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: Chicago Sun-Times
Nov 18, 2005
Conrad Black, who once ran a media empire that included the Chicago Sun-Times, was indicted today on eight counts of mail and wire fraud. Three other former executives were also charged in a federal fraud indictment today involving the sale of several hundred Canadian newspapers.
Black, 61, fraudulently funneled $51.8 million to himself and three business associates, disguising them as “non-competition agreements” when he sold several hundred Canadian newspapers and half the N
Source: NYT
Nov 18, 2005
Paul Langdon Ward, a historian and former head of the American Historical Association who was president of Sarah Lawrence College in the 1960's, died last Sunday at his retirement home in Gwynedd, Pa. He was 94.
Dr. Ward became the fifth president of Sarah Lawrence College in 1960. He was also a member of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's Commission on the Higher Education of Women. He left the college in 1965 when he was named executive director of the association of professional histor
Source: Council for Advancement and Support of Education
Nov 17, 2005
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching today named four university and college professors as national winners of the 2005 U.S. Professors of the Year Award. The professors, who each receive a $5,000 prize, were selected for their outstanding commitment to teaching undergraduate students and their influence on teaching. A state Professor of the Year was also recognized in 40 states, the District of Columbia and Guam.
Source: Irfan Khawaja at HNN Blog Theory & Practice
Nov 17, 2005
It can be amazing sometimes to discover the frequency with which appeals to academic expertise end up concealing utter nonsense. For a remarkable example of this, consider a letter from Fred M. Donner, professor of Near East Studies at the University of Chicago, in the Nov. 16 issue of Princeton Alumni Weekly, the alumni magazine of Princeton University. (To get to the Donner letter, click the preceding link, go
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Nov 17, 2005
Right-wing British historian David Irving, who once famously said that Adolf Hitler knew nothing about the systematic slaughter of 6 million Jews, has been arrested in Austria on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust.
Irving, 67, was detained Nov. 11 in the southern province of Styria on a warrant issued in 1989 under Austrian laws making Holocaust denial a crime, police Maj. Rudolf Gollia, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said Thursday.
Austrian media s
Source: Stanford Report
Nov 17, 2005
Robert Conquest, a renowned historian of Soviet politics and foreign policy, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George Bush during a Nov. 9 ceremony at the White House.
Conquest, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, was one of 14 recipients of the medal, the nation's highest civil award. He is known for his landmark work The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. More than 35 years after its publication, the book remains one of the most influent
Source: Columbia News
Nov 16, 2005
While the Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia in 1787, pirates from Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco were holding sailors from the Colonies hostage. The Barbary Coast pirates regularly sacked merchant ships unless a ransom of jewels, gold and currency was available.
With no American Navy to protect them, or even a federal system in place to raise taxes for a fighting fleet, the sailors were defenseless, says Michael B. Oren, CC '77, SIPA '78. Their vulnerability concerned r
Source: The Independent (London)
Nov 16, 2005
Paul Roazen is a significant figure as a historian of psychoanalysis " a prolific and sometimes controversial author. A key to his career was information he got from interviewing between 1964 and 1967 more than 70 people who had known Sigmund Freud personally. He also interviewed some 40 more who were professionally interested in the history of psychoanalysis or had been part of the early psychoanalytic movement. Among his interviewees were 25 former patients of Freud.
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Source: The Independent (London)
Nov 15, 2005
Alfred Gollin, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was one of the most talented historians of his generation. He had the rare distinction of receiving the unqualified praise of A.J.P. Taylor and was one of the few American academics to have an entry in Britain's Who's Who. His friends included the Labour cabinet minister John Strachey and the once famous historian George Dangerfield, whose gratitude he earned when he found him in quiet retirement in Sant
Source: Hartford Courant
Nov 15, 2005
A Yale University professor and the two co-founders of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale were among 11 Americans who received 2005 National Humanities Medals during a White House ceremony Thursday. They are John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at Yale, and Yale alumni Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman.
