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Source: World Bulletin
12-2013
Mark Camilleri, a Maltese historian, has accused the government of attempting to hide the island's 600-year Islamic history.
Source: Newsweek
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/23/n
“Turkey is the only country in the region whose past seems to flow toward a positive outcome, a history with a future. As with any narrative, to make things interesting, you want a sense of progress—otherwise you get that famous definition of history as ‘one damn thing after another.’ The Turks have always played a role in making things happen in the world. For a while they seemed pretty dormant, but I knew it would change.”As the sun goes down, Prof. Norman Stone is standing on the balcony of his residence at Bilkent University in Turkey’s capital, gazing out over gleaming new tower blocks and the Anatolian hills. Ankara looks distinctly affluent these days, with the Turkish economy steadily expanding at 11 percent this year. For two days I have been gently pushing Stone to look back on his career, his decision to leave his post as professor of modern history at Oxford in the mid-1990s and to transplant himself in Turkey, his life before and since. It’s a highly poignant encounter for me, a Turk educated in the U.K., to talk to one of Turkey’s staunchest public enthusiasts—a contrarian posture in any century.
Source: LA Times
10-17-111
Cornel West and other protesters arrested Sunday on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement will not be prosecuted.Earlier reports had indicated that a hearing would be held for West and 18 other demonstrators, with a return to court at a later date. But prosecutors have decided not to press charges, according to the Associated Press.Charges had included refusing to leave the grounds of the Supreme Court and demonstrating on court grounds with signs, which is prohibited. Ann Wilcox, a legal advisor to the protesters, had predicted a not-guilty plea from members of the group....
Source: WaPo
John Hubbard, U.S. ambassador and USC president, d
John R. Hubbard, a historian and former U.S. ambassador to India who was president of the University of Southern California in the 1970s, died Aug 21 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., the university announced.The broad-shouldered and outspoken Texas native, widely known as “Jack,” was 92. No cause of death was reported.During his decade-long presidency, Dr. Hubbard was credited with helping to boost USC’s finances and academic reputation. His term was also marked with controversies over donations from the shah of Iran and from corporations doing business in Saudi Arabia.Dr. Hubbard, who was an expert on British diplomatic history and U.S.-India ties, continued to teach part time at USC until he was 91, even if it meant sometimes leaning on a walker....
Source: WSJ
James Taranto in the WSJ
Related LinksAndrew J. Bacevich: America Comes to Its Senses Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, has an innovative foreign-policy theory. "At periodic intervals," he argues in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, "the American body politic" succumbs to "war fever," which he defines as "a sort of delirium" whose symptoms are "delusions of grandeur and demented behavior."He offers a medical history beginning with the Spanish-American War: "Gripped by such a fever in 1898, Americans evinced an irrepressible impulse to liberate oppressed Cubans." Once it was all over, "no one could quite explain what had happened or why."Then, "in 1917, the fever suddenly returned. Amid wild ravings about waging a war to end war, Americans lurched off to France. This time the affliction passed quickly, although the course of treatment proved painful: confinement to the charnel house of the Western Front, followed by bitter medicine administered at Versailles."...
Source: AHA Blog
http://blog.historians.org/news/1345/good-night-sw
The death, on the last day of May, of David Darlington, associate editor of Perspectives on History, coeditor of the AHA’s Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians, co-manager of the annual meeting Job Center, and an invaluable colleague, came as a shock to all of us here at 400 A Street.
Source: Worchester News & Telegram
December 31, 2069
The truth is that not everyone who participated in the Boston Tea Party was able to resist the allure of the tea itself.
Tea, after all, had become the beverage of choice by the late 18th century. It was a commodity much sought after by both the elite and middle classes, and tea drinking was a societal ritual. Women coveted the best tea services; social conventions grew up around serving and sipping the exotic, pricey drink whose origins were in Asia.
In his latest book
Source: The C.V. Starr Center at Washington College
December 31, 2069
In commemoration of George Washington’s birthday, Washington College announced the three finalists for the 2010 George Washington Book Prize.
The books, which were chosen from 62 entries, include a masterful account of the Constitutional Convention, an insightful reconsideration of the Founding Fathers, and a lively and dramatic narrative of one of the most remarkable partnerships in American history.
The finalists are: Richard Beeman’s Plain, Honest Men: The Making of
Source: Jamie Glazov interview with Victor Davis Hanson at Frontpagemag.com
December 31, 2069
(Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and is the co-editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left. He edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz’s Left Illusions. His new book is United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. Email him at jglazov@rogers.com.)
Source: The Hill
December 31, 2069
In his book The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, historian Thomas Fleming examines the personal lives of six familiar names in history: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Fleming examines how their relationships with their wives and families affected their roles in founding the country. Fleming, an author of numerous books, spoke to The Hill about his latest tome:
How did you pick these six men to profile?
December 31, 2069
[Joshua Brown doubles as a historian and illustrator. He is the co-director of the New Media Lab and Executive Director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project (ASHP) at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University. Since the beginning of the Iraq War he has become well-known for his caustic illustrations. ]
Source: Chicago Public Radio
December 31, 2069
Today, we bring you a conversation with historian and playwright Howard Zinn. He’s been active in civil rights and anti-war movements in America. But Zinn may be best known for writing A People’s History of the United States. The book strives to reveal the stories of those he feels have been left out of the established American narrative. Tomorrow night, Zinn will be the keynote speaker on an issue he’s taken on in recent years. The 9th annual Campaign to End the Death Penalty convention takes p
Source: Google News
December 31, 2069
GENEVA — Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, who led a highly critical probe of Switzerland's conduct during World War II, has died. He was 77.
Bergier received wide renown for leading an international panel in a major study that in 2001 concluded Switzerland "got involved in (Nazi) crimes by abandoning refugees to their persecutors" even though the Swiss government knew by 1942 of the Nazis' "final solution" and that rejected refugees would likely face deport
December 31, 2069
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December 31, 2069
On Saturday March 28, 2009 the History News network videotaped a standing ovation given Lee Formwalt, the retiring executive director of the OAH. Formwalt is leaving after a decade in the job.
December 31, 2069
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December 31, 2069
Martin Peretz at his blog at the New Republic
Nicholas
Kristof has finally revealed his secret. In his Thursday ramble entitled "The Daily Me," he explains, almost as if he knows the topic
desperately requires an explanation, why his Middle East commentary is
really a rehash of Juan Cole. That'
December 31, 2069
Source:Canadian Press (2-11-09)Two authors of books on Abraham Lincoln's military leadership have been named winners of the Lincoln Prize and will share the $50,000 cash award, organizers announced Thursday, the 200th anniversary of the president's birth.James McPherson, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War history,"The Battle
December 31, 2069
Seventy-five leading Holocaust scholars from around the world have signed a petition criticizing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for accusing Israel of carrying out “a Holocaust” in Gaza.
The signatories on the petition include three former senior officials of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, chairman Rabbi Dr. Irving Greenberg, Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Dr. Walter Reich; scholars David S. Wyman (author of The Abandonment of the Jews), Deborah Lipstadt, Henry Feingold, and Thane
December 31, 2069
The presentations and papers of the Hirschman Prize ceremony and memorial conference in honor of Charles Tilly (Oct. 3-5, 2008) are now available online , including contributions from Craig Calhoun, Jack Goldstone, Ira Katznelson, Joan Scott, Bill Sewell, Sidney Tarrow, Immanuel Wallerstein, Lynn Eden, Viviana Zelizer, and others. At the memorial conference, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Social Science History Associa
