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.news.wisc.edu
4-18-07
A pioneering study of the critical role that violence played in shaping the United States has won Ned Blackhawk, associate professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Organization of American Historian's (OAH) Frederick Jackson Turner Award.
The book, "Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West" (Harvard University Press, 2006), looks at the effects of violence on Native peoples and the hand that
Source: Fox News
4-19-07
Dr. Michael Foret of the UW-Stevens Point History Department has been suspended with pay after being arrested for possessing child pornography.
Chancellor Linda Bunnell said in a statement that the arrest happened Tuesday evening at his home.
Foret is banned from campus.
Bunnell says state, county and UWSP law enforcement officials worked together in the investigation leading to the arrest.
He made an initial court appearance in Portage County
Source: AHA Blog
4-19-07
In an April 17th press release, the Library of Congress Veterans History Project reported that it has teamed up with PBS and Ken Burns to promote a national effort to interview and record “first-hand recollections of the diverse men and women who served our nation during wartime”. The spark for this effort is Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary series on World War II, The War, scheduled to debut on September 23, 2007. The Veterans History Project has been collecting oral histories since 2000, and ha
Source: WaPo
4-19-07
A PBS official said yesterday that filmmaker Ken Burns will not re-cut his documentary on World War II -- a statement that disappointed and angered minority-group activists who on Tuesday said they believed Burns and PBS had committed to reediting the film to address their concerns about its content.
Programming chief John Wilson, seeking to clarify PBS's earlier statements, said yesterday that Burns's 14 1/2 -hour documentary, "The War," is complete. That statement, howev
Source: AHA Perspectives
4-17-07
The Nominating Committee for 2007–08, chaired by Neil Foley (Univ. of Texas at Austin), met in Washington, D.C. on February 3–4 and offers the following candidates for offices of the Association that are to be filled in the election this year:President (1-year term)
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University (medieval, with a special interest in historiography and linguistic analysis, medieval and contemporary)President-elect (1-year term)
Source: Daily Princetonian
4-18-07
In the last five years, the number of tenured history department faculty whose research and teaching focuses on the United States has fallen from a recent high of nine in 2002 to five this year.
"We recognize that we're shorthanded," 20th century American history professor Kevin Kruse, who received tenure last spring after six years as an assistant professor, said. "But we're working to correct it."
The history department has suffered signif
Source: WaPo
4-18-07
Filmmaker Ken Burns agreed yesterday to re-cut his PBS documentary on World War II to include footage about the contributions of Latino and American Indian service members -- and not to present the material apart from his 14 1/2 -hour series.
Source: Savannah Morning News
4-18-07
A Georgia state-owned railroad rented hundreds of slaves a year for nearly two decades, a California historian says.
Research by Theodore Kornweibel of San Diego State University surfaced Tuesday as a proposal for the state to apologize for slavery remains stalled...
Kornweibel's research follows other reports that the state bought -- and later sold -- about 190 slaves who worked on road and river projects.
Kornweibel, a professor emeritus in SDSU's Departm
Source: Family of Hans Koning
4-17-07
Writer Hans Koning has died at the age of 85 at his home [on April 13] in Easton, Connecticut after a short illness. The author of over 40 fiction and non-fiction books, he was also a prolific journalist, contributing for almost 60 years to many periodicals including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harpers and The New Yorker.
Born in Amsterdam on July 12th 1921 to Elisabeth van Collem and Daniel Koningsberger, he was educated at the Un
Source: AP
4-18-07
Dick Allen, a jazz historian whose scholarly command of the traditional New Orleans sound was matched only by his role as a French Quarter character, died on Thursday in Dublin, Ga. He was 80.
The cause was heart failure, said his sister, Betty Smith. He had been bedridden since leaving New Orleans in 2003 and had lived in a nursing home before that.
“In a town that enshrines and cherishes characters, Dick was one of the great ones,” said Robert H. Patterson, who worked
Source: HNN Staff
4-18-07
Rick Perlstein, the author of a highly esteemed history of the rise of the Goldwater movement, has become a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future, a liberal website created "to challenge the dominance of conservative ideas in our politics."
Perlstein's latest book, about Richard Nixon, will be published next year.
As a senior fellow he will blog and write articles.
Source: NY Post
4-16-07
A group of Manhattan public high-school students and a history teacher with a soft spot for Cuba flouted federal travel restrictions by taking a spring-break field trip to the communist nation - and now face up to $65,000 apiece in fines, The Post has learned.
The lesson in socializing and socialism was given to about a dozen students from the selective Beacon School on the Upper West Side, which for years has organized extravagant overseas trips with complementary semester-long classes.
Source: http://www.belleville.com
4-16-07
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Norman Tutorow is a bad typist - he uses the two-finger hunt-and-peck method. It's hardly an exercise in elegance.
The only thing worse than his typing is his handwriting - you can't read it. He can't read it.
His shortcomings notwithstanding, Tutorow has amassed a very large reputation among a very small number of people for writing history - not just writing it but correcting it, retelling it and altogether fixing history. He is thorough, tenaciou
Source: http://web.israelinsider.com
4-17-07
Thirteen years have passed since Israel and the Vatican established diplomatic ties, close to 2,000 years since Jesus was crucified, and there are still no "normal" relations between the State of Israel and the Vatican State. We might add: There never will be. Anyone who looks for "normalization" between the Jewish people and the Christian world, in the fullest ethical and emotional sense, is mistaken. Just as "normal" relations, in the fullest sense, are no
Source: Susan Arendt at Wired.com
4-17-07
Time magazine called historian and political commentator Niall Ferguson one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2004, and now he's teaming up with Muzzy Lane to create a new series of video games addressing global conflicts and issues. The games will allow players to tackle challenges ranging from terrorism (psssh, Tom Clancy already taught us how to deal with that) and borderless economies.
One might find it a bit curious that a Harvard grad and all-around Big Thinker lik
Source: NYT
4-17-07
Robert Dallek sat in the National Archives day after day, mining the 20,000 pages of Henry Kissinger’s telephone transcripts for historical gold. And every so often, amid the blur of bureaucratic tedium, a little nugget would glitter. One was the Nixon-Kissinger phone call reacting to news of the 1973 coup in Chile that overthrew Salvador Allende, whose Socialist government they had worked covertly to undermine through the C.I.A.
Mr. Kissinger grumbled to the president that American
Source: http://www.pulitzer.org/
4-16-07
The winner in history: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
The winner in biography: The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
The winner in general nonfiction: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
4-17-07
The Race Beat, a masterfully researched account of civil-rights-era journalism by Gene Roberts, former executive editor of The Inquirer, and Hank Klibanoff, a former Inquirer deputy managing editor who is now a top editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has won the Pulitzer Prize for history, the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University announced yesterday in presenting its annual awards in arts, letters and journalism.Subtitled The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle,
Source: Toledo Blade
4-15-07
Before 9/11, Matthew Bogdanos worked as a district attorney in New York City, boxed occasionally for sport, and was father to two small children and expecting a third child with his wife, Claudia.
But that day, their apartment near the World Trade Center was destroyed, buried in pulverized glass, asbestos, and masses of paper.
Shortly thereafter, his life took another turn: he was called to active duty from the Marine Corps Reserves. Colonel Bogdanos would spend much o
Source: Deseret News (Utah)
4-16-07
He was well-known as an assistant historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982. Among his publications was a 1979 book, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints, co-authored with Leonard J. Arrington, who at the time was the church historian....
