Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: historian

historian stories: 6 news summaries

Krugman Spat With Professor Explodes Online

Sniping turns to race when Ferguson calls Obama Felix the Cat 

Aug 24, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Niall Ferguson picked the wrong Nobel-winning economist to mess with. The Scottish historian, who teaches at Harvard, has been caught up in a high-profile academic feud with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has called him a "poseur" and a "whiner" in recent blog posts. Ferguson hit... More »

MORE ABOUT:
racism • feud • economist • historian • Paul Krugman • academics • Niall Ferguson

 'Candid' 
 Laura Bush 
 Tells Her Story 

Met with historians to discuss her little-known legacy

May 24, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shortly before the election last November, Laura Bush sought to shape her somewhat hazy legacy. The former first lady spoke to historians, reporters, and other DC insiders in a 3-hour “legacy lunch,” at which she was called “candid,” “funny,” and “open” as she... More »

MORE ABOUT:
women's rights • Laura Bush • literacy • history • historian • first lady • legacy

obituary

 Scholar Who Lived 
 Black History Dead at 94 

John Hope Franklin embodied black history

Mar 26, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Influential historian John Hope Franklin died yesterday at 94. The author of a seminal book on race, Franklin was born and raised in an all-black community in Oklahoma, marched in Selma, and assisted on a Brown v. Board of Education brief. "He managed to embody this history and yet... More »

MORE ABOUT:
African Americans • obituary • racism • Selma to Montgomery • historian • slavery • Brown v. Board of Education • John Hope Franklin

As Tomb Cracks, Army Mulls New Monument to Unknowns

Repeated patching leaves Arlington marker 'shabby,' but replacement may dim symbolism

Nov 9, 08 12:28 PM CST
(Newser) - The US Army’s proposal to build a replica of the cracked marble monument atop the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery is reigniting controversy, USA Today reports. “It is important to have the authentic tomb that was there when the first remains were interred,” said... More »

MORE ABOUT:
veterans • US Army • Arlington National Cemetery • monument • historian • memorial • preservation • Tomb of the Unknowns

'McCain the Bruce' Claims are Baloney

Genealogists ridicule senator's alleged links to Scottish king

Mar 21, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain might be a sure thing to be crowned the GOP nominee, but experts say claims that his family is related to a Scottish king are pure fiction. McCain wrote in a 1999 memoir that his great-aunt was descended from Robert the Bruce, who reclaimed Scottish independence in 1314.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John McCain • Scotland • royalty • historian • genealogy • Robert the Bruce

Historian Begs to Differ With the Decider

Says Bush keeps misquoting him on
post-war Japan

Aug 24, 07 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - A historian quoted by President Bush yesterday said his words were misused in a “perverse” attempt to defend the Iraq War, Politico reports. At issue is John Dower's statement in a 1999 book that if naysayers had had their way, the fledgling democracy in Japan after WWII “would... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Japan • World War II • historian • John Dower • Iraq war • George W. Bush

6 Stories


from our news partners