This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: UC Berkeley
5-24-11
Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky, an emeritus professor of European history at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading authority on the history of Russia, died May 14 in an Oakland, Calif., nursing home following a long illness. He was 87.
Source: Michael Lind at Salon
5-24-11
Michael Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation and is the author of "The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution."
Source: McClatchy Newspapers
5-20-11
FRESNO, Calif. -- A California State University, Fresno, graduate is making news in England.Bradley Hart discovered previously unseen photos of Adolf Hitler and documents that for the first time link a prominent British scientist to Nazi Germany's efforts to create a master race through its use of sterilization.Hart's groundbreaking historical research about England's eugenic movement in the 1930s was unveiled Thursday at Cambridge University, where he's working on his doctorate through the university's Churchill College,
Source: The Scotsman
5-22-11
FOUR of Scotland's leading academics have protested to ministers about the "extraordinary" lack of historical expertise on the board of the nation's flagship museum. History professors Tom Devine, Christopher Smout and Michael Lynch, and archaeologist Dr Anna Ritchie - all former trustees of the National Museums of Scotland - say they fear standards will slip without expert advice at a crucial time.
Source: Public Radio International
5-21-11
Sergei Zhuk remembers the first time he heard rock and roll."I was six years old when my brother brought the record Rubber Soul from the Beatles," he said.Zhuk grew up in the USSR in 1960s and 70s. He said everybody was obsessed with the Beatles and Rolling Stones back then."Because it was very unusual for our ears. It was sincere, with a lot of energy," Zhuk said.
Source: Boston Globe
5-23-11
The two future history scholars met as boys at school in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940. It would become a lifelong friendship between Ernst Badian, an Austrian refugee from Nazi Germany’s roundup of Jews, and New Zealander Edwin Judge.
Source: North Jersey News
5-20-11
Former Teaneck resident William J. Maxwell, who led Jersey City State College for 18 years, died Sunday. He was 79.The cause was heart failure, said his son, William Maxwell IV.
Source: Guardian (UK)
5-16-11
A promotional campaign linked to the 2014 Winter Olympics is stirring debate in Russia because of its use of allegedly "fascist" imagery.The campaign employs images of blue-eyed, blond sportsmen and women which have been described by critics as "neo-Hitlerite" and "like something from a Leni Riefenstahl film".
Source: Inside Higher Ed
5-19-11
Survey courses in "Western Civilization," once a common component of undergraduate curriculums, have almost disappeared as a requirement at many large private research universities and public flagships, according to a study released Wednesday by the National Association of Scholars.
Source: Amy Goodman in the Guardian (UK)
5-18-11
Amy Goodman is an award-winning broadcast journalist, columnist, investigative reporter and author. She is the principal host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news programme broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet. Her most recent book is a collection of her weekly columns, Breaking the Sound Barrier (2009)
Source: Jewish Telegraph Agency
5-18-11
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A retired history professor from the United States was arrested for allegedly smuggling stolen antiquities from Israel and selling them illegally.The American man sold among other things, bronze and silver coins from the Second Temple period and a 1,500-year-old clay oil lamp....The suspect, who works as a tour guide, had been in the country for two weeks....
Source: http://www.fundweb.co.uk
5-17-11
The American stockmarkets will dive lower than during the financial crisis when the boom in American government debt comes to an end, the author of Anatomy of the Bearhas said.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Russell Napier, the financial historian and strategist at CLSA, the broker, says the S&P 500 index of large companies could hit a low of 400, lower than the 666 reached in March 2009.
According to Napier, emerging markets have propped up the world’s supply of money since the crisis, including to the American government.
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Source: Thomas Ricks in Foreign Policy
5-17-11
Historian Niall Ferguson likes to think big. If most Washingtonians are satisfied with shaping a discrete national policy issue, Niall Ferguson isn't satisfied unless he can challenge the global conventional wisdom of a generation.
Source: OAH and AHA Emails
5-16-11
An email bearing this message went out to OAH and AHA members this week.
Source: PolitiFact
5-10-11
During the May 8, 2011, edition of NBC’sMeet the Press, historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin offered a striking statistic about combat casualties under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.Host David Gregory began the exchange by playing a video clip from Robert Kagan, a foreign policy scholar and commentator who has advised several Republican office-holders.
Source: CNBC
5-12-11
The factors he cited:
Source: NYT
5-9-11
... Mr. Kissinger’s fascinating, shrewd and sometimes perverse new book, “On China,” not only addresses the central role he played in Nixon’s opening to China but also tries to show how the history of China, both ancient and more recent, has shaped its foreign policy and attitudes toward the West. While this volume is indebted to the pioneering scholarship of historians like Jonathan D. Spence, its portrait of China is informed by Mr.
Source: NYT
5-10-11
Horace Freeland Judson, a science writer whose 1979 book “The Eighth Day of Creation” is regarded as the definitive account of the breakthroughs that transformed molecular biology in the mid-20th century, died on Friday at his home in Baltimore. He was 80. The cause was complications of a stroke, his daughter Olivia said.
Source: NYT
5-8-11
I ARRIVED at Butler Library on the Columbia campus last week, showed my ID and was directed to a fifth-floor room where I could examine in person a trove of documents related to Malcolm X.That the documents were in digital format, and I would be viewing them on a Web site, made the exercise seem a bit extraordinary. Can’t you just send me a link? I asked.
