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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: AHA Blog
Dec 30, 2009
The AHA’s 124th Annual Meeting, taking place this January 7-10th in San Diego, is just over a week away. Have you had a chance to register?During the Annual Meeting, posts at AHA Today will cover meeting highlights, news, and perhaps even a few San Diego points of interest. Check each morning, Thursday through Su
Source: DanielPipes.org
Dec 30, 2009
A startling fact just emerged in the course of some routine maintenance work on the mailing lists for www.DanielPipes.org: One "Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan" has been subscribed as nidalhasan@aol.com since March 2009 to all the Middle East Forum mailing lists, including my own. He opened some but not many of the mailings.
In addition to the name, there are several reasons to think this is the butcher
Source: AHA Blog
Dec 29, 2009
Thomas Babington Macaulay was a 19th-century British historian, essayist, and politician best remembered for his multi-volume History of England and implementation of a penal code that remains the law in India and South Asia today. But as Robert E. Sullivan (Univ. of Notre Dame) shows, there was much more to the man whose thoughts on race, subjugation, civilizing, and imperial slaughter have eluded past biographers. Through examination of Macaulay’s private letters and diaries, Sullivan has unea
Source: http://newsok.com
Dec 29, 2009
Historian, author and journalist Stanley Hoig died Saturday. He was 85.
Hoig was a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame and the Edmond Hall of Fame.
He wrote extensively about Western history, American Indian relations and the city of Edmond. His work has been recognized with many awards. This year, his book "The Chouteaus” was named a finalist in the nonfiction category of the Oklahoma Book Awards.
Hoig
Source: AHA
Dec 29, 2009
15-Session Miniconference,
"Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage,"
Will be Highlight of American Historical Association Annual Meeting in San Diego January 7-10, 2010
"Marriage is so far from having been an institution, fixed by permanent and unalterable laws, that it has been continually varying in every period, and in every country."
- 18th Century author William Alexander
(Washington, DC – December 28, 2010) A
Source: http://www.examiner.com
Dec 28, 2009
Right now, America is experiencing a combination of economic conditions it has never seen before, and quite frankly, no one really knows exactly how this story is going to end.
While there are some who are oblivious to the new economy around them, those more directly effected believe that this is no ordinary recession. In some areas of the country, record unemployment has brought entire communities to their knees with images that make the Great Depression look like a picnic. Some es
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz
Dec 27, 2009
A second plagiarism row has engulfed book publishers Penguin, with allegations a book about 19th century Maori land wars was withdrawn and republished because its author, a senior Victoria University historian, plagiarised parts of it.
The case comes less than two months after leading New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera admitted his latest novel, The Trowenna Sea, contained plagiarised material, and vowed to buy back remaining copies of the book and republish it with full acknowledgmen
Source: NYT
Dec 26, 2009
ALBANY — Henry Hudson bobblehead? Check.
One-legged Peter Stuyvesant statuette? Yes.
A mirror emblazoned with the logo of New Amsterdam beer? Absolutely.
These are office knickknacks that only a true connoisseur of Dutch Americana could love. And there surely is no one who loves Dutch Americana more than Charles T. Gehring.
How else to describe a man who has spent the past 35 years painstakingly translating 17th-century records that provide gro
Source: David Walsh, Assistant Editor of HNN
Dec 24, 2009
January is almost upon us, and it is time again for the American Historical Association’s annual meeting. The 2010 convention, themed “Oceans, Islands, Continents,” will take place in San Diego from January 7-10.
Protests by numerous history departments over the prominent support given to California’s Proposition 8 by the owner of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, one of the hotels where the meeting is to be headquartered, have prompted the AHA to sponsor a working group for “Historical
Source: National Coalition for History
Dec 23, 2009
During this holiday giving season, the NCH Board of Directors urge you to make an end-of-the-year fully tax-deductible contribution to the National Coalition for History (ID #01-0688590 for federal income tax purposes). Your contribution will help ensure the continuation of our important education and advocacy activities that advance the interests of the historical and archival communities here in Washington.
