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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: Charles Krauthammer
3-28-06
It was, as the hero tells it, his Road to Damascus moment. There he is, in a hall of 1,500 people he has long considered to be his allies, hearing the speaker treat the Iraq war, nearing the end of its first year, as "a virtually unqualified success." He gasps as the audience enthusiastically applauds. Aghast to discover himself in a sea of comrades so deluded by ideology as to have lost touch with reality, he decides he can no longer be one of them.
And thus did Francis F
Source: Michael Wilson in the NYT
3-27-06
new book about a dark chapter in Hawaiian history, when thousands of people with leprosy were forced to live on a remote outcropping of the island of Molokai, has upset some former patients of the settlement and raised delicate questions about how much deference should be paid to them.
"The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai," by John Tayman, has garnered critical praise. But complaints by former patients and people close to them about how the book
Source: Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed
3-27-06
When “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” first appeared on the Web site of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government this month, the paper’s title page featured the globe and Harvard seal that make up the Kennedy School’s logo, and that routinely appear on papers posted there. If you download the paper now, however, you won’t find the logo on the PDF. The Kennedy school — with the authors’ permission — took the logo off, a sign of just how sensitive this paper has become.
Source: NYT
3-25-06
Laura Claridge's "Emily Post and the Rise of Practical Feminism," to be published by Random House, has won the $30,000 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award in the 2006 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction. Announced yesterday by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation, the accolades included the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize to Megan Marshall for "The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism"
Source: Emory Wheel
3-24-06
Criminal battery charges against former Emory School of Law professor David Garrow were dropped in a settlement two weeks ago, ending the nearly four-year legal battle surrounding the Pulitzer Prize winner.
A law school staff member accused Garrow of grabbing her wrists, pushing and verbally abusing her in September 2002.
The staff member, Gloria Mann, decided to drop the criminal charges for undisclosed reasons, according to Jeff Brickman, Garrow's attorney for the cr
Source: Princeton.edu
3-22-06
Denis Twitchett, a distinguished scholar of Chinese history, died Feb. 24 in Cambridge, England. He was 80.Twitchett was the first Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton when he was named to the professorship in 1980. He is perhaps best known for "The Cambridge History of China," the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language. He conceived the 15-volume series, published by Cambridge University Press, with John Fairban
Source: Robin Wilson in the Chronicle of Higher Education
3-24-06
When Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote her first scholarly article 30 years ago — an examination of funeral sermons for women in Colonial America — she never expected that a line from the opening paragraph would become a rallying cry for feminists.
You've seen the slogan on bumper stickers, T-shirts, and coffee mugs: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." It has been adopted as the official maxim of a raunchy, comic feminist group and used on the best-selling products of One
Source: David Horowitz at frontpagemag.com
3-24-06
As I have proceeded with the tedious and unrewarding project of replying to the critical reviews of professors profiled in the pages of my book, I find myself wondering whether there has ever been a cohort of intellectuals so socially privileged and occupationally secure and so utterly dishonest. Why not respond, for example, to a portrait you don’t like by showing in the conduct of your critique that the image in the book does not reflect you at all? Why not manifest the disposition of a schola
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3-24-06
Q. Is it constitutional to censure a president?
A. It's not in line with the spirit of the Constitution. ... It's not within the article and section [Article II, Section 4] that lays out a procedure for dealing with presidential high crimes and misdemeanors. ... However, the Senate can pass any resolution it chooses to. ... They can pass a resolution on National Peanut Butter Day, and I suppose they could pass a resolution proclaiming their dissatisfaction with the president. ... T
Source: Yahoo News
3-24-06
Ron Chernow, author of acclaimed biographies of Alexander Hamilton, J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, has been elected president of the PEN American Center.Chernow's "The House of Morgan" won the National Book Award. His biographies "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." and "Alexander Hamilton" were nominees for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
"I am delighted to assume the presidency of PEN American Center at
Source: The State (Columbia, South Carolina)
3-23-06
When Anne King Gregorie submitted her doctoral dissertation to the USC history department in 1929, the all-male review panel reacted with the typical gender bias of the times.They blasted Gregorie’s style as simplistic, found fault with the punctuation and suggested some of the work might not have been original.
