NEW EFFORTS TO RECOVER NAZI PLUNDER
Museums seeking to recover artwork stolen by the Germans during the Nazi period are now using the Internet to post listings of works.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/arts/design/27LOOT.html

INTERVIEW WITH SEYMOUR HERSH ABOUT AFGHANISTAN
Hersh: Musarraf lied to U.S. about Danny Pearl; Pakistan secretly arranged for escape of thousands of al qaeda soldiers during Afghan War through an airlift.
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_hersh.html

EVIDENCE OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE CORRUPTION
Internal documents from the Republican and Democratic parties subpoenaed in lawsuit involving McCain/Feingold seem to confirm wink and nod corruption.
http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.jm.disarming.shtml

HATING LINCOLN (NPR)
Lincoln biographer Allen Guelzo ponders why Lincoln, acclaimed as one of America's greatest presidents, is hated by so many.
http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1165291

JOYCE MALCOLM: SUMMARIZES THE BELLESILES CASE
Malcolm, one of the first to criticize Bellesiles's misuse of evidence, now provides one of the last reviews.
http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.jm.disarming.shtml

DUBOIS
In The Souls of Black Folk, WEB Du Bois combined history, philosophy and music in an attempt to combat racism. To mark the book's centenary, Stuart Hall celebrates a radical American.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,900405,00.html

POPE PIUS XII AND THE JEWS
http://hnn.us/comments/8774.html

HISTORIANS RALLYING TO SAVE ANCIENT TREASURES OF MESOPOTAMIA FROM DESTRUCTION IN EVENT OF AN IRAQ WAR
http://hnn.us/comments/8803.html

HISTORIANS DEBATE IRAQ (Guardian)
Ian Kershaw, Simon Schama, Andrew Roberts, Linda Colley, Eric Hobsbawm, Richard Evans, Avi Schlaim, Paul Kennedy, Michael Burleigh, Norman Davies, Richard Overy.
http://hnn.us/comments/8816.html

WHAT KIND OF EMPIRE?
Martin Walker in the Wilson Quarterly.
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=17298

HISTORY OF THE FLAG AS RALLYING SYMBOL (COMMONPLACE.ORG)
http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-02/bonner/

ROGER WILKINS AND ROBERT DALLEK: CIVIL RIGHTS RECORDS OF RECENT PRESIDENTS
http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1165781

LAW PROF: REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY WON'T WORK
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew78.php

HOW'S BUSH DOING? GOODWIN, GERGEN, DALLEK
http://hnn.us/comments/8575.html

LEWIS & CLARK: HOW YORK CHANGED
http://hnn.us/comments/8572.html

WHY I AM A BAD HISTORIAN
Australia's controversial historian, Keith Windschuttle, explains why he still believes in getting facts right.
http://hnn.us/comments/8558.html

WHAT IF'S OF HISTORY (NPR)
Interviews with Robert Cowley (of MHQ); Victor Davis Hanson; Lance Morrow
http://hnn.us/comments/8557.html

PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC AT TIMES OF CRISES (CNN)
Clips from presidential speeches during crises.
http://hnn.us/comments/8556.html

LINCOLN'S GREATEST SPEECH (NPR)
Interview with Ronald White, author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech (the 2nd Inaugural).
http://truthout.org/docs_02/021603F.htm

ORIGINS OF VALENTINES DAY

http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/021403/tp2ch16.htm?date=021403&story=tp2ch16.htm

REPARATIONS LAWSUIT FILED IN DALLAS
The lawsuit reads more like a lesson in black history than it does a class action in federal court.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2003-02-13/news.html/1/index.html

TEACHING ABOUT SLAVERY (NPR)
Slavery may have ended close to 135 years ago, but the way we tell the story of slavery is still a work in progress.
http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=995144

SENATOR BYRD'S REMONSTRANCE TO THE SENATE
http://truthout.org/docs_02/021603F.htm

ENOUGH WITH THE HITLER ANALOGIES (Guardian)
http://hnn.us/comments/8408.html

IS MCDONALDS STANDARDIZATION THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE? REALLY?
Is McDonalds still invincible? Or will regionalism make a come back?
http://hnn.us/comments/8389.html

