History

Historian gets lifetime ban from library

EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A HISTORIAN'S efforts to chronicle the “rise and fall” of his local library have come unstuck after he was handed a lifetime ban from the building.

Richard Wade, 87, Urban Historian, Dies

New York Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Mr. Wade helped put cities on the map as an academic subject and advised Democratic candidates including Adlai Stevenson, Robert F. Kennedy and George McGovern.

‘Too Young To Be Old: The Story of Bertha Pitts Campbell’: New Biography Documents Life of Extraordinary Activist, Historian, Pioneer in Service, Racial Equality

BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

- “I never thought I’d live to get this old,” Bertha Adine Pitts Campbell remarked at her 91st birthday celebration. She would go on to add nearly another decade to her eventful life, her death in 1990 marking more than 100 years of excellence as a pioneer, volunteer, historian and activist. Author Pauline S. Hill [...]

• 'Too Young To Be Old: The Story of Bertha Pitts Campbell': New Biography Documents Life of Extraordinary Activist, Historian, Pioneer in Service, Racial Equality - PR News Wire

A Social History of the Surge by Juan Cole

Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Social History of the Surge I want to weigh in as a social historian of Iraq on the controversy over whether the "surge" "worked." The NYT notes: 'Mr. McCain bristled in an interview with the “CBS Evening News” on Tuesday when asked about Mr. Obama’s contention that while the added troops had helped reduce violence in Iraq, other factors had helped, including the Sunni Awakening movement, in which...

• A Social History of the Surge - Indybay newswire

Menu Historians: Chow has a great "Obsessives" video...

Eater (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chow has a great "Obsessives" video up right now about menu historian and librarian at the New York Public Library Rebecca Federman and the library's 35,000 piece menu collection. She discusses the differences between menus in the early 1900's and...

Desmond Morton, historian

Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Canadians, like their historians, have spent too much time remembering conflicts, crises, and failures. They forgot the great, quiet continuity of life in a vast and generous land. A cautious people learns from its past; a sensible people can face its future. Canadians, on the whole, are both. NB. Desmond Morton is not a relative, although I would be glad it he were!

Honorable Exit From Empire

Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Honorable Exit From Empire by Patrick J. Buchanan As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Lee's retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur's retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 – and a Muslim-Hindu bloodbath ensued. France's departure from Indochina was ignominious, and...

• Honorable Exit from Empire - RealClearPolitics

(+) Embedding EXIF Data in Photographs

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Congratulations if you have scanned your old family photos and documents or invested in a digital camera to preserve today’s pictures for future family historians. Before resting on your laurels, take a moment to recall all the old photos you’ve come across that you wish had labels describing the people, places, or events pictured. Your digital images have a built-in capability to create such labels...

Diffusion of science centres

Gaddeswarup's blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

The July 24 issue of Nature has several articles on china. China: The end of the science superpowers by(Rogers Hollingsworh and colleagues (reuires subscription)is reported in Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers' . From the article: "Each former giant of science emerged when the society's economy became extraordinarily robust by world standards. As the French, German and British economies...

Book Review: The Jews of Sing Sing

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | yesterday

And you thought Jews didn't commit crimes. Think again. There were thousands. Ron Arons has written a book that will interest not only some genealogists, but also historians, social scientists, criminal justice students and professionals, and anyone else interested in the seamier side of life of the first half of the twentieth century. The full title of the book is The Jews of Sing Sing : Gotham Gangsters...

Inside Art: ‘Master of Bronze’ Finally Has His Moment

DATA news (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Frick will dedicate a show to Riccio this fall, whome art historians consider the greatest of the Renaissance sculptors. His work is largely unknown to the general public.

MormonTimes.com: '40 Ways to Look at Brigham Young'

Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday

In their book "40 Ways to Look at Brigham Young: A New Approach to a Remarkable Man," historians Chad M. Orton and William W. Slaughter help readers get acquainted with the real Brigham Young.

MormonTimes.com: Inside the Joseph Smith Papers project

Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Over the next several months, MormonTimes.com will take readers inside what the LDS Church Historian called "the single most significant historical project of our generation."

58 years later, another look at Rosenberg spy case

Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

NEW YORK (CNN) — After 58 years, historians and journalists will have a chance to examine the secret grand jury testimony of witnesses in the espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The couple was investigated in 1950, tried in 1951 for conspiracy to commit espionage and convicted and sentenced [...]

58 years later, another look at Rosenberg spy case

CNN (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

After 58 years, historians and journalists will have a chance to examine the secret grand jury testimony of witnesses in the espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.