Digging up the truth about the first permanent English colony in America. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“Harvard Professor Works to Disrupt Tenure Bid of Longtime Nemesis”
Alan Dershowitz doesn't want rival scholar Norman Finkelstein to get tenure at DePaul University, and he has a dossier to prove it. That makes some people, including many DePaul faculty, uncomfortable, to say the least. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Lost and Found”
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms, in which hot flashes really are power surges, Caribbean-style. Read More at The Washington Post »
“A Scholarly Salesman Takes Over the Nixon Library”
Historian Timothy Naftali will lead the Nixon Library into the federal system of presidential librarians. But can he convince skeptical scholars that he'll be able to turn a private shrine into a genuinely public archive? Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“In Testimony and New Bills, Historians and Lawmakers Urge Protection of Access to Presidential Records”
President Bush, are you listening? Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