THE WATCHDOG FOR ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS IN THE MEDIA
Blaming the messenger when the pro-israeli group camera sees news from the Middle East that it deems unfair or wrong, it targets the media.
http://hnn.us/comments/8390.html

HISTORY'S CRISIS OF AUTHORITY
Continuing heated debate on Australia's early black-white conflicts is highlighting something else: that our historians are having a" crisis of authority."
http://hnn.us/comments/8402.html

PUSHKIN WAS DESCENDED FROM AN AFRICAN SLAVE
http://hnn.us/comments/8404.html

INTERVIEW WITH JOHN LUKACS
http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2003-01/democraticage.html

NIXON TAPED TALKS 'FOR HISTORY,' EX-AIDE SAYS
President Nixon had no sinister purpose when he had six microphones installed in his Oval Office desk, the former aide who revealed the existence of the recordings said at a Boston conference on presidential tapes."It was simply for history," he explained.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-briefs17.2feb17,1,350849.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation

A GRIM ACCOUNT OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND ITS ORIGINS
Book review of Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate From Antiquity to the Present, written by historians Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer. Tracing some 2,000 years of anti-Semitism, Schweitzer and Perry examine the origins, manifestations and permutations of this virulent form of hate.
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-book12feb12,0,3405203.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbooks%2Dmanual

GLITCHES, CLOSE CALLS HAUNTED COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE
A review of the shuttle's nearly 25-year-old history shows a craft vexed by technical problems and near-disasters since its maiden launch.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-columbia17feb17,1,1423665.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

A SKELETAL LINK TO JAMESTOWN'S PAST
Archeologists believe they may have found the skeleton of the man considered the main force behind the first permanent English settlement in America.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jamestown12feb12,1,3309301.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation

HUNGARIAN TORTURE MUSEUM
Museum tells the story of both Nazi and communist oppression.
http://hnn.us/comments/8288.html

BRITISH SPIES
Britain's great spy hunt caught the most implausible villains.
http://hnn.us/comments/8299.html

MANIFEST DESTINY IN REVERSE ON THE NORTH DAKOTA PLAINS
Buried deep within America's empty heartland lies North Dakota: remote, inhospitable, a state in crisis. But as its human inhabitants give up on the plains and move out, the original settlers are on their way back.
http://hnn.us/comments/8300.html

THE LEFT NEEDS TO REDISCOVER PATRIOTISM IN ITS WAR ON WAR
Michael Kazin chastises the Left for abandoning the traditional critique of America by measuring the country against its own patriotic ideals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42698-2003Feb7.html

BLACK STUDIES: REVISED (NPR)
Historians and other scholars are examining the state of black studies at a conference in NY.
http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=984985

THE STORY OF THE SLAVE TWINS JOINED AT BIRTH
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/5142915.htm

HISTORY OF THE SMALL POX VACCINE (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/smallpox.html

POLISH-GERMAN BORDER REUNION
A pair of towns along the Polish-German border, separated after World War II, will be reunited next year when Poland enters the European Union. But residents of Gцrlitz and Zgorzelec have mixed feelings -- some because of history, others because of the merger's economic impact.
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_947092.html

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2003
To celebrate Black History Month, NPR News offers comprehensive coverage commemorating the lives and histories of African-American pioneers.
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/blackhistorymonth/index.html

A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY INSIDE LEWIS AND CLARK
Book review of Brian Hall's I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, a historical novel offering introspective character profiles of the five key participants in the historical trek.
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-bk-brinkley2feb02,0,481594.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbooks%2Dmanual

MEXIDO DIGS AT LAST FOR TRUTH ABOUT 1968 MASSACRE
The struggle for the control of history continues in Mexico, as a new goverment-approved history textbook that reveals the truth about the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre is being ordered off the shelves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/international/americas/07MEXI.html

AMERICAN STUDIES: WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?
Alan Wolfe in the New Republic
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5982

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION (NPR)
It's the 140th anniversary of the proclamation.
http://hnn.us/comments/7998.html

JUST WHO WAS WALLIS SIMPSON?
A balanced portrait.
http://hnn.us/comments/7997.html

HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RIPPED OFF INDIANS TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (NPR)
In its dollar magnitude, it's almost certainly the biggest case of financial mismanagement in U.S. history.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=levy012903

HISTORY OF MANNED SPACE TRAVEL (NPR)
http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=962272

IS BUSH ANOTHER REAGAN?
Bush may be more conservative than Reagan.
http://hnn.us/comments/7985.html

TRUMAN LEFT OFFICE 50 YEARS AGO
Getting right with Harry.Why he's so popular today a half century after he left the White House.
http://hnn.us/comments/7984.html

BORN OF A NORWEIGAN MOTHER AND A GERMAN FATHER IN NORWAY DURING WW II
What happened to the children.
http://hnn.us/comments/7983.html

IAN KERSHAW ON HITLER'S CONTINUING FASCINATION
70 years ago he was appointed chancellor.
http://hnn.us/comments/7975.html

THE RELEVANCE OF WORLD WAR I
A new book, 14-18: Understanding The Great War suggests the ways in which WW I is and is not relevant to our own times.
http://hnn.us/comments/7724.html

ROE V WADE AND DOE V BOLTON
The Other Supreme Court abortion case, also in 1972, that broadened the scope of Roe v Wade.
http://hnn.us/comments/7725.html

WOODROW WILSON, RACIST DIXIECRAT
Dixiecrats Triumphant: The menacing Mr. Wilson
http://reason.com/links/links121802.shtml

THE SMOG DISASTER THAT LED TO THE PASSAGE OF THE FIRST CLEAN AIR ACT
The investigation into Donora Smog Disaster in Pa. was essential to the first federal clean-air act, passed in 1955; highlighted on PBS"Now" with Bill Moyers.
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/smog.html

COMPARING BUSH TO HITLER
Hitler routinely ignored his military, other world leaders, and the clergy. Now, Bush seems to think that this policy, which ultimately failed for Hitler, will work for him.
http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen01312003.html

OLD ALLIANCE, NEW RELEVANCE
Six decades after Winston Churchill used personal diplomacy to persuade Franklin Roosevelt to postpone an all-out attack on Nazi Germany, another British prime minister is traveling to Camp David on a similar mission.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3609-2003Jan30.html

"BLIND SPOT: HITLER'S SECRETARY"
She was in the bunker with you-know-who and can't forgive herself. In this haunting documentary, 81-year-old Traudl Junge faces the truth.
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/01/31/blind_spot/index_np.html

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON LETTER EMERGES
A biographer of fairy tale master Hans Christian Andersen has discovered the only known letter written by the Danish author to his mother.
http://www.salon.com/books/wire/2003/01/30/andersen_letter/index.html

ORIGINS OF ARMIES MARCHING
When did armies begin to march? (Slate)
http://slate.msn.com/id/2077384/

CHARLES MAIER: IS AMERICA AN EMPIRE?
In Harvard Magazine, Professor Maier concludes that America has become an empire--with dangerous consequences.
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/1102193.html

THE SHAH AWLAYS FALLS
A soldier-historian looks at how the world has changed in the past decade and finds that America is both hostage to history and likely to be saved by it.(American Heritage)
http://www.americanheritage.com/AMHER/2003/01/shah.shtml

WAS MERIWETHER LEWIS CRAZY?
Novelist Brian Hall says historians have been unwilling to face the fact that Meriwether Lewis was suicidal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/opinion/21HALL.html

MICHELANGELO WAS A MISER
"Michelangelo, beneath it all, was a miser. That is one conclusion of a recently published book, 'The Wealth of Michelangelo,' by a professor of art history."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/international/europe/21FLOR.html

BUSH'S POLL NUMBERS: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
A recent Zogby International poll of the public's perceptions of the dozen most recent presidents may be more telling than any other political barometer.
http://hnn.us/comments/7611.html

DID GERMANY WIN WORLD WAR II?
In the wake of Soviet dissolution and Germany's 1990 reunification, FrontPage Magazine's Lowell Ponte argues that this question is no longer absurd. Germany, he observes, seems to be following Adolf Hitler's vision for Europe and the world.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5742

