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Source: http://www.registerguard.com
Jun 8, 2008
Activists plan to hold a vigil on Monday to protest a lecture in Eugene by David Irving, a British historian who was jailed in Austria for once saying there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Irving, who specializes in the military history of World War II, has been invited to speak by the Pacifica Forum, a local discussion group founded by retired University of Oregon professor Orval Etter.Related Links
Source: Adam Sisman in the Telegraph
Jun 6, 2008
The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was often depicted as hostile to the Scots (or 'Scotch', as he insisted on calling them). Yet, as he would sometimes remark, he had a long association with Scotland and its people.
He was brought up in Northumberland, only 20 miles or so from the border. As a boy he had been cared for by a Scots nanny, before attending a preparatory school in Dunbar.
After an interval, he married a Scots wife, and together they bought a
Source: One of many posts on TPM Cafe concerning Cherny's book. This one is by Lawrence Kaplan
Jun 6, 2008
Having gone on for far too long about the perils of extrapolating from historical similarities, what strikes me most about the history recounted in The Candy Bombers are the overwhelming dissimilarities between 1948 and 2008. Not so much on the international scene as simply in the realm of leadership, if that's not too quaint a term to use here. The John McLoys, the Lucius Clays, the James Forrestals--where have they gone? In place of them, we have who? Sandy Berger? Paul Bremer? Today's smarmy
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jun 6, 2008
On June 17, 2008, the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee is scheduled to mark up a funding bill that will decide the fate of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). For the fourth consecutive year, President Bush has proposed eliminating funding for the NHPRC. We need your help in urging the House appropriators to save the NHPRC!
The National Coalition for History strongly opposes the President’s irresponsible
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
Jun 6, 2008
We need your help in securing cosponsors in the House of Representatives for the “Preserving the American Historical Record Act (PAHR)” (H.R. 6056). The PAHR legislation would establish a new federal program of formula grants to the states and territories to support archives and historical records at the state and local level. Please go to the Humanities Advocacy Network and ask your Member of Congress to cosponsor the PAHR bill (H.R. 6056).
Congressmen Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Chris Cann
Source: Guardian
Jun 6, 2008
The Tate has until the end of July to raise £6m to save an exquisite Peter Paul Rubens sketch. And, according to historian David Starkey, the possibility that the work might leave the country is "absolutely unthinkable".
The sketch is not simply evidence of a great artist's first, questing thoughts, but an integral part of Britain's history, argued Starkey yesterday.
It is the original plan for the magnificent ceiling of the Banqueting House, London, the only remain
Source: News story: Inside Higher Ed
Jun 6, 2008
Harvard University’s $34 billion endowment has received much scrutiny in the last year, with critics questioning why the university doesn’t spend more and some lawmakers looking for ways to tax it. Drew Faust, the university’s president, used a commencement speech Thursday to defend the institution’s endowment as necessary and to question those critics. Some see endowments as “vast pots of money for presidents to spend at will,” she said. Others say endowments must be devoted to “educating the m
Source: NYT
Jun 6, 2008
Matthew J. Bruccoli, whose biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and outpouring of scholarly essays and critical editions made him the dean of Fitzgerald studies in the United States, died at his home in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday. He was 76.
The cause was a glioma, a tumor of the brainstem, said his wife, Arlyn.
Mr. Bruccoli (pronounced BROOK-uhly), who taught at the University of South Carolina for nearly 40 years, wrote more than 50 books on Fitzgerald or Hemingway, not
Source: KACIE GLENN in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Jun 6, 2008
When the elder stateswomen of black historians began to pursue their doctoral degrees decades ago, few felt as if they were joining an academic community. Isolated and unappreciated, set apart by their very demands to be included in a university and a discipline that had been dominated by white men, they were braced for a long and lonely battle against the status quo. In Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (University of North Carolina Press), 17 professors prove by thei
Source: Rudyard Griffiths in the National Post (Canada)
Jun 5, 2008
Last week in Toronto, Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and former adviser to Barack Obama, was uncharacteristically downbeat. In the green room, following the inaugural Munk Debate, the normally plucky Ms. Power crumpled herself up into a lounge chair. Nursing a glass of red wine, she interspersed a flurry of brow-furrowed cellphone calls by beckoning passers-by to explain to her the debate's unexpected outcome.
