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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.moneyweb.co.za
2-13-08
MONEYWEB: You're with the Moneyweb Power Hour and it's a warm welcome now to the former professor from UCT and from Stellenbosch University, Hermann Giliomee, one of our great historians in South Africa. Hermann, you wrote a piece last week for Die Burger and Die Beeld newspapers, and it's elicited a whole lot of interesting reaction. Let's just go back to it a little bit. As a historian you've been looking at South Africa and saying that we're now in the third major crisis of modern times, the
Source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com
2-13-08
In an article published by L’Osservatore Romano, Italian historian Francesco Guglietta, an expert on the life of Pius IX, revealed how the Pontiff decided to consult with the bishops of the world to proclaim the dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854.
Guglietta points out that the revolution that ended with the proclamation of the “Roman Republic” in 1848 and that forced the Pope to take up residence for nine months in Gaeta, south of Rome, had a profound effect on t
Source: Press Release--Gettysburg College Media Relations
2-12-08
Two books offering new insights into the lives of three of the Civil War era's most compelling figures will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College.
For their books about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee, the winners are James Oakes, a professor at the City University of New York, for "The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph
Source: Cinnamon Stillwell at the website of Campus Watch
2-15-08
Georgetown professor John Esposito, director of the Saudi-financed Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding has a reputation as an apologist for radical Islam. And it's one he lived up to with a
Source: Max Holland at his website, WashingtonDecoded
2-11-08
[HNN Editor: This is a review of the Philip Shenon's new book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. The book focuses on the role historian Philip Zelikow played as executive director of the 9-11 Commission. As we reported in early February when news of the book first broke, Zelikow has had a difficult relationship with both Shenon and Max Holland, the author of this review. Zelikow and Shenon crossed swor
Source: Zachary M. Schrag at http://institutionalreviewblog
2-2-08
In response to the October 2007 announcement in the Federal Register calling for comments about the existing guidance on expedited review, oral historians and their allies have flooded OHRP with complaints about IRB review of oral history and requests for an unambiguous exemption.As the original announcement noted, comments sent in response to Federal Register notices are
Source: http://www.thestate.com
2-12-08
Daniel Walker Hollis, author of the definitive history of the University of South Carolina from its origin in 1801 to the early 1950s, died Thursday at age 85.
When he retired in 1985, Hollis described to a writer for The State a 47-year “love affair” with USC, including 38 years on its history faculty.
Hollis was buried Sunday at Elmwood Cemetery and Gardens in Columbia.
His contribution for the ages was his two-volume history of the university, which was
Source: http://www.gainesville.com
2-9-08
Armenians during World War I died of starvation and disease, not genocide, an Ottoman Empire historian said Friday in a speech sponsored by the University of Florida's Turkish Student Association.
Justin McCarthy, a history professor a the University of Louisville, was greeted by applause in a half-full University Auditorium and spoke about his research on what others say was genocide against the Armenian people during World War I.
Armenians cannot claim that the Otto
Source: Dissent
2-1-08
Years later, I would tell my friends never to shirk their jury summonses. This is the most democratic experience you’ll ever have, I’d insist.
But when I first arrived at the Alameda County Superior Courthouse, located in what was the gritty area of downtown Oakland in the late 1980s, I had little desire to serve on a criminal trial. I simply assumed that no sane assistant D.A. would accept me as a member of a jury because I was a professor, a Berkeley resident, and a lifelong liber
Source: Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists
2-11-08
"Senior investigators on the 9/11 Commission believed their work was
being manipulated by the executive director to minimize criticism of
the Bush Administration," according to a new book on the Commission."Investigative staffers at the Commission believe [executive director]
Philip Zelikow repeatedly sought to minimize the administration's
intelligence failures in the months leading up to 9/11, which had the
effect of helping to ensure President Bush's re
Source: http://www.rockbridgeweekly.com
2-9-08
Mark P. Carey, assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University, has received the Leopold-Hidy Prize for 2007. The prize is awarded by the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Environmental History to the author of the best article published in the journals during that year.
