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: David White in Campus-Watch.org
9-7-06
Juan Cole's supporters have taken to portraying the antiwar University of Michigan history professor as a victim of a neoconservative cabal that deep-sixed his job application at Yale. There's only one problem with that conspiracy theory: It's not true.At the same time when Cole's pursuit of a job at New Haven was gaining so much attention, it turns out he was also applying for a job at Duke and getting passed
Source: David Greenberg at the New Republic blog, Open University
8-31-06
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Source: Bruce Craig, writing in the newsletter of the Coalition for History
9-8-06
n a meeting with representatives of the research community on 6 September 2006, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein reported on the progress being made in the effort to implement the "National Declassification Initiative (NDI)," a new set of policies, declassification practices, procedures, and organizational structures believed necessary to create a more reliable executive branch-wide declassification program for federal records. The Archivist said, "When we last met i
Source: Daily Kent Stater
9-7-06
Last year the university hired about 260 full- and part-time faculty. Every department, school and college handles these hirings based on their individual policies within the university's guidelines.
This year already welcomes a new president and dean. Additional faculty positions have been approved in fast-growing fields such as journalism and fashion design. Those don't even touch on the routine replacements and part-time faculty the university hires every year.
In 20
Source: Edward J. Renehan Jr. at his blog
9-5-06
The biographer and historian William H. Harbaugh, professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia who died in the spring of '05, was a great friend and mentor to me. His Power & Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (FS&G, 1961) remains the very best single-volume biography of TR ever published. Meanwhile, his biography of John W. Davis - Lawyer's Lawyer (Oxford Un
Source: Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists
9-5-06
A landmark 1953 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which affirmed the
government's use of the"state secrets" privilege to withhold
information is the focus of a new book called"In the Name of
National Security" by constitutional scholar Louis Fisher.
The 1953 case, United States v. Reynolds, revolved around a request
by three widows for access to an accident report about a military
plane crash in which their husbands died in 1948. The government
refused to release the requested report.
Source: Sequim Gazette
9-6-06
Inside her classroom, piles of books and journals are stuffed into plastic containers and crowd tabletops and bookshelf tops. Groups of desks congeal and set into the middle of the room, topped by upended chairs, like stalagmites in this cave of learning.
One might be able to learn here, if they don’t put an eye out first.
In a sense, it is organized chaos, says Tricia Billes, Sequim Middle School seventh-grade teacher. A messy calm before the storm.
When h
Source: Press Release -- The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
9-3-06
Fifty-five leading Holocaust scholars have denounced a new book which asserts that criticism of President Franklin Roosevelt's response to the Holocaust is "anti-American" and "America-bashing." The book also contains false allegations against reputable historians, severely misrepresents key historical facts, and contains at least twenty-one passages that use language from other books without appropriate attribution.
The book, Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roose
Source: International Herald Tribune
9-4-06
Austria's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by right-wing British historian David Irving and upheld the conviction in his Holocaust denial case, the Austria Press Agency reported Monday.In February, a Vienna state court convicted Irving of denying the Holocaust and sentenced him to three years in prison.
The Alpine country's highest court rejected the appeal during a closed session last week, APA said, citing a preliminary communication from the court.
Source: News 8 Austin, TX
8-31-06
Betsy Gonzales has been teaching for 22 years. On Wednesday she was recognized for her efforts.
Gonzales, who teaches at Cedar Park Middle School in the Leander Independent School District, was named Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Preserve American Initiative. This is a national teaching award, voted on by her peers."It's long overdue," fellow teacher Phillip Sozansky said.
Sozansky learned
Source: Newsday
8-22-06
The Theodore Roosevelt Association has named a Boston University history professor as executive director.
Cathal Nolan, an international relations scholar, two weeks ago took over operations of the Muttontown-based group that has more than 2,000 members and is dedicated to promoting recognition of the 26th president.
Hiring Nolan, author of "The Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations" and other foreign policy books, is a critical part of a changeov
Source: E.J. Dionne, Jr. in the Wa Po
8-22-06
... David S. Brown's "Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography" offers us the life of one of our country's most revered historians. Hofstadter, the author of such enduringly popular works as "The American Political Tradition" and "The Age of Reform," shaped modern liberalism in ways that we must still grapple with today.
Anyone who loves American history owes a debt to Hofstadter, and that would include me. I was blessed with two inspiring high sch
Source: Press Release -- musicfortomorrow.org
8-22-06
On 18 September 2006, a fund raiser concert for the culture of New Orleans will take place in Dixon Hall, at Tulane University. The concert features Irvin Mayfield and members of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis co-chairs the event along with concert host Jude Law, and historian Douglas Brinkley, who will speak before the concert. The concert will raise $1 million for the new National Jazz Center, and also to establish the "Music for Tomorrow" non-profit orga
Source: Telegraph (UK)
8-21-06
FRANCIS MADDISON, who died on July 12 aged 78, was an Arabist and an historian, and became Curator of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science.
A taste for the recondite, a love of languages, a delight in the bizarre or puzzling - these, allied to careful and accurate scholarship were the characteristics that led Maddison from his undergraduate studies in modern languages and history to the direction of the world-class collection of scientific and technical artefacts in Oxford.
Source: Desiree Cooper in The Free Press
8-17-06
... The automobile represents the American dream for everyone, but it has a special
sentimentality for African Americans, according to Thomas Sugrue, a historian
and sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in urban
history and race relations.
"African Americans from Detroit who could buy cars on company plans could
certainly make a show of going South in their new wheels," he said. "Until the
late 1960s, there was a huge wage gap between Northerner
Source: Bruce Kuklick in Christianity Today (July/Aug. 2006)
8-18-06
[Bruce Kuklick is Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has won four different teaching awards. He is preparing a short American political history, From Sea to Shining Sea. It roots the past story of the United States in an expansive Protestantism.]
... If professional historians are religious, they mostly hide their religion under a bushel. They are much more likely to proclaim that they are feminist or politically liberal than that they
Source: Blog
8-18-06
We created this blog for those of us (Mid East History PhD’s and ABD’s) who are on the academic job market, in an attempt to formalize the informal rumor mill through which most job applicants find out whether they've been accepted or rejected. -It is up to you to contribute to this site with information about jobs and to spread the word to other friends and acquaintances who are in the job market (in 2007/2008).
Source: Aron Hirt-Manheimer in Reform Judaism Online
8-18-06
Edwin Black is the author of IBM and the Holocaust, which in 2003 won the top two awards of the American Society of Journalists and Authors for best book and best investigative article; and of three other books, including War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. His most recent book is Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives, from which the following is drawn. He was interviewed by Reform
Source: Toronto Star
8-17-06
The likely posthumous pardon of 306 soldiers, including 23 Canadians, shot for desertion and cowardice during World War I is "nonsense," says one of Canada's leading military historians.
"It means the British government is trying to demonstrate that it is deeply sensitive and no longer like its predecessors," Jack Granatstein, former director of the Canadian War Museum, said in an interview. "People did things the way they did 90 years ago. Trying to change
Source: Ben Fenton in the Telegraph (UK)
8-17-06
THE decision by the Defence Secretary Des Browne to seek a blanket pardon for 306 men shot for battlefield offences during the Great War was greeted with unease by many historians and experts yesterday.
"In one sense it is justified because we know a lot more about the psychological effects of war now than we did then and it would have been treated differently if they had had that information,'' said Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King's College, London.
