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.nj.com
3-26-08
Human rights activist Edwin Lewinson demanded to be sent to prison following his arrest last year during a protest against a controversial school that trains Latin American troops at Fort Benning, Ga.
But the blind 78-year-old retired professor is not happy to serve his three-month sentence at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution, which is 413 miles from his home in Newark.
"It's going to make it difficult for my friends to come visit me," Lewinson said
Source: Press Release
4-7-08
The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago invites you to attend a book release and policy briefing Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
9:00–10:30 a.m.
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Free event, RSVP requiredhttp://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu
773.834.3986
PANELISTS
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
4-7-08
Existing threats to academic freedom have been exacerbated by the political and economic climate following the terrorist attacks of September, 11, 2001, argued scholars at a conference held at New York University's new Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center at Tamiment Library on Thursday and Friday.
The conference, "Academic Freedom in an Age of Permanent Warfare," was the inaugural public event at the center, which was established at the university last year....
Source: http://www.pulitzer.org/
4-7-08
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) has won the Pulitzer Prize in history for 2008.
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) has won the Pulitzer for biography.
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Daniel Walker Howe: If You Could Ask the Author of One of Those Big Oxford Histories What He Learned He'd Say ...
Source: Daily Mail
4-4-08
... For decades, they have been seeking recognition of the special and terrible nature of their war.
In 1945, along with everybody else who flew, they were awarded the Aircrew Europe campaign medal.
Yet transport crews and even fighter pilots suffered only a fraction of their casualties.
"Harris's old lags" — as they called themselves with defiant pride after their leader Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris — want a Bomber Command campaign medal,
Source: Richard Steven Street in "The Photographer's Double," Visual Communication Quarterly (Fall 2007). (Article is not posted online)
9-1-07
In his quest to become
the best possible scholar
of California farmworkers,
Richard Steven Street put
academic life on hold and
spent 30 years as an
agricultural photographer.
This memoir recounts
how Street developed his
method for gathering
visual and verbal
information for his books.
Street argues that when a
person strays from the
anointed path, one
surprise follows another,
no formula fits all, and
one acquires an
appreciation for life’s
contradictions.
I am
Source: Daily Princetonian
4-2-08
Josh Marshall ’91, creator of the center-left political blog Talking Points Memo (TPM), answered questions from history professor Anthony Grafton about his publication and the evolution of news from paper to the digital realm.
Grafton introduced the site as a “hybrid, the Prius of media organizations” that combines traditional reporting with opinion journalism and muckraking to make “real interventions in politics.”
Marshall said that TPM relies on its close communication wit
Source: Press Release--University of Richmond
4-4-08
University of Richmond history professor Woody Holton has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the university's first professor to receive the prestigious award.
The fellowship will support Holton's work on a biography of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams. Holton will take a one-year sabbatical during the 2008-09 academic year to complete "Abigail Adams, Entrepreneur."
This year's is the 84th annual Guggenheim
Source: Independent (UK)
4-4-08
Beatrice De Cardi is in little doubt about what has driven her these past nine decades. Travelling to some of the world's most inhospitable places, coping with boiling heat, ruthless bandits and wild animals with a disarming, old world insouciance, it is, she says, her insatiable curiosity that has kept her going.
"It is exactly the same as if I am walking around a very bendy road," she explained as she prepared for the Society of Antiquaries' Women in Heritage Day at Burl
Source: http://www.abc.net.au
4-3-08
An Australian historian says there will be further damage to Gallipoli unless limits are placed on the number of visitors to the historic military site.
Joan Beaumont from Deakin University says the competing claims between heritage and tourism at Gallipoli remains unresolved after the 2005 outcry over road works which supposedly disturbed soldiers' remains.
Professor Beaumont says attendance at Gallipoli Anzac Day services have skyrocketed over the last decade.
Source: http://www.thedailystar.com
4-3-08
The author of a "groundbreaking" book on Dwight D. Eisenhower said Wednesday the nation's 34th president has been misunderstood by historians for decades.
Part of the reason is Eisenhower has often been judged on what he said and not what he did, said presidential scholar David Nichols, who spoke at Hartwick College.
"He didn't win the war in Europe by making speeches," Nichols, 69, said of the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during Worl
Source: NewsHour (PBS)
4-1-08
As part of a series on post-Katrina housing in New Orleans, NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser interviewed University of New Orleans history professor Arnold Hirsch about the history of public housing in New Orleans and the rest of the United States.
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ARNOLD HIRSCH: I'm a professor of history at the University of New Orleans. My formal title is the Ethel and Hermann L. Midlow Endowed Chair for New Orleans Studies and University Research Professor of History.
Source: http://www.columbia1968
3-12-08
This spring marks the 40th anniversary of the 1968 student protests at Columbia University. A group of alumni participants, working with faculty and students, has developed a program for a three-day conference to reexamine those events from a wide range of viewpoints and in the context of what was happening in 1968 in the country and the world. The conference will provide a chance for people who lived through that period to reconnect, reconcile, and reflect. And it will engage current students i
Source: Nation
4-3-08
TOWARD A NEW NEW DEAL:
FDR’S LIBERALISM AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
A Conference of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Roosevelt Institution
Co-sponsored by The Nation, The Economic Policy Institute, The Center for Community Change, NDN, Campaign for America’s Future, Demos, The Progressive States Network, The Drum Major Institute, and The American Prospect
April 9, 2008
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
The Wi
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
3-3-08
When Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. died, in February 2007, he left behind more than his legacy as an adviser to presidents and an award-winning historian.
He also left behind his vast collection of books. They filled the Manhattan apartment that he shared with his wife, and spilled over into a nearby apartment that he used as his study. More books were stacked in the building's basement.
Books also crowded Schlesinger's office at the Graduate Center at the City University o
Source: Boston Globe (Click to view a montage.)
4-1-08
Boston University professor emeritus Howard Zinn has turned to a new platform to give his version of US history -- the graphic novel, with "A People's History of American Empire."
Illustrations are by Mike Konopacki.
Source: Roman Modrowski in the blog: http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com
3-23-08
[Roman Modrowski is an assistant sports editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. He was a beat writer for the Bulls and Notre Dame football. He also covered prep sports.
Roman is a native of East Chicago, Ind., and a graduate of Purdue University Calumet.]
There have been so many analyses, fantasies and theories devoted to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy that anything purporting itself as a fresh perspective runs the risk of suffocation. Anything less than a smoking gun
Source: Haaretz
3-29-08
Alon Confino is a professor of modern German and European history at the University of Virginia and an expert in the culture of memory. In an article he published in the periodical Alpayim - A Multidisciplinary Publication for Contemporary Thought and Literature (in Hebrew), Confino calls for eliminating history from the discourse between Jews and Arabs in Israel, "to get rid of the arrogance of the past" and to overcome it. The debate as to what did and did not happen in the past only
Source: Dani Rodrik's blog
3-31-08
[Rodrik is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ]
Look at the figure below, and then look at it again, and again, and again. It is the most telling picture about the U.S. political economy I have ever seen.
Source: Indiana Daily Student
4-1-08
Although the war in Iraq can be characterized as turbulent and controversial, the American publics interest in U.S. foreign policy is increasing.
Guest lecturer and military historian Andrew J. Bacevich spoke Wednesday night in
the Indiana Memorial Union about U.S. foreign policy and Iraq to a packed room of students, faculty, staff and Bloomington residents.
Bacevich said his underlying theme was not “what do we do about Iraq ... but how are we as a natio
