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://ejpress.org
4-5-07
British Jewish leaders have spoken of their concern after
a Haifa University lecturer who has called for a boycott of Israeli
academics, was made Chair of History at Exeter University in the south of
England.
Ilan Pappe has published numerous books and essays accusing Israel of
?ethnically cleansing? the Palestinians.
"Zionism is far more dangerous to the safety of the Middle East than
Islam," Pappe said in one interview recently and two years ago he was a
major supporter of the
Source: Andrew Leonard at Salon.com
4-5-07
One of the oddities of history is that although Taiwan is separated from mainland China by only about 100 miles, the first outside power to exert political control over the island was the Netherlands. Even more peculiar, and delightful, is the thesis articulated in Tonio Andrade's "How Taiwan Became Chinese": The Dutch are ultimately responsible for the Sinification of Taiwan; the transformation of an island populated predominantly by Austronesian aborigines into a culturally Chinese d
Source: Bernard Gwertzman at the website of the Council on Foreign Relations
4-5-07
Juan Cole, an expert on Iran and other Middle East issues, says once the British sailors and marines were captured, the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the incident “to whip up Iranian nationalistic sentiments” and garner popular support for the relatively unpopular government. Cole, who publishes the blog Informed Comment, says the captives were released when Khamenei was satisfied that Iran would not lose face and he could ensure the situation would not “spiral out of contro
Source: HNN Staff
4-5-07
The HISTORY NEWS NETWORK (http://hnn.us) recorded this appearance of Sean Wilentz at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on March 31, 2007.
Mr. Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton, is the author of The Rise of American Democracy. His book was the subject of a panel at the OAH.
In the course of the proceedings James Stewart of Macalester College gave Mr. Wilentz a t-shirt featuring the image of Karl Marx and
Source: HNN Staff
4-6-07
Several historians at Southern Methodist University have signed a new petition to protest the establishment of an institute on the campus in tandem with the proposed Bush presidential library.
Source: AP
4-4-07
Iranian authorities detained a French academic [and historian of Islam] and have barred him from leaving the country since January, the French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Stephane Dudoignon was arrested in the sensitive region of Sistan-Baluchestan, in southeastern Iran, on Jan. 30 after photographing a religious procession there, Foreign Ministry spokesman Denis Simonneau said....
Dudoignon, who is married to an Iranian woman, is living with his wife's family in Tehran, the
Source: Press Release -- Alfred University (NY)
4-3-07
Any student who has completed a basic science course knows what the periodic table of the elements is, but Dr. Eric R. Scerri, a lecturer in chemistry at the University of California-Los Angeles, has become an expert on the periodic table, which has been called “nature’s rosetta stone.”
He will share his thoughts about the significance of the periodic table during the ninth annual Samuel R. Scholes Jr. Lecture, scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in Nevins Theatre, Powell Campus
Source: Robin Lindley in Seattle's Real Change
3-21-07
[Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer who
covers international affairs, human rights, politics,
law, medicine and the arts. He has worked as a lawyer
for federal and local agencies and as a law teacher.
He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law
Section of the Washington State Bar Association. He
also worked as a staff attorney with the U.S. House
Select Committee on Assassinations on the
investigation of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. ]
Something
Source: Press Release -- UC Riverside
4-2-07
A statistical reference work co-edited by UCR economics professors Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch has won multiple honors, including Dartmouth Medal, Honorable Mention, for creation of an outstanding reference work.
“Historical Statistics of the United States: Earlier Times to the Present, Millennial Edition” also was named one of the 2007 Outstanding Reference Sources for small and medium-sized libraries by the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American
Source: Steve Paulson at Salon.com
4-2-07
As almost every child knows, Judas was the disciple who betrayed Jesus ; selling his life for 30 pieces of silver. If there's an arch villain in the story of Jesus, it's Judas Iscariot. Or is it? The newly discovered Gospel of Judas suggests that Judas was, in fact, the favorite disciple, the only one Jesus trusted to carry out his final command to hand him over to the Romans.
Rumors about the gospel have circulated for cen
Source: http://www.diverseeducation.com
4-5-07
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A few years ago, historian Lisa Daniels discovered a fascinating morsel of buried history in her own family.
