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: Boston College Chronicle
May 25, 2011
Boston College has been served a subpoena by the US Attorney’s Office on behalf of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) requesting two tapes that were recorded as part of the University’s Oral History Archive on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Source: The American Independent (TX)
May 25, 2011
In an op-ed published in the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Texas A&M University associate professor of history Jonathan Coopersmith argues for a radical restructuring of higher education in Texas to address bureaucratic overlap.
Source: PR Newswire
May 25, 2011
MOUNT VERNON, Va., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The seventh annual George Washington Book Prize, co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and George Washington's Mount Vernon, honoring the year's best book about America's founding era, has been awarded to Pauline Maier for Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Source: Chicago Tribune
May 24, 2011
SPRINGFIELD — Democratic lawmakers moved ahead Tuesday with their plans to redraw the state's legislative district boundaries despite complaints from a prominent Latino voting rights group that the proposal shortchanges minorities....Representatives for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said the plan falls short of the requirements of the federal Voting Rights Act, which prohibits diluting minority voting strength. Meeting the Voting Rights Act is a key element of redistricting.
Source: MLive
May 24, 2011
Newt Gingrich and Glenn Beck weren't the first to blame Detroit's historic decline on Democratic policies, but their high-profile status has re-invigorated a debate over the political, social and economic factors that led to the city's many problems.
Source: CS Monitor
May 24, 2011
An outspoken historian is facing the threat of a criminal trial for his writings on the Thai monarchy, spurring an international appeal by scholars for the protection of academic freedoms in Thailand.
Source: UC Berkeley
May 24, 2011
Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky, an emeritus professor of European history at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading authority on the history of Russia, died May 14 in an Oakland, Calif., nursing home following a long illness. He was 87.
Source: Michael Lind at Salon
May 24, 2011
Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation and is the author of "The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution."
Source: Boston Globe
May 23, 2011
The two future history scholars met as boys at school in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940. It would become a lifelong friendship between Ernst Badian, an Austrian refugee from Nazi Germany’s roundup of Jews, and New Zealander Edwin Judge.
Source: The Scotsman
May 22, 2011
FOUR of Scotland's leading academics have protested to ministers about the "extraordinary" lack of historical expertise on the board of the nation's flagship museum. History professors Tom Devine, Christopher Smout and Michael Lynch, and archaeologist Dr Anna Ritchie - all former trustees of the National Museums of Scotland - say they fear standards will slip without expert advice at a crucial time.
Source: Public Radio International
May 21, 2011
Sergei Zhuk remembers the first time he heard rock and roll."I was six years old when my brother brought the record Rubber Soul from the Beatles," he said.Zhuk grew up in the USSR in 1960s and 70s. He said everybody was obsessed with the Beatles and Rolling Stones back then."Because it was very unusual for our ears. It was sincere, with a lot of energy," Zhuk said.
Source: McClatchy Newspapers
May 20, 2011
FRESNO, Calif. -- A California State University, Fresno, graduate is making news in England.Bradley Hart discovered previously unseen photos of Adolf Hitler and documents that for the first time link a prominent British scientist to Nazi Germany's efforts to create a master race through its use of sterilization.Hart's groundbreaking historical research about England's eugenic movement in the 1930s was unveiled Thursday at Cambridge University, where he's working on his doctorate through the university's Churchill College,
Source: North Jersey News
May 20, 2011
Former Teaneck resident William J. Maxwell, who led Jersey City State College for 18 years, died Sunday. He was 79.The cause was heart failure, said his son, William Maxwell IV.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
May 19, 2011
Survey courses in "Western Civilization," once a common component of undergraduate curriculums, have almost disappeared as a requirement at many large private research universities and public flagships, according to a study released Wednesday by the National Association of Scholars.
Source: Amy Goodman in the Guardian (UK)
May 18, 2011
Amy Goodman is an award-winning broadcast journalist, columnist, investigative reporter and author. She is the principal host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news programme broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet. Her most recent book is a collection of her weekly columns, Breaking the Sound Barrier (2009)
Source: Jewish Telegraph Agency
May 18, 2011
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A retired history professor from the United States was arrested for allegedly smuggling stolen antiquities from Israel and selling them illegally.The American man sold among other things, bronze and silver coins from the Second Temple period and a 1,500-year-old clay oil lamp....The suspect, who works as a tour guide, had been in the country for two weeks....
Source: http://www.fundweb.co.uk
May 17, 2011
The American stockmarkets will dive lower than during the financial crisis when the boom in American government debt comes to an end, the author of Anatomy of the Bearhas said.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Russell Napier, the financial historian and strategist at CLSA, the broker, says the S&P 500 index of large companies could hit a low of 400, lower than the 666 reached in March 2009.
According to Napier, emerging markets have propped up the world’s supply of money since the crisis, including to the American government.
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Source: Thomas Ricks in Foreign Policy
May 17, 2011
Historian Niall Ferguson likes to think big. If most Washingtonians are satisfied with shaping a discrete national policy issue, Niall Ferguson isn't satisfied unless he can challenge the global conventional wisdom of a generation.
Source: Guardian (UK)
May 16, 2011
A promotional campaign linked to the 2014 Winter Olympics is stirring debate in Russia because of its use of allegedly "fascist" imagery.The campaign employs images of blue-eyed, blond sportsmen and women which have been described by critics as "neo-Hitlerite" and "like something from a Leni Riefenstahl film".
Source: OAH and AHA Emails
May 16, 2011
An email bearing this message went out to OAH and AHA members this week.
