Additionally Noted
Ronald Reagan vindicated? The proliferation of trees, argues a University of Alaska researcher, led to the extinction of pre-historic mammoths in North America. Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the tip.
George Fredrickson,"They'll Take Their Stand," NYRB, 25 May, reviews David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview. Essential reading. E-subscriber only, alas. Buggers don't even give access to those of us who subscribe to the print edition. Fortunately, you can read it, reproduced in full, at H-Slavery (scroll down).
An African-American researcher in Raleigh has discovered that St. Agnes Hospital, once located on the campus of Raleigh's St. Augustine College and known as"the best hospital for blacks between Hampton, Va., and New Orleans," participated in North Carolina's sterilization program. Between 1929 and 1973, the state program sterilized about 7,600 people and medical personnel at St. Agnes participated in it, at least from 1949 to 1961, when the hospital was closed.
Finally, as KC Johnson pointed out, Britain's National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) faces a vote to boycott all Israeli faculty members. Over 1200 academics have signed this petition calling for a rejection of the boycott. Among the historians who have signed the petition are: Irving Abella (York), Eric Alterman (CUNY), Jerald S. Auerbach (Wellesley), Gerald M. Berg (Sweetbriar), Brian Brivati (Kingston), John Gould (Yale), Gerald N. Grob (Rutgers), Ira Katznelson (Columbia), David Owusu-Ansah (George Mason), Ronald Radosh (CUNY), Howard Spodek (Temple), Michael Stanislowski (Columbia), and Michael Walzer (Princeton, IAS). You can add your signature to the petition here.