BELLESILES UPDATE: Here’s the story from the Emory Wheel, which will have a longer treatment next week. Meanwhile, Eugene Volokh has this to say about two of Bellesiles’ biggest critics:

I know Lindgren in person, and Cramer by e-mail, and have always had high regard for their work, which was indispensable in bringing this matter to light, and helping correct the historical record. This is not an occasion to congratulate them; but it is one to thank them (and the others who researched the issue and helped publicize the research) for doing well a difficult, unpleasant, but important job.

That seems about right. (Scroll down to here for more).

UPDATE: Reader Richard Heddleson writes:

More interesting than Muhammad’s last name is the total blackout on the wire services of Bellesiles’ resignation from Emory. If this had been Charles Murray or Abigail Thernstrom being forced to resign you know it would have been at the top of the paper.

Checking the wire-service search engines via Drudge, it appears he’s right. There’s no mention whatsoever of the resignation. Disgraceful.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s a summary of the investigative report, from History News Network.

ONE MORE: There’s an AP story finally, though it rather glosses over the charges against Bellesiles, putting him in the same category as other historians accused of using insufficiently attributed quotes.