New A.P. Biology Is Ready, but U.S. History Isn’t - NYTimes.com

31 January 2011

Thanks to Kristi....

New A.P. Biology Is Ready, but U.S. History Isn’t - NYTimes.com

While the College Board plans to unveil a sweeping revision to Advanced Placement biology courses on Tuesday, it is delaying similar changes in United States history by a year to address concerns from high school teachers.

Help brewing for Tri-City veterans - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

24 January 2011

Help brewing for Tri-City veterans - Mid-Columbia News | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

... And now the two men and a few other veterans are pushing for a permanent marker to show returning soldiers that they're not alone at the university. A veterans memorial is in the early planning stages and the students just started raising the $45,000 they need to build it. But they're confident they'll get it built, possibly early this fall....

Historian Accused Of Tampering With Lincoln Pardon : NPR

Historian Accused Of Tampering With Lincoln Pardon : NPR

This one includes a photo of the Lincoln pardon that was altered.

Va. historian denies tampering with Lincoln pardon - Yahoo! News

25 January 2011

Va. historian denies tampering with Lincoln pardon - Yahoo! News

An update of the earlier story, with more detail.....

McLEAN, Va. – Colleagues of a Virginia historian accused of altering a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln to make it appear he had made a major discovery say he betrayed the trust that had been placed in him.

The accused historian — Thomas P. Lowry, 78, of Woodbridge — denied Tuesday that he actually tampered with the document despite a written confession he gave to the National Archives earlier this month.

Va. historian denies tampering with Lincoln pardon - Yahoo! News

25 January 2011

Va. historian denies tampering with Lincoln pardon - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – An amateur Virginia historian is denying allegations by the National Archives that he changed the date on a presidential pardon issued by President Abraham Lincoln.

AAAHRP 2011 Black History Conference in Seattle

The Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation is proud to announce that we will be having our next conference on Saturday, February 5, 2011. The one-day conference, with its theme “Black History at Home and Abroad: Uncovering the Past,” promises to be the best ever and we strongly encourage you to be part of it.

Conference Location: Northwest African American Museum (NAAM)
2300 South Massachusetts Street, Seattle, Washington, USA
Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011
Conference Theme: “Black History at Home and Abroad: Uncovering the Past”

Our Antinomians, Ourselves

January 2011

Our Antinomians, Ourselves
Or, Anne Hutchinson's Monstrous Birth & The Pathologies of Obstetrics

Reading a 1959 article about a 1639 miscarriage in 2011 reveals how little the discourse about women's bodies evolves over three hundred and twenty years.

http://www.common-place.org/vol-11/no-02/field/

Hechinger Report | What are most students learning in college? Not enough, study says

18 January 2011

What is history good for? Well, apparently its one of those disciplines that actually demand their students learn how to think and communicate. Read all about it here (and think about it):

Hechinger Report | What are most students learning in college? Not enough, study says

Jill Lepore: Tea Party Time... and the Death of Compassion (AUDIO)

15 October 2010

Historian Jill Lepore has a wide ranging conversation about the Tea Party, history, memory, and life in America today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-lydon/jill-lepore-tea-party-tim_b_764150.html

Virginia Governor Cancels “Confederate History Month”

27 September 2010

After controversially declaring last April as Confederate History Month Virginia’s Republican governor Bob McDonnell has decided to cancel the event for next April.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/virginia-governor-cancels-confederate-history-month/

Charles Lindbergh: Hitler's All-American Hero

25 September 2010

SEVENTY years ago famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, America’s most popular man, urged his country to back the Fuhrer’s evil regime – and he almost achieved his twisted goal.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/201613/Charles-Lindbergh-Hitler-s-all-American-hero

Plans for John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in Tulsa Go Forward in U.S. House

28 September 2010

Plans to designate the John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in Tulsa as part of the National Park System received a boost last Thursday when Oklahoma Republican John Sullivan introduced a bill to conduct a feasibility study on incorporating the park into the NPS.  The park commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and is named for Tulsa native John Hope Franklin, the late Duke historian and Presidential Medal of Honor winner.  Dignitaries will assemble on October 27 to dedicate the park in his honor.

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/131901.html

Sounding Taps by John J. Miller - National Review Online

7 February 2006
Sounding Taps
Why military history is being retired

JOHN J. MILLER

A decade ago, best-selling author Stephen Ambrose donated $250,000 to the University of Wisconsin, his alma mater, to endow a professorship in American military history. A few months later, he gave another $250,000. Until his death in 2002, he badgered friends and others to contribute additional funds. Today, more than $1 million sits in a special university account for the Ambrose-Heseltine Chair in American History, named after its main benefactor and the long-dead professor who trained him.

The chair remains vacant, however, and Wisconsin is not currently trying to fill it.

Larry Schweikart on A Patriot's History of the United States on National Review Online

February 18, 2005, 7:36 a.m.
American History 101
Without the anti-Americanism this time around. 

Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez
Don't know much about history? Do your kids only know America as an imperialist, warmongering nation? A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror might be the book for you.