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: NYT
Feb 23, 2006
James E. Hinton Jr., a documentary photographer who chronicled the racial and social upheavals of the 1960's, died on Sunday at a hospital in the Bronx. He was 69 and lived in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
The cause was metastasized prostate cancer, his family said.
Mr. Hinton's pictures captured nameless actors in historical events and also those who made them happen.
He was a producer, director or cameraman — and sometimes narrator — for about 70 documentaries, wit
Source: Concord Monitor
Feb 23, 2006
Ken Burns doesn't shy away from big subjects. The Civil War, jazz, baseball, the American West: He's tackled them all. Burns's upcoming documentary on the American experience of World War II is no exception. But beneath the grand, ambitious subject are people, each of whom experienced the war as life, not history. The statistics - more than 50 million dead, many of them civilians - are staggering and impossible to comprehend. But for families throughout America, the conflict
Source: Haaretz
Feb 22, 2006
American historian Deboarh E. Lipstadt announced Wednesday she was withdrawing from an Israeli cartoon competition poking fun at the Holocaust that she was to judge. Lipstadt, who is currently in Rome, said she had made a mistake and that she calls on the organizers to cancel the contest.
The contest's organizers said they had not yet received word from the Emory University faculty member that she had pulled out.
Amitai Sandi, one of the conte
Source: Sun (UK)
Feb 22, 2006
Disgraced historian David Irving today claimed he was jailed because authorities are scared of what he has to say.
Speaking from the Austrian prison where he has started a three-year term for denying the Holocaust, the 67-year-old said he had simply been exercising freedom of speech.
He also confirmed he would appeal against the sentence, and called prosecutors "crazy" for mounting a bid to lengthen it.
“I think they are trying to silence me and b
Source: David Cesarani in the Guardian
Feb 22, 2006
[David Cesarani is research professor in history at Royal Holloway, and author of Eichmann: His Life and Crimes David.Cesarani@rhul.ac.uk]
The sentence handed down on David Irving by a Viennese court for denying that the Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews at Auschwitz, and for declaring Hitler innocent of that crime, evidently left him stunned. It also stirred something of a "backlash" in this country, where sections of th
Source: The Guardian Unlimited
Feb 22, 2006
Austrian state prosecutors are to lodge an appeal to try to lengthen the three-year jail term handed down to David Irving, the British historian imprisoned in Austria for lying about the Holocaust. They said he remained a beacon for the European neo-Nazi movement and had been treated too lightly after the judge at Monday's trial declared Irving's show of remorse to be a case of crocodile tears.
Irving's long and controversial career appeared to be over yesterday, with his retirement years be
Source: The Australian
Feb 22, 2006
THE twin brother of David Irving yesterday challenged the sincerity of the historian's claim that he now believes millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis and that gas chambers did exist.
John Irving is so unlike the right-wing historian and Holocaust denier that he serves as chairman of Wiltshire Racial Equality Council in England.
Asked about his brother's recantation before a Vienna court, John Irving said: ''If I said 'E pur si muove!' would it mean anything to you?''
Source: Sam Roberts in the NYT
Feb 22, 2006
Richard Sutch and Susan Carter don't expect anybody to take their new book to the beach.
For starters, it weighs 29 pounds. It has five volumes. And it's densely packed with more than a million numbers that measure America in mind-boggling detail, from the average annual precipitation in Sweet Springs, Mo., to the wholesale price of rice in Charleston S.C., in 1707.
"You'd have to be a certain kind of personality type," Professor Sutch said.
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Source: NYT
Feb 22, 2006
Theodore Draper, a combative historian and social critic and one of the last of a generation of freelance intellectuals who wrote and lectured largely without academic affiliations or formal credentials, died yesterday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 93. His death was announced by his wife, Priscilla.
