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: AP
Dec 7, 2006
President Bush on Thursday announced the recipients of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.
Those to be honored at a White House ceremony on Dec. 15 [include] ...
Paul Johnson. The historian and journalist is being honored for writings that have ''captivated and educated people around the world.''...
David McCullough. The noted author and historian is considered a foremost expert on the American presidency.
Source: Winfield Myers at the website of CampusWatch
Dec 7, 2006
Click here for a response by Kathryn Babayan
[Winfield Myers is Director of Campus Watch.]
For the University of Michigan community, it must come as some relief that the three people arrested by campus police for repeatedly disrupting a lecture on Iran last Thursday by Michigan professor of politics emeritus Raymond Tanter have no connection to the university.
But the role played by another Michigan prof
Source: Bob Tyrrell in the Jewish World Review
Dec 7, 2006
[Mr. Tyrrell is editor in chief of The American Spectator.]
[HNN Editor: Recently in the Wa Po Eric Foner opined that President Bush is the worst of the chief executives in US history: Pierce, Buchanan, A. Johnson, Harding, Coolidge and Nixon.]
... Onto this junk heap of inferior presidents he now heaves George W. Bush. Note, nowhere at "the bottom rung" does he place Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton. Carter blundered both in foreign policy and in economic polic
Source: NYT
Dec 7, 2006
An adviser to former President Jimmy Carter and onetime executive director of the Carter Center has publicly parted ways with his former boss, citing concerns with the accuracy and integrity of Mr. Carter’s latest book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.”
The adviser, Kenneth W. Stein, a professor of Middle Eastern history and political science at Emory University, resigned his position as a fellow with the Carter Center on Tuesday, ending a 23-year association with the institution.
Source: Austin American-Statesman
Dec 6, 2006
As we stagger out of a sneak peek of Mel Gibson's Maya historical thriller "Apocalypto," Julia Guernsey is visibly shaken. She's upset and not a little angry. She barely can contain her disgust, but she also can barely speak. I'm a little worried.
Guernsey is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas. Given her emphasis on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and culture, we invited Guernsey along to the preview last week so she
Source: European Jewish Press
Dec 6, 2006
The British Jewish community has expressed its concern after it was revealed that a leader of a controversial Muslim group sent funds and letters of support to convicted Holocaust denier David Irving.
Asghar Bukhari, a founder member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), last month admitted sending the letters to Irving during the year 2000.
Irving, who has been imprisoned in Austria since September 2006 for for having denied the existence of gas chambers in
Source: Barton A. Myers at the website of H-CivilWar
Dec 6, 2006
[Barton A. Myers, Department of History, University
of Georgia.]
Review of The Civil War: A Concise Account by a Noted Southern
Historian. Abilene: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2005. 142 pp. Maps, index.
$12.95 (paper), ISBN 1-893114-49-X.
In just 137 pages of text, esteemed Civil War scholar Grady McWhiney
presents his succinct narrative of the nation's most important historical
event. McWhiney's final work offers readers a fast-paced yet factually
packed history of the coming of
Source: Gary Kamiya at Salon.com
Dec 6, 2006
Edward Said's"Orientalism" was a cultural bombshell that
has become a landmark -- some would say a crater. One of the most popular
and influential academic books ever written, it inspires condemnation and
praise in equal measure. Published
in 1978,"Orientalism" not only was a founding text for the academic
fields of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, but also remains one
of the most-cited works in what we can broadly call the"oppositional
canon." It has been translated into 36 la
Source: Christian Probasco at Newwest.net
Dec 5, 2006
HNN EDITOR'S NOTE: on 12/9/06 We received the following email:
My name is Courtney Lowery and I am the managing editor of New West.Net.
I'm writing to request you remove an article ("Patricia Nelson Limerick: A
fictional interview") you posted in its entirety from New West.Net on Dec.
