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: Deseret News (Utah)
Apr 16, 2007
He was well-known as an assistant historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he held from 1972 to 1982. Among his publications was a 1979 book, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints, co-authored with Leonard J. Arrington, who at the time was the church historian....
Source: Oliver Kamm at his blog
Apr 16, 2007
I won't provide a link to his website, but I ought to record that the Holocaust denier David Irving takes strong exception to the reference to him in my article for The Times this weekend about the late Kurt Vonnegut. He hypothesises that the article was commissioned by the newspaper after pressure had been exerted upon it by an external body whose identity (or at least ethnicity) you will
Source: Toledo Blade
Apr 15, 2007
Before 9/11, Matthew Bogdanos worked as a district attorney in New York City, boxed occasionally for sport, and was father to two small children and expecting a third child with his wife, Claudia.
But that day, their apartment near the World Trade Center was destroyed, buried in pulverized glass, asbestos, and masses of paper.
Shortly thereafter, his life took another turn: he was called to active duty from the Marine Corps Reserves. Colonel Bogdanos would spend much o
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apr 14, 2007
Andrew Saint's talk was called "An Englishman's Reflections on American Architecture," but he was wishing he'd named it "Two Way Traffic" for all of the cross-pollination between the two countries.
Although now it appears the traffic has slowed considerably.
"I have found it quite lonely being interested in American architecture in England," said Saint, an author, critic and professor of architecture at Cambridge University. Few of his coll
Source: NYT
Apr 14, 2007
Reginald H. Fuller, a prominent British-born New Testament scholar who used his knowledge of Hebrew and Greek to hunt for the historical Jesus and his fluency in German to debate the nuances with theologians, died on April 4 in Richmond, Va. He was 92.
The cause was complications of surgery for a broken hip, said the Very Rev. Martha J. Horne, dean and president of the Virginia Theological Seminary, where Dr. Fuller taught for many years.
In addition to expounding on hi
Source: PETER STEINFELS in the NYT
Apr 14, 2007
For over four years, George Weigel, staunch supporter of President Bush and biographer of Pope John Paul II, has never ceased to insist that the war in Iraq meets all the traditional moral criteria for a just war. And most leaders and thinkers among Mr. Weigel’s fellow Roman Catholics, along with many non-Catholic proponents of just-war thinking, have never ceased to disagree.
Now there is a fresh surge in this debate, with combat concentrated not only on how to apply these venerabl
Source: MSNBC
Apr 13, 2007
... The historian, UCLA professor and MacArthur fellow Saul Friedländer, whose parents died at Auschwitz and who grew up hidden among Gentiles in Nazi-occupied France, has been writing about the Holocaust since the 1960s. His new book, "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945," along with its 1997 precursor, "Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939," caps a life's work that includes a memoir, books on Pope Pius XII and the Third
Source: Johann Hari in the New Republic
Apr 13, 2007
... Bush, Cheney, and--in a recent, glowing cover story--National Review, have, in fact, embraced a man with links to white supremacism, whose book is not a history but an ahistorical catalogue of apologies and justifications for mass murder that even blames the victims of concentration camps for their own deaths. The decision to laud [Andrew] Roberts [the author of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, which President Bush has read and priased,] provides a bleak insight into th
Source: Ralph Luker at Cliopatria (HNN Blog)
Apr 13, 2007
Our colleague, KC Johnson, was featured on ABC Nightline's review of the Duke lacrosse case last night. As I understand it, his blog, Durham-in-Wonderland, will continue to cover the prosecution of charges against Durham's DA, Mike Nifong. We look forward to KC's book,
Source: Keith Thomas in the NY Review of Books
Apr 12, 2007
Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was almost certainly the most gifted of the remarkable generation of British historians who did their best work in the decades after World War II. Yet whereas A.J.P. Taylor, J.H. Plumb, Christopher Hill, R.W. Southern, Alan Bullock, Eric Hobsbawm, Lawrence Stone, Asa Briggs, G.R. Elton, Michael Howard, and E.P. Thompson all went on to publish substantial works worthy of their talents, the general consensus is that Trevor-Roper never entirely fulfilled himself
Source: http://www.larchmontgazette.com
Apr 12, 2007
Rock star is not usually the term associated with a renowned historian, but Professor Alan Brinkley of Columbia University received a taste of celebrity treatment at Mamaroneck High School on March 20. In a show of appreciation for the author of their textbook (American History; A Survey), the American History Advanced Placement students made and wore t-shirts celebrating Dr. Brinkley’s arrival for a lecture on the Harlem Renaissance.
