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Source: Press Release -- Lichtman Campaign
Mar 24, 2006
Our campaign is picking up steam every day! I'm writing to share some incredible news: this week, Allan picked up endorsements from several renowned national figures and progressive organizations.
Among those publicly endorsing Allan are former Democratic U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern of South Dakota; former Democratic Governor Ray Mabus of Mississippi, a civil rights pioneer; and John Anderson, a presidential candidate in 1980 who won nearly 7% of the vote
Source: Yahoo News
Mar 24, 2006
Ron Chernow, author of acclaimed biographies of Alexander Hamilton, J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, has been elected president of the PEN American Center.Chernow's "The House of Morgan" won the National Book Award. His biographies "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." and "Alexander Hamilton" were nominees for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
"I am delighted to assume the presidency of PEN American Center at
Source: Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 24, 2006
Sprawl. It's an ugly word.
The term often evokes images that are even uglier: Green space lost to an asphalt desert of strip malls and highways. Citizens trapped in cars and a fast-food lifestyle that leaves them tired, stressed, and overweight. Pollution and global warming devouring habitat and community. Anonymous commuter suburbs where the people and the architecture all look the same.
That's a common view among urbanites and scholars. But over the past decade, a rev
Source: Conrad Black in the American Spectator in a review of Mr. Wilentz's new book, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Mar 23, 2006
[Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (Public Affairs).]
This book is a prodigious feat of scholarship and organization, weaving into its narrative every political splinter group, and attempting to give appropriate weight to all the tides and currents of American sociology from the Revolution to the Civil War. No detour into labor and religious and political factionalism is too obscure to be deserving of the brief redirection of the entire nar
Source: Duke University News and Communications
Mar 23, 2006
Durham, N.C. -- John Hope Franklin, the distinguished scholar and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, will deliver Duke’s 2006 commencement address on Sunday, May 14, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Thursday.Franklin, 91, is considered a leading figure in the field of African-American history, American race relations and Southern regional history. He has received dozens of honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and
Source: The State (Columbia, South Carolina)
Mar 23, 2006
When Anne King Gregorie submitted her doctoral dissertation to the USC history department in 1929, the all-male review panel reacted with the typical gender bias of the times.They blasted Gregorie’s style as simplistic, found fault with the punctuation and suggested some of the work might not have been original.
“No one criticized my use of sources or offered constructive criticism,” Gregorie later wrote. “I announced to the Department that my style was my own,
Source: Tony Judt in the NY Review of Books
Mar 23, 2006
At first glance John Lewis Gaddis is the ideal person to write a general history of the cold war: he has already written six books on the same subject. His new book is based on a popular undergraduate course at Yale, where Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History. To be sure, it is not clear in what precise respect this latest version is distinctively new—We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997) had a decidedly stronger claim.[1] But Gaddis, the "dean of cold war historian
Source: Princeton.edu
Mar 22, 2006
Denis Twitchett, a distinguished scholar of Chinese history, died Feb. 24 in Cambridge, England. He was 80.Twitchett was the first Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton when he was named to the professorship in 1980. He is perhaps best known for "The Cambridge History of China," the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language. He conceived the 15-volume series, published by Cambridge University Press, with John Fairban
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Mar 22, 2006
The San Francisco district attorney has dropped criminal charges against a San Francisco State University professor who was arrested last fall after a scuffle with campus police officers.
The faculty member, Antwi Akom, an assistant professor of black studies, was stopped by police officers in his locked office building after 11 p.m. one night in October. Mr. Akom has accused the police of racial profiling (The Chronicle, November 2, 2005).
On Friday the district atto
Source: frontpagemag.com
Mar 22, 2006
[James R. Russell has been the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University since 1993. Previously, he taught at Columbia University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.]
In March 2003, I gave a lecture in the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Columbia University. It was a job talk: my partner of a quarter century lives in New York, my hometown, and I figured I might as well apply for the long-vacant chair in Armenia
Source: Hillel Italie in the Baltimore Sun
Mar 22, 2006
Professor Sean
Wilentz is a distinguished man, one of this year's winners of the
Bancroft Prize for history and chair of the American studies department
at Princeton University. But in person he can remind you of the
smart-aleck who sits in back of the class, with his playful eyes,
crooked smile and signed photo of Bob Dylan in his office.
