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12-31-69
The reopening ceremony of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans on February 17 in the presence of the Austrian ambassador to the United States, Eva Nowotny, was a showpiece of transatlantic higher education cooperation and the profound ties of friendship between the partner universities of New Orleans and Innsbruck. It ended with a bombshell when a major gift by the Austrian government was announced for rebuilding UNO after Hurricane Katrina. Chancellor Timothy Ryan warmly welcomed the
Source: NYT
2-21-06
The British historian David Irving on Monday pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison. He conceded that he was wrong when he said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp.
Mr. Irving, handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, arrived in court carrying a copy of one of his books, "Hitler's War," which challenges the extent of the Holocaust.
"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers
Source: NYT
2-19-06
Stephanie Coontz, the director of public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, and the author of "Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage," was given the entire middle part of the op ed page in Sunday's NYT to quiz readers about marriage. The article began:
Usually Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage. Not this February. New Yorkers are debating
Source: Clarence Page in the Chicago Tribune
2-19-06
Google last month launched a version of its extremely popular search engine that prevents Internet users in China from seeing content that has not been government-sanitized, regarding such sensitive subjects as the Tiananmen Square protests, the banned Falun Gong religious group and the suppression of Tibet's independence movement.
Microsoft shut down a blog on its popular MSN network by a Chinese journalist who was critical of the Chinese government.
Rep. Chris Smith (
Source: Independent (South Africa)/AFP
2-20-06
British historian David Irving admitted in an Austrian court on Monday to having denied the Holocaust in 1989 but said he no longer holds that view."I acknowledge my guilt on this charge," Irving said, seated behind a witness stand facing judge Peter Liebetreu.
Irving, who faces a possible 10 years in jail, said he now realised his statement that "there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz (was) false".
But Irving had earlier told r
Source: Ralph Luker at HNN Blog, Cliopatria
2-17-06
Harvard historian, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, appears headed to the center of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science's challenge to President Lawrence Summers. Its elected governing body asked her to take the lead in developing a process for choosing a new dean to succeed William C. Kirby. Last year, the FAS voted no confidence in Summers and it has scheduled an additional no confidence vote for next Wednesday. But in a move that could b
Source: Telegraph (UK)
2-15-06
David Irving, the British revisionist historian, revealed last night that he would plead guilty to charges of Holocaust denial when he appeared in a Vienna court next week.Mr Irving, 67, who has been held in an Austrian prison since last November, said he did not consider himself to be a Holocaust denier but had no choice but plead "guilty as charged".
"Under the law I've got no alternative," he told the television channel More4 News.
Source: Alyssa A. Lappen at the website of Campus Watch
2-17-06
It is a sad fact that many feminist academics"have adopted a pro-PLO and pro-terrorist line of thinking."[1] Middle East Studies specialists are among the worst.The doyenne of this camp is Duke University's Miriam Cooke, a professor of Arabic and Women's Studies. Cooke champions what she calls the"production of knowledge," especially on the Middle East, not to
Source: Jacob Laksin at Frontpagemag.com
2-16-06
Among the odder charges advanced by bien pensant defenders of the political homogeneity in American higher education is the claim that advocates of greater intellectual pluralism are really revivalists of Cold-War era "McCarthyism." Its leading academic exponent is Ellen Schrecker, a professor of history at Yeshiva University. But Schrecker goes further. In the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, she asserts t
Source: NYT
2-16-06
Robert W. Peterson, whose pioneering history of the Negro leagues, "Only the Ball Was White," recaptured a lost era in baseball history and a rich facet of black life in America, died Saturday at a hospital in Salisbury Township, Pa. Mr. Peterson, who lived in Lower Macungie Township, Pa., was 80. His death was announced by his wife, Peggy, who said he had lung cancer.
When Mr. Peterson's account of black baseball was published by Prentice-Hall in 1970
Source: AScribe
2-16-06
The author of a long-awaited and widely acclaimed biography on President Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet has won the 2006 Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College.For her book, "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," Doris Kearns Goodwin will receive $50,000 and a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens life-size bust, "Lincoln the Man." A formal ceremony will take place
Source: BBC News
2-16-06
The reputation of David Irving, the Holocaust-denying historian, was shattered at a libel trial six years ago, to the delight of those disgusted by his revisionism.
But as Europe proudly flexes its freedom of speech credentials in the ongoing row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, even some of his enemies are uneasy that he now faces up to 10 years in an Austrian jail for his unpalatable historical views.
The British academic will go on trial in Vienna next week o
Source: Press Release--American Historical Association
2-16-06
On February 13, 2006, the American Historical Association (AHA) sent a letter to the Departments of State and Homeland Security expressing concern over the plight of Dr. Waskar Ari, a member of the Aymara indigenous people of Bolivia and an authority on religious beliefs and political activism among indigenous Bolivians, who has been prevented from taking up his post as assistant professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln because he has been placed on a list of
12-31-69
Editor's Note: The following statement was received by HNN on 2-16-06. It was written in response to this posting:
Dear Editor,
Regarding the reprinted review of my book, The German-American Experience, by Robert Frizzell I thought I had made it clear three years ago when this issue first arose that in my preface I clearly stated that I had revised and expanded a work. Since then I have had a collegial discussion with the r
Source: Ralph Luker at the HNN blog, Cliopatria
2-14-06
You can tell that David Horowitz's new book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America is, as he says,"a gas," just by taking a look at who is included in it. Take George Wolfe, Professor of Musical Performance at Ball State University, for instance. His clean cut, buttoned down demeanor doesn't fool us. He plays the saxopho
Source: Press Release -- Washington College
2-15-06
CHESTERTOWN, MD - Out of a field of nearly 50 books on America's founding
era published during 2005, three finalists have been named today for the
2006 George Washington Book Prize. At $50,000, it is the nation's largest
book prize for early American history. Presented by Washington College, the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount
Vernon, the prize was launched in 2005 to recognize published works
contributing to a greater understanding of the
Source: Robert W. Frizzell at the website of H-Ethnic
12-1-03
Editor's Note: This article was published in 2003 but only came to our attention at HNN on 2-14-06 after it was referred to at Correntewire.com .
[Robert W. Frizzell is Director of Libraries, Northwest Missouri State University.]
Review of: Don Heinrich Tolzmann. The German-American Experience. Amherst and New York: Prometheus Books, 2000. 466 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, index. $35.00 (paper), ISBN
Source: Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed
2-13-06
[Juan Cole is one of the professors David Horowitz singles out for criticism in his new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.]
... An exact disciplinary breakdown is difficult because many of the professors do interdisciplinary work. But by far, Middle Eastern studies seems to be the most dangerous field to Horowitz, with at least 15 scholars on his list who do work on the subject. Many other professors on the list work in relatively new fields such as e
Source: Brandon Lowrey in the Colorado State Collegian
2-10-06
Satirical cartoons that sparked deadly riots among Muslims overseas prompted a subtler response at CSU on Wednesday when a professor showed the drawings to his Islamic history class - instead erupting in anger, a man in the class wept.
The three cartoons shown to the about 125-student class included a satirical sketch of the prophet wearing a bomb on top of his head and another that depicted him wielding a sword, surrounded by women. They originated from a Danish newspaper.
Source: Virginia-Pilot
12-31-69
When the beloved George Tucker died last year, hundreds of readers of The Virginian-Pilot asked us to continue publishing a history column.
On Sunday, the newspaper debuted "A Moment in Time" by Dan Roberts.
When the beloved George Tucker died last year, hundreds of readers of The Virginian-Pilot asked us to continue publishing a history column.
On Sunday, the newspaper debuted "A Moment in Time" by Dan Roberts.