Professor Brinkley’s lecture was the third insta
Source: WaPo
Apr 12, 2007
Henry Bartholomew Cox, 69, a historian and lawyer who helped recover more than $250,000 worth of documents stolen from the Thomas A. Edison historical site, died of Alzheimer's disease April 8 at his home in Fort Washington.
Dr. Cox, an appraiser and collector who owned several early phonographs made by Edison, was alerted in 1984 by a North Carolina dealer that a California professor was willing to sell several rare documents signed by the famous inventor. The dealer bought one $60
Source: http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune
Apr 12, 2007
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum in Madisonville has appointed a new executive director, the first in the museum's history who is a professional maritime historian with experience in grantwriting.
Jay Martin, who most recently worked as a park ranger performing historic re-enactments at the De Soto National Memorial in Bradenton, Fla., will start his new job at the beginning of May.
Martin has a Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University in O
Source: Harvard University Gazette
Apr 12, 2007
Researchers from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are preparing to head into the Central American rain forest to begin an ambitious, multiyear project to scan and digitize fading Maya inscriptions and carvings.
The expedition, by the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program (CMHI), will focus on Yaxchilan, an ancient Maya city on the Usumacinta River, which forms the border between Mexico and Guatemala. The CMHI’s mission since its formation in 1968 is to rec
Source: Weekly Standard
Apr 12, 2007
Senator Joseph Biden, still promoting the increasingly inappropriate notion of partitioning Iraq, declares that for every positive development in Iraq that can be reported, there are at least as many negatives. In an op-ed in this morning's (April 12) Washington Post, he identifies four examples:
* As violence has gone down in Baghdad, it is rising in the belt around Baghdad: "when we squeeze the water balloon in one place, it bulges somewhere else."
* Muqtada al Sa
Source: NYT
Apr 12, 2007
If the longstanding fight between two professors, Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein, was under the jurisdiction of family court, a judge could issue restraining orders and forbid inflammatory statements. But, alas, this nasty and zealously pursued feud is taking place in scholarly precincts, so each protagonist is continuing his campaign, unhampered, to destroy the other’s professional reputation and career.
In the latest round, first reported in The Chronicle of Higher Educati
Source: http://www.delmarvanow.com
Apr 11, 2007
William Henry Williams, who brought Delaware's history to life for thousands of students, connecting the dots on controversial topics such as slavery, immigration and most recently Delaware's environmental legacy, died Saturday from colon cancer. He was 70.
Williams, an author and professor emeritus of history at the University of Delaware, started his career as a high school teacher in Queens, N.Y.
Source: HNN
Apr 11, 2007
HNN Editor's Note: On March 27, 2007 HNN reported that the Tulane history department is divided over charges involving racism, harassment and slander. The university conducted an investigation into the charges and cleared the accused professors of wrongdoing. But tensions lingered. The three accused members of the faculty began boycotting department meetings (they were joined by a fourth). One of the professors filed a lawsuit claiming she
Source: Education Week
Apr 11, 2007
The founder of The Concord Review is turning to private schools and other donors to keep the renowned history journal for student papers afloat after its primary sponsor pulled its funding. And a growing number of benefactors are accepting his invitation to join a consortium he has set up to ensure the journal’s survival.
Ten private organizations and schools have already pledged $5,000 each for their place in the consortium announced last month, which will set policy for th
Source: NYT
Apr 11, 2007
The German historian Werner Maser, considered one of the leading experts on Hitler and his regime, died last Thursday in the west German city of Speyer. He was 84.
His death was announced by his family.
Mr. Maser won international acclaim with a biography of Hitler, “Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality.” It was published in 1971 and translated into 22 languages.
Another work, “Hitler’s Letters and Notes,” gave insight into the dictator’s thoughts and theories.