5. (http://hnn.us/roundup/14.html#top)
The post came from a writer who runs his own blog on New West.Net and it has
been removed from our pages because it was in violation of our pol
Source: AHA Blog
Dec 4, 2006
Roy Rosenzweig, former vice president for research at the AHA, reports that a special session to pay tribute to Larry Levine will be held at the AHA’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta. The session will take place on Friday, January 5th from 4:45 – 5:30 p.m. in the Hilton Atlanta’s Grand Ballroom D. Eric Avila of UCLA will chair the session, which will include tributes and reminiscences from Linda Kerber, Martin Sherwin, Grace Palladino, Mary Kelly, Michael Kazin, Mary Odem, and others. If time permits,
Source: Wakamiya Yoshibumi interviews Emmanuel Todd at the website of Japan Focus
Dec 4, 2006
[Emmanuel Todd is a French political scientist and historian. He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and completed his doctorate in history at Britain's Cambridge University. He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union based on its declining birth rates in his 1976 book The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere. He also wrote The Third Planet: Familial Structures and Ideological Systems (1983) and The fate of immigrants (1994). In Apres l'Empire (After
Source: Newsday
Dec 4, 2006
A Connecticut historian who has refuted American Indian land claims across
the country testified Monday in federal court that the Shinnecock Nation has
no right to build on a parcel of land in Southampton that the tribe is
eyeing for a casino.
Freelance historian James Patrick Lynch said the 79 acres, known as the
Westwood property, were legally handed over by the Shinnecocks as part of a
1659 restitution agreement for arson crimes committed by a few tribal
members. Lynch said
Source: Janet Maslin in the NYT
Dec 4, 2006
The main text of Gabor Boritt’s new Lincoln book concludes on Page 206. So more than half of this 415-page volume is devoted to appendices, acknowledgments, bibliography, index and so on. That might be regarded as padding if Professor Boritt’s obsession with his subject matter were not so unwavering.
He has written or edited more than a dozen books about the Civil War and is the director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. He lives on an exquisitely situated Gettysburg
Source: Jamie Glazov interviews Max Boot at frontpagemag.com
Dec 4, 2006
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Max Boot , the author of the award-winning The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. A senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, he lectures regularly at numerous military schools and advises the Department of Defense on transformation issues. He is the author of the new book War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of His
Source: http://www.civilrights.org
Dec 4, 2006
When Civilrights.org started the book club one year ago we did not know that so many writers would submit their books for consideration. A number of authors have made our jobs easier – and readers choices more plentiful – by sending us books we might never have known about otherwise. James Loewen, author, scholar, and professor, was one of the first authors to request inclusion in the book club. However, we had already selected his book. Because he was so gracious and enthusiastic, Mr. Loewen
Source: Jonathan Yardley in the WaPo
Dec 3, 2006
Three of the works of nonfiction that make my personal list of the year's best books, and one of the works of fiction, initially came to my attention because of a lifelong interest in race relations in the United States generally and in Southern history more specifically. These are matters about which I make no claims to virtue or moral purity, but they have been foremost in my mind ever since, as a boy of 9, I moved with my family from the Northeast to Southside Virginia. The sight of black con
Source: Ralph Luker at Cliopatria (HNN Blog, where comments are posted)
Dec 3, 2006
The University of South Carolina's Dan Carter sends word that our mentor, George B. Tindall of UNC, died early yesterday morning in Chapel Hill at 85. George was a giant in his generation of historians of the post-Civil War South. There were Comer Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, and George Brown Tindall. Franklin, alone, survives. Before it was fashionable, they understood that Southern history had to be done in both black and white. For all of his accomplishments, George was a remarkably mod
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Dec 3, 2006
Papiya Ghosh, a noted historian and professor of Patna University, who was working hard to restore Bihar's image and academia, was brutally stabbed to death along with her maid in what police said was a robbery-related murder.
Police said Ghosh's home in an upscale Patna neighbourhood, barely 100 metres from the Pataliputra police station and a stone's throw from home commissioner Afzal Amanullah's house, was ransacked and valuables, including a computer, were stolen.
Source: Michael Kenney in the Boston Globe
Dec 3, 2006
State of Denial
By Bob Woodward
All Governments Lie!
By Myra MacPherson
Mayflower
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Andrew Carnegie
By David Nasaw
Mellon
By David Cannadine
Jane Goodall
By Dale Peterson
At Canaan’s Edge
By Taylor Branch
Justice for All
By Jim Newton
The Worst Hard Time
By Timothy Egan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Source: WaPo
Dec 3, 2006
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, by Robin Lane Fox (Basic). With erudition, drive and wit, an Oxford scholar triumphantly brings the Greeks' and Romans' civilizations to life.
