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BIGGEST NEWS STORIES: 2009 IN REVIEW |
- 100 Notable Books of 2009:
The New York Times Book Review selects outstanding works from the last year -
NYT, 11-09
- The 10 Best Books of 2009 By THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
NYT, 12-09
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
Time, 11-24-09
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IN THE NEWS: |
- Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson':
An 1808 letter from Thomas Jefferson turns up during archiving by a University of Delaware
graduate student.
Student uncovers letter among archives of mementos of elite Delaware family...
Thomas Jefferson's 1808 letter part of archives gift to University of Delaware..."This letter was like a link to Jefferson himself," student says
Library official says,"To hold it in your hands is really quite thrilling"
In a nondescript conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student
found a historian's equivalent to a needle in a haystack.
Amanda Daddona said she discovered a personal letter from Thomas Jefferson amid one of 200 boxes of
legal documents, minutes from meetings and day-to-day correspondence of a prominent Delaware family.... -
CNN, 12-4-09 - Residents, historians work for landmarks in Harlem:
Michael Henry Adams, a local historian and graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and
Preservation, agreed, saying,"Harlem is grossly under-landmarked, and so is every black neighborhood in the city."
He added,"If you look at the Upper East Side and Upper West Side, all the places where the richest people live,
there's the most landmarking.".... -
Columbia Spectator (12-3-09)
- Joy Damousi: Historian examines the lives of war generation (Australia):
A prominent Melbourne academic is researching the impact of memories of WWII in Greece and the Civil War
on Greek-Australians.... -
Greek Reporter (11-30-09)
- Historians seeks to capture and preserve 100-year farm heritage:
For 100 years Henry Armstrong's family has farmed the same patch of central Montana land, hanging on through
the Depression, low wheat prices and the ever-present risk that the next generation would move on... -
Google News (11-27-09)
- Historians are at war over 'old-fashioned' flagship series:
TELEVISION historian Neil Oliver has been likened to a"pygmy on a giant's territory" by a leading academic as the
bitter row over the BBC’s flagship A History of Scotland series intensifies.... -
The Herald Scotland (11-26-09)
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- Historian David Reynolds says Obama should pardon John Brown:
IT'S important for Americans to recognize our national heroes, even those who have been despised by history.
Take John Brown.
Today is the 150th anniversary of Brown's hanging — the grim punishment for his raid weeks earlier on Harpers
Ferry, Va. With a small band of abolitionists, Brown had seized the federal arsenal there and freed slaves
in the area. His plan was to flee with them to nearby mountains and provoke rebellions in the South. But
he stalled too long in the arsenal and was captured. He was brought to trial in a Virginia court, convicted
of treason, murder and inciting an insurrection, and hanged on Dec. 2, 1859.... -
NYT (12-1-09)
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REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS: |
- Beth Bailey: Historian's new book considers America's all-volunteer Army
America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force -
Temple University (12-3-09)
- We join a movement in progress: a review of Cynthia Griggs Fleming's"Yes We Did?'
If Barack Obama's 2008 election is history's answer to Martin Luther King's 46-year-old"I Have a Dream"
speech, then African Americans must be on the cusp of . . . what, exactly? In"Yes We Did?" historian
Cynthia Griggs Fleming offers an academic overview of the civil rights movement's triumphant past and uncertain future.... -
The Washington Post (12-4-09)
- Historian's says Hudson's 'did not discover anything':
Four-hundred years ago, Henry Hudson set sail from Europe in an attempt to discover a new route to Asia by
heading east. His mission was not successful, but he traveled along what has become the Hudson River between
New York and New Jersey.
River Edge resident and local historian Kevin Wright explores the quadricentennial of Hudson's voyage in his
new book,"1609: A Country That Was Never Lost: 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson's Visit with North Americans
of the Middle Atlantic Coast."... -
North Jersey (11-26-09)
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PROFILED & FEATURED: | - Horse racing was best before British, says historian:
Dr Natalie Zacek, from The University of Manchester says the 1861–1865 Civil War changed American racing forever,
by forcing it to modernise using the English model... -
The University of Manchester (12-1-09)
- Historian unearthes Civil War war criminal:
Her breath quickened as she caught sight of a name engraved in stone. Could it possibly be him?
As Carolyn Stier Ferrell stepped closer, she could see that, yes, she had found her man! At the Odd Fellows
Home Cemetery atop Boot Hill in New Providence, Ferrell found the final resting place of Thomas Pratt Turner.... -
The Leaf Chronicle (11-29-09)
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QUOTED: |
- Ivan the Terrible film 'slanders Russia' and should be banned, historian says:
Vyacheslav Manyagin has asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to outlaw the film, which he claims is an insult
to Russian statehood.