Carey, an environmental historian, is the author of "The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species," published in Environmental History (July 2007). Currently, he is wor
Source: Press Release
2-12-08
The Constitutional Sources Project, creator of ConSource.org, the only free, fully-indexed online library of Constitutional sources, will partner with The History Channel, the New York Historical Society, Ustream.TV and Verizon Thinkfinity.org in hosting an online President's Day event with David McCullough February 13, 2008 webcast at www.ConSource.org from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST. This event will mark the addition of approximately 20,000 letters, speeches, and
Source: HNN Staff (Click here to read Mr. Lehrman's article.)
2-12-08
In today's NY Sun there's an op ed by Lewis Lehrman, one half of the duo behind the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
The topic is an extended discussion of Lincoln's run for president in 1860.
Not until the reader reaches the end of the article does it become clear why Mr. Lehrman, who is known for his generous donations to history projects, is writing about Lincoln.
The answer is supplied in his bio line:
Mr. Lehrman, co-chairman of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of Am
Source: Anne Mitchell Whisnant in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
2-12-08
"I thought I'd read a few passages from my book," I told the young man, as he arranged the chairs, tested the mike, and set out a bottle of water before my first book-signing event at a small bookstore in the North Carolina mountains.
A surprised look crossed his face. "I guess that would be OK," he replied earnestly, "but usually only our fiction writers read from their books."
A few weeks earlier, I had spent an evening with 45 such write
Source: Press Release
2-12-08
In a rare departure from tradition, the 2008 Lincoln Prize has been awarded to a book devoted to a leader of the Southern Confederacy, Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee through his Private Letters (Viking). The award was announced today by the Lincoln & Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg, which administers the prize. The Lincoln Prize is one of the most generous and prestigious awards in the field of American history. It is customarily given for the year’s be
Source: http://www.benningtonbanner.com
2-11-08
A lack of emphasis in the Army educational system and a promotion system that does not allow dissident views is what is keeping the United States Army from producing another Gen. George Marshall, according to an expert on U.S. diplomatic and military history who spoke at the Pownal Solomon Wright Library on Sunday.
Marshall, a military leader that went on to become Secretary of State, the third Secretary of Defense and win a Nobel Peace Prize, had a real understanding of authority and how
Source: HNN Staff
1-29-08
A sampling of opinion:Stan Katz (Chronicle of Higher Ed.) I was intrigued and disappointed to read John Gravois’s article on the agreement signed by the Hoover Institution at Stanford with the Iraq Memory Foundation for the deposit at Hoover of “two shipping containers” of records created by Ir
Source: Sen. Judiciary Committee
2-7-08
Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you for the chance to speak before this committee in support of the Founding Fathers Project. What has been achieved thus far with the publication of the papers of the Founders is all of an exceedingly high order. I want to attest to that emphatically, as one of the many -- the countless number of historians, biographers, scholars, and students -- who have drawn again and again on the great wealth of material to be found in these incomparable volumes. Their value is
Source: Newsweek
2-9-08
February of every year is Black History Month, and it's easy to tell when it's here because we're inundated with images of Martin Luther King Jr. and other celebrated African-Americans. All of it can seem mostly pro forma political correctness with little context and even less thought. But a new eight-volume set of books released this month, the African American National Biography (AANB), blows the dust off Black History Month by telling the stories of 4,080 black lives in America—past and prese
Source: NYT
2-7-08
The Air Force Academy was criticized by Muslim and religious freedom organizations for playing host on Wednesday to three speakers who critics say are evangelical Christians falsely claiming to be former Muslim terrorists....
Prof. Douglas Howard, who teaches the history of the modern Middle East at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., heard Mr. Saleem speak last November at the college and said he thought the three were connected to several major Christian evangelical organizatio
