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Source: Norwich Bulletin
June 27, 2006
NORWICH — The final two candidates for the Norwich city historian position have been named.
Maria Jolicoer, 50, and Sarah Murphy, 59, have applied for the position, which serves as the town’s authority on Norwich history, promotes and researches Norwich history and advises the City Council on historical matters.
Jolicoer is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and speaks often at local meetings. She said that experience has given her information on local
Source: CBS
June 27, 2006
The National Archives — where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are safe under glass — was shut down because the moat surrounding the building on Pennsylvania Avenue had flooded, spokeswoman Susan Cooper said. All records and national treasures were "safe and dry," she said.
The archives will remain closed Tuesday, just days before the Fourth of July weekend.
Flooding also closed IRS headquarters, the Commerce Department and the Justice Depart
Source: BBC
June 27, 2006
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have expressed "regret" over the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 15 years ago. Top rebel negotiator Anton Balasingham told private Indian channel NDTV that Mr Gandhi's killing by a suicide bomber was a "monumental tragedy".
Correspondents say it is the closest the rebels have come to admitting they were responsible for the murder.
India was the first country to ban the Tigers as a result of
Source: AP
June 27, 2006
A new visitors center will be ready for the 50th anniversary of the desegregation battle at Central High School in Little Rock.
Central High was the nation's first major battleground for school desegregation after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that black children were entitled to the same education as whites. For three weeks in September 1957, Gov. Orval E. Faubus blocked nine black students from enrolling at all-white Central High, forcing a historic confrontation between state and
Source: Boston Globe
June 27, 2006
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson don't bestride American history with the grandeur of George Washington. They aren't credited with giving new life to the American Dream, like Abraham Lincoln.With their granny glasses and watch fobs, they seem the product of an era of affectation; and, indeed, few political leaders cultivated their images more vainly than did Roosevelt and Wilson.
But this year, with the coming of the Fourth of July, it is T.R. a
Source: BBC
June 22, 2006
Two German participants in events commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme tell the BBC News website why it is so important that they take part."Many people think the Germans were guilty but in my opinion all the European countries were guilty. The new generation think as Europeans - we want to go forward."
Mario Zutt, a 35-year-old accountant from Biskirchen, 100km north of Frankfurt, is going to France for the Somme
Source: Carnival of Bad History
June 27, 2006
The Carnival of Bad History #6 has been posted. The CoBH is a blog carnival, a roundup of posts on the subject of historical error, misunderstanding and misuse. There's Holocaust Denial, fiction, long-standing errors, satire, bad journalism, and general ignorance in great quantity.
Nominations of posts for future editions, which will now be monthly, can be submitted
Source: Inside Higher Ed
June 27, 2006
It’s possible that Ward Churchill may never again teach a class at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The interim chancellor at Boulder on Monday issued a “notice of intent to dismiss” the controversial professor, citing findings of serious and repeated research misconduct. Churchill still has appeal rights — and has 10 days to take his case to a faculty review committee. After any appeal, a final decision rests with the president of the University of Colorado System and the Boa
Source: National Coalition for History
June 26, 2006
In spite of the recent bad news that the House of Representatives cut the overall budget for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) by $8 million, there also was some good news. Lawmakers restored funding for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) -- $5.5 million for grants and $2 million for administration related costs, for a total of $7.5 million. This is the same figure that the NHPRC was appropriated in 2006 and hence, in FY 2007, the House is
Source: aljazeera.net
June 24, 2006
The 1000-year-old mosque of Ana in Iraq has been blown up by unknown attackers in the latest of a series of attacks on Abbasid historical sites.
The mosque had been well preserved and saved from several threats. In 1986, Ana, 320km west of Baghdad, was flooded after the inauguration of the al-Qadisiya dam, built on the Euphrates River. The then-Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, ordered the preservation of the Ana mosque.
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Source: Sunday Herald
June 25, 2006
Twenty centuries after the invading Roman legions robbed all the gold they could find in the ancient kingdom of Dacia, treasure hunters using state-of-the art technologies are hot on the trail of the fabulous treasure trove King Decebalus hid in 106 AD and the Romans never found.
