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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: Google News
Oct 16, 2009
MOSCOW — When the police stopped Mikhail Suprun's car last month, he did not expect to be questioned over his research into mass deportations that took place in Russia more than six decades ago.
But Suprun, a history professor in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk, discovered that his research into the 1940s deportations had drawn the interest of the FSB, the successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB.
Briefly detained by the FSB, Suprun was told he was suspected of i
Source: Campus Watch
Oct 16, 2009
[Jonathan Schanzer, an adjunct scholar at campus-watch.org, is deputy executive director of the Jewish Policy Center, and author of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave, 2008).]
Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, produces a steady stream of writings that downplays the threat radical Islam poses to America and the West. His opinions are at odds with the beliefs of most Americans. Now, through a project de
Source: Montana State University
Oct 16, 2009
BOZEMAN -- John Tyndall, one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century, would've been better known if his wife hadn't accidentally poisoned him and demanded control of his letters and journals, says Michael Reidy, a Montana State University historian.
The National Science Foundation is ready to pull Tyndall out of the shadows, however, and Reidy is overseeing the effort.
The NSF recently awarded Reidy $580,000 for a three-year project to finish transcribing
Source: Smithsonian
Oct 15, 2009
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $10 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, expected to open in late 2015 on the National Mall in Washington. The purpose of the grant is to support the capital campaign of the new museum, which is raising funds for the design and construction of its building.
The building, to be built on a five-acre tract adjacent to the Washington Monument, will be designed by Freelon Adjaye Bond/
Source: The Massachusetts Historical Society
Oct 15, 2009
Approximately 100 guests were in attendance on the evening of 14 October as Prof. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was honored as the 10th recipient of the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society at the Harvard Club of Boston. Ulrich, a Corresponding Fellow of the MHS since 1991 and 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, was presented with the medal as part of the Society’s 60th Annual Dinner. She addressed the Fellows and Members of the nation’s oldest histori
Source: The Daily Citizen
Oct 15, 2009
Bill Potter says the Civil War changed the kinds of liberties Americans enjoy today — and not just for slaves.
Potter, a historian and curator at Circa, a history guild and museum in Alpharetta, spoke to a gathering at Dalton State College on Thursday as part of the city’s Liberty Tree Festival this week.
“There were many in the North and the South who thought that the tree of liberty was tottering in 1861,” he said. “Certainly the tree of liberty has been watered with
Source: Doug Ireland in the Gay City News
Oct 15, 2009
Martin Duberman — Marty to his legions of fans, friends, and former students — is a national queer treasure.
Duberman was the first, and for too long the only, prominent public intellectual of the first order to embrace the nascent, post-Stonewall gay liberation movement and join its militant ranks. He is rightly considered the father of gay studies programs in universities. He played a crucial role in founding the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and in sustaining it at its begi
Source: guardian.co.uk
Oct 15, 2009
A Russian historian investigating the fate of Germans imprisoned in the Soviet Union during the second world war has been arrested, in the latest apparent clampdown on historical research into the Stalin era by the Russian authorities.
Mikhail Suprun was detained last month by officers from Russia's security services. They searched his apartment and carried off his entire personal archive. He has now been charged with violating privacy laws and, if convicted, faces up to four years
Source: NewsandSentinel.com
Oct 15, 2009
PARKERSBURG -The Greater Parkersburg Convention and Visitors Bureau announced the production of a Mid-Ohio Valley Civil War documentary Wednesday.
Steve Nicely, president of the CVB, announced the Walkabout Company, a Wheeling-based video production firm, will create a half-hour documentary of the area's Civil War links in conjunction with the state and the nation's sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War.
"This is an incredibly important project for the C
Source: NYT
Oct 15, 2009
Dietrich von Bothmer, who was regarded by art historians as the world’s leading expert on ancient Greek vases and who was a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than 60 years, died in Manhattan on Monday. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan and Oyster Bay, N.Y.
The death was confirmed by his son, Bernard von Bothmer.
Dr. von Bothmer (pronounced BOAT-mare) made his reputation working with the legendary Sir John Beazley, his teacher at Oxford. Together, in an
Source: Offaly Express
Oct 14, 2009
THE death took place on Friday last at his home at 10 Clonminch Avenue, Tullamore, of Mr John Clarke, a noted authority on Gaelic games. Aged 82, the deceased was originally from Convent View.
