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: Aaron Hanscom at frontpagemag.com
4-2-07
Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes calls himself a "soldier" in the war against radical Islam. This description is in keeping with Pipes' belief that the "war's center of gravity has shifted from force of arms to the hearts and minds of citizens." Because so many people in the West still don't believe that they are at war, specialists like Pipes are performing an essential role by warning of the dangers of radical Islam.
The most recent battlefield in the war of id
Source: Savannah College of Art and Design Chronicle
3-30-07
Anyone who thinks art history isn’t intimately related to studio practice hasn’t talked to Jonathan Field, Ph.D.
Field, an art history professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, also is a practicing artist devoted to interdisciplinary perspectives.
“There has always been a crossover in my mind between understanding the history and theory of art and the practical problems of making it,” he said. “History is not separate from making art; I see it all as very int
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
3-30-07
When high schools are indifferent about complete works of nonfiction and 5,000-word term papers, Will Fitzhugh says any claim that students are getting a comprehensive education is fiction. He also believes that too much time, money and energy are spent on methods and theories of education instead of content. And that “edu-pundits” should change their focus from teacher performance to student performance.
Mr. Fitzhugh is trying to solve a problem that costs billions of dollars annua
Source: Jacob Weisberg at Slate.com
3-28-07
President Bush is sometimes a boastful anti-intellectual, but in the past year he has been touting his reading lists and engaging in who-can-read-more contests with his chief political adviser, Karl Rove. (Bush claimed to have read 60 books in just the first seven and a half months of last year, the pace of a full-time reviewer.) There even seems to be a White House book club.
The most recent selection was A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 by conservative British
Source: LAT & WaPo
3-27-07
Mary Walton McCandlish Livingston, a federal archivist whose testimony before Congress revealed that President Nixon's donated papers were improperly backdated, died March 23 in Alexandria, Va. She was 92 and had Alzheimer's disease.
Livingston, a senior archivist in the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives for 30 years, supervised work on Nixon's early papers. In March 1970, while working with a manuscript dealer chosen by Nixon, she selected 1,176 boxes of pe
Source: Ralph Luker at Cliopatria (HNN Blog)
3-27-07
Two years ago, a diverse group of us (Max Boot, David Greenberg, Jeffrey Rogers Hummell, Eric Muller, Ronald Radosh, and Cathy Young) gave the paleo-conservative historian,
Source: http://www.juf.org
3-26-07
American historian and writer Peter Gay -- who as a young boy watched in horror as the Nazis rounded up Jews, ransacked Jewish homes and shops and burned down synagogues on that fateful November evening in 1938 known as Crystal Night -- will deliver the 2007 Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization Tuesday, April 17, at Northwestern University.
Born Peter Joachim Frohlich, the eminent cultural historian and prolific writer will speak at 7:30 p.m. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Art
Source: Interviewed by Reuters
3-26-07
Professor Mark Naison of Fordham University tells Reuters Global Coverage that even plantation owners in the state of Virginia, which was known for its humane treatment of slaves, were self-serving: they sold their slaves when their businesses deteriorated to save themselves.
Virginia became the first state last month to pass a resolution expressing "profound regret" over slavery, and other states are considering simliar measures.
Source: Fox News
3-26-07
... Lt. Gen. William E. Odom (Ret.), who advanced counterinsurgency efforts nearly 40 years ago in Vietnam, is wary of the silence.
“Sure, those guys are going to get out of the line of fire,” he said of the Mahdi. "They'll wait and see what happens and then design a way to come back and attack the U.S. position with tactics more favorable to them.”
Yet the calm in Sadr City it is the first sign of an unofficial, albeit uneasy truce between the U.S military and the
Source: Press Release -- New-York Historical Society
3-27-07
Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society announced today that David Nasaw would receive the second annual New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize for Andrew Carnegie. The award will be presented at a ceremony during the annual Chairman’s Council Weekend with History on April 27, where Nasaw will also be named American Historian Laureate.
“David Nasaw’s thoroughly researched biography makes Carnegie relevant and compelling to a 21st century audienc
Source: International Herald Tribune
3-26-07
... The Vietnam Project [at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas] is the brainchild of a remarkable academic entrepreneur named James Reckner, who, decades ago, served two tours of duty in Vietnam, advising the South Vietnamese Army in riverine warfare.
