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- Nurse being kissed in iconic wartime picture dies, aged 91:
Edith Shain was photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square in 1945 being kissed by a sailor -
Guardian UK, 6-23-10
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HISTORY NEWS: |
- AHA, OAH, and NCPH endorse new guidelines for tenure:
Three national groups of historians -- the American Historical Association, the National Council on Public History
and the Organization of American Historians -- have now all endorsed guidelines that suggest a new, broader
approach to tenure when considering public historians. The joint guidelines are part of a growing movement in
disciplines that have tended to base tenure decisions on traditional forms of scholarship (in this case the monograph)
to broaden the way they judge contributions to a field.... -
Inside Higher Ed (6-22-10)
- Historical Associations Issue Recommendations about Rewarding Public History Work for Promotion and Tenure
AHA Blog (6-21-10)
- Robert B. Townsend: Recession Takes Toll on AHA Membership:
The economic hard times rocking the discipline took their toll on the AHA this past year, as membership in
the Association fell 7.4 percent from the year before. This erased gains made over the previous five years
and dropped membership down to 13,946 active members.... -
Robert B. Townsend at the AHA Blog (6-21-10)
- Robert B. Townsend: Is There an E-book in Your Future? A Report from the University Presses -
Robert Townsend at the AHA Blog (6-21-10)
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REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS: |
- Book review: H.W. Brands reviews"Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch:
Rather, the appeal of"Democracy in America" is that of any good coming-of-age story: We see the possibilities of
youth struggling against the realities of adulthood, and even as we slide toward old age, we reimagine all that we
might have been.
Leo Damrosch, in the best book on this subject in 70 years, deftly depicts the fateful encounter between the young
Tocqueville and adolescent America.
WaPo, 6-25-10
- Book review of Hugh Trevor-Roper's"History and the Enlightenment":
In the half-century following World War II, there was no more admired British historian than Hugh Trevor-Roper
(1914-2003)...."History and the Enlightenment" is a posthumous collection. Editor John Robertson has gathered
together Trevor-Roper's reflections on historiography and the achievements of the 18th- and early 19th-century
historians, starting with Pietro Giannone -- whose"Civil History of Naples" inspired both Hume and Edward Gibbon
-- and ending with Jacob Burckhardt ("The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy").... -
WaPo, 6-23-10
- Dominic Lieven: 'War and Peace': The Fact-Check: RUSSIA AGAINST NAPOLEON
The True Story of the Campaigns of"War and Peace"
Lieven’s account in"Russia Against Napoleon" could not be more different. He concentrates on the men who led
the Russian Army to victory — the young Czar Alexander and his close advisers — and shows that they won because
they got more things right than Napoleon did. They understood him better than he did them, and while Napoleon
may have been a battlefield genius, Alexander showed greater diplomatic skill in bringing together the coalition
that eventually defeated him. That was no easy matter, given the fear of the French that prevailed in the German
lands, and the fear of Russian predominance as well.... -
NYT, 6-20-10
- Rabbi's Biography Disturbs Followers:
Mr. Heilman, a sociologist at Queens College, and Menachem Friedman, a professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan
University in Israel, offer a view into his world in their new biography,"The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of
Menachem Mendel Schneerson" (Princeton University Press). But they have provoked a growing chorus of complaints
from people inside and outside Chabad with their characterization of the rebbe.... -
NYT, 6-20-10
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FEATURES: | - Doris Kearns Goodwin: New Kennedy Docs Show Perseverance, FBI Relationship, Says Goodwin -
WPUR (Boston) (6-15-10)
- Douglas Brinkley, Robert Dallek: Historians weigh in on released Kennedy FBI files:
The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy lived under the constant threat of violent death, a burden he inherited
from his slain brothers, according to FBI records released yesterday detailing hundreds of threats issued by hate
groups or relayed by agency tipsters and police across the country.... -
Boston Globe (6-15-10)
- Joseph Persico, Lara Brown: Presidential historians (pre)assess Obama speech:
...Before Obama's first Oval Office address, historians were taking the measure of what might be possible for
the president.... -
NPR,org (6-15-10)
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QUOTES: |
- Shen Zhihua, the director of the Shanghai-based Center for Cold War International History Studies and
professor of history at East China Normal University: Frank Views from Chinese Historian About Korean War:
The Korean War was started by Stalin, who wished to establish pro-Soviet government in the Korean Peninsula,
and Kim Il-sung, who wanted unified Korea, a leading Chinese academic told the state-run media Thursday. -
Chosun Ilbo (6-18-10)
- Controversy in France over de Gaulle literature, Robert Paxton weighs in: "He's a great classical stylist with a vigorous point of view, which is exactly what young people should be reading,"
Paxton said in a telephone interview from Cluny, in the Burgundy region of France."You can use the same critical
powers on the writings of a politician as on a literary figure."...
