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: UCLA International Institute
Sep 21, 2006
When Geoffrey Robinson last saw the archives that chronicle the creation of East Timor, they were stored in an unremarkable Dili warehouse: one large room of audio recordings, transcripts, and reports, protected by a key and padlock and a low-ranking archivist.
Set up in 2000, the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, better known by its Indonesian acronym CAVR, collected records on the period from 1974, when Portugal began to relinquish colonial control, through the 1
Source: Christopher Phelps in solidarity-us.org
Sep 21, 2006
MORRIS SLAVIN, A historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
Slavin was born in Kiev in 1913 on the eve of the First World War. His parents were Lazar Slavin, owner of a lumber yard and forests, and Vera Slavin, a graduate of the Unive
Source: Bruce Craig in the newsletter of the National Coalition for History
Sep 20, 2006
Each year we look forward to reporting on the historians and humanists who have been honored with one of the coveted MacArthur Awards a $500,000 prize that each fellow receives courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This year, however, we are sorry to report that of the twenty-five named fellows (of which twelve are academics), not one is an historian.
Each year, the MacArthur Foundation awards an unrestricted fellowship to talented individuals who have sho
Source: Sandbox, the blog of Martin Kramer
Sep 20, 2006
Over at Sandstorm, I have a column on the intellectual history of the Islamism-fascism comparison in the social sciences. The comparison wasn't born in the White House, but has a long academic pedigree. There I quote Michigan professor Juan Cole's denunciation of "the lazy conflation of Muslim fundamentalist movements with fascism." But there was nothing lazy in the "conflations&
Source: Mark Oppenheimer in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sep 20, 2006
... Much has been written about the divide between academe and "the real world," and about academic writing versus popular writing. But far less has been said about the split within the academy between those who care about the popularization of academic learning — either they want to be popularizers, or they enjoy reading popularizers, or they at least feel a professional obligation to know who the popularizers are — and those who do not. Residing in the same department can be a profes
Source: Dennis Prager at frontpagemag.com
Sep 19, 2006
[Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show based in Los Angeles. He is the author of four books, most recently "Happiness is a Serious Problem" (HarperCollins). His website is www.dennisprager.com. ]
This is the second part of my radio dialogue with an icon of the Left, Howard Zinn, professor emeritus of Boston University, author of A People's History of the United States. (Read Part One here.) The intention of th
Source: Campaign Website
Sep 19, 2006
Thank You!
Dear Supporters,
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your consistent support of my United States Senate campaign. Your faith in our message helped all of us at the Lichtman campaign bring positive, fundamental change across the state of Maryland.
Although we did not prevail in this campaign, I can assure you that I, my wife Karyn Strickler, my staff, and our volunteers worked as hard as humanly possible to reach the voters of Maryland.
Source: Rutgers News
Sep 18, 2006
Cherry blossoms blooming in springtime. Stately houses of worship and historic structures rising above a city skyline. Baseball, art and foods from around the world. Sounds like Washington? Think again –this is Newark, a city that many people know of – but few people actually know.
A new film about Newark, to be broadcast in October, will change that. “The Once and Future Newark,” a documentary hosted by famed historian Clement A. Price, will premiere on NJN Public Television in New
Source: Eric Alterman in the Nation
Sep 18, 2006
It's a truism that once an accusation is leveled, it's impossible to erase entirely from the public memory. This is doubly true when it comes to the deceased, and doubly dangerous in our political world, in which debate is driven by cable news networks that show little interest in quaint questions involving what's actually true. The only apparent standard is what's actionable--or what's going to piss off the network brass. Given the fact that most casual news consumers cannot be expected to sift
Source: Network of Concerned Historians (NCH) #45a (Annual Report 2006)
Sep 17, 2006
The Network of Concerned Historians (NCH) forwards to its
participants news about the domain where history and human rights
intersect, as reported by:**the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS,
Washington];
**Amnesty International [AI, London];
**Article 19 [A19, London];
**Human Rights Watch [HRW, Washington/New York];
**Index on Censorship [IOC, London];
**the Network of Education and Academi
Source: NEH
Sep 15, 2006
National Endowment Chairman Bruce Cole talked recently with Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University.
