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: http://www.alt-arch.org/petition.html
Apr 9, 2008
For nearly a decade, all archaeological work in the Wadi Hilwe area of Silwan in East Jerusalem—that is, the City of David, the core of ancient Jerusalem and one of the most sensitive archaeological sites in Israel—has been controlled by Elad, an organization of right-wing Israeli settlers. More precisely, the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority (INPA), which has legal responsibility for this area, has appointed Elad as its sub-contractor in Silwan; Elad, in turn, has commissio
Source: Steve Plaut in the Jewish Press
Apr 9, 2008
[Steven Plaut is a professor at the Graduate School of the Business Administration at the University of Haifa and is a columnist for the Jewish Press. A collection of his commentaries on the current events in Israel can be found on his"blog" at www.stevenplaut.blogspot.com.]
... As many Jewish Press readers may
know, I have been involved in a long court case that has already run on for six
years. It involves the malicious attempt by one of Israel’s worst academic
anti-Israel extremists
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Apr 7, 2008
Alan Dawley, 64, of West Mount Airy, an author of social history, a professor at the College of New Jersey in Trenton, and a civil-rights and peace activist, died March 12 of heart failure while on a trip to study Spanish in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
A leader in the field of U.S. social history, Dr. Dawley's first book, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn, received the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 1976. He also wrote Struggles for Justice and Changing the Wo
Source: St. John's University
Apr 7, 2008
Saint John’s University will present the 16th Colman J. Barry Award for Distinguished Contributions to Religion and Society to William Cronon in honor of his service as one of our nation’s foremost environmental historians and thinkers.
The award will be presented in conjunction with Saint John’s Day activities Friday, April 18, in the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater on the Saint John’s campus. The event is by invitation only.
Cronon has devoted his career to understanding
Source: NPR
Apr 7, 2008
The state of Florida recently apologized for slavery — but historian Marvin Dunn says he doesn't any feel better. In his Miami Herald op-ed "Make the Apology Meaningful," Dunn says Old South states should think about how to pay reparations to the African American community as a whole.
"The apology is a meaningless act that only a dolt or outright racist would oppose," Dunn writes. "It cost the state nothing and of course, there was not a word about the thorn
Source: NY Sun
Apr 7, 2008
Giving money can be a way of becoming part of history. At the New-York Historical Society, which is currently looking for more than $90 million to fund a physical and intellectual expansion, giving money can be a way of ensuring the vitality of historical inquiry in the first place....
A professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago, Neil Harris, gave a keynote address about the increasing overlap in the fields of history and art history, and the increasing responsibili
Source: http://www.pulitzer.org/
Apr 7, 2008
Saul Friedlander, a professor of history at UCLA, won the general nonfiction Pulitzer for The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (HarperCollins).
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Saul Friedländer: Massive history of the Holocaust is a judicious, authoritative and restrained study
Source: Press Release
Apr 7, 2008
The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago invites you to attend a book release and policy briefing Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
9:00–10:30 a.m.
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Free event, RSVP requiredhttp://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu
773.834.3986
PANELISTS
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Apr 7, 2008
Existing threats to academic freedom have been exacerbated by the political and economic climate following the terrorist attacks of September, 11, 2001, argued scholars at a conference held at New York University's new Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center at Tamiment Library on Thursday and Friday.
The conference, "Academic Freedom in an Age of Permanent Warfare," was the inaugural public event at the center, which was established at the university last year....
Source: http://www.pulitzer.org/
Apr 7, 2008
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) has won the Pulitzer Prize in history for 2008.
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) has won the Pulitzer for biography.
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Daniel Walker Howe: If You Could Ask the Author of One of Those Big Oxford Histories What He Learned He'd Say ...
Source: Jerusalem Post
Apr 6, 2008
In 1993, half a century after he took to the Lithuanian countryside to fight the Nazi invaders and their local collaborators, Dov Levin received a letter of recognition from Lithuania's first president after independence, Algirdas Brazauskas, for his courage in facing the Nazi menace.