Bloomberg News (6-18-10)
- J.B. Shank: University of MN historian objects to Pawlenty comments on Daily Show: "Technophilic talk is a pernicious distraction," he says,"because it allows for a certain kind of justification
for not giving the university the money it needs to provide the kind of education it wants to provide."... -
DigitalBurg.com (6-17-10)
- Jean-Pierre Azema: De Gaulle truth played down?:
A LEADING World War II historian has warned against manipulating history as France this week commemorates 70
years since Charles de Gaulle made his stirring appeal to resist Nazism.... -
The Straits Times (Singapore) (6-16-10)
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INTERVIEWS: |
- Andrew Bacevich sits down with Salon on Gen. McChrystal's ouster:
Should Gen. McChrystal have been fired?
I believe this matter has already been settled. My view is that he should not have been fired.... -
Salon.com (6-23-10)
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AWARDS &APPOINTMENTS: |
- Rick Atkinson wins prize for military writing:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson has received a $100,000 award for military writing.
Atkinson has been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military
Writing.... -
AP, 6-21-10
- U. of Tennessee Wins Grant to Digitize Newspapers:
In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000
pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.... -
CHE (6-18-10)
- Stimpson Prize for Feminist Scholarship awarded to Ellen Samuels:
Professor Samuels's award-winning essay,"Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: Where Enslavement and
Enfreakment Meet," is impressively interdisciplinary, combining historical analysis, visual culture studies,
feminist theory, and critical race theory to explore representations of Millie and Christine McKoy, African
American conjoined twins born into slavery in North Carolina in 1851. -
Chicago Journals (6-13-10)
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SPOTTED: |
- West Point gathering examines endings of US wars:
American wars usually begin with a bang, yet it's the endings that usually have long-lasting influences, a
gathering of prominent military historians told West Point instructors who are training the next generation of
Army officers.... -
AP (6-21-10)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS CALENDAR: |
- September 17-18, 2010 at Notre Dame University: Conference aims to bring medieval, early modern and
Latin American historians together:
An interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Notre Dame this fall is making a final call for
papers to explore the issue surrounding similarities between late-medieval Iberia and its colonies in the New World."From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal, and the New World, 1250-1700" is being hosted by the
university's Nanovic Institute for European Studies and will take place on September 17-18, 2010.
Medieval News, 4-29-10
- Jeff Shesol to give Jackson Lecture at the Chautauqua Institution:
Historian,
presidential speechwriter and author Jeff Shesol will deliver Chautauqua Institution's sixth annual Robert H.
Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States. Jeff Shesol will give the Jackson Lecture on Wednesday,
August 18, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. in Chautauqua’s Hall of Philosophy.... -
John Q. Barrett at the Jackson List (6-14-10)
- Thousands of Studs Terkel interviews going online:
The Library of Congress will digitize the Studs Terkel Oral History Archive, according to the agreement,
while the museum will retain ownership of the roughly 5,500 interviews in the archive and the copyrights to the
content.
