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: Telegraph
1-28-07
The widow of one of South Africa's best-known historians condemned the country's "senseless banditry" last night after her husband was gunned down by robbers.
David Rattray, 48, a friend of Prince Charles and a world authority on the Zulu War, was shot dead after a six-strong gang burst into his home at Rorke's Drift, in KwaZulu-Natal province.
David Rattray was gunned down at his lodge. His widow has condemned the lawlessness engulfing South Africa
Source: Chicago Tribune
1-27-07
Source: NYT
1-26-07
ONE of the hottest books in New York appears on no best-seller list.
“Russian Thinkers,” a 1978 collection of essays on 19th-century Russian intellectuals by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, has virtually disappeared from bookstores across the city, including Barnes & Noble, Labyrinth Books and Shakespeare & Company. The Internet is not much help either: the book is sold out on bn.com, and though it can be ordered from Amazon, the order won’t be shipped for two or three weeks.
Source: Jamie Glazov interviews Niall Ferguson at frontpagemag.com
1-26-07
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly succes
Source: NPR Interview
1-26-07
Since the publication of former President Jimmy Carter's book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, the Carter Center has seen a wave of resignations. More than a dozen people have left in protest, saying the book puts too much blame on Israel.
Emory University history professor Kenneth W. Stein, a former adviser to Carter, says he resigned his fellowship at the Center in Atlanta because he considers the book to be unbalanced. Stein has published a rebuttal to Carter's book in the current issu
Source: Inside Higher Ed
1-26-07
As Wikipedia has become more and more popular with students, some professors have become increasingly concerned about the online, reader-produced encyclopedia.
While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it, the history department at Middlebury College is trying to take a stronger, collective stand. It voted this month to bar students from citing the Web site as a sour
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
1-18-07
Some English newspapers are taking aim at Atlanta because a visiting history professor, who previously taught at Oxford, was arrested for jaywalking.
In London, the Evening Standard newspaper plastered news of the arrest of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto — accompanied by a photo of the handcuffed professor surrounded by several police officers — on its front page. The Mirror chided Atlanta police for their recent success in jailing "Public Enemy No. 1."
"The st
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
1-26-07
Plains Indian men used to wear stories on their backs. Buffalo skins painted with the wearer's exploits in battle or the brave acts of his tribesmen were used to show status and displayed on ceremonial occasions. But beginning in the 1860s and 1870s, as the destruction of buffalo herds made hides scarce and Plains people were forced onto reservations, they began to use new materials to tell their stories. They drew with pencils and crayons on paper, often on the lined pages of ledgers obtained a
Source: Press Release -- Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
1-22-07
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation named civil rights & education researchers Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, keen and creative analyst Paul T. Hill, and charismatic equality champion Kati Haycock the recipients of the 2007 Fordham Prizes for Excellence in Education.
"Each year we strive, with the help of a distinguished independent prize selection committee, to make these awards to candidates who embody and exemplify the spirit of excellence in education, in ways consistent
Source: Bonnie Goodman at HNN's History Buzz
1-22-07
Andrew Polsky on"Hillary Clinton launches trailblazing presidential bid":"A woman candidate could find it easier to run in peacetime, rather than wartime,
but Sen. Clinton's tried to position herself as a serious person on national security.
But that means she's staked out difficult position on the war that won't make it easy
for her to get Democratic nomination." -
Source: Michael F. Shaughnessy at EdNews.org
1-24-07
[Dr. Shaughnessy is currently Professor in Educational Studies at Eastern New Mexico University and is a Consulting Editor for Gifted Education International and Educational Psychology Review. In addition, he writes for www.EdNews.org <http://www.EdNews.org> and the International Journal of Theory and Research in Education. He has taught students with mental retardation, learning disabilities and gifted. He is on t
Source: http://progressive.org (Date unknown)
1-22-07
Radio interview.
Source: Democracy Now
1-19-07
Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins [Amy Goodman] to talk about her new book, “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.” The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment of blacks that are still taking place in the medical establishment today. ...
Source: AP
1-21-07
To historians and others pondering Iraq, forecasting a final outcome for that sad land is like finding your way through one of its "shamal" sandstorms. You may not know where you're headed, but you know it's going to be dark.
The Middle East historian David Fromkin sees a breakup of the jerry-built nation. Phebe Marr, doyenne of Iraq scholars, sees "distrust and suspicion" too deep to overcome. "Bleak," concludes Baghdad University's Saad al-Hadithi.
Source: US News & World Report
1-21-07
On the south side of Jamestown Island stands an imposing bronze statue of Capt. John Smith, put up in 1907 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the colony he helped to found. For most of the past century, a loose archaeological consensus held that the statue looked out over the site of the original settlement, a stretch of low-lying ground long ago eaten away by the swiftly flowing currents of the James River.
The loss of that land, and the stories that its subterranean contents might
Source: Indianapolis Star
1-20-07
Church historians from across the country convened in Indianapolis last week to start a monumental task: rewriting nearly 150 years of American religious history.
Their goal is to agree upon a single history that describes a 19th-century movement that tried to break down denominational walls but splintered itself into what became the Churches of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Independent Christian Churches.
Historians representing each
Source: AHA Blog
1-21-07
But don’t commit hara-kiri just yet, because your friends at the AHA are trying to make it easier for you to get your research published. How? By creating an online database that provides helpful links to English-language journals that publish in various fields of history. We call it the “Publish Your Paper!” website. Once it’s up and running, you’ll be able to click on a category (African-American history, for example) and the submission information for several journals related to that specialt
Source: Press Release -- History Today
1-23-07
Some of the country’s most eminent historians mingled with the rising talents of the historical world yesterday evening at the History Today Annual Awards Party.
Last night’s event saw the presentation of the Royal Historical Society - History Today prize for Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year and the Longman - History Today awards for Book of the Year, Historical Picture Researcher of the Year and the prestigious Longman -History Today Trustees award.
Peter Snow,
Source: Daniel Pipes blog
1-22-07
It all began with a faxed letter from Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, arriving out of the blue on April 4, 2006:I will be hosting a conference to discuss the thesis of the" clash of civilizations" first popularized by Professor Samuel Huntington's book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. I would like to invite you to debate this thesis with me at the opening session of the conference, which will be held 10am-1pm on Saturday, 10 June 2006.
Source: The Republican
1-14-07
As a kid, Jason Sokol dreamed of becoming a basketball player.
Like his hero, Magic Johnson, Jason was a point guard.
He was good, fast, heady, with a knack for getting the ball to the open man.
He learned the game on his hometown courts of Springfield. He was often the only white kid on the floor.
A ball being dribbled, the squeak of sneakers was the soundtrack to his young life.
Jason played at Suffield Academy and all four years
