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Fox News Special Report interviews a Republican presidential candidate each week; today, it's Newt Gingrich's turn, starting around 6:35 - 6:40 PM EST. In past weeks, the interview starts on TV, and continues after 7PM EST on "Special Report Online"; I posted the link to the online show above.

During World War II Nazi Germany tried to rally support in the Arab world, often trying to find common ground in anti-Semitism. The extent of the Nazi propaganda in Arabic has been revealed in a book titled Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. Historian Jeffrey Herf based his book on wartime broadcasts in Arabic that were transcribed by the American embassy in Cairo. Thousands of transmissions were sent from 1939 to 1945.

(IsraelNN.com) Writing in the May 8th edition of Newsweek, Benny Morris - long known as a Revisionist, even anti-Israel, historian - says Arab-Muslim hatred of Israel continues to preclude peace. Though his article contains many anti-Israel jabs, the thrust is that there is nothing Israel can do to overcome Islamic national-religious hatred of Israel and the Jews in the Land of Israel. [Arab] rejection of any compromise, whether a partition of Palestine or the creation of a binational state, was deep-seated, consensual and consistent. "Myself and several other young Israeli historians were dubbed revisionists and commonly assumed to be doves,"...

Eminent historian debunks Scottish history as largely fabricationA book by the late Hugh Trevor-Roperand due to be published five years after his death argues that Scottish history is based on myths and falsehoods Stuart MacDonald SCOTLAND’S history is weaved from a “fraudulent” fabric of “myths and falsehoods”, according to an explosive new study by one of the world’s most eminent historians. The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, is the last book, and one of the most controversial, written by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper. Now, five years after his death, the book is to be published at one of the...

Been There Done That by: Mary Kapp, July 09, 2007 Young conservatives watching the poll ratings of the only president they have ever voted for implode got some words of comfort, sort of, from a veteran conservative journalist last month at the Heritage Foundation. After conservative Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater’s landslide defeat in 1964, the movement that nominated him was “apparently dead,” M. Stanton Evans remembers. “We didn’t even have grief counselors at that time,” Evans wryly recounts. “The malls weren’t covered.” “It could rain.” Back then, Evans was the editorial page editor of The Indianapolis News. “There were...

Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Simmons passed away Saturday.

Source: University of Pennsylvania Date: April 23, 2007 Historian Discovers Evidence Documenting First European Voyage Up The Delaware Science Daily — A University of Pennsylvania scholar has pinpointed 1616 as the year of the first European voyage up the Delaware River. Jaap Jacobs, a senior fellow at Penn's McNeil Center for Early American Studies, detailed his findings in a paper, "Truffle Hunting with an Iron Hog: The First Dutch Voyage up the Delaware River," recently presented as part of the McNeil Center Seminar Series. Scholarly discoveries tend to be the outcome of a deliberate process, but serendipity played an important...

M. Stanton Evans has watched conservatives come and go for 50 years, and has long lamented their tendency to catch "Potomac fever" as soon as they come to power. "When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people," he said in enunciating what he calls "Evans' Law of Politics." Through good times and bad, Mr. Evans has used his syndicated columns, his books and his whiskey-wry humor to steady the spirits of fellow conservatives for 50 years. "I was never for Nixon until Watergate," he once told a press conference...

Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Irving, handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, arrived in court carrying a copy of one of his most controversial books — "Hitler's War," which challenges the extent of the Holocaust. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," Irving told the court before his sentencing, at which he faced up to 10 years in prison. He...

A MANCHESTER historian has claimed that Pope John Paul II was Jewish. Yaakov Wise says his study into the the maternal ancestry of Karol Josez Wojtyla (John Paul II's real name) has revealed startling conclusions. Mr Wise, a researcher in orthodox Jewish history and philosophy, said the late Pope's mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all probably Jewish and came from a small town not far from Krakow. The Pope was a priest and cardinal archbishop in the Polish city before his election to the papacy. Mr Wise said: "According to orthodox Judaism, a person's Jewish identity is passed down...