Project officials expect digitizing the collection to take more than two years.... -
NYT, 5-13-10
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Digital Southern Historical Collection:
The 41,626 scans reproduce diaries, letters, business records, and
photographs that provide a window into the lives of Americans in the
South from the 18th through mid-20th centuries.
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BEST SELLERS (NYT): |
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BOOKS COMING SOON: |
- Ruth Harris: Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century (REV),
(Hardcover), June 22, 2010
- James Mauro: Twilight at the World of Tomorrow: Genius, Madness, Murder, and the 1939 World's
Fair on the Brink of War, (Hardcover), June 22, 2010.
- William Marvel: The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln's War,
(Hardcover), June 22, 2010
- Suzann Ledbetter: Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women,
(Hardcover), June 28, 2010.
- Julie Flavell: When London Was Capital of America, (Hardcover), June 29, 2010
- Donald P. Ryan: Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist,
(Hardcover), June 29, 2010
- Jane Brox: Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, (Hardcover), July 8, 2010.
- Rudy Tomedi: General Matthew Ridgway, (Hardcover), July 30, 2010.
- Richard Toye: Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made,
(Hardcover), August 3, 2010.
- Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers, (Hardcover), August 16, 2010
- Holger Hoock: Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850,
(Hardcover), September 1, 2010
- Anna Whitelock: Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen, (Hardcover), September 7, 2010
- James L. Swanson: Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse,
(Hardcover), September 28, 2010
- Timothy Snyder: The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (First Trade Paper Edition),
(Paperback), September 28, 2010
- Ron Chernow: Washington: A Life, (Hardcover), October 5, 2010
- George William Van Cleve:
A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic,
(Hardcover), October 1, 2010.
- John Keegan: The American Civil War: A Military History, (Paperback),
October 5, 2010
- Bill Bryson: At Home: A Short History of Private Life, (Hardcover), October 5, 2010
- Robert M. Poole: On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery,
(Paperback), October 26, 2010
- Robert Leckie: Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War,
(Paperback), October 26, 2010
- Manning Marable: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, (Hardcover), November 9, 2010
- Elizabeth White: The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The Socialist Revolutionary Party,
1917-39, (Hardcover), November 10, 2010
- Elizabeth White: The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1917-39,
(Hardcover), November 10, 2010
- G. J. Barker-Benfield: Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility,
(Hardcover), November 15, 2010
- Edmund Morris: Colonel Roosevelt, (Hardcover), November 23, 2010
- Michael Goldfarb:
Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance,
(Paperback), November 23, 2010
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DEPARTED: |
- Retired Vanderbilt professor, Paul Hardacre, passes away:
Paul Hoswell Hardacre, a retired Vanderbilt University professor noted for his expertise on the Stuart period of
English history, died on April 10 in Pasadena, Calif., at the age of 94. The professor of history, emeritus,
taught at Vanderbilt for 34 years... -
InsideVandy.com (6-18-10)
- Angela Gugliotta, Environmental Historian and Lecturer at the University of Chicago, 1963-2010:
Angela Gugliotta, a beloved teacher of environmental history whose research challenged the categorical distinction
between natural and social knowledge, died June 1 after a ten-year battle with breast cancer. She was 47... -
University of Chicago (6-9-10)
- Bruce Fraser, historian of Connecticut, dies at 63:
Mr. Fraser, 63, executive director of the Connecticut Humanities Council since 1982, died Sunday after battling
cancer for nearly a year. A compact, athletic, intense man with a Swiftian wit and Yankee work ethic, Mr. Fraser
was a gifted historian as well as a skilled advocate, organizer and fundraiser. He built the humanities council
into one of the largest and most effective such agencies in the country, and then used it, in the words of
Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Executive Director Helen Higgins,"to transform Connecticut's
once sleepy heritage community into a vibrant industry."... -
Hartford Courant (6-16-10)
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