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: Steven F. Hayward at Claremont Institute website
Jan 26, 2007
Gordon Wood is the favorite historian of America's liberal establishment. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and the New Republic, and liberalism's leading intellectuals—from Michael Sandel to Morton Horwitz to Bruce Ackerman to Cass Sunstein—regularly cite him with approbation. What virtues do they see in his work? In Wood's books, particularly his Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, they see a hammer with which to bash American individualism and capitalism, a
Source: investors.com editorial
Jan 26, 2007
On top of interfering with President Bush's new war strategy, Congress may obstruct efforts to rebuild Iraq's economy. Reconstruction is key to defeating the terrorists there.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., who seems to want to see America lose this war as fast as possible, is griping about pledging $1.2 billion for economic reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
At a committee hearing last week, he demanded "some concrete details on why t
Source: NYT
Jan 26, 2007
ONE of the hottest books in New York appears on no best-seller list.
“Russian Thinkers,” a 1978 collection of essays on 19th-century Russian intellectuals by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, has virtually disappeared from bookstores across the city, including Barnes & Noble, Labyrinth Books and Shakespeare & Company. The Internet is not much help either: the book is sold out on bn.com, and though it can be ordered from Amazon, the order won’t be shipped for two or three weeks.
Source: Jamie Glazov interviews Niall Ferguson at frontpagemag.com
Jan 26, 2007
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly succes
Source: NPR Interview
Jan 26, 2007
Since the publication of former President Jimmy Carter's book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, the Carter Center has seen a wave of resignations. More than a dozen people have left in protest, saying the book puts too much blame on Israel.
Emory University history professor Kenneth W. Stein, a former adviser to Carter, says he resigned his fellowship at the Center in Atlanta because he considers the book to be unbalanced. Stein has published a rebuttal to Carter's book in the current issu
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Jan 26, 2007
As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia.
While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it, the history department at Middlebury College is trying to take a stronger, collective stand. It voted this month to bar students from citing the Web site as a sour
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan 26, 2007
Plains Indian men used to wear stories on their backs. Buffalo skins painted with the wearer's exploits in battle or the brave acts of his tribesmen were used to show status and displayed on ceremonial occasions. But beginning in the 1860s and 1870s, as the destruction of buffalo herds made hides scarce and Plains people were forced onto reservations, they began to use new materials to tell their stories. They drew with pencils and crayons on paper, often on the lined pages of ledgers obtained a
Source: AP
Jan 24, 2007
British historian David Irving, who was jailed for questioning the Holocaust in a book published in Austria, said Friday that the Auschwitz death camp was a tourist attraction, and added that there was no proof that it ever had gas chambers.
Irving, whose comments during an interview with Italy's Sky TG24 News were immediately picked up by Italian news agencies, said there was no doubt the Nazis killed millions of Jews, but said the killings did not take place at Auschwitz.
Source: Marc Roche in LeMonde (translation by Pascaline Jay) at website of watchingamerica.com
Jan 24, 2007
Will a book about the Algerian War show George W. Bush a way out of the conflict in Iraq? Over three years after the Pentagon screening of The Battle of Algiers by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, the American President admitted in mid-January that over the Christmas holidays, he read carefully the 1977 book, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books ) written by historian Alistair Horne . The latter offered a copy of the book's new edition to Henry Kissinger, about whom
Source: Michael F. Shaughnessy at EdNews.org
Jan 24, 2007
[Dr. Shaughnessy is currently Professor in Educational Studies at Eastern New Mexico University and is a Consulting Editor for Gifted Education International and Educational Psychology Review. In addition, he writes for www.EdNews.org <http://www.EdNews.org> and the International Journal of Theory and Research in Education. He has taught students with mental retardation, learning disabilities and gifted. He is on t
Source: Press Release -- History Today
Jan 23, 2007
Some of the country’s most eminent historians mingled with the rising talents of the historical world yesterday evening at the History Today Annual Awards Party.
Last night’s event saw the presentation of the Royal Historical Society - History Today prize for Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year and the Longman - History Today awards for Book of the Year, Historical Picture Researcher of the Year and the prestigious Longman -History Today Trustees award.
Peter Snow,
Source: Press Release -- Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Jan 22, 2007
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation named civil rights & education researchers Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, keen and creative analyst Paul T. Hill, and charismatic equality champion Kati Haycock the recipients of the 2007 Fordham Prizes for Excellence in Education.
"Each year we strive, with the help of a distinguished independent prize selection committee, to make these awards to candidates who embody and exemplify the spirit of excellence in education, in ways consistent
Source: Bonnie Goodman at HNN's History Buzz
Jan 22, 2007
Andrew Polsky on"Hillary Clinton launches trailblazing presidential bid":"A woman candidate could find it easier to run in peacetime, rather than wartime,
but Sen. Clinton's tried to position herself as a serious person on national security.
But that means she's staked out difficult position on the war that won't make it easy
for her to get Democratic nomination." -
Source: http://progressive.org (Date unknown)
Jan 22, 2007
Radio interview.
Source: Daniel Pipes blog
Jan 22, 2007
It all began with a faxed letter from Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, arriving out of the blue on April 4, 2006:I will be hosting a conference to discuss the thesis of the" clash of civilizations" first popularized by Professor Samuel Huntington's book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. I would like to invite you to debate this thesis with me at the opening session of the conference, which will be held 10am-1pm on Saturday, 10 June 2006.
Source: Robert J. Cottrol at the website of the National Rifle Association (date unknown)
Jan 22, 2007
[Robert J. Cottrol is Professor of Law, of History, and of Sociology, and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He was a critic of Michael Bellesiles, the historian who left Emory University after his research denying the importance of guns in early American history was called into question.]
During the October [2006] symposium [at George Maso
Source: David Horowitz and Jacob Laskin at FrontpageMag.com
Jan 22, 2007
The following report identifies several academic departments at Pennsylvania State University which openly and regularly violate the academic freedom provisions of the university. These provisions were only recently made applicable to students at Penn State by a resolution of the faculty senate (20.00) in May. The new policy was a response to the Pennsylvania academic freedom hearings and the campaign for academic freedom waged by Students for Academic Freedom and the David Horowitz Freedom Cent
Source: Nina Burleigh in New York Magazine
Jan 22, 2007
Donny George, man of history, had vowed never to leave Baghdad, where he was the keeper of the keys to the looted Iraqi National Museum. Then his teenage son opened a letter with a bullet inside and a threat to cut off his head because his father “worked for the Americans.” An estimated 1.8 million Iraqis have fled their country since the U.S. invasion, but George, an archaeologist, along with his wife, Najat, and 17-year-old son, Martin, are some of the very few—only 500 a year—who’ve been gran
Source: AP
Jan 21, 2007
To historians and others pondering Iraq, forecasting a final outcome for that sad land is like finding your way through one of its "shamal" sandstorms. You may not know where you're headed, but you know it's going to be dark.
The Middle East historian David Fromkin sees a breakup of the jerry-built nation. Phebe Marr, doyenne of Iraq scholars, sees "distrust and suspicion" too deep to overcome. "Bleak," concludes Baghdad University's Saad al-Hadithi.
Source: US News & World Report
Jan 21, 2007
On the south side of Jamestown Island stands an imposing bronze statue of Capt. John Smith, put up in 1907 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the colony he helped to found. For most of the past century, a loose archaeological consensus held that the statue looked out over the site of the original settlement, a stretch of low-lying ground long ago eaten away by the swiftly flowing currents of the James River.
The loss of that land, and the stories that its subterranean contents might
