Goodbye, Alex
09/12/2007
In Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird, Bruce Thomas Boehrer quotes a short but telling conversation about nuts. Alex: Wanna nut.Irene: Want another one? How… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
Sageman: “These guys were radicalizing themselves.”
08/17/2007
An article in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times outlines the threats posed by small groups of terrorists living in the United States. This article appeared shortly after the New York Police… READ MORE
Demuth Exhibition Opens this Saturday
08/14/2007
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, TX will present Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster, an intimate exhibition of the work of one of American’s greatest… READ MORE
Columnist Praises Rodin for Community Engagement
07/31/2007
"The message to all universities is clear: Your time for leadership has arrived; being a constructive, good neighbor isn’t fluff — it’s absolutely critical," writes syndicated columnist Neal Peirce in… READ MORE
Blum’s History News Network Editorial
07/16/2007
"If Democrats and Barack Obama want to ‘get religion’ and if historians want to witness a deep commitment to leftist politics and spirituality, they should get to know the spiritual… READ MORE
Sageman’s Senate Committee Testimony
06/28/2007
Marc Sageman, national security consultant , forensic psychiatrist, and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security yesterday at a hearing entitled… READ MORE
Wildlife of the Week: The Bald Eagle
It looks like good news for this week’s featured wildlife species, the Bald Eagle (Halieaeetus leucocephalus). This morning, the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, flanked by an eagle named … READ MORE
A World Refugee Day Reading List
06/20/2007
World Refugee Day is an event created by United Nations General Assembly resolution as an expression of solidarity with refugees and those who offer aid to them. While today, June… READ MORE
What Would Du Bois Say?: A Response to Hitchens and Dawkins
05/11/2007
A recent debate between Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton prompted the following essay from Penn Press author Edward J. Blum. Is God Great? Is God a Delusion?: How W. E…. READ MORE
Conflict and Compliance–Now Available
04/25/2007
Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure Sonia Cardenas 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3999-7 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
