Historians/History

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 7)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 5)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 6)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 4)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 3)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 2)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 1)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Does Daniel Pipes's Campus Watch Really Offer Students Helpful Guidance?

by Aaron Erlich

On September 18, 2002, Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum, founded the website Campus Watch (CW) as part of his overall mission to influence U.S policy towards the Middle East. Campus Watch, which claims to "monitor and critique" Middle East Studies, has been broadly criticized by professors on the left as well as some on the right. On the pages of HNN, Pipes has defended CW, arguing that Middle East studies is riddled with people who receive federal subsidies

The Failure of American Academics to Speak the Truth About the Middle East

by Daniel Pipes

Mr. Pipes made the following remarks in November 2003 at Renaissance Weekend, a forum sponsored by David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture. It's my pleasure to be here. And, again, I commend David Horowitz for his focus on the universities, not just visiting them incessantly but taking them as an important aspect of his work in the various institutions he has. They are, I agree with Lanny that they're one of the worst institutions in the United States in terms

How Queer-Friendly Are U.S. History Textbooks?

by Vicki L. Eaklor

Note: This article was delivered as a paper at the recent meeting of the American Historical Association at a panel sponsored by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History. In the summer and fall of 2003 I looked at U. S. history survey textbooks designed for college-level courses. Not only was this to be part of an American Historical Association panel on "Queering the U. S. Survey," but it was also designed as a follow-up to my previous study done in 1988-91, and subsequently published in AHA Perspectives. For the 1991 study, I had examined 23 titles and simply arranged them into two categories according to their content relative to homosexuals/ity: "some mention" (18 titles) and "no mention" (5 titles). I then described strengths and weaknesses in narrative form. This time around I was able to see 27 titles, and decided to rate them, using the following subjective system (and arrived at only after I had seen all the texts and consulted my notes): A = more detail on basics and/or more than 1960s-1990s and/or more than two columns/one page

Benny Morris's Shocking Interview

by Baruch Kimmerling

The Israeli historian Benny Morris did it again. Morris is not only a historian with impressive achievements but also an Israeli and international icon. One year after the publication of his book The Birth of Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, published in 1987, he proclaimed himself a “new historian.” He become the great guru of a small imaginary group appointed by him and including mainly Avi Shlaim, Uri Milstein and Ilan Pappé. Membership in this g

Was JFK the Victim of an Undiagnosed Disease Common to the Irish?

by Peter H.R. Green, MD

Did Kennedy have celiac disease?

Is Public Indebtedness Essential to Democracy and Freedom?

by Forrest McDonald

James Macdonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (Harvard University Press). AT FIRST BLUSH, IT WOULD SEEM THAT a monograph on private indebtedness during the early years of the American republic could have little in common with a tome on the history of public finance from ancient

The Anniversary No One Remembers--But Should

by Richard Labunski

No date in American history is more important and less known than Feb. 2. Probably no student in a high school or college classroom learns what happened on that day. Even many historians don't understand its significance. On Feb. 2, 1789 , an election was held in a sprawling, eight county district in the Piedmont area of central Virginia. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was the election that saved America . James Madison, the shy and diminutive statesman from Orange Cou

The Surprising Effect of the Nuclear Freeze Movement on the Administration of Ronald Reagan

by Lawrence Wittner

Editor's Note: The following article is drawn from the latest installment in Mr. Wittner's trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, published by Stanford University Press. His new book is called, Toward Nuclear Abolition (2003). The first intimations that the public outcry against nuclear weapons was having an effect emerged in early 1981, during the intra-administration debate ove

The Historian Who Defends North Korea

by Anders Lewis

University of Chicago historian Bruce Cumings is the left's leading scholar of Korean history. In addition to contributing to documentary films on Korean life, Cumings has written a massive and highly critical multi-volume account of the Korean War and published a general history of Korea, titled Korea's Place in the Sun . And he is not shy about his opinions. In a 1997 article in the Atlantic he called for an end to U.S.-Korean hostilities. U.S. troops, he insisted, shoul

Let's All Agree We Should Aim for Objectivity

by Thomas Reeves

Journalists love to talk about themselves and their profession, and the existence of 24-hour a day news channels give them plenty of opportunity. On a recent Fox News Channel program a panel of journalists argued heatedly about evidence (which is overwhelming) of leftist bias in the major media. At one point, a leading liberal contended that unbiased reporting is just stenography. Surprisingly, a major conservative columnist and television commentator agreed. The liberal then proceeded to not

Interview with Christopher Hitchens

by Jamie Glazov

Following is an interview with journalist Christopher Hitchens. The interview was conducted by historian Jamie Glazov, the managing editor of frontpagemag.com, where the interview was first published. Click here to read a response to this interview by Sean Wilentz:"Mr. Hitchens's Revisionism of His Own History"Glazov: I’d like to begin with your intellectual journey. You were, at one time, a man of the Left and, if I am correct, a Tr

Interview with Daniel Pipes

by Jamie Glazov

Following is an interview with Daniel Pipes. The interview was conducted by historian Jamie Glazov, the managing editor of frontpagemag.com, where the interview was first published.Glazov: How do you see the capture of Saddam affecting this war? Pipes: Thanks for the invitation and the kind words. I see Saddam Hussein's capture having powerful repercussions within Iraqi society and perhaps beyond, but having least impact on the adherent

The Death of Paul Simon, Senator and Historian

by George Beres

The death of former Illinois senator, Paul Simon, Dec. 9, reminds us of his history of speaking with courage and for the disenfranchised. While his four decades of legislative experience were in Illinois, his roots were in Oregon, consistent with that state's history as a source for independent thinking. Simon followed in the footsteps of 1970s governor, Tom McCall, whose p