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January 16, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article:"Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Philadelphia)" By Rick Shenkman, 1-06-06. Most Popular Blog Entry: Ralph Luker The Cliopatria Awards, 1-8-06 Hottest Topic:The Nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court Most Popular Podcast: Stanley I. Kutler: Has President Bush Committed an Impeachable Offense?, 12-29-05 Most Popular Feature:Quotes About History, By Ferenc M. Szasz. All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
MOST POPULAR:	Dan Cohen: 10 Most Popular History Syllabi - Dan Cohen Blog, 1-11-06 Juan Cole's blog, Informed Comment, is the most popular history blog on the Internet.
IN THE NEWS:	Historians and political scientists: Can Congress matter? - Boston Globe, 1-15-06 Cuban Americans foresee rise of a 'climate of fear' - Miami Herald, 1-15-06 King's Voice Resonates In Hartford Tape - Hartford Currant, 1-15-06 John Hope Franklin: Discusses MLK memorial plan - USA Today, 1-13-06 Top Historians at March Vietnam and the Presidency Conference - Pacific News Service, 1-14-06 Marc Stein: Claims he was the victim of bias at the NEH - HNN, 1-13-06 Hiram Caton: What drove Margaret Mead's leading critic - Chronicle of Higher Education, 1-11-06 Taylor Branch: His Book on MLK Attracts Notice of Time & Newsweek - NYT, 1-9-06 Nell Irvin Painter: Her textbook on black history criticized - NYT, 1-8-06
REVIEWED:	James Loewen's Sundown Towns reviewed in People Magazine's Picks and Pans, 1-16-06 (It was a Pick) John Hope Franklin: Challenging the color line and how history is taught - The Boston Globe, 1-15-06 Maureen Elgersman Lee: Black Bangor: African Americans In A Maine Community, 1880-1950 - Maine Today, 1-15-06 Linda Levy Peck: Consuming Splendor - The Telegraph India, 1-15-06 Michael Beschloss on John Lewis Gaddis' The Cold War: A New History - NYT, 1-15-06 Victor Davis Hanson: The Greek Way of War - Washington Post, 1-15-06 John Hope Franklin: One historian's Life Mirror to America - Washington Times, 1-14-06 David Reynolds: In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War - DCMilitary.com, 1-12-06 Darrin M. McMahon: Is everybody happy? - Florida State University News, 1-12-06
OP-ED:	Jacques Pluss: Now It Can Be Told: Why I Pretended to Be a Neo-Nazi - HNN, 1-16-06 Niall Ferguson: The origins of the Great War of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented - The Sunday Telegraph, 1-15-06 Chris Bray: Historian/Soldier filing reports on Iraq from Kuwait - Cliopatria, HNN Blog, 1-12-06
PROFILED:	Conrad Crane: What came of his report for the Army War College on forces of occupation - Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Education, 1-10-06
INTERVIEWED:	Fatima Muge Gocek: Statement on Armenian Genocide Cause Anger Tide among Turkish Organizations - PanArmenian.Net, 1-12-06
QUOTED:	Gordon Wood on Benjamin Franklin:"He certainly is a multiplicity of persona, so one never knows which one is the real Franklin." - AP, 1-14-06 John Hudson on Thomas Becket:"Those who share my prejudice against him may consider his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December, 1170, a fittingly grisly end." - Wimbledon Guardian, 1-13-06
SPOTTED:	Rudolf Ivanov: Meeting with Russian historian held at the Azerbaijan Institute of History - Azertag, 1-14-06 Fred L. Johnson III: MLK an 'ordinary man who did extraordinary things' - Muskegon Chronicle, 1-14-06 Robert Carter: First Guest on"Inside Provo" - The Salt Lake Tribune, 1-13-06 Rorin Platt: Delivers paper at Raleigh History Club - Campbell University, 1-13-06 Richard Carwardine: Lecture on Lincoln as Politician (Feb. 3, 06 @ Knox) - Knox College, 1-13-06 Ed Larson: Lecture Series Speaker Tackles Debate Over Teaching Evolution (Jan. 26, 06 @ Duke)- Duke News, 1-12-06
ON TV:	Lincoln on the History Chanel, Monday, January 16 @ 8PM/7C The History Channel: Announces the Line-Up for Its Groundbreaking Programming Event '10 DAYS THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED AMERICA' (April, 2006) - The Futon Critic, 1-11-06
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #8 (11 weeks on list) - 1-15-06 David McCullough: 1776, #10 (33 weeks on list) - 1-15-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	Leanda de Lisle: After Elizabeth : The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle For the Throne of England, January 31, 2006 - Amazon.com James B. Jacobs: Mobsters, Unions, And Feds: The Mafia And the American Labor Movement, January, 2006 - Amazon.com Linda Eisenmann: Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965, February 1, 2006 - Amazon.com Frank T. Kryza: The Race for Timbuktu : In Search of Africa's City of Gold, February 1, 2006 - Amazon.com James L. Swanson: Manhunt : The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, February 1, 2006 - Amazon.com Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry: We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II, March 2006 - Amazon.com
HONORED:	Historian & Journalist Jim Blount: Earns recognition as Citizen of the Year - Journal News, 1-15-06
DEPARTED:	Alice Munro Haagensen: Palisades Landing historian dies - The Journal News, 1-13-06 Alethea Hayter Dies: Examined Role Of Narcotics In Literary Creation - The Daily Telegraph (LONDON), 1-11-06

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