Mar 1, 2006

February 13, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article:"Did Truman Really Oppose the Soviet Union's Decision to Enter the War Against Japan?" D.M. Giangreco, 1-30-06 Most Popular Blog Entry:"CLINTON AGAINST FREE SPEECH IN DENMARK AS IN CHINA", Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 1-30-06 Hottest Topic: History of Terrorism 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?" 9-09-02
IN THE NEWS:	Stephanie Coontz: Sex & Love: The New World - Newsweek, 2-20-06 Douglas Brinkley: U.S. sluggish in rebuilding after Sept. 11, hurricane tragedies - Shreveport Times, 2-12-06 Thomas Frank: The scholarly food fight over how to define the lunch pail class - The Boston Globe, 2-12-06 Historians: Bias, sabotage haunt Wikipedia's free world - The Boston Globe, 2-12-06 Robert Walker: History more encompassing than individual achievements, residents say - Clarion Ledger, 2-12-06 Louis Fisher: More trouble over at Congressional Research Service - Secrecy News, the newsletter, 2-9-06 Louis Fisher: Expert on Congress's Power Claims He Was Muzzled for Faulting Bush - WSJ, 2-9-06 Paul S. Boyer: Are we heading for the end of civilization? - Macleans, 2-9-06 Harvard Professors Renew Attacks on Summers - Havard Crimson, 2-8-06 Paul Kennedy: Charged after striking student with car - WTNH, CT, 2-8-06
REVIEWED:	Ira Berlin: Reviews three new looks at the roots of Southern difference and the origins of Southern identity - The Washington Post, 2-12-06 William David Barry on Joseph A. Conforti: Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England - Portland Press Herald, 2-12-06 A Muslim medley - The Globe and Mail, 2-11-06
OP-ED:	Dan Roberts: Historian begins new column in The Virginian-Pilot - The Virginian-Pilot, 2-12-06
PROFILED:	Kenneth Hall: Reinventing the Jamaican Governor-General - Jamaica Gleaner, 2-12-06 Thomas A. Emmert & Charles W. Ingrao: Bringing Balkan scholars together - Chronicle of Higher Education, 2-8-06 Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa: Dogged Doyen Of Niger Delta History - Daily