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Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 19, 2007
In the stratified world of higher education's most elite institutions, where professional jealousies abound, Drew Gilpin Faust appears to have achieved the seemingly impossible. She is a career academic who has risen to the top job at Harvard University while apparently making no enemies along the way.
"I truly have known her for 20 years, and I have yet to meet anyone who dislikes her," says Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com
Feb 18, 2007
Flip to the index of an American history book and chances are you'll find myriad references to the American Revolution.
There's also a chance you won't find much about the contributions of Texans, the Spanish or Bernardo de Gálvez to the success of the colonial American troops.
Fresh from Laredo's celebration of George Washington's birthday, two groups of historians gathered Sunday to talk about advances they are making in raising the awareness of the Hispanic contribution to
Source: Josh Mathew at BWOG (Bwog is compiled by the staff of The Blue and White, Columbia University's undergraduate magazine.)
Feb 18, 2007
After making my way past the numerous activists handing out fliers condemning the war in Iraq and the U.S.'s conceivable Iranian escapades, I grabbed a seat in one of the old wooden pews of St. Mary's Episcopal Church on 126th in Harlem.
After recognizing a few familiar faces amongst this unusual congregation, I saw sitting up at the altar Dr. Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, and his cospeaker Dr. Tanya Rein
Source: Email sent to HNN
Feb 16, 2007
Hi, all,
Another busy week for many who are trying to avert the exclusion of Latinos in the Ken Burns documentary and there are several developments to report.
Please disseminate this email widely -- the more people voice their concern, PBS is getting the message that this problem will not go away and that it must be dealt with.
First off -- Burns will be speaking in San Francisco On March 1 and 2 -- screening a part of The War.. . If you know of people who might w
Source: HNN Staff
Feb 16, 2007
The OAH annual meeting for 2007 will run from Thursday March 29 through Sunday April 1.
The convention starts at 1pm on Thursday, which means a lot of people will be arriving Wednesday night.
According to the OAH website "sleeping rooms in the OAH room block at the Hilton Minneapolis are sold out for Wednesday night." (Rooms are still available Thursday through Sunday.) That means you can't get the discount rate of $134 a night for Wednesday at the Hilton.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 16, 2007
A new book by an Italo-Israeli scholar of Jewish history that revisits violent controversies involving medieval and Renaissance Christians and Jews has been withdrawn from circulation at the request of the author, who now says that news accounts distort what he actually says.
The scholar, Ariel Toaff, is a professor of medieval and Renaissance history at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan. His book, Pasque di sangue: Ebrei d'Europa e omicidi rituali (Passovers of Blood: Euro
Source: HNN Staff
Feb 16, 2007
Charles Rappleye's Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution has won awards for the best book on the Revolution in 2006 from both the Philadelphia and New York City American Revolution Roundtables.
The book explores the lives of the divergent courses of the Brown brothers, who are associated with the founding of Brown University. Both started out as slave traders, but eventually one of them became an ardent abolitionist.
Rapp
Source: http://www.irischangmemorialfund.org
Feb 16, 2007
Objective:
To promote the awareness of the importance of remembering history. The essays will be in line with Iris Chang’s spirit and passion in seeking the truth and justice as well as defending human rights.
Topic:
The Denial and Its Cost
- Reflections on Nanking Massacre 70 years ago and beyond
(Please click the title for theme statement.)
Schedule:
Deadline of essay submission: June 30, 2007
Announcement of awards:
Source: http://www.pantagraph.com
Feb 15, 2007
One of America’s best-known historians praised Illinois State University on Thursday for requiring that future history teachers actually study history.
“Almost no other institution is doing this,” David McCullough told more than 1,000 people gathered Thursday for ISU’s Founders Day convocation in Braden Auditorium.
The university, which kicked off a yearlong celebration of its 150th anniversary, boasts more alumni teaching in classrooms than any other U.S. college or un
Source: Dallas Morning News
Feb 15, 2007
Southern Methodist University's faculty senate went on record Wednesday as opposing an executive order that could limit access to presidential records – a concern since the George W. Bush Presidential Library is probably headed to SMU.
