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: NYT
9-1-07
A front-page article in The New York Sun yesterday trumpeted what seemed to be a striking fact: Pete Seeger, the quintessential leftist balladeer and a former Communist, had denounced Stalinism.
The article centered on a letter from Mr. Seeger to the writer, Ron Radosh, a historian and adjunct senior fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute. “I think you’re right I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in U.S.S.R.,” Mr. Seeger wrote.
He also included the lyr
Source: http://www.victorhanson.com
8-29-07
John Leo, Editor of MindingTheCampus.com, hosts Victor Davis Hanson to discuss his most recent article from the summer issue of City Journal, "Why Study War?". Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a City Journal Contributing Editor.
Leo: Welcome Dr. Hanson, your article "Why Study War?," strongly criticizes the academy for its increasing neglect of military history. How do you explain this neglect?
Hanso
Source: Sherman Yellen in Huffington Post (Blog)
8-30-07
[Yellen is a dramatist.]
When I was a young man I knew a renowned art historian, born a Jew, whose loathing for his co-religionists knew no boundaries. It was the nineteen fifties and this distinguished and successful man -- whom I do not name out of consideration for his living children -- devoted much of his time to living in a pretend WASP world. The Holocaust and the long history of persecution that Jews had suffered had not opened his heart to his own people, it had caused him to sh
Source: CanWest News Service
8-29-07
Historian Randall Hansen is calling the Canadian War Museum's decision to amend an exhibit after veterans complained craven and appalling.
Mr. Hansen, a professor at the University of Toronto, this year testified before a Senate subcommittee investigating the historical accuracy of a text panel appearing on a Bomber Command exhibit entitled, An Enduring Controversy.
Mr. Hansen is one of at least five historians who found the 67 words of text were balanced and factually
Source: John Kasich interview with Douglas Brinkley on the O'Reilly Factor
8-30-07
KASICH: Amidst all the tales of personal suffering and human tragedy, a high-profile legal battle is also unfolding in the Big Easy. Salvador and Mabel Mangano are on trial for negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 residents in their nursing home.
But their defense strategy is to shift blame to federal authorities for failing to secure the levees and state authorities for failing to order mandatory evacuations. Joining us now from Houston, historian Douglas Brinkley, the author of
Source: Fox News
8-30-07
A professor whose views on the Holocaust irked critics plans to risk arrest by showing up on the first day of classes next week at DePaul University after officials canceled his courses, took away his office and put him on leave.
The private Chicago Catholic university recently informed professor Norman Finkelstein that his three courses were canceled after a dispute over tenure that drew charges of anti-Semitism against him.
Critics find issue with Finkelstein, the son
Source: Press Release--National Park Service
8-30-07
[HNN Editor: The post of Chief Historian at the NPS has been vacant since June 2005, when Dwight T. Pitcaithley retired.]
The National Park Service (NPS) announces the selection of Dr. Robert K. Sutton as Chief Historian of the National Park Service. The Chief Historian position in the National Park Service is one of the most prestigious historian positions in the Federal government. The Chief Historian provides guidance and d
Source: Euro Topics
8-22-07
The French historian Jean-Yves Mollier, interviewed by Gilles Heuré, criticises the Google intiative to create an on-line library. The purpose of the search engine is "to make money and pay its share-holders. With this in mind, it will not be recommending books that are hardly ever ordered. This is why public power ... should introduce other search engines. Personally, I am more in favour of engines that function according to language rather than states. ... I am afraid that with a European
Source: Scott McLemee at the website of Inside Higher Education
8-29-07
Polemics seldom age well. But when Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967, he aimed his verbal artillery in so many directions that it seems as if some of the missiles are still landing four decades later. (At the time of his death in 2005, Cruse was professor emeritus of African-American studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.)...
