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.
Molly Petrilla, in the Daily
Pennsylvanian (April 7, 2004):On Monday afternoon, History professor Steven Hahn received a phone call. "It
was someone from The Associated Press," Hahn recalled. "She said,
'Well, I'm calling to talk to you about the Pulitzer Prize,' and I said, 'What
do you want to talk about?' and she said, 'Well, you won it.'" Tho
Tim Heald, in the London Independent (April 1, 2004):DEREK JARRETT was best known to the world at large for his definitive four-volume
edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, for a series
of rigorously researched comparative studies of 18th- century England and France,
and for his thoughtful and combative reviews in The New York Review of Books.
For a privileged few, however, he will be remembered as a mesmerising school
Jim Benning, in Alternet.org (March 15, 2004): Author Chalmers Johnson was asleep in his San Diego-area home on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the telephone rattled him awake. Metropolitan Books publicist Tracy Locke was on the line from her Manhattan office two miles from Ground Zero. The previous year, she had promoted Johnson's book, Blowback: The Costs and
Paige Williams, writing for the Financial Times (London) (March 13, 2004)One of Samantha Power's favourite lunch spots is a place off Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Casablanca. Decorated with 20ft murals of the movie, Bogart and Bergman gaze with melancholy at diners digging into their seared cod and mixed greens.The theme has echoes of Hitler and of Hollywood, which resonate because Power's seminal w
Memo to the staff of the New York Times from Bill Keller, executive editor (March 10, 2004): Colleagues,
I'm excited to report that we have a new editor for the Book Review. He is Sam Tanenhaus, a writer of distinction, a thinker of tremendous range and ambition, a passionate consumer of books, a kind of literary and intellectual fire-hose. He will begin April 1.
Sam's list of accomplishments
Bill Sammon, in the Washington Times (March 10, 2004):
An influential Democratic historian has credited President Bush with instituting one of only three"grand strategies" in the history of U.S. foreign policy by trading in the doctrine of containment for pre-emption.
John Lewis Gaddis of Yale said his fellow historians have not paid sufficient attention to th
Interview with Douglas Brinkley conducted by
Elizabeth Shelburne, in the Atlantic Monthly (March 10, 2004): Why did you choose John Kerry as your subject? I know you started the project in 2002 before Kerry had announced his candidacy for President. What drew you to him? I'm the director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, and we h
Max Boot, in the Weekly
Standard (March 15, 2004):In 1995, when I was a junior editor at the Wall Street Journal, I was handed
"The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader" to review. I had heard of the author
but had never read his work. As I dove into this 900-page compendium, I quickly
discovered that Boorstin had a discerning eye for detail, an ability to comp
Carlin Romano, in the Nation (March 5, 2004): Time magazine once diagnosed newspaper columnist, author, professor-at-large and Hugh Hefner sidekick Max Lerner (190292) as suffering from a" crush on America." Seven years after his death, Lerner's faint presence in repositories of print immortality suggests that the feeling in the other direction might have been characterized the same way, except the magic's gone. Despite 6,000 columns for the
Belinda Cooper, in the NYT (March 6, 2004):Taner Akcam doesn't seem like either a hero or a traitor, though he's been
called both. A slight, soft-spoken man who chooses his words with care, Mr.
Akcam, a Turkish sociologist and historian currently teaching at the University
of Minnesota, writes about events that happened nearly a century ago in an
empire that no longer exists: the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire during World
Jonathan Calt Harris, managing editor of Campus Watch, in frontpagemag.com
(March 8, 2004):Central Connecticut State University, situated in New Briton and making up
one part of a four-campus state university system, has a pattern of acute
political bias when it comes to the Middle East. Campus Watch began posting articles on CCSU as early as June 2002, and added
a fu
David Greenberg, in the LAT
(March 2, 2004):By the end of his career, the Pulitzer Prize-wining historian Daniel Boorstin,
who died last weekend at 89, had come to be derided in some quarters as a
conservative. In an age that viewed national myths with skepticism, Boorstin
celebrated American exceptionalism and touted Weste
Bruce Craig, in the weekly newsletter of the National Coalition for History (March 4, 2004): This week, the 180,000-employee Department of Homeland Security celebrates its first anniversary as an institution. There to document the event is Priscilla Dale Jones, the department's recently hired historian. Her office is believed to be the only Congressionally sanctioned office of history in the federal government (see"Homeland Security History Office Authorized" in NCH WASHING
Roger Moore, in the Orlando Sentinel (Feb. 29, 2004): In a recent radio interview, noted historian Paul Fussell admitted that he wrote his new book, The Boys' Crusade, as a"response" to the works of Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Fretting over rose-colored obituaries highlighting Bob Hope's USO shows ("Front-line troops
Daniel Pipes, in his blog (Feb. 12, 2004): My Talk at UC-Berkeley. I spoke on February 10 at the University of California-Berkeley to a crowd of about 550; a sizeable number could not get in. As I had expected, this was the most out-of-control talk of the roughly one thousand I have given, with a core group of about 150 Islamists, Palestinian radicals, and far-leftists constantly disrupting me, mostly with
Glenna Whitley, in DallasObserver.com (Feb. 26, 2004): When the train pulled into the station, Bryan Mark Rigg wrestled his bicycle onto the platform, balanced a rucksack stuffed with a video camera, laptop and tripod on his back and started pedaling through the German countryside. He had 70 miles to cover before dark. The Yale student had learned that Alexander Stahlberg, a former Germ
Rone Tempest, writing for the Los Angeles Times (Feb. 25, 2004)It was the first day of class in Victor Davis Hanson's final course at Cal State Fresno, where he has taught classical history, Greek and Latin for two decades.The subject, Hanson told the 40 undergraduates, was the 431-404 BC Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta."It's a good time to talk about a war, because we are in a war," he said.For Hanson,
Wilson Miscamble, associate professor of history at Notre Dame, and the author
of George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950
(Princeton, 1992),in the WSJ (Feb. 20, 2004):George F. Kennan's 100th birthday this week has prompted a round of effusive
praise for the contributions of the man who has been dubbed "the architect,"
"the great theorist" and "the founding father" of containmen
David Mehegan, in the Boston Globe (Feb. 16, 2004): In his sunny living room, which is fortified with walls of books, Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer is holding forth on the hero of his new book,"Washington's Crossing," declaiming aloud in a clear voice, almost as if he were in class. "For me," he says,"George Washington was not primarily a Na
Liz Halloran, in the Hartford Courant (Feb. 15, 2004): Historian Douglas Brinkley set out several years ago to write a book about U.S. senators who had served in the Vietnam War. It turned out he was a little late. Most of the senators, including John McCain of Arizona and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, had published their own memoirs. Brinkley and his publisher had to settle f