Gaddis is a prominent historian of the Cold War who teaches Cold War history, strategy,
Source: Daily Astorian
Nov 15, 2005
Gary Moulton said one of his associates told him he stopped giving lectures on Lewis and Clark because “people know too much anymore” about the famous explorers.
That fact that knowledge about the Corps of Discovery has grown so much in the last several years is partly the work of Moulton. For Lewis and Clark enthusiasts, his name is synonymous with the 13-volume collection of the explorers’ journals that the University of Nebraska history professor edited over an 18-year period and
Source: Newsletter of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Nov 15, 2005
The leading international journal of ecumenical scholarship, the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, has devoted an entire issue to exploring the impact and legacy of David S. Wyman's book, The Abandonment of the Jews, on the twentieth anniversary of the book's publication.
The articles in the issue include important new information on the role of Wyman's book in bringing about the U.S. airlift of Ethiopian Jews in 1985; the response of American Catholic leaders to news of the Holocaust;
Source: Alexander H. Joffe at Frontpagemag.com
Nov 15, 2005
[Alex Joffe is director of Campus Watch, at www.campus-watch.org. This article was first published by the Middle East Quarterly.]
When the Middle East Studies Association's annual conference ends on November 22, 2005, University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole [1] is scheduled to become the organization's president. The association describes itself as:
A non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teachi
Source: Seattle Times
Nov 15, 2005
Vine Deloria Jr., author of the scathing best-seller "Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto" and an influential historian and spokesman for American Indian rights, has died. He was 72.
Mr. Deloria, who taught at the University of Colorado from 1990 to 2000, died Sunday in Denver of complications from an aortic aneurysm, his family said. He lived in nearby Golden, Colo."Vine was a great leader and writer, probably the most infl
Source: Weekly Standard
Nov 14, 2005
We note with satisfaction that Robert Conquest's name is among the winners of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, has lost a certain amount of its luster over time, and this year's class is fairly typical: Recipients now routinely include retiring senior administration officials (Alan Greenspan, Gen. Richard Myers), popular professional athletes (Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, Frank Robinson), and aging-but-not-quite dormant figures fr
Source: Tech Central Station
Nov 14, 2005
Joshua E. London's new book on America's Barbary Wars -- Victory in Tripoli : How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation -- draws fascinating parallels to the current War on Terror. The following is an interview with the author, conducted in October 2005.
JUDD: We seem to be rediscovering our history at long last. Ken Burns gave us a Civil War renaissance. David McCullough got us reading about the Revolution again. Now you've brought an
Source: Nixon Library Newsletter
Nov 14, 2005
The Nixon Library has announced that Doris Kearns Goodwin will be speaking on Wed. Nov. 16 at 10:30. Her speech is helping the library to mark the 142nd anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.
Source: Ted Widmer in the NY Observer
Nov 13, 2005
One score and nine years ago, Doris Kearns Goodwin launched her career as a Presidential historian with Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a shrewd look at the oversized Texan she’d observed closely during his Presidency and post-Presidency. In the years that followed, she built a stellar reputation as a writer and TV commentator on subjects ranging from baseball to the Kennedys to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. With her wholesome good looks and tomboyish charm, she brought a breath of fres
Source: NY 1
Nov 10, 2005
Police have now named a prime suspect in the case of a man who posed as a firefighter to attack a woman in her Chelsea apartment on Halloween night.
Investigators are calling 41-year-old Peter Braunstein, a freelance writer, a "person of interest" in connection with the case. [He was reportedly a candidate in history at New York University in 1997.]
According to the reports, Braunstein was already on probation for terrorizing his ex-girlfriend, who worked at
Source: Press Release
Nov 10, 2005
The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers announced the winners of the 38th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music. The winners will be honored at a special reception on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at The Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Allen Room, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City. Over the years, tens of thousands of dollars have been distributed in cash prizes to winning authors, jour
