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.dailytimes.com.pk
Mar 25, 2007
American historian Chalmers Johnson believes that “our numerous clandestine activities, some of which are almost totally disreputable, will come back to haunt us.”
In an interview with Mark Karlin put out by the news and opinion site Alter-Net, Chalmers quotes political philosopher Hannah Arendt who argued that at the root of all imperialism, there has to be a racist view. He maintains that the US does not have a withdrawal strategy from Iraq because it does not intend to leave. He
Source: Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star
Mar 24, 2007
If you've always wanted to get to know Thomas Jefferson, Dodd Auditorium was the place to be this week.
For there, in the University of Mary Washington's George Washington Hall, Daniel P. Jordan delivered the world's fastest crash course in Jefferson.
Jordan, a historian who has been the executive director of Monticello since 1985, knows his subject well enough to poke a little fun at the founding father.
He recalled the visitor to Jefferson's mountaintop
Source: http://www.southernillinoisan.com
Mar 23, 2007
A historian of Central Intelligence Agency operations will speak at Southern Illinois University Carbondale about the agency’s development and use of psychological torture.
Alfred W. McCoy is scheduled to give a free, public lecture Tuesday, April 3 in the Hiram Lesar Law Building on the SIUC campus. His speech is based on McCoy’s 2006 book, “A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror.”
McCoy’s position is that torture, even a “no-t
Source: http://media.www.thestute.com
Mar 23, 2007
Amy Srebnick, author and historian, kicked off the inaugural Women's History Month lecture at Stevens Institute of Technology. Srebnick started by presenting her book, The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century New York. The author read excerpts from her book and spoke about the development of modern society along with the relevance of her work to gender issues today.
The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century N
Source: Daily Show
Mar 23, 2007
Click on the SOURCE link above to watch Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
On the clip she agrees with Jon Stewart that former UN Ambassador John Bolton misstated Abe Lincoln's record as president.
Source: AP
Mar 23, 2007
Mel Gibson exchanged angry words with a university professor who challenged the accuracy of his film "Apocalypto" at an on-campus screening.
Gibson was answering questions from the crowd at California State University, Northridge, Thursday night when Alicia Estrada, an assistant professor of Central American studies, accused the actor-director of misrepresenting the Mayan culture in the movie.
Gibson directed an expletive at the woman, who was removed from the
Source: AP
Mar 23, 2007
ROME -- British historian David Irving, who was jailed in Austria for questioning the Holocaust, visited the Auschwitz death camp and renewed his claim that there was no proof it had gas chambers during an Italian TV program aired Friday.
In the Sky TG24 documentary program "Controcorrente" (Countercurrent), Irving is filmed walking down the remains of railroad tracks in the former death camp in southern Poland as he insists that engineering techniques back his claims that
Source: Altercation (blog) (Click on the SOURCE link to see embedded links in this excerpt)
Mar 23, 2007
A few final (I hope) notes about Mr. Klein:
Some points for the record:
1) Just this week, alone, Klein has referred to me as: "obsessed," "still-obsessed," "futile and pathetic," and "still pathetic," "still after [him]," "a suck-up" and "intellectually dishonest," "not reliable," and full of "non-stop crap." I have not called Klein a single name this week, or to my knowledge, eve
Source: Correspondence published on the website of the New Republic
Mar 23, 2007
John Prados:
I am obliged to object Ronald Radosh's March 12 piece, "Bohemian Rhapsody." Radosh inaccurately represents the background of a conference, "Alger Hiss and History," that is being held at New York University on April 5. He charges that the conference is biased because scholars who believe Hiss was a Soviet agent are not represented--and uses that assertion to indict an NYU institute.
When I was invited to participate in this conference, I
Source: http://inside.binghamton.edu
Mar 22, 2007
Richard Trexler, 74, distinguished professor emeritus of history, died March 8 in Princeton, N.J., after suffering complications related to a kidney transplant.
Trexler, a Florentine Renaissance specialist who did his undergraduate work at Baylor University, received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
He joined Binghamton’s faculty in 1978 after teaching in Texas and Illinois.