Daniels learned that her grandmother, Rita Hernandez, was a civilian riveter and blueprint reader during World War II, serving on the USS Franklin Roosevelt in the Brooklyn shipyard. Odessa Taylor-Marshall served as a medical technician with the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, which delivered backlogged mail to the troops in Europe from 1942-1
Source: Kirstein blog
4-1-07
Chuck Suchar, DePaul University’s Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, opposes tenure for Norman Finkelstein in a three-page memorandum dated March 22, 2007. Dr Finkelstein received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. The Political Science department voted 9 to 3 in favour of granting tenure. Three filed a minority report and the dean sided with that. The five-member College Personnel Committee was unanimous in favour of granting tenure. The dean’s letter basically attacks the tone
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4-3-07
Eleven scholars have published a full-page ad in The New York Review of Books to try to rally support for Ward Churchill, who is facing possible dismissal from his tenured job at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The text of the ad is available at a Web site called “Defend Critical Thinking,” and focuses on the way charges of misconduct were brought against Churchill, not the charges themselves. The ad warns scholars to “be wary of opportunistic attacks on scholarship that are disguised mea
Source: The Nation (Bangkok, Thailand)
4-3-07
A historian of Southeast Asian studies has launched a "Siam not Thailand" campaigning, urging constitution drafters to revert to the name used in the Kingdom's first constitution.
"People who have been part of our country have different ethnic, linguistic and cultural identities. Therefore, to reflect historical fact and the present reality, the name of the country should be Siam, not Thailand," historian Charnvit Kasetsiri wrote in an open letter issued yesterd
Source: Jerusalem Post
4-1-07
Ilan Pappe, a senior lecturer in the University of Haifa's Department of Political Science, says he is moving to the UK because it is "increasingly difficult to live in Israel" with his "unwelcome views and convictions."
In an interview in The Peninsula, Qatar's leading English-language daily, during a visit last week to Doha as a guest of the Qatar Foundation, Pappe said: "I was boycotted in my university and there had been attempts to expel me from my job
Source: NYT
4-1-07
Los Angeles: IF you are even a casual visitor to the pawn shops and junk emporiums that make this city a scavenger’s paradise, you might have run into him: a burly, dark-bearded man with a thick Czech accent and a certain glow in his eye as he riffles through the boxes of castoff photographs.
His name is Dusan Stulik, and his appetite for old pictures is not sated by secondhand bins. He wants them from you too, from your old family albums and rubber-banded shoeboxes, from your Aunt
Source: Peter Steinfels in the NYT
3-31-07
In 1973, Morton Smith published both a dense scholarly tome (“Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark,” Harvard University Press) and a popular book (“The Secret Gospel,” Harper & Row) describing a manuscript that he had found in a Greek Orthodox monastery south of Jerusalem.
Used as reinforcement for the binding of an early modern book, it was an 18th-century copy of an otherwise unknown “letter to Theodore” from Clement of Alexandria, a church father of the late seco
Source: NYT
3-31-07
IT was about 15 years ago, recalled Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a mild-mannered historian, when he grew fed up with the Japanese government’s denials that the military had set up and run brothels throughout Asia during World War II.
Instead of firing off a letter to a newspaper, though, Mr. Yoshimi went to the Defense Agency’s library and combed through official documents from the 1930s. In just two days, he found a rare trove that uncovered the military’s direct role in managing the brothels
Source: New Anatolian (Ankara, Turkey)
4-2-07
An Istanbul court decided late in January not to pursue charges against a Turkish historian for declaring a "genocide" of Armenians had been committed during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, daily Radikal revealed over the weekend.
In an article in Agos, a Turkish-Armenian weekly, historian Taner Akcam had written, "The 1915-1917 deportations and massacres of Armenians constituted a genocide."
The complaint against Akcam was filed by Recep Akkus
Source: Reuters
4-2-07
LOS ANGELES -- Newly released documents show that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to keep him from interfering, according to new book excerpted in Vanity Fair on Monday.
"Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power," is by presidential historian Robert Dallek, who spent four years reviewing the Nixon administration's recently opened archives, including 20,000 pages of Kissinger's telephone transcr