Wilentz won the Bancroft, voted on by fellow historians, for "The Rise
of American Democracy
Source: Princeton University
Mar 22, 2006
Denis Twitchett, a distinguished scholar of Chinese history, died Feb. 24 in Cambridge, England. He was 80. Twitchett was the first Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton when he was named to the professorship in 1980. He is perhaps best known for "The Cambridge History of China," the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language. He conceived the 15-volume series, published by Cambridge University Press, with
Source: NYT
Mar 21, 2006
At the annual meeting of the PEN American Center on Thursday night, the organization of writers and editors is expected to ratify Ron Chernow, the best-selling biographer of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton, as its next president. Mr. Chernow will succeed the novelist Salman Rushdie, who has served as the group's leader for two years.
Mr. Rushdie, who is credited with having helped to reshape the PEN American Center's role in defending freedom of expression
Source: NYT
Mar 21, 2006
Donelson Hoopes, an authority on 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and a curator who helped restore the reputation of John Singer Sargent in the 1960's, died on Feb. 22 at a hospital in Bangor, Me. He was 73 and lived in Steuben, on the Maine coast.
The cause was complications of a stroke, said Joerg-Henner Lotze, Mr. Hoopes's friend and executor.
In books and articles, Mr. Hoopes, an art historian, wrote extensively about the watercolors of artists like Sargen
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune
Mar 21, 2006
Historians Matthew Lassiter, Joseph Crespino and Kevin Kruse are part of the first generation of whites to grow up in the post-Jim Crow South. They're also at the leading edge of a group of younger scholars who say it's time to stop considering the South a region apart -- especially on race, the sine qua non of Southern exceptionalism.
In books, articles and at an Emory University conference this week under the banner "The End of Southern History?" these rising academic s
Source: dailypress.com
Mar 20, 2006
Ivor Noel Hume recalls the day in 1975 when Colonial Williamsburg President Carlisle Humelsine asked if he was doing anything interesting.
"I was a bit irritated at that," says Noel Hume in his characteristic forthright manner, "because I thought I was always doing something interesting."
And he was. CW's chief of archaeology and his staff had found something intriguing while digging on the grounds of the Carter's Grove plantation: evidence of a sett
Source: Press Release -- Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)
Mar 20, 2006
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) reports that Waskar Ari, an indigenous historian from Bolivia, was denied a visa to teach in the United States.
MERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION NETWORK (AAASHRAN)
AYMARA HISTORIAN DENIED VISA
20 March 2006
Case number: bo0603_ari
ISSUES: Academic and scientific freedom; Right to travel
**Visit the AAASHRAN websit
Source: Campaign Website
Mar 20, 2006
Historian Allan Lichtman, running for the US Senate in the Maryland Democratic primary, has unveiled a new television ad that features him literally taking a plunge into a pond. He's fully clothed.
Accordng to his website:
"This humorous and edgy ad literally shows the difference between the minor ripple of conventional politics and the big splash that Allan will make in Washington. It will air for a week in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties and Baltimore C
Source: NYT
Mar 19, 2006
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, a prominent writer, scholar and lecturer whose passion for what she called the "glorious order" of the past led her first to a career in medieval and Renaissance studies and more recently to wide public advocacy of tougher immigration laws, died on March 2 in Escondido, Calif. She was 68.
The cause was complications of scleroderma, a chronic disease of the connective tissue, her family said. Ms. Cosman, who moved to California in the late 1990's, w
Source: cronaca.com
Mar 17, 2006
JOHN WYMER was one of Britain’s foremost archaeologists. In the course of a lifetime devoted to seeking out the earliest traces of human beings, he made many significant discoveries in Britain and abroad.
John James Wymer was born in 1928 and brought up in southwest London, near Kew Gardens. He was introduced to the quest for ancient flint implements by his parents whom he accompanied on many visits to nearby gravel pits where flint implements and the bones of extinct animals were