"That was back when they liked Jews," the octogenarian professor emeritus of East European Jewish history joked on Sunday, hours after formally returning the award in a letter to the current
Source: http://www.pittsburghlive.com
Apr 5, 2008
David McCullough remembers when he decided history might be more than just a class in school.
He was 14 or 15 when a family in his Point Breeze neighborhood invited him along on a spring break trip to Charlottesville and Williamsburg, Va.,
"It absolutely changed my life," said McCullough, the featured guest Friday at Pittsburgh 250 History Makers Gala at the Senator John Heinz History Center. "I know that's when my interest in history began."
Source: Daily Mail
Apr 4, 2008
... For decades, they have been seeking recognition of the special and terrible nature of their war.
In 1945, along with everybody else who flew, they were awarded the Aircrew Europe campaign medal.
Yet transport crews and even fighter pilots suffered only a fraction of their casualties.
"Harris's old lags" — as they called themselves with defiant pride after their leader Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris — want a Bomber Command campaign medal,
Source: Press Release--University of Richmond
Apr 4, 2008
University of Richmond history professor Woody Holton has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the university's first professor to receive the prestigious award.
The fellowship will support Holton's work on a biography of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams. Holton will take a one-year sabbatical during the 2008-09 academic year to complete "Abigail Adams, Entrepreneur."
This year's is the 84th annual Guggenheim
Source: Independent (UK)
Apr 4, 2008
Beatrice De Cardi is in little doubt about what has driven her these past nine decades. Travelling to some of the world's most inhospitable places, coping with boiling heat, ruthless bandits and wild animals with a disarming, old world insouciance, it is, she says, her insatiable curiosity that has kept her going.
"It is exactly the same as if I am walking around a very bendy road," she explained as she prepared for the Society of Antiquaries' Women in Heritage Day at Burl
Source: http://www.abc.net.au
Apr 3, 2008
An Australian historian says there will be further damage to Gallipoli unless limits are placed on the number of visitors to the historic military site.
Joan Beaumont from Deakin University says the competing claims between heritage and tourism at Gallipoli remains unresolved after the 2005 outcry over road works which supposedly disturbed soldiers' remains.
Professor Beaumont says attendance at Gallipoli Anzac Day services have skyrocketed over the last decade.
Source: http://www.thedailystar.com
Apr 3, 2008
The author of a "groundbreaking" book on Dwight D. Eisenhower said Wednesday the nation's 34th president has been misunderstood by historians for decades.
Part of the reason is Eisenhower has often been judged on what he said and not what he did, said presidential scholar David Nichols, who spoke at Hartwick College.
"He didn't win the war in Europe by making speeches," Nichols, 69, said of the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during Worl
Source: Nation
Apr 3, 2008
TOWARD A NEW NEW DEAL:
FDR’S LIBERALISM AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
A Conference of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Roosevelt Institution
Co-sponsored by The Nation, The Economic Policy Institute, The Center for Community Change, NDN, Campaign for America’s Future, Demos, The Progressive States Network, The Drum Major Institute, and The American Prospect
April 9, 2008
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
The Wi
Source: http://www.onenewsnow.com
Apr 3, 2008
Yuri Felshtinsky says there's a slight chance the Russian secret service will loosen its control over the country now that it has a new president who never worked for the KGB. And there's about the same chance, says the Russian historian, that U.S.-Russia relations will improve with a new administration in Washington, DC.
Dmitry Medvedev, 42, has been elected Russia's new president and will replace his protégé Vladimir Putin in May. Since 1991, the former lawyer has worked with Puti
Source: Daily Princetonian
Apr 2, 2008
Josh Marshall ’91, creator of the center-left political blog Talking Points Memo (TPM), answered questions from history professor Anthony Grafton about his publication and the evolution of news from paper to the digital realm.
Grafton introduced the site as a “hybrid, the Prius of media organizations” that combines traditional reporting with opinion journalism and muckraking to make “real interventions in politics.”
Marshall said that TPM relies on its close communication wit
