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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 20, 2006
Tempers are flaring over a United States demand to open to scholars and researchers a huge repository of information about the Holocaust contained in the files of the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany.Based in part on documents gathered by Allied forces as they liberated Nazi concentration camps, the stock of files held by the organization stretches for about 15.5 miles, and holds information on 17.5 million people. It amounts to one of the la
Source: Seattle Times
Feb 20, 2006
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Part of a former World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans has been officially designated a National Historical Landmark.The 42-acre landmark was part of the Tule Lake Relocation-Segregation Camp in a remote area of Northern California near the Lava Beds National Monument just south of the Oregon border.
More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were displaced from their homes across the West and put in 10 relocation camps
Source: Wa Po
Feb 20, 2006
The newest compilation of Reagan's presidency, however, does not come between hard covers. Instead, it is available on the Internet in the form of oral histories from about 45 friends or former advisers, compiled by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.In conjunction with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Miller Center has been interviewing Reagan administration officials since 2001 and recently released more than 2,500 pages of
Source: Reuters
Feb 20, 2006
British historian David Irving pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust 17 years ago, but told an Austrian court that the personal files of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann had changed his views.The 68-year-old Irving faces up to 10 years in jail in Austria in a case based on remarks he made in a 1989 interview and in speeches when he visited Austria, where denying the Nazi genocide on Jews is a crime.
"I'm not a holocaust denier. Obviousl
Source: rctimes.com
Feb 19, 2006
With the Civil War re-enactors, including members of the U.S. Colored Troops, standing at attention, the monument of an African-American Union soldier became a Nashville landmark. The unveiling of the 9-foot-tall bronze statue evoked a spontaneous applause from the audience."The monument will remain as living history to the testimony of the African-Americans who believed so strongly in fighting for their freedom," said Lyn Norris with the local African
Source: Yahoo News
Feb 19, 2006
St. Louis. This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago. The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The tools don’t match
Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia
Source: NYT
Feb 19, 2006
MORE than a century before it became the scene of a vice presidential hunting accident, this humble stretch of property had connections to another gun incident. On a manhunt in 1877, a hard-bitten Texas ranger named John B. Armstrong captured the notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin after what the officer later described in a telegram back home as a "lively shooting" aboard a train in Florida. The capture made a hero of Mr. Armstrong, who bought a 50,000-acre plot f
Source: WSJ
Feb 18, 2006
Before the Berlin Wall fell, the Olympics were considered, to adapt Clausewitz, politics by other means. Occasionally this was explicit, such as when Cold War opponents boycotted each other's Summer Games in 1980 and 1984. But when enemy countries did agree to participate, geopolitical overtones permeated the Games and produced some of the more memorable Olympic contests. More people tuned in when more was at stake.Nothing viewers are likely to see in Turin can compete with
Source: CNN
Feb 18, 2006
From engaging in sexual relations with an intern to letting the Vietnam War escalate, U.S. presidents have been blamed for some egregious errors. So who had the worst blunder? President James Buchanan, for failing to avert the Civil War, according to a survey of presidential historians organized by the University of Louisville's McConnell Center.The survey's top 10 presidential blunders were announced Saturday during a President's Day weekend conference called &q
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Feb 17, 2006
Arizona Senate panel -- following complaint over "The Ice Storm" -- votes to give students right to demand alternative books.When faculty leaders talk about the various versions of the Academic Bill of Rights circulating among state legislators, many single out a bill in Arizona as the worst of all.
The legislation there would require public colleges to provide students with “alternative coursework” if a student finds the assigned material “perso
Source: NYT
Feb 17, 2006
The images are familiar, yet different. Looking more than two centuries into the past, scientists have created what they say are the most accurate depictions of George Washington at three critical stages in his life, ages 19, 45 and 57.After almost two years of forensic research, historical delving, computer manipulation and work by a team of artists, Washington comes alive in three sculptures that are supposed to be the most accurate images of what he actually l
Source: NYT
Feb 17, 2006
The Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass likened the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by a Danish newspaper to Nazi caricatures of Jews, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. In an interview published in Portugal in the weekly news magazine Visão, Mr. Grass, whose novels include "The Tin Drum" and "Cat and Mouse," said: "I recommend that everyone have a look at the drawings: they remind one of those published in a famous German
Source: Fox News
Feb 17, 2006
Germany's Dresdner Bank AG financed Nazi arms makers and owned a stake in a company that built crematoriums at the Auschwitz concentration camp, authors of a bank-commissioned study said Friday.The 2,400-page, four-volume study is the result of seven years of work by a team of historians who scoured a huge number of the bank's files to detail its involvement with Adolf Hitler's regime before and during World War II.
The report "calls things by their proper
Source: History Today
Feb 16, 2006
The higher education minister commented on the reduction in the number of university applicants in subjects such as history and classics as not ‘necessarily a bad thing.’ Bill Rammell stated yesterday: ‘There is some evidence that students are choosing subjects they believe will be more vocationally beneficial to them.’ Ucas, the universities admissions service, revealed that there were 3.4% fewer students applying for higher education courses this autumn. The drop of 13,000 students is the firs
Source: NYT
Feb 16, 2006
It is a quarter century since the Khmer Rouge was driven from power after causing the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979 through execution, starvation or overwork. "Until today, most people don't realize they have psychological problems," Dr. Ka Sunbunaut said in an interview. "They don't understand about trauma. Mostly, they believe it is all related to karma."Now, though, people here are increasingly turning to drugs like Prozac
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Feb 16, 2006
For years, Cahokia Mounds' administrators longed to snatch up more property near the ruins of the prehistoric city but lacked the money to do it, fearing all the while that artifacts on the coveted private land could be forever lost to development.
Their concerns eased a bit Thursday, when the state finally released funds -- $837,800 -- earmarked years ago for expanding the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, now spanning 2,200 acres of the 4,000 that comprised the once-thriving cit
Source: Boston Globe
Feb 16, 2006
--Monuments honoring Civil War soldiers from Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts were damaged late Wednesday or early Thursday morning, Gettysburg National Military Park officials said.The head of a sculpture was stolen on Devil's Den, a rocky part of the battlefield, and a sword was taken from a second memorial. A third marker's sculpture landed on a decorative iron fence, which also was damaged.
"It's terribly sad, and the monuments were put th
Source: BBC News
Feb 16, 2006
Lazio footballer Paolo di Canio - punished in the past for giving a Nazi-style salute - has met Italians who survived the Nazi death camps.
"I've listened to the stories but I still have my ideas," the former West Ham and Charlton forward said later. The meeting was set up by Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, who previously brought AS Roma players face-to-face with Holocaust survivors at Rome city hall.
Fans have paraded swastikas and ot
Source: Washington Post
Feb 16, 2006
Thousands of Armenian Americans are protesting the Public Broadcasting Service's planned panel-discussion program about Turkey's role in the deaths of Armenians during and after World War I. The 25-minute program has generated an outcry because the panel will include two scholars who deny that 1.5 million Armenian civilians were killed in eastern Turkey from 1915 to 1920.The program is scheduled to air April 17, a week before the annual Armenian Remembrance Day commemoration
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Feb 16, 2006
DAVID Irving, the British revisionist historian, revealed last night that he would plead guilty to charges of Holocaust denial when he appears in a Vienna court next week. Mr Irving, 67, who has been held in an Austrian prison since last November, said he did not consider himself to be a Holocaust denier but had no choice but plead "guilty as charged''."Under the law I've got no alternative,'' he told the television channel More4 News.
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