Reckner's academic specialty is Theodore Roosevelt and the development of American naval power, but he started the Vietnam Project in 1989 when he began teaching a course on the Vietnam War and discovered that the university possessed very l
Source: Mark J. Drozdowski is executive director of the Fitchburg State College Foundation, in Fitchburg, Mass. in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
3-26-07
Dear Dr. Faust:
You probably don't remember me, but I was in your "History of the American South" class at Penn. I think it was 1988, spring semester. I sat in the fourth row, toward the left, and wore a Red Sox cap. You gave an especially tough midterm, as I recall.
Anyhow, that's not why I'm writing. I am writing, first, to say congratulations on your appointment as the new president of Harvard University. Boy, you came out of nowhere, at least to people pay
Source: San Jose Mercury News
3-25-07
A Stanford legal team prevailed in its battle against the estate of Irish writer James Joyce, gaining the right for an English professor to publish family correspondence, notebooks and a manuscript containing a description of dreams by his troubled daughter, Lucia Joyce.
But the Joyce Estate fended off a broader legal and philosophical challenge to copyright law and avoided a sweeping concession to make Joyce's works available to other scholars.
Joyce's fiercely protect
Source: Email sent to HNN
3-26-07
It is with profound sadness that Emory University announces the death of our courageous colleague, Betsey Fox-Genovese, who passed away after a prolonged struggle against failing health on Tuesday, 2 January 2007. Betsey joined Emory University in 1986 as Professor of History and Founding Director of Women’s Studies. Two years later she was appointed as the Eléonore Raoul Professor of Humanities, an honor she held throughout the remainder of her long and illustrious career. She was well known
Source: Doug Monroe in Atlantic Magazine
3-26-07
Last week, I wrote about about the controversial book Buried in the Bitter Waters by Cox Washington correspondent Elliot Jaspin, who blasts the Cox-owned Atlanta Journal-Constitution for allegedly whitewashing the racial cleansing of Forsyth County, Ga.
I mentioned a blog comment in which James Loewen, author of Sundown Towns, found it "astonishing" that Jaspin hadn't credited his book.
Jaspin responded with a comment to my blog, saying "Prof. Loewen was
Source: Email to HNN from Nick Wynne, PhD, Florida Historical Society
3-22-07
The Florida State Legislature is just underway (this is its second full
week) and an effort is underway to secure as many electronic signatures
as possible on a petition to have the Governor and the Legislature
re-write the A++ Plan, which mandates that"American history shall be
viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable,
teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new
nation based largely on the universal principles stated in the
Decl
Source: http://www.cwnews.com
3-16-07
A noted Italian Church historian has denounced the opposition of the Catholic Church to the legal recognition of civil unions, and blasted Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news), saying that the current Pontiff is “worse than Pius XII.”
Giusepp Alberigo told the newspaper Corriere della Sera that Pope Benedict is afraid of modernity, “like a child who during the night is afraid of a ghost-- when in reality there is no ghost, but only a shadow.”
In an article summarizing reactio
Source: http://news-service.stanford.edu
3-21-07
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Program for the Environment and many other scientific associations, there is no controversy about global climate change. Nor has there ever been any controversy in the scientific community, said Stanford University alumna Naomi Oreskes (PhD '90), professor of history and science studies at the University of California-San Diego.
Oreskes made her remarks during
Source: http://inside.binghamton.edu
3-22-07
Richard Trexler, 74, distinguished professor emeritus of history, died March 8 in Princeton, N.J., after suffering complications related to a kidney transplant.
Trexler, a Florentine Renaissance specialist who did his undergraduate work at Baylor University, received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
He joined Binghamton’s faculty in 1978 after teaching in Texas and Illinois.
Trexler, who was named distinguished res
Source: UC Berkeley News
3-21-07
BERKELEY – It was another standing ovation for Professor Leon Litwack this morning (Wednesday, March 21) in his History 7B class.
Such shows of appreciation for the University of California, Berkeley, social historian and iconoclast are reaching a fever pitch in the final countdown to Litwack's retirement at the semester's end. In his half century of teaching more than 30,000 students about America's checkered racial history, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author has won fans of all age