The Coalition is supported largely by the voluntary contributions of over
Source: http://www.dancohen.org
Dec 22, 2009
Out of hundreds of sessions at the 2010 American Historical Association annual meeting, nine are on digital matters. Nine. I’m on one-third of the sessions. It’s 2010, and academic historians seem to feel that digital media and technology are not worth discussing, and that we can just go on doing what we’ve done, how we’ve done it, for another hundred years. For comparison, the 2009 MLA has th
Source: http://www.radiotelecomando.org
Dec 22, 2009
As far as job titles go, ‘Historian of the Future’ is an absolutely doozy. However, as one of the leading practitioners of this fascinating trade, Dr James Bellini, can testify, the description can lead to a few misunderstandings: he is most definitely not, for instance, a magician.
“Let me be clear: I don’t have a cloak, a pointy hat and a magic wand,” Bellini jokes – and he absolutely can’t tell you who’s going to win the 3.30 at Ascot. What he can do, however, is draw upon a care
Source: Secrecy News
Dec 22, 2009
The U.S. State Department’s official Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series had another disappointing year in 2009 with only two softcopy volumes published to date, including one released last week on “Global Issues, 1973-1976.”The FRUS series is supposed to provide “comprehensive documentation of the major foreign policy decisions and actio
Source: Huffington Post
Dec 21, 2009
Gordon Wood, the wonderfully plain-spoken Pulitzer and Bancroft prize historian at Brown, thinks that Thomas Jefferson would find Barack Obama obnoxiously, over-reachingly Hamiltonian... and that Alexander Hamilton would likewise dismiss Obama as a Jefferson dreamer.
Empire of Liberty is the title of Gordon Wood's magisterial new history of the early American republic, 1789 to 1815: boom and transformation on our shores, the rise and fall of Napoleon in the wider world. "Empire
Source: MWC News
Dec 20, 2009
Early on Friday the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign that hung over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp, was stolen.
Commenting to the BBC on the theft of the Auschwitz sign, Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Director of the International Jewish Affairs of the rabid Zionist American Jewish Committee maintained that there should be no replicas to substitute the entrance monument. “There can be no copies or reproductions; visitors must see only what was real. I
Source: Juan Cole iPhone App
Dec 19, 2009
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Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Dec 18, 2009
What was expected to be a non-controversial committee markup of legislation (S. 2872) to reauthorize the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) resulted instead in the elimination of a proposed significant increase in the Commission’s spending level over the next five years.
As introduced by Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE), S. 2872 would have increased the NHPRC’s authorized spending level by $500,000 each year beginning at $13 million in fiscal year (FY) 2010
Source: Cynthia L. Haven in the Stanford News
Dec 17, 2009
The road back to Paris was paved with letters. Lots of them. The author of Candide wrote about 15,000 during his 83-year life, many from his base in Ferney, near the Swiss border.Voltaire's life was superbly successful – but it was a life with sorrows, too. Voltaire’s famously acerbic tongue caused his banishment on more than one occasion."His whole life, in a way, was an effort to get back to Paris," said Dan Edelstein, assistant professor of French. The French Enlightenm
Source: Palestine Herald
Dec 15, 2009
Some of Houston County’s history is gone now with the passing of former Houston County Historical Commission Chairman Eliza Bishop. She was 89.
For years Bishop was the face of historical research inside the county, as she was tireless in her efforts to document the area’s deep roots.
“All of Houston County is saddened by the death of Miss Eliza Bishop,” Houston County Judge Lonnie Hunt said. “We lost a true Texas treasure. In the past 89 years no other person has done
Source: TPM (Liberal blog)
Dec 15, 2009
The celebrated historian John Hope Franklin was scrutinized by the FBI in the 1960s for supposed links to communists, particularly his opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities and his vocal support for W.E.B. Du Bois."Dr. Franklin is an apologist for the late Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, a prominent crusader for civil rights and a sponsor of communist fronts who joined the Communist Party at the age of 93,"