Mr. Draper went from Communist Party fellow traveler in the 1930's to liberal anticommunist in the 1950's and 60's before breaking with the Cold War hawks and attacking the Unite
Source: Phyllis Chesler at Frontpagemag.com
Feb 21, 2006
[Dr. Phyllis Chesler is the well known author of classic works, including the bestseller Women and Madness (1972) and The New Anti-Semitism (2003). She has just published The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as an updated and revised edition of Women and Madness. She is an Emerita Professor of psychology and women's studies, the co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969) and the National Women's Health Network (197
Source: Daniel Pipes in the NY Sun
Feb 21, 2006
In an article published in the NY Sun Daniel Pipes says that he has been accused by conspiracy websites of working hand and glove with the Danish editor who published the cartoons of Muhammad.
Click on the Source link above to read his account.
Source: Peter Carlson in the Wa Po
Feb 21, 2006
Anthony Griffin remembers the signs. How could he forget them?
A black lawyer, he grew up in Baytown, Tex. Back in high school in the late '60s and early '70s, he would borrow his mom's car and drive around East Texas, exploring. He saw the signs in a couple of towns.
"I was terrified," he says. "You're driving with your buddies and you say, 'Thank God, it's not dark. Let's get the hell out.' "
George Brosi remembers the signs, too. Edit
Source: NYT
Feb 21, 2006
The British historian David Irving on Monday pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison. He conceded that he was wrong when he said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp.
Mr. Irving, handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, arrived in court carrying a copy of one of his books, "Hitler's War," which challenges the extent of the Holocaust.
"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers
Source: Independent (South Africa)/AFP
Feb 20, 2006
British historian David Irving admitted in an Austrian court on Monday to having denied the Holocaust in 1989 but said he no longer holds that view."I acknowledge my guilt on this charge," Irving said, seated behind a witness stand facing judge Peter Liebetreu.
Irving, who faces a possible 10 years in jail, said he now realised his statement that "there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz (was) false".
But Irving had earlier told r
Source: NYT
Feb 19, 2006
Stephanie Coontz, the director of public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, and the author of "Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage," was given the entire middle part of the op ed page in Sunday's NYT to quiz readers about marriage. The article began:
Usually Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage. Not this February. New Yorkers are debating
Source: Clarence Page in the Chicago Tribune
Feb 19, 2006
Google last month launched a version of its extremely popular search engine that prevents Internet users in China from seeing content that has not been government-sanitized, regarding such sensitive subjects as the Tiananmen Square protests, the banned Falun Gong religious group and the suppression of Tibet's independence movement.
Microsoft shut down a blog on its popular MSN network by a Chinese journalist who was critical of the Chinese government.
Rep. Chris Smith (
Source: Yotam Barkai in the Yale Herald
Feb 17, 2006
When Yale formally hires a professor of Middle East Studies sometime in the next few years, students accustomed to comfortably liberal lecturers may be confronted with a notorious anti-Western firebrand. Faculty at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) have confirmed that Juan Cole, an openly anti-George W. Bush, DC ’68, and anti-Israel history professor at the University of Michigan, is under consideration to fill a new slot as an interdisciplinary professor of contemporary
Source: Ralph Luker at HNN Blog, Cliopatria
Feb 17, 2006
Harvard historian, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, appears headed to the center of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science's challenge to President Lawrence Summers. Its elected governing body asked her to take the lead in developing a process for choosing a new dean to succeed William C. Kirby. Last year, the FAS voted no confidence in Summers and it has scheduled an additional no confidence vote for next Wednesday. But in a move that could b
Source: Alyssa A. Lappen at the website of Campus Watch
Feb 17, 2006
It is a sad fact that many feminist academics"have adopted a pro-PLO and pro-terrorist line of thinking."[1] Middle East Studies specialists are among the worst.The doyenne of this camp is Duke University's Miriam Cooke, a professor of Arabic and Women's Studies. Cooke champions what she calls the"production of knowledge," especially on the Middle East, not to
Source: Jacob Laksin at Frontpagemag.com
Feb 16, 2006
Among the odder charges advanced by bien pensant defenders of the political homogeneity in American higher education is the claim that advocates of greater intellectual pluralism are really revivalists of Cold-War era "McCarthyism." Its leading academic exponent is Ellen Schrecker, a professor of history at Yeshiva University. But Schrecker goes further. In the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, she asserts t