The senate voted to endorse a letter signed by SMU's history department, which states its opposition to an order that President Bush signed in 2001. The order allows current and former presidents, starting with President Ronald Reagan, and their heirs
Source: China Daily
Feb 15, 2007
"We have to 'unlearn' history if we want to know more about the past," says Richard L. Davis, head of the Department of History at Hong Kong's Lingnan University and an expert in the history of the Five Dynasties (AD 907- 960) and Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279) periods.
"Chinese have a distinct sense of right and wrong towards history. They identify a historical figure by how they were taught in textbooks as either hero or villain," said Davis, who translated 'Histo
Source: Star Bulletin
Feb 14, 2007
A prominent historian has been selected as the first Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
John Hope Franklin, author of the book "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans," is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. He will participate in various activities and events at UH-Manoa from March 15 to 25.
"As a historian, Franklin has raised our country's
Source: http://www.philly.com
Feb 14, 2007
Kim Sajet, 41, a vice president at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, has been named president and chief executive of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A native Australian, Sajet will succeed David Moltke-Hansen, who is retiring after running the 183-year-old society for the last eight years.
"After conducting a national search and considering a number of highly qualified candidates, we found Kim was far and away the best person to lead HSP," Collin McNeil, s
Source: JTA--Global news service of the Jewish people
Feb 13, 2007
A new book by an eminent Italian-Israeli historian that revives European blood libels has Jews in Italy and abroad in an uproar.
But the furor hasn’t hurt sales. “Bloody Passover: European Jews and Ritual Murder” sold out so quickly after its arrival in bookstores Feb. 8 that another edition is on its way.
Ariel Toaff, who teaches Medieval and Renaissance history at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, wrote that Jews in the Middle Ages may have murdered Christian childr
Source: http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com
Feb 13, 2007
One of the first black students at Princeton; a 'left-wing' provost during a time of change. The two friends fought for racial equality at Princeton - and, years later, came to Philadelphia to leave their marks at the University, too.
Pulling up a chair at one of the long dining-room tables, Robert Engs, Princeton class of '65, sat down to enjoy a meal with some of his fellow undergrads. When the food came out, Engs recalls that Casper Ewing III, seated across from him, remarked, &q
Source: http://www.jdnews.com
Feb 13, 2007
... The N.C. Maritime Museum will explore this intersection of the worlds of slavery and piracy at a symposium called Pirate Ships, Slave Ships and Colonial America set for Feb. 21 in Beaufort.
The program will include an address from one of the country's foremost experts on pirate ships, slave ships and maritime culture of colonial America. Marcus Rediker, author and professor of maritime history at the University of Pittsburgh, will speak about how so many and why so many slave sh
Source: Jerusalem Post
Feb 13, 2007
Controversial Israeli historian Ilan Pappe declared his warm friendship with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday afternoon.
When asked if he was nervous that Hamas's Haniyeh could be elected prime minister in a bi-national state, Pappe replied "Haniyeh doesn't make me nervous at all. He is a good friend of mine." With a slight smirk, Pappe then suggested that Hassan Nasrallah, secretary-general of Hizbullah, "should be put on the committee t
Source: Daniel Pipes website
Feb 13, 2007
In October 2006, the Brandeis Middle East Review and the Middle East Forum at Brandeis invited me to speak at the University, and I quickly accepted. The hosts and I selected the date April 23 and the topic ("The Islamization of Europe?"), and everything appeared settled.
But on Jan. 23, former President Jimmy Carter visited Brandeis, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz quasi-debated him, and the ensuing contention prompted the University to establish a closed student-fa
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 13, 2007
A new book by an Italo-Israeli scholar of Jewish history, which has drawn strong criticism from Jewish community leaders and academic critics alike, may have placed its author's job in jeopardy.
The scholar, Ariel Toaff, a professor of history at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, was "discussing the fate of his job" with the university's Academic Senate on Monday evening, according to an e-mail message from a spokeswoman for the book's publisher.
A spokesman for B
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 13, 2007
The leaks that trickled out over the last year about Harvard University's search for a new president often centered on its reported interest in landing a prominent scientist and a woman. Harvard got its first female president, but not a scientist, with Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the university's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, who was appointed on Sunday. Harvard also picked a defender of the role of higher education in society, said Ms. Faust.
University officials are clear
