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biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: AP
Mar 2, 2006
Supporters of the National Women's History Museum pledged to spend March — Women's History Month — lobbying for a measure to allow them to move into a federal building that's been empty for years. After raising less than $10 million since 1996, the group is stepping
up its efforts to generate $150 million for a museum dedicated to great
names and unsung heroines.
"Half the story of U.S. history has never fully been told," said Susan B.
Jollie, the museum organizati
Source: Charleston Post & Courier
Mar 2, 2006
Historians, museum directors and state officials are starting to tackle a topic as sensitive as it is significant: what South Carolina should do to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.Rodger Stroup, director of the S.C. Department of Archives and History, met with some of them Tuesday after realizing only a few years remain until the first sesquicentennial milestone: the contentious Democratic convention in Charleston in April 1860.
The 150th anniv
Source: Washington Times
Mar 2, 2006
A House panel yesterday rejected a measure that would have designated an adapted version of "Shenandoah" as the interim state song, the latest refrain in a long ballad over which tune best represents the commonwealth. "The state song ought to be from a Virginian by a Virginian," said Delegate Terry Kilgore, one of the lawmakers who voted down the "Shenandoah" proposal. The song, most argued, is about folks leaving Virginia, crossing the
Source: AP
Mar 2, 2006
Lawyers have been unable to reach an agreement over missing Hawaiian artifacts. The group Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawaii Nei, which borrowed 83 objects from the Bishop Museum in 2000, hid them in a secret cave on the Big Island because the group claims the artifacts belong to the dead and aren't meant for public display.
They include a human-hair wig, containers with human teeth and carved wooden statuettes of family gods.
Hui Malama lawyer Alan
Source: National Geographic News
Mar 2, 2006
An ancient culture in southern Peru cultivated corn some 4,000 years ago, about a thousand years earlier than previously believed, a new study suggests. Researchers excavating a site in the Andean highland town of Waynuna found both corn leaf and corncob remains in the ruins of a house at least 3,600 years old.
Perhaps even more important, the scientists say, is that they found arrowroot remains at the same dig site.
The presence of this edi
Source: AP
Mar 2, 2006
Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.John Pace, who last month left his post as director of the human rights office at the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, said the level of extra-judicial executions and torture is soaring, and morgue workers are being threatened by both government-backed militia and insurgents not
Source: Baltimore Sun
Mar 2, 2006
When the family home of Abraham Lincoln's assassin was put up for auction in 1999, preservationists and prospective buyers found that the Gothic home had an appearance to match its ill-fated past: The porch was falling apart. The paint was peeling from the cracking walls. The property was in disarray.The fate of the home, many feared, was also in danger. Historians, actors and local officials teamed up to make a play for Tudor Hall, an 8-acre property between Bel Air a
Source: HNN Story based on OAH Treasurer's Report
Mar 2, 2006
The cost of last year's switch to San Jose was steep for the Organization of American Historians--steeper than officials originally anticipated. The OAH ended the fiscal year of 2005 nearly half a million dollars in the red. At the OAH Business Meeting last April officials said they expected to be down just $100,000 or so.
Most of the loss was due to the decision to move the annual meeting from San Francisco
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Mar 2, 2006
Since the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1950, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have been killed, arbitrarily imprisoned, or forced to flee their country. But when the victims of what some call genocide finally get their day in court, it probably won't be in China. Instead, Spain - which is conducting a judicial investigation on the issue - is likely to hold the first trial.Although Spain had no citizens affected by the suspected crimes, its National Court decided in January to i
Source: Times (UK)
Mar 2, 2006
An amateur cryptologist's internet project is using idling computers to help crack three Nazi codes that eluded the Enigma codebreakers of the Second World War.Launched in January, the project has already broken one of the three messages, from a U-Boat commander forced to dive during an attack on November 25, 1942. The computers of 2,500 strangers are now whirring away, trying to decode the remaining two. You can volunteer your computer here.
Stefan Krah, a Germ
Source: Scotsman
Mar 2, 2006
Archaeologists have found a shipwreck from the late 1300s buried in the mud of a canal in central Stockholm, officials said today.They are now awaiting permission to excavate the wreckage - one of the oldest ever found in the Swedish capital - hoping it will shed light on shipbuilding techniques and trade in the 14th century.
Experts say they might be able to bring the ship up on land, as was done with the 17th century warship Vasa, which is now housed in a muse
Source: The Australian
Mar 2, 2006
Leaders of the former Soviet Union were behind the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in 1981, an Italian parliamentary investigative commission said in a report.A final draft of the report, which is due to be presented to parliament later this month, was made available today by the commission president, Senator Paolo Guzzanti.
"This commission believes, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the leadership of the Soviet Union took the initiative to
Source: Reuters
Mar 2, 2006
South Korea's foreign minister called on Thursday for Japanese leaders to reflect on the troubled history between the two Asian nations, a day after Seoul and Tokyo exchanged barbs over the issue. Japan ruled Korea as a colony from 1910-1945 and despite generally improved ties, a simmering feud persists over what Seoul sees as Tokyo's lack of proper contrition for its wartime aggression.
"The leaders of Japan should seriously take to their hearts the view o
Source: AHA Perspectives (March 2006)
Mar 1, 2006
A federal survey of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities in 2004 found real increases in the number of history faculty employed, as well as proportional increases in the number of historians employed on the tenure track and full time. Unfortunately, even as historians' employment prospects improved, the survey shows that average salaries for historians fell further behind most other academic disciplines and the demographic diversity of the profession was largely unchanged.
Source: BBC News
Mar 1, 2006
The 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising should be officially commemorated in Londonderry, city councillors have decided. The proposal was made by Sinn Fein representatives and supported by the SDLP, however, unionists on the council have opposed it. Sinn Fein's Peter Anderson said the 1916 rebellion should be remembered like other events.
The DUP's Joe Millar has said the council should not support it.
"I don't think that Derry
Source: Kathimerini
Mar 1, 2006
The remains of buildings found in excellent condition at Argilos, an important commercial town, on the estuary of the Strymonas River.The excavation of ancient Argilos, an important commercial center in the Archaic and Classical periods, reveals a little-known side of colonization by people from Andros in the northern Aegean.
The remains of buildings in the ancient city may not be as striking as other finds from Macedonia, but they are a part of a larger c
Source: BBC News
Mar 1, 2006
Over 600 years of Welsh military tradition has come to an end on St David's Day with the merger of two famous Welsh regiments. The names Royal Welch Fusiliers and The Royal Regiment of Wales were consigned to history with the birth of the new regiment, The Royal Welsh.
Source: Austin-American Statesman
Mar 1, 2006
Lost to history until an archivist at the Texas General Land Office found it two years ago in the agency's collections, an eight-page document that is believed to be the first draft of the Republic of Texas Constitution is about to return temporarily to its birthplace 100 miles east of Austin on the bank of the Brazos River, where in March 1836, 59 delegates from Texas gathered to pledge independence from Mexico.These and other documents will be on public display together fo
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Mar 1, 2006
Washington state legislators have moved to make amends 122 years after a mob of American vigilantes crossed into Canada and lynched a native teenager, in an incident that nearly started a cross-border race war.Members of the state's House of Representatives approved a Senate resolution on Wednesday that expressed "deepest sympathy" for the descendents of Louie Sam.
Sam, who belonged to the Sto:lo First Nation whose homelands lie in the Fraser Valley, e
Source: AP
Mar 1, 2006
In a contest between Americans’ knowledge of “The Simpsons” and what they know about the First Amendment — Bart and Homer win hands down.About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of the fictional cartoon family, according to a survey.
The study by the