A scholar on the history of Islam, Lewis has written more than twenty books, among them What Went Wrong: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.
Bruce Cole: Members of one culture are sometimes reluctant to understand enough about another
Source: Max Holland, writing in the American Spectator
Sep 15, 2006
... historians will one day ponder why Philip Zelikow was selected as the commission's executive director. A friend of Condoleezza Rice's since their days together on the National Security Council under George H.W. Bush, Zelikow was a key member of Rice's transition team in 2000 and 2001 and was instrumental in the pivotal decision to demote counter-terrorism "czar" Richard Clarke. After 9/11, Zelikow remained an outside adviser to Rice, helping to draft the administration's 2002 natio
Source: NYT
Sep 14, 2006
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, an eminent French historian of the ancient world who became widely known for exposing wartime atrocities of the modern one, died on July 29 in Nice. He was 76.
The cause was a cerebral hemorrhage, his publisher, Éditions la Découverte, told the French newspaper Le Monde on July 30. Mr. Vidal-Naquet’s death has not been widely reported outside of Europe.
A leading scholar of Greek antiquity, Mr. Vidal-Naquet became known to a broad general readership
Source: New York Sun
Sep 14, 2006
The victor of the war on terror is far from clear, the historian Bernard Lewis told a Hudson Institute conference.
The British-born professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton said Monday that he was "more optimistic about the future of our struggle" in the early 1940s — when the French had capitulated to the Germans, when Stalin was Hitler's ally, and when America was still neutral — than he is today."Hitler would have won under th
Source: Press Release -- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Sep 13, 2006
NEW YORK, NY (SEPTEMBER 13, 2006) – Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan has been selected as the winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book on slavery or abolition. Scott won for her book, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (Harvard University Press). The book examines the path to freedom taken by two slave societies and their construction of post-emancipati
Source: Euston Manifesto
Sep 12, 2006
[Prominent historians have signed the Euston Manifesto, an endorsement of liberal values in foreign affairs. According to Wikipedia: "The Euston Manifesto (pron. "yoosten", IPA /?ju?st?n/) is a declaration of principles by a group on the democratic left in support of universal human rights and other fundamental principles. It began as a conversation between friends, a gathering of (mainly British) academics, journalists, and activists. At their first meeting in London, they deci
Source: Howard Zinn interviewed by Dennis Prager at frontpagemag.com
Sep 12, 2006
[Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show based in Los Angeles. He is the author of four books, most recently "Happiness is a Serious Problem" (HarperCollins). His website is www.dennisprager.com. To find out more about Dennis Prager, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.]
Every so often, one hears the argument that "Left and Right" are outdated
Source: Ella Powers at Inside Higher Ed
Sep 12, 2006
She was popular in the classroom. She had taken students on a service learning trip to Guatemala over last winter break, and had brought some to the University of Oxford to meet with professors. She was working on an oral history project with World War II veterans. But there was a problem with her credentials.
Jaclyn LaPlaca taught history at Marywood University, in Pennsylvania, for the last academic year, and Rod Carveth — a colleague who began last fall at the same time as LaPlac
Source: Deutsche Welle
Sep 12, 2006
German historian and publisher Joachim Fest has died. The Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, which he co-published for two decades ending in 1993, said he died at his home near Frankfurt at the age of 79. Fest was seen as one of Germany's leading authorities on Nazism. He may be best remembered for his 1973 biography of Adolf Hitler, which was a best-seller.HNN Editor This is from the
Source: Advance-Titan
Sep 11, 2006
Within the dark hallways of the Clow faculty building is the office of Dr. Stephen Kercher. Amid the various history books and other assorted papers piled up on Kercher’s desk, you might find a copy of Kercher’s new book, “Revel With A Cause: Liberal Satire in Post-War America.” The book is Kercher’s analysis of the period from 1945-1965, when political satirists were at their most venerated.
“I’ve always been compelled by how artists use humor and comedy to criticize social patter