REVIVING THE CASE OF EMMETT TILL
The murder of Emmett Till in 1955 helped spark the civil rights struggle. Now, half a century later, filmmakers lead a call to resolve the case's lingering mysteries.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-till20jan20.story

LEONARDO: THE EYE, THE HAND, THE MIND
A rare exhibit of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals the artist as obsessive and thorough.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/arts/design/24COTT.html

COMPUTERIZIED RECORDS BECOMING OBSOLETE
BBC's computer-based collection of photographs, writings and other snapshots of life in 1986, the 900th anniversary of the written English survey, the Domesday Book, needs customized software and hardware that are breaking down from old age, meaning records from just 17 years ago are rapidly vanishing.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/1739675

WAS NAPOLEON POISONED?
New theory discounts arsenic and blames stomach cancer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15537-2003Jan19.html

ERIC HOBSBAWM ASSAILED
How communism ruined Hobsbawm, according to the New Criterion.
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/jan03/hobsbawm.htm

LEWIS & CLARK (NPR)
NPR's Brian Naylor reports on a recent ceremony at Jefferson's home, Monticello, to mark the anniversary of the expedition.
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_925363.html

GAMBLING
How our Puritan heritage shapes the way we look at gambling. (Subscribers to Chronicle of Higher Education only).
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i20/20b01501.htm

ANNIVERSARY OF MARCONI'S TELEGRAM (NPR)
NPR interviews Princess Mary Elettra Elena Anna Marconi about the work of her father, inventor Guglielmo Marconi. It's been 100 years since he sent the first radio telegram.
http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=923772

GERMANS BREAKING AN OLD TABOO
Germans are now studying how they suffered during the war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/18/arts/18SCHN.html

EDMUND MORGAN, PROFILED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA264048&display=PW+InterviewNews&industry=PW+Interview&industryid=%industryid%&verticalid=127

THE GHOSTS OF PRESIDENTS PAST
The ghosts of presidents past are particularly conspicuous around George W. Bush.
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/Rios011403.html

INSPECTING AMERICA'S FOUNDATION
Review of Bernard Bailyn's To Begin the World Anew, The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, a new collection of essays that redresses, for our time, the balance of historical judgment on Thomas Jefferson.
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-book17jan17,0,1762224.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures

SMEARING GEORGE WASHINGTON
Two Philadelphia Inquirer writers are among those who seek to challenge the legacy of the so-called"greatest American who ever lived."
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5593

AUSTRALIA: ONE COUNTRY, TWO HISTORIES
Conservative Australian historians have rewritten the accepted view that colonists massacred Aborigines. In doing so, they've engaged a dispute over history which has broadened into a public debate threatening to change the politics of race in the country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,876369,00.html

PAUL KENNEDY: TRYING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN IRAQ OR NORTH KOREA IS SILLY
Kennedy argues that empires like the United States have always had to juggle multiple crises.
http://hnn.us/comments/7297.html

HOW TO MAKE THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN NYC INTERESTING
Mike Wallace reviews the history of the 1924 Republican convention, also held in NYC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/11/opinion/11WALL.html

THE HISTORIAN WHO EXPOSED THE TRUE FACE OF ZEN
Zen has had strong ties to militarism — indeed so strong, that the leaders of one of the largest denominations in Japan have remorsefully compared their former religious fanaticism during Japan's brutal expansionism in the 1930's and 40's to today's murderously militant Islamists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/11/arts/11ZEN.html

WHAT DID IKE MEAN BY THE PHRASE, MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX?
Douglas Brinkley and James Fallows in an Interview on NPR.
http://hnn.us/comments/7270.html

AN INTERVIEW WITH BRENT GLASS, NEW LEADER OF THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM (NPR)
http://hnn.us/comments/7273.html

HOW HISTORIANS ARE USING E BAY TO COLLECT ARTIFACTS
http://hnn.us/comments/7280.html

THE REVIVAL OF A COLD WAR WORD: BRINKSMANSHIP
Tracing the history of the word brinksmanship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/weekinreview/12NUNB.html

THE STOCKBROKER WHO NEVER NEGLECTED TO TELL HIS WIFE HE SAVED THE LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF JEWS
http://hnn.us/comments/7288