“No one criticized my use of sources or offered constructive criticism,” Gregorie later wrote. “I announced to the Department that my style was my own,
Source: Press Release -- Lichtman Campaign
3-24-06
Our campaign is picking up steam every day! I'm writing to share some incredible news: this week, Allan picked up endorsements from several renowned national figures and progressive organizations.
Among those publicly endorsing Allan are former Democratic U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern of South Dakota; former Democratic Governor Ray Mabus of Mississippi, a civil rights pioneer; and John Anderson, a presidential candidate in 1980 who won nearly 7% of the vote
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
3-22-06
The San Francisco district attorney has dropped criminal charges against a San Francisco State University professor who was arrested last fall after a scuffle with campus police officers.
The faculty member, Antwi Akom, an assistant professor of black studies, was stopped by police officers in his locked office building after 11 p.m. one night in October. Mr. Akom has accused the police of racial profiling (The Chronicle, November 2, 2005).
On Friday the district atto
Source: Hillel Italie in the Baltimore Sun
3-22-06
Professor Sean
Wilentz is a distinguished man, one of this year's winners of the
Bancroft Prize for history and chair of the American studies department
at Princeton University. But in person he can remind you of the
smart-aleck who sits in back of the class, with his playful eyes,
crooked smile and signed photo of Bob Dylan in his office.
Wilentz won the Bancroft, voted on by fellow historians, for "The Rise
of American Democracy
Source: frontpagemag.com
3-22-06
[James R. Russell has been the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University since 1993. Previously, he taught at Columbia University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.]
In March 2003, I gave a lecture in the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Columbia University. It was a job talk: my partner of a quarter century lives in New York, my hometown, and I figured I might as well apply for the long-vacant chair in Armenia
Source: Princeton University
3-22-06
Denis Twitchett, a distinguished scholar of Chinese history, died Feb. 24 in Cambridge, England. He was 80. Twitchett was the first Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton when he was named to the professorship in 1980. He is perhaps best known for "The Cambridge History of China," the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language. He conceived the 15-volume series, published by Cambridge University Press, with
Source: NYT
3-21-06
At the annual meeting of the PEN American Center on Thursday night, the organization of writers and editors is expected to ratify Ron Chernow, the best-selling biographer of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Alexander Hamilton, as its next president. Mr. Chernow will succeed the novelist Salman Rushdie, who has served as the group's leader for two years.
Mr. Rushdie, who is credited with having helped to reshape the PEN American Center's role in defending freedom of expression
Source: NYT
3-21-06
Donelson Hoopes, an authority on 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and a curator who helped restore the reputation of John Singer Sargent in the 1960's, died on Feb. 22 at a hospital in Bangor, Me. He was 73 and lived in Steuben, on the Maine coast.
The cause was complications of a stroke, said Joerg-Henner Lotze, Mr. Hoopes's friend and executor.
In books and articles, Mr. Hoopes, an art historian, wrote extensively about the watercolors of artists like Sargen
Source: Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education
3-24-06
Sprawl. It's an ugly word.
The term often evokes images that are even uglier: Green space lost to an asphalt desert of strip malls and highways. Citizens trapped in cars and a fast-food lifestyle that leaves them tired, stressed, and overweight. Pollution and global warming devouring habitat and community. Anonymous commuter suburbs where the people and the architecture all look the same.
That's a common view among urbanites and scholars. But over the past decade, a rev
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune
3-21-06
Historians Matthew Lassiter, Joseph Crespino and Kevin Kruse are part of the first generation of whites to grow up in the post-Jim Crow South. They're also at the leading edge of a group of younger scholars who say it's time to stop considering the South a region apart -- especially on race, the sine qua non of Southern exceptionalism.
In books, articles and at an Emory University conference this week under the banner "The End of Southern History?" these rising academic s
