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: Google News
Nov 27, 2009
BILLINGS, Mont. — For 100 years Henry Armstrong's family has farmed the same patch of central Montana land, hanging on through the Depression, low wheat prices and the ever-present risk that the next generation would move on.
Armstrong, 82, lives in the same house near Geraldine that his grandfather built and lived in as a homesteader. It's a little bigger now, but lonelier since his wife, Norma, died about six years ago.
"As long as I live, I've got rights to live
Source: The Toronto Observer
Nov 26, 2009
Most Torontonians are not familiar with the black experience in Canada, but for Adrienne Shadd, African-Canadian history is in her blood.
Shadd is the great-great-grandniece of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first black women to publish and edit a newspaper in North America.
She is also a direct descendant of Abraham Shadd, a leader of the American abolitionist movement, one of the key figures of the Underground Railroad and the first black person in Canada to serve in public
Source: France 24
Nov 26, 2009
Historian and psychoanalyst Elisabeth Roudinesco publishes "Retour sur la question juive" (Back to the ‘Jewish Question’), an inquiry into anti-Semitism, anti-Judaism, and Zionism’s supporters and opponents.
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Source: John Moore in the National Post
Nov 26, 2009
Ideas are like viruses. They spread in waves, retreat, mutate and return. The latest proof is the recent re-emergence of academic historian Richard Hofstadter in the political consciousness.
Hofstadter, who died in 1970, was at one time amongst America's pre-eminent historians. He documented the evolution of the country's political culture and its populist underpinnings from the Revolution to the post-Kennedy-assassination era. It's no surprise that his work is still generally relev
Source: North Jersey
Nov 26, 2009
Four-hundred years ago, Henry Hudson set sail from Europe in an attempt to discover a new route to Asia by heading east. His mission was not successful, but he traveled along what has become the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.
River Edge resident and local historian Kevin Wright explores the quadricentennial of Hudson's voyage in his new book, "1609: A Country That Was Never Lost: 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson's Visit with North Americans of the Middle Atlanti
Source: The Herald Scotland
Nov 26, 2009
TELEVISION historian Neil Oliver has been likened to a “pygmy on a giant’s territory” by a leading academic as the bitter row over the BBC’s flagship A History of Scotland series intensifies.
Jenny Wormald, honorary fellow in Scottish History at Edinburgh University, has joined the debate about the authenticity and quality of the series while revealing she left her role as advisor to the programme after just two meetings.
She also condemned recent comments by Mr
Source: The Jerusalem Post (via OpEdNews)
Nov 25, 2009
A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel, stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry.
Sir Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, told The Independent newspaper this week that the appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian and Winston Churchill biographer, and Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies and vice-principal of King's College London, would be seen as &
Source: ABC News
Nov 25, 2009
Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his home state became ensnared in a bloody confrontation over integration.
More than 1,200 miles and a cultural universe away from the land of cotton, the white freshman found himself answering questions about the violent resistance to James Meredith's court-ordered admission as the first black student at the University of Mississippi.
"I was r
Source: National Geographic
Nov 25, 2009
Recent reports have held up a remote Brazilian town—filled with blonde, blue-eyed twins—as evidence of Mengele's postwar attempts to add to the ranks of an Aryan "master race."
But research announced today says Cândido Godói's "Nazi twins" are nothing more than a myth.
The outback town of about 7,000 has a twin rate nearly 1,000 percent higher than the global average.
The twins' fair features are no mystery—Cândido Godói (map) is largel
Source: Edmonton Sun
Nov 25, 2009
The city is touting a newly created post as history in the making.
Council yesterday approved plans to hire a historian laureate to chronicle the city's past, present and future, making Edmonton the first Canadian city to create such a role.
The city will now search for a candidate, with a historian's background, to fill the two-year position, which includes a $5,000 annual honorarium.