Rather than devoting this column to celebration of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual on its 4
Source: HNN Staff
8-29-07
This has been a busy summer for Robert Collins, emeritus professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, who's supposedly retired. In July Cambridge University Press decided to pulp his book on terrorism financing after a Saudi billionaire named in the book threatened to sue for libel, putting Collins in the middle of an international storm involving important questions of censorship . Now he is preparing to head to Washington DC next week to br
Source: Cinnamon Stillwell at the website of CampusWatch
8-29-07
It has become popular for those with competing political agendas to allege threats to free speech, whether real or imagined. Yet, there is a very real threat to free speech that has received little attention in the public sphere. It's called libel tourism and it has become a major component in the ideological arm of the war on terrorism.At question is the publication of books and other writings that seek to shed light on the financing of Islamic terrorism. Increasingly, American author
Source: Khody Akhavi at ipsnews.net
8-27-07
... If there are historical lessons to be learned from the Iraq debacle, Juan Cole's new book "Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East" may be a good place to start. Cole, a well-respected scholar of Middle East history and author of "Informed Comment", a widely-read blog that covers politics of the region, describes Napoleon Bonaparte's military misadventure in Egypt in 1798 and the Bush administration's Iraq war as historical bookends on modern imperialism in the Middle
Source: http://www.canadaeast.com
8-28-07
A high-society Montreal matron and her son are found dead in the bedroom of the woman's mansion. Two gunshots were heard. Three bullets are recovered. The year is 1901.
Outdoorsman and iconic Canadian painter Tom Thomson goes out for a paddle in Ontario's fabled Algonquin Park and disappears. His body is found floating in Canoe Lake days later. Murder or misadventure? The year is 1917.
A Canadian diplomat, removed from a post in Japan and made ambassador to Egypt, jumps
Source: Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria
8-27-07
At Durham-in-Wonderland, our colleague, KC Johnson, has profiled some of the 88 Duke faculty members, who signed an early public statement that seemed to rush to judgment about the guilt of the members of the University's lacrosse team. The historians profiled include: William Chafe, Sally Deutsch,
Source: Daniel Pipes at his blog
8-24-07
In their sensational historical detective work, Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War (Yale University Press, 2007), Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez have challenge the widely-accepted idea that the Six Day War happened without anyone wanting it. Instead, they present a theory that the U.S.S.R. instigated the war as a way preemptively to destroy the Israeli nuclear facilities.
Source: New Yorker
8-27-07
... Mearsheimer and Walt are not anti-Semites or racists. They are serious scholars,
and there is no reason to doubt their sincerity. They are right to describe the
moral violation in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands. (In this, most
Israelis and most American Jews agree with them.) They were also right about
Iraq. The strategic questions they raise now, particularly about Israel’s
privileged relationship with the United States, are worth debating––just as it
is worth debating
Source: NYT
8-28-07
The command post is a set of Manhattan publishing offices, and the foot soldiers include Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh, Bob Woodward, Anna Quindlen, Alex Kotlowitz, Paul Hendrickson, Samantha Power and Bill Walton. They are going on David Halberstam’s book tour for him.
Five months after Mr. Halberstam’s death in a car accident on April 23, some of this celebrated journalist’s closest friends and colleagues will be banding together to cover different legs of a nationwide publicity tour
Source: http://en.apa.az
8-27-07
Professor of California University, historian Tomov confessed his mistake in the response to the protest letter of Azerbaijani Shahla Aliguliyeva working for OXFA organization.
“I am grateful to you for your opinion about my book and revealing my mistake. This is a mistake. Gara Garayev is not Armenian, he is Azerbaijani composer. I will try to correct the mistake in the second edition of the book,” he said.
Gara Garayev is introduced as an Armenian composer in the scie
Source: Dan Michman in Haaretz
8-28-07
Raul Hilberg, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont, died on Saturday, August 4. He was certainly one of the most influential scholars in Holocaust research in the world, despite the fact that his list of publications was relatively short. But his relationship with Israeli Holocaust research was ambivalent.
Hilberg fled as a child with his parents from Vienna to the U.S. after the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938). He was recruite
Source: http://www.aijac.org.au
9-1-07
Up until the year 2000, David Irving was the Henry Ford of the Holocaust denial industry. But a lawsuit brought by Irving against a critic effectively put a spanner in his production line of hate.
Professor Richard J. Evans, who visited Australia in July, played no small part in the downfall of the loathed titan.
In 2000, Irving brought a libel suit against Prof. Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books for publishing her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault o
