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Obama's Secret Meeting With Historians:
The president held a dinner at the White House for leading presidential scholars
Obama held a dinner at the White House residence with nine such scholars on June 30, and it turned out to be what
one participant described as a"history book club, with the president as the inquisitor." Among those attending
were Michael Beschloss, H. W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Robert Dallek, and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Obama asked
the guests to discuss the presidencies that they were most familiar with and to give him insights into what
remains relevant to the problems of today. -
Kenneth T. Walsh in US News & World Report (7-10-09)
Luke Nichter, the Texas A&M professor runs Nixontapes.org:
Watergate Figure John Dean Threatens to Sue Historian Over Damaging Tape Recordings -
Fox News (7-10-09)
Kevin Mattson: Thirty Years Later, in Praise of Malaise
WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU UP TO, MR. PRESIDENT?
Jimmy Carter, America's"Malaise," and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Shaun A. Casey: RELIGION AND POLITICS
Faith in the Electorate
THE MAKING OF A CATHOLIC PRESIDENT
Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960
WaPo, 7-12-09
Richard Wrangham & Tom Standage: Cooking Up a Pot of Civilization
CATCHING FIRE How Cooking Made Us Human, AN EDIBLE HISTORY OF HUMANITY -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Tom Standage:AN EDIBLE HISTORY OF HUMANITY Chapter One
THE INVENTION OF FARMING -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Margaret MacMillan: Getting History Right
DANGEROUS GAMES The Uses and Abuses of History -
WaPo, 7-12-09
James Scott: HISTORY Misguided Missiles
THE ATTACK ON THE LIBERTY The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Larry Tye: BIOGRAPHY 'No Man Got to Be Common'
SATCHEL The Life and Times of an American Legend -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Larry Tye: SATCHEL The Life and Times of an American Legend Chapter One
Coming Alive -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Gavin Mortimer: HISTORY The Wright Stuff
CHASING ICARUS The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation -
WaPo, 7-12-09
Craig Nelson, Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl: Giant Step, Full Stop
ROCKET MEN
The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, VOICES FROM THE MOON
Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences -
NYT, 7-8-09
Craig Nelson: ROCKET MEN
The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, Chapter Seven
A Way to Talk to God -
NYT, 7-8-09
Elijah Wald: Roll Over, John Lennon
HOW THE BEATLES DESTROYED ROCK 'N' ROLL
An Alternative History of American Popular Music -
NYT, 7-10-09
James MacGregor Burns: New Book on Supreme Court by Historian
Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court -
iberkshires.com (7-6-09)
James MacGregor Burns says Supremes Really Govern America
Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court -
MICHIKO KAKUTANI in the NYT (7-6-09)
Howard Zinn: Historian Responds To Robert S. McNamara’s Death, Calls Him A “War Criminal”
talkradionews.com (7-6-09)
INTERVIEWED:
Immanuel Ness: You Say You Want a Reference Book About Revolution?
The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to the Present -
Inside Higher Ed (7-8-09)
Michael Oren: Israeli Ambassador in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg (video) -
youtube.com (7-2-09)
August 1, 2009: An Evening with Ken Burns: Kens Burns has been making documentary films for more
than 30 years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce
some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of Burns'
films,"More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source." This evening will afford
Chautauqua an opportunity to hear one of the most influential documentary makers of all time. Chautauqua
Institutition. For more info 716-357-6200. -
Jamestown Post-Journal, 5-21-09