Michael Payne, the city's archivist, said as the first historian laurea
Source: The Journal (UK)
Nov 25, 2009
An Edinburgh historian has put together the first roll of honour to list all those from Ireland who died during the Second World War.
The list, which was compiled by Yvonne McEwen of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars, includes the names of 9,100 Irish men and women who died in active service.
Ms McEwen, who presented the list to the Irish parliament, said: "We covered over 200 corps of the British Army alone.
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Source: NYT
Nov 24, 2009
Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply don’t hold up: there was no sudden expulsion of all Jews from Jerusalem in A.D. 70, for instance. What’s more, modern Jews owe their ancestry as much to converts from the first millennium and early Middle Ages as to the Jews of antiquity.
Other theories, like the notion that many of today’s Palestinians can legitimately claim to be descended from t
Source: Foster's Daily Democrat
Nov 24, 2009
DURHAM — In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 "Free Negros" in South Carolina and possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites — who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot — of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British.
In the new book The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty (Yale University Press, 2009), J
Source: Frontpage
Nov 24, 2009
Every once in a while, you come across a great book whose premise seems so obvious that you think, “Why hasn’t anyone done this before?” People have talked all around this topic, or dealt with it in pieces, but why hasn’t there been a serious book-length treatment of this-or-that much discussed subject?
Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism fit that bill. Now comes historian Thomas Fleming’s The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, which will no doubt have other historians saying, “
Source: AHA Blog
Nov 24, 2009
See below for the winners of the 2009 AHA Election. These individuals will begin their terms of office following the 124th Annual Meeting in San Diego.
President
Barbara Metcalf (Univ. of California at Davis, emerita)
President-elect
Anthony Grafton (Princeton Univ.)
Vice-President, Teaching Division
Patricia Nelson Limerick (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)
Councilor Profession
Laura Isabel Serna (Florida State Univ.)
Source: Brooklyn College
Nov 23, 2009
The Harvard University scholar chosen to coauthor the latest revision of John Hope Franklin's seminal text, "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans," told an audience of educators gathered to honor the former chair of the Brooklyn College history department (the first black scholar to head a history department at a predominantly white U.S. college) that there will be much new material in the ninth edition of his work when it is published in January.
Delive
Source: Globe Investor
Nov 23, 2009
There's nothing like a long-running equity rally, a return to something resembling normalcy in the credit world and fresh signs of economic recovery to lift the gloom of a dreary late November day.
Sure, there are still occasional rough waters. Take last week, when weaker than expected U.S. housing stats, a downbeat profit report, downgrades in tech land and yet another warning from an inflation-fearing central banker reminded jittery investors it's not only free-spending government
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nov 22, 2009
In his essay"Hate Radio," Jeffrey Herf, a professor of modern European and German history at the University of Maryland at College Park and author of Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009), argues that collaboration between Arab political leaders and Nazi officials during World War II decisively influenced the development of radical Islam."The toxic mixture of religious and secular themes forged in Nazi-era Berlin, and disseminated to the Middle East, continues to shape
Source: The Chronicle Herald
Nov 22, 2009
For many years the acknowledged expert on the reactions of modern infantrymen in battle was the American writer S.L.A. Marshall, based on his classic 1947 book, Men Against Fire. In this slim volume, Marshall maintained — on the basis of supposedly numerous and extensive mass interviews conducted immediately after battle — that most American soldiers in the Second World War did not return enemy fire. Most of them (75 to 85 per cent) did not even fire their weapons at all; a trait assigned by ex
Source: Tallahassee.com
Nov 22, 2009
Tallahassee's most historic site reaches another milestone Dec. 13 when Mission San Luis opens its new visitor center. The Spanish-styled, 24,000-square-foot facility provides a modern introduction to the ancient village of Spanish settlers and Apalachee Indians.
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But the man who's arguably done the most to tell the mission's story will miss the debut: John Hann died Nov. 7 after a year-long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Hann, 86, was the lead