The French archaeologist Jerome Carcopino, a world-renowned Dacian expert, has estimated that Decebalus’s hidden treasure amounted to 165,000kg of gold and 350,000kg of silver. The value of the treasure ha
Source: Oregonian
December 31, 2069
JOHN DAY -- The lone key, clad in rust, grabs the attention of sharp-eyed scientists as they sift through a freshly dug pit in a city playground.
"Wow, what a great find," says archaeologist Julie Schablitsky as she turns it over in her hand. "This is the kind of thing we're looking for."
The key and thousands of other artifacts being discovered in a dig here are beginning to unlock details about the daily lives of hundreds of Chinese miners who ca
Source: Rick Stengel in Time Magazine
June 26, 2006
History must not be treated as something set off by itself," said Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, and that could well be the motto of our Making of America series. I'm Rick Stengel, and I'm delighted that my first issue as managing editor of TIME is our fifth annual Making of America issue. One of the great missions of TIME since we started 83 years ago has been explaining the challenges of the moment in the context of history--and relating the values of our history to the challenges of the moment
Source: Historian Tom Chaffin in Time Magazine
June 26, 2006
From the air, the 46,000 lunging, rolling, curving, tangled miles of America's Interstate Highway System sprawl across the continent like some outsized Rorschach pattern. These multi-laned, guard-rail-clad corridors by now seem timeless, like pre-Cambrian mountains bolted to the landscape. So it's hard to believe that America's freeway system turns 50 this summer — a chronological blip on the tectonic plates too slight for a spectrometer, but in the life of our republic, a golden anniversary.
Source: Boston Globe
June 26, 2006
About 40 descendants of Nathaniel Hawthorne gathered in Concord on Monday to watch as the remains of the author's wife and daughter, which have been buried for more than a century in England, were interred in the family plot at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery alongside fellow influential American writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson."It's greatly significant to see the family reunited," said Alison Hawthorne Deming, 59, of Tuscon, Ariz., Hawthorne's great
Source: Time
June 25, 2006
Roosevelt's legacy shapes U.S. of today.
At home and abroad, he was the locomotive president, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.
Just short of a century after he left the White House, in 1909, the collective memory of Theodore Roosevelt's strength and intellect and charisma still lingers.
Today, when the Justice Department goes after Microsoft or Enron, when the Environmental Protection Agency adjusts mileage standards or the Fed tweak
Source: Wa Po
June 25, 2006
It is a pleasure to celebrate the reopening of the great building after six years of closed doors, behind which a $298 million makeover was occurring. Well, not so much a makeover as a make-again -- the renovation architects did a splendid job, bringing the building's diverse interior spaces back to their former glory while equipping them for life in the 21st century. (Originally a three-year fix-up was planned, but fund-raising issues and philosophical questions arose that contributed to the ex
Source: CNN
June 21, 2006
Thousands of dancing and drumming spectators cheered the summer solstice at Stonehenge as an orange sliver of sun rose over the Heel Stone on Wednesday morning.
Cloudy skies, dense fog and spurts of rain did not seem to dampen the energy of smiling revelers who bobbed and swayed to cheerful beats with arms outstretched and shouts of "Feel the solstice!"
About 19,000 New Agers, present-day druids and partygoers gathered inside and around the ancient circle of t
Source: scotsman.com
June 21, 2006
A SCOTTISH historian yesterday called for the country to adopt its own Union flag, different from that flown south of the Border, to reflect separate national identities across the UK.
The Union flag, which is designed in 1606, originally flew in Scotland with the cross of St Andrew on top of the cross of St George.
It was later altered so the red St George's Cross would dominate the Saltire.Historian David Ross is now demanding that the Sco
Source: scotsman.com
June 23, 2006
ARCHAELOGISTS exploring one of Rome's oldest catacombs have discovered more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas.
Experts are thrilled by the find - which dates from about the first century - as it is the first "mass burial" of its kind identified. Mystery surrounds why so many bodies were neatly piled together in the complex network of underground burial chambers, which stretch for miles under the city. It was the custom then for