Trexler, who was named distinguished res
Source: Deseret News (Utah)
Mar 22, 2007
Anyone who refers to the past as a simpler time is speaking nonsense.
"There was no simpler time," historian David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, said Tuesday.
Imagine if you were Abigail Adams getting up at 5 a.m., waking up the hired girl, raising the children and educating them at home because the schools were closed in the midst of war in 1776.
Then there was disease and coping with it. Teet
Source: http://www.pm.gov.uk
Mar 22, 2007
TV historian Simon Schama came to Number 10 for the latest in a series of podcast conversations with Tony Blair.
He and the PM enjoyed a fascinating discussion about history, a subject Mr Blair says he wishes he had studied at university, rather than law.
This year sees several notable anniversaries - 300 years since the Act of Union between England and Scotland, 200 years since the abolition of slavery, 50 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, and 25 years sin
Source: Website of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Mar 22, 2007
Harvey Mansfield, one of America's leading political scientists and a widely published author, will deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today. The annual NEH-sponsored Jefferson Lecture is the most prestigious honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.
"With a distinguished career of thoughtful-and thought-provoking-discourse on political theory a
Source: Email to HNN from Nick Wynne, PhD, Florida Historical Society
Mar 22, 2007
The Florida State Legislature is just underway (this is its second full
week) and an effort is underway to secure as many electronic signatures
as possible on a petition to have the Governor and the Legislature
re-write the A++ Plan, which mandates that"American history shall be
viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable,
teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new
nation based largely on the universal principles stated in the
Decl
Source: NY Sun Editorial
Mar 22, 2007
Long after world communism and its American variant have been discredited, a strange effort to resurrect its memory and glamorize its "heroes" is taking place both at New York University and the Museum of the City of New York. A glimpse of the museum exhibit is provided on our page one today by Ronald Radosh. And NYU, in conjunction with the Tamiment Institute, once an educational force for the anti-Communist left wing of the 1930s, has announced a slew of programs under the auspices o
Source: Robin Lindley in Seattle's Real Change
Mar 21, 2007
[Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer who
covers international affairs, human rights, politics,
law, medicine and the arts. He has worked as a lawyer
for federal and local agencies and as a law teacher.
He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law
Section of the Washington State Bar Association. He
also worked as a staff attorney with the U.S. House
Select Committee on Assassinations on the
investigation of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. ]
Something
Source: http://news-service.stanford.edu
Mar 21, 2007
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Program for the Environment and many other scientific associations, there is no controversy about global climate change. Nor has there ever been any controversy in the scientific community, said Stanford University alumna Naomi Oreskes (PhD '90), professor of history and science studies at the University of California-San Diego.
Oreskes made her remarks during
Source: UC Berkeley News
Mar 21, 2007
BERKELEY – It was another standing ovation for Professor Leon Litwack this morning (Wednesday, March 21) in his History 7B class.
Such shows of appreciation for the University of California, Berkeley, social historian and iconoclast are reaching a fever pitch in the final countdown to Litwack's retirement at the semester's end. In his half century of teaching more than 30,000 students about America's checkered racial history, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author has won fans of all age
Source: A review in the Times Literary Supplement of a new transaltion of Foucault's HISTORY OF MADNESS Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (Routledge)
Mar 21, 2007
History of Madness is the book that launched Michel Foucault’s career as one of the most prominent intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. It was not his first book; that was a much briefer volume, Maladie mentale et personnalité, that had appeared seven years earlier, in 1954, in the aftermath of a bout of depression and a suicide attempt. (A translation of the second edition of that treatise would appear in English in 1976, in spite of Foucault’s vociferous objections.) But
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Mar 21, 2007
Mae Timbimboo Parry, a Shoshone chief's great-granddaughter who helped correct history's account of the Bear River Massacre, has died.
Parry, 87, suffered from Parkinsons disease for several years, and her family had been preparing for her death, said a niece, Patty Timbimboo-Madsen.
Nonetheless, her passing leaves the family without its matron and the Northwest Band of the Shoshone without one of its clearest voices for historical accuracy.