NEW YORK - In the first major book deal related to Hurricane Katrina, historian and best-selling author Douglas Brinkley is planning "an analysis and narrative of the ongoing crisis in New Orleans in historical context," according to his publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book, tentatively titled "The Great Deluge," is scheduled to be published by Morrow early next year. Financial terms were not disclosed Monday and there was no immediate word on whether any proceeds would be donated to charity. "Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history," Brinkley, a professor at the...

Alabama artist Roberta Wesley hoped to capture the intensity of the legendary Confederate battle cry in her painting "Rebel Yell." (Courtesy of Roberta Wesley) Historian Seeks to Re-create Legendary Rebel Yell BY DRU SEFTON  The rebel yell, a legend of the Confederacy, endures today in racehorse names, song titles and Rebel Yell Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. But actual recordings of the piercing battle cry, which terrified countless Union troops during the Civil War, are extremely rare.Now a Civil War historian working with a sound engineer has multiplied a yell to re-create the hideous cacophony Union soldiers faced in battles...

Not many Mormon scholars could get away with lambasting the faithful for their excessive materialism, their fondness for the military and hunting, or their kitschy church art and still remain a favorite son. Fewer still could be a mentor to church defenders and LDS social critics at the same time. And almost no other Mormon thinker could offer Homer's Odyssey as a bedtime story to his children, simultaneously translating the original Greek into English. But that was Hugh Winder Nibley. Nibley, credited with launching the scholarly examination of Mormon scriptures, died Thursday at his Provo home weeks before his 95th...

There is an entire bookshelf (10 feet, 6 inches long) in Roy G. Jinks's home office that contains every firearms patent issued in the United States from June 29, 1832, to May 17, 1921. They were compiled and bound first by Daniel Baird Wesson, who died in 1906, and then his sons. D. B. Wesson, as he was known, together with his business partner Horace Smith founded Smith & Wesson, a company that holds a special place in American industrial history. Roy G. Jinks in his home office, which mirrors the office of Smith & Wesson co-founder D. B. Wesson,...

Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...

CAMPAIGN 2004 High Stakes Quite simply, Kerry must be stopped; and Bush must win PAUL JOHNSON The great issue in the 2004 election — it seems to me as an Englishman — is, How seriously does the United States take its role as a world leader, and how far will it make sacrifices, and risk unpopularity, to discharge this duty with success and honor? In short, this is an election of the greatest significance, for Americans and all the rest of us. It will redefine what kind of a country the United States is, and how far the rest of...

Daniel J. Boorstin, the bow-tied, million-selling historian and social critic who coined the phrase "pseudo-event" and immersed himself in subjects both grand and obscure, died Saturday. He was 89. Boorstin died after midnight of pneumonia at Washington's Sibley Hospital, his wife, Ruth, said. Boorstin served as Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, and he remained active for years in library affairs. He helped with the acquisition of manuscripts and consulted on matters at the Center for the Book and the American Folklife Center, both of which he helped create. But most people knew him for his own books. Boorstin...

This is a book of Breathtaking Bias [Review of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charle Smith] I purchased and read it because I saw that it was being used for the "Jews and Arabs in Contact and Conflict" course given at Cornell University. In the preface Smith states that, "in the early 1980s [he] could not find a satisfactory text to introduce the subject to the college student or the general reader." Over the course of the next 500+ pages one understands Smith's use of the word "satisfactory" here. Smith assures us that he considers "Zionist and Palestinian...

"There will be no American Empire," claims French historian and demographer Emmanuel Todd, whose 1976 book predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. "The world is too large and dynamic to be controlled by one power." Todd claims that the power and influence of the United States is being overestimated, and that the decline of America as superpower has already begun. According to Canada's The Dominion paper, Todd told Switzerland's New Zuricher that the U.S. was similar to 16th-century Spain, that U.S. economic power was being undermined by the decline of its industrial base and its increased dependence on other...

MAN OF THE CENTURY Kentucky's historian laureate celebrates a special birthday By Art Jester HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Tomorrow is not a state holiday, but maybe it should be. Thomas D. Clark, Kentucky's beloved historian laureate, will be 100 years old. "I've lived a full life," Clark said recently, in one of his greatest understatements. The truth is, Clark has crammed into his 100 years enough for several productive lifetimes. "There was never a moment to stop," he said. "There have been just too many things that needed to be done." Most of all, Clark has been the eloquent voice of...