Alan Taylor in the New Republic
5-7-08
[Alan Taylor, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis, is the author of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (Knopf).]
... Despite this dramatic and important story, [Pulitzer Prize winner Richard] Kluger's book [Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea (Knopf)] often bogs down in long and repetitive accounts of the back-and-forth of diplomatic exchanges, recapitulating dead ends as we
Source: Press Release--Emory University
4-30-08
Release date: April 30, 2008
Contact: Elaine Justice at 404-727-0643 or elaine.justice@emory.edu
Funding will support HDOT.org translation into Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Russian
Emory University Professor Deborah Lipstadt has received a grant of $120,000 from the New York-based Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) on behalf of her Web site, Holocaust Denial on Trial (HDOT.org).
Source: Daniel Pipes Blog
5-1-08
Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute began a debate with me on the subject of lawful Islamists in a June 2007 piece titled"Pipes v. Gershman," to which I responded on July 6, 2007 at"When Conservatives Argue about Islam." Muravchik initiated a second round in February 2008 with an article (co-authored with Charles P. Szrom),"
Source: Kevin Phillips in the WaPo review of Wilentz's new book, The Age of Reagan
5-4-08
[Kevin Phillips is the author, most recently, of "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism."]
Despite its heft, this book is too short. That is because the subject matter -- U.S. political history -- is so sweeping and the period dealt with -- nearly four decades -- is so long.
The title of Sean Wilentz's book grandly proclaims 1974 to 2008 as the Age of Reagan. But he notes right away that, absent Watergate, th
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
5-2-08
On April 30, 2008, the National Coalition for History (NCH) submitted testimony to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on the fiscal year 2009 budgets for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). NCH urged that the NHPRC be funded at the fully authorized level of $10 million, plus an additional $2 million for administrative costs. NCH also called for any funding
Source: http://bupipedream.com
5-2-08
New York City is the ideal example of how humans respond to urbanization, said a professor from Columbia University yesterday during a lecture at Binghamton University.
On Thursday evening about 70 students and community members attended “Empire City,” a lecture by Kenneth T. Jackson, Ph.D., a professor of history and the social sciences, Jackson spoke about what makes New York City different from the rest of the United States.
Although all major American cities are div
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
5-3-08
Robert Goldberg, a 28-year member of the University of Utah's history faculty and one of the school's most popular professors, has been named the winner of the [$40,000] Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the U.'s most prestigious honor.
The author of nine books on history, Goldberg directs the Tanner Humanities Center and has already garnered plenty of teaching accolades, including being a three-time winner of the U.'s students choice award. ...
His scholarly intere
Source: Toronto Star
5-3-08
Not long ago, Dick Cheney took time out from his U.S. vice-presidential duties to school the media on the lessons of history.
The determination of George W. Bush and his administration to invade Iraq, Cheney told a network TV reporter, will one day be vindicated by historians, in the same way that former president Gerald Ford's decision to pardon his Watergate-plagued predecessor, Richard Nixon, is now favourably regarded.
Hmm. Even if we concede there is a possibility,
Source: Independent (UK)
5-3-08
In the small world of the history of science and mathematics, D.T. Whiteside, Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and the Exact Sciences at Cambridge University, was a towering figure. He was one of the most profound and exacting scholars produced by Britain in the second half of the 20th century. Tom Whiteside's central work – and what would have been for anyone else a lifetime's labour – was the publication of an edition of the mathematical papers of Isaac Newton.
New
Source: D. Michael Lindsay in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
5-9-08
In 1993, Michael Weiskopf wrote an article for The Washington Post in which he described evangelicals in the United States as "poor, uneducated, and easy to command." Although the comment provoked outrage from evangelicals, Weiskopf's assertion was not without merit. At the time, only 15 percent of evangelicals held college or graduate degrees. Even though religious conservatives dominated higher education at the turn of the 20th century, by 1993 they had lost their influence within th
Source: Press Release--Society of American Historians
5-5-08
The Society of American Historians awarded the 51st Francis Parkman Prize, the 48th Allan Nevins Prize, and the first Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award for Distinguished Writing in American History of Enduring Public Significance at its annual dinner on Monday, May 5, in New York City.
William E. Leuchtenburg, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the first recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award named in honor