He had a lifelong interest in Gaelic games, but as he was diagnosed with curvature of the spine in his teens, he could not play. That did not, however, prevent his building up a fund of knowledge of sport, as he began keeping a scrapbook of GAA matters in 1939.
Mr Clarke had a sho
Source: Tablet
Oct 13, 2009
The key assumptions about Israel and the Jews are indelible. Forced from Jerusalem into exile, the Jews dispersed throughout the world, always remaining attached to their ancient homeland. Psalmists wept when they remembered Zion. A people were sustained by an unflagging determination to return to their native soil. “Next year in Jerusalem!” The triumph of Zionism—the founding of Israel—is the fulfillment of that ancient vow. The Israeli Declaration of Independence states it plainly: “Eretz Yisr
Source: Digital Journal
Oct 13, 2009
The Hungarian historian who was reported to have ‘discovered’ a house belonging to the real “Dracula,” says the claims were inaccurate. Dr Tamás Fedeles says the cellar can indeed be linked to Wallachian Duke Vlad III, but not with any certainty.
Dr. Fedeles, of the Medieval and Early Modern Department at Pécs University’s Historical Studies Institute, said in an interview with Digital Journal that there was no definite proof that Duke Vlad III ”Tepes” (The Impaler) of Wallachia own
Source: Diamondback Online: The University of Maryland's Independent Daily Student Newsletter
Oct 13, 2009
James Loewen said Christopher Columbus discovered America the way the speaker discovered oregano.
The historian and author of the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, came to the Stamp Student Union yesterday for a different sort of Columbus Day celebration. His lecture, titled “Columbus Didn’t Discover Us,” revolved around what Loewen sees as lies and misinformation ingrained in U.S. history textbooks. The event echoed sentiments of on
Source: PBS
Oct 12, 2009
JEFFREY BROWN: It's an intimate look at the modern presidency compiled from late-night conversations at the White House between Bill Clinton and his friend, journalist and historian Taylor Branch.
The talks recorded from 1993 to 2001 range from personal observations, to domestic politics, and international flash points, and became the basis for a new book,"The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President."
Taylor Branch is Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a three
Source: Washington and Lee University
Oct 12, 2009
Gary Gallagher, author of "Lee and His General in War and Memory" along with numerous other Civil War studies, presented the lecture at the annual "Remembering Robert E. Lee" program on Monday, Oct., 11, the 139th anniversary of Lee's death
Presented by the Lee Chapel and Museum, Gallagher's presented as titled "Robert E. Lee Confronts Defeat: Duty in the Wake of Appomattox."
Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor of History at the Uni
Source: guardian.co.uk
Oct 12, 2009
[David Cesarani is research professor in history at Royal Holloway, University of London.]
We are going through another of those odd periods when corners of our daily newspapers look as if they are reporting things that happened over 65 years ago. There are rows over what the Latvians did or did not do in the second world war, arguments about why the German Luftwaffe bombed Coventry and, most recently, Stephen Fry has upset the Poles with a careless remark about Auschwitz. What all
Source: Sandbox
Oct 12, 2009
I've been tapped to serve as the president-designate of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college, which will go from plan to reality over the next three years. Elliot Jager, editorial page editor of the Jerusalem Post, interviewed me about the College for the Friday magazine. Here is that interview, which ran under the headline:"A progressive first from a conservative think tank." Ask Martin Kramer if spearheading the country's first libe
Source: The Cutting Edge
Oct 12, 2009
Prize-winning investigative author Edwin Black, known for holding dozens of speaking events on each of his several books, has decided to participate in just a single presentation for the 25th anniversary re-release of his controversial volume The Transfer Agreement (Dialog 2009). The historic event, slated for October 30 in the Washington D.C. suburbs, is the first on the topic Black has agreed to in years, and will feature questions emailed from around the world. Articles and postings on the In
Source: Campus Watch Blog
Oct 12, 2009
The October 2 death of Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, is for Columbia University's Joseph Massad yet another opportunity to equate Israelis with Nazis.
An article posted today in the Socialist Worker quotes Massad's latest effort to belittle the Holocaust and delegitimize the modern state of Israel by claiming that contemporary Israelis are to Palestinians what the Nazis were to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto. He even ma