And, an unexpected outcome it was. Going into the deba
Source: http://www.charleston.net
Jun 4, 2008
Charles Edward Lee, a former historic preservation officer for South Carolina and director of its Archives and History Department, died Friday. He was 90.
Lee, a native of Asheville, N.C., began his career in 1946, teaching history at his alma mater, the University of South Carolina.
In the following decade, Lee established himself in the publishing industry. He held editor- ships with the USC Press and the Journal of Modern American History.
In 1961, Lee b
Source: Deborah Lipstadt Blog
Jun 4, 2008
The union of academics and professors in the UK, the, which last year tried to initiate a boycott of Israeli academics but was prevented from doing so by its own lawyers which told it that it was illegal, is trying to do the same thing again but in a trickier mode. On May 28 it pas Motion 25 which called for a number of boycott initiatives. Anthony Julius, my solicitor and someone who has done a tremendous amount to fight UK antisemitism, is representing a number of members of t
Source: US News & World Report
Jun 3, 2008
The long Iraq war. The bungled Hurricane Katrina response. The credit crunch. A quick look at the newspapers will give many voters reason to doubt the wisdom of America's political leaders. Unfortunately, Americans are doing little to educate themselves about their leaders and their policies, says bestselling author and George Mason Unive
Source: George Mason University's Center for History and New Media
Jun 3, 2008
The National History Education Clearinghouse, an online project that brings U.S. history teachers high-quality support and resources, has been launched by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and project partner Stanford University. The clearinghouse is now available to the public at http://teachinghistory.org.
In October 2007, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a $7 million contract, if fully funded over five years, to CHNM, in partnership with Stanford
Source: George Mason University's Center for History and New Media
Jun 3, 2008
The Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce the launch of Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives http://gulaghistory.org, a new online resource exploring the history of the Soviet Gulag.The project is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; Title VIII, The U.S. Department of State; Kennan Institute; and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University; and was produced in association with the Gulag Museum at Perm 36, Per
Source: Sean Wilentz in the course of an exchange with Ruy Teixeira and others at Salon.com
Jun 3, 2008
Race has primarily played a factor to help Barack Obama. Not only with the African-American vote, which is fairly clear, I mean it's obviously clear, but with some white voters as well. I think that the idea that Hillary Clinton has suddenly gained a lot of support from racists, which we call "low information" voters, things like that, is just a myth. I mean, in fact, if you look over the exit polls, she's done much better in the votes since March, in fact, most of that support can be
Source: Tim Naftali dissecting a new book at Slate.com
Jun 2, 2008
Dear Sean,
Congratulations on your excellent new political history of our times. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who first made his name with The Age of Jackson, would appreciate the homage implied in your title. And I suspect he might also agree—and I certainly do—that, like it or not, Reagan was the transcendent figure of fin-de-siecle politics in America.
Your first two chapters do a great job laying out the crisis of the old order. In the 1970s the entire American politica
Source: AHA Blog
Jun 2, 2008
Each year we take a snapshot of the AHA membership on March 31—an annual exam, if you will—to check the health of the organization. Happily, the number of members is doing well, growing a modest 1.3 percent to 14,903—the highest number of the members since the demographic bubble between 1965 and 1975.
Source: Interview by HNN intern, David Liebers
Jun 2, 2008
Dr. Ronald Walters is director of the African American Leadership Institute and
Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James
MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and
Source: Press Release--U. Connecticut
Jun 2, 2008
Thomas Paterson, professor emeritus of history, is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award.
He is the 2008 winner of the Norman and Laura Graebner Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the premier professional association for diplomatic history. The award will be given at the annual meeting of the society at Ohio State University on June 28.
The prize recognizes a senior historian of United States foreign relations who has significan
