Source: CS Monitor, 12-29-10 Outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering a pardon for celebrated outlaw Billy the Kid. An informal e-mail poll shows support. But time is running out. Billy the Kid, upper right, is pictured in this tintype photo from the late 1870s. Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico has posted a [...]
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History Shorts: After 130 years, will Billy the Kid finally get a governor’s pardon?
Posted by bonniekaryn on December 29, 2010
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Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82
George Tames/The New York Times Theodore C. Sorensen with President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office in 1961. More Photos » Theodore Sorensen, top JFK aide, dies at 82 in NY: Theodore C. Sorensen, the studious, star-struck aide to President John F. Kennedy whose crisp, poetic turns of phrase helped idealize and immortalize a [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on October 31, 2010
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History Shorts: Diane Ravitch named one of Atlantic’s 19 “Brave Thinkers”
Source: The Atlantic (11-1-10) By Emily Bazelon Antony Hare When Diane Ravitch decided that reform ideas like robust testing, charter schools, and No Child Left Behind were imperiling rather than saving American education, she managed to break with her former Republican allies and start a fight with Obama Democrats, all at once. For Ravitch, this [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on October 12, 2010
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Historian Tony Judt dies aged 62
Tony Judt: ‘I was raised on words.’ Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Observer Historian Tony Judt dies aged 62 Author of Postwar and New York University professor dies after two-year fight with motor neurone disease: Tony Judt, the British writer, historian and professor who was recently described as having the “liveliest mind in New York”, [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on August 8, 2010
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A charming hideaway for rare-book lovers
Those who’ve been to William Andrews Clark Memorial Library love its intimate, elegant grounds and trove of historical writings. Run by UCLA but tucked away in Jefferson Park, it gets few visitors. Source: LAT, 7-15-10 Alysn Souza is working on restoring a painting in a drawing room at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 16, 2010
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Tenure, RIP: What the Vanishing Status Means for the Future of Education
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, 7-4-10 Some time this fall, the U.S. Education Department will publish a report that documents the death of tenure. Innocuously titled “Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2009,” the report won’t say it’s about the demise of tenure. But that’s what it will show. Over just three decades, the proportion of [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 4, 2010
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Happy 4th of July: Independence Day History & Facts
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2010 4th of July: Facts about the Declaration of Independence: On July 2 the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain and on 4th of July 1776 the same Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers signed the document in August, after it was finished…. Another fact about [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 4, 2010
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Donald Worster: KU History Professor Wins Scotland’s Biggest Literary Prize
Source: Infozine, 6-26-10 Donald Worster, the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of U.S. History at the University of Kansas, received the Scottish Book of the Year Award for his biography “A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir ” from the Scottish Arts Council. The award is funded by the Scottish Mortgage Investment [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 27, 2010
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Rick Atkinson wins prize for military writing
Source: AP, 6-21-10 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson has received a $100,000 award for military writing. Atkinson has been awarded the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Atkinson has won Pulitzers for his book “An Army at Dawn” and for his reporting for The Washington Post. He [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 21, 2010
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Gordon S. Wood: Was Washington ‘Mad for Glory’?
by Gordon S. Wood New York Review of Books, 6-10-10 An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater Walker, 392 pp., $27.00 The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling Bloomsbury, 464 pp., $20.00 (paper) Washington-Custis-Lee Collection/Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA George Washington as Colonel [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 17, 2010
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History Shorts: Flag Day’s roots date back to 1777
Source: DelmarvaNow.com, 6-14-10 Why is Flag Day held on June 14? On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the official flag of the United States as part of the Flag Resolution of 1777. What did the Flag Resolution of 1777 say?The resolution stated that the flag would be 13 stars and 13 alternating [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 14, 2010
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History Shorts: Natalie Zemon Davis Wins Norway’s Holberg Prize
American Historian Wins Norway’s Holberg Prize Source: NYT, 6-10-10 The historian Natalie Zemon Davis, probably best known for her work “The Return of Martin Guerre,” which was made into a 1982 film with Gérard Depardieu, won Norway’s 4.5 million kroner ($680,000) Holberg Prize on Wednesday for her narrative approach to history, The Associated Press reported. [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 11, 2010
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History Shorts: Ronald Rudin Honored at Concordia’s Second Annual Provost’s Circle of Distinction
Source: Concordia Journal, 6-10-10 On May 26, Provost David Graham was pleased to honour six new inductees into the Provost’s Circle of Distinction at a ceremony and cocktail social event at the Montefiore Club on Guy St. “You represent the most distinguished members of Concordia’s faculty,” said Graham. “Your outstanding achievements have brought and continue [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 10, 2010
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History Shorts: Historian David M. Kennedy delivers presentation at Paly
Source: The Paly Voice, 6-8-10 Stanford University history professor David Kennedy made his annual presentation to the Palo Alto High School AP United States History classes on Wednesday, May 19. Beginning his visit with a light-hearted presentation of humorous excerpts from student essays, Kennedy, co-writer of the renowned U.S. History text book, “The American Pageant,” [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on June 8, 2010
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