..."Imagine that they made a film in America about George Washington in which the first US president was portrayed
as a bloodthirsty maniac," Mr Manyagin said."This film slanders the Russian people and state."... -
Telegraph (UK) (11-28-09)
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INTERVIEWED: |
- Interview with D.N.Jha, eminent historian: "Historians who come in proximity to power change their
secular lines"
DWIJENDRA NARAYAN JHA, an eminent historian, has campaigned extensively against the communalisation of history.
His book Myth of the Holy Cow,wherein he dispelled popular misconceptions that Muslims introduced beef-eating in
India, created ripples in political circles. -
Frontline (Volume 26) (12-1-09)
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HONORED, AWARDED &APPOINTED: |
- Mihailo Pantic, Srdjan Pirivatric: Bulgarian president awards Serbian writer and historian:
At the awarding ceremony in the Bulgarian Presidency, Pantic was presented with the Holly Brothers Cyril and Methodius
award for his contribution to the popularization of the Bulgarian culture in Serbia and promotion of relation
between the Bulgarian and Serbian people.
Bsanna News (12-4-09)
- Historian one of 10 human rights award winners (Toronto):
Most Torontonians are not familiar with the black experience in Canada, but for Adrienne Shadd, African-Canadian
history is in her blood.
Shadd is the great-great-grandniece of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first black women to publish and edit a newspaper
in North America.... -
The Toronto Observer (11-26-09)
- UK diplomat questions post of Jews on Iraq panel:
A British diplomat has criticized the appointment of two leading Jewish academics to the UK's Iraq Inquiry panel,
stating it may upset the balance of the inquiry.
Sir Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, told The Independent newspaper this week that the
appointment of Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian and Winston Churchill biographer, and
Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies and vice-principal of King's College London, would be
seen as"ammunition" that could be used to call the inquiry a"whitewash."... -
The Jerusalem Post (via OpEdNews) (11-25-09)
- The re-emergence of historian Richard Hofstadter:
Hofstadter, who died in 1970, was at one time amongst America's pre-eminent historians. He documented the
evolution of the country's political culture and its populist underpinnings from the Revolution to the post-
Kennedy-assassination era. It's no surprise that his work is still generally relevant, but his landmark 1964
essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, is Cassandra-like in its prescience.
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John Moore in the National Post (11-26-09)
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SPOTTED: |
- Rebuttal of Decade-Old Accusations Against Researchers Roils Anthropology Meeting Anew:
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association opened here on Wednesday, and its official theme
is"The End/s of Anthropology." But people here might suspect that one thing will never end: the controversy
surrounding Darkness in El Dorado, a 2000 book that accused two prominent scholars of misdeeds in their work
with an indigenous community in South America Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated
the Amazon (W.W. Norton), was written by Patrick Tierney... -
The Chronicle of Higher Education (12-3-09)
- Carpentersville students chat with renowned historian Howard Zinn (Illinois):
Between preparing for the premiere of his documentary and promoting it with the likes of Matt Damon and
Viggo Mortensen, historian and activist Howard Zinn found some time to speak with students at Dundee-Crown
High School on Tuesday.... -
The Daily Herald (12-2-09)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS CALENDAR: |
- Royal Society papers provide science, history resources:
The 350th anniversary of Britain's Royal Society (making it the world's oldest scientific institution)
will be marked by the release of a vast library of papers online from the likes of Sir Isacc Newton and
Benjamin Franklin. This isn't just science nerd stuff, though. This is a treasure trove of history that
is easily connected to modern scientific thought.
The library itself can be found at
trailblazing.royalsociety.org
and is remarkable in its extensiveness... -
ZD Net, 11-29-09
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BEST SELLERS (NYT): |
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COMING SOON BOOKS: |
- Anthony Haden-guest: Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
(Paperback), December 8, 2009
- Len Colodny: The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, from Nixon to Obama, December 8, 2009
- Alice Morse Earle: Child Life in Colonial Times, (Paperback), December 18, 2009
- C. S. Manegold: Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North,
December 21, 2009
- A. N. Wilson: Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II, December 22, 2009
- Rudy Tomedi: General Matthew Ridgway, December 30, 2009
- Alison Weir: The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, January 5, 2010
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DEPARTED: |
- Remembering Jean-François Bergier: Swiss historian: "You have to be responsible for your past," the Swiss historian Jean-François Bergier once said. And he knew
exactly how challenging that could be for his country... -
Times Online (11-30-09)
- Studs Terkel: Democracy Now! Tribute [video 59 minutes] -
Democracy Now (11-27-09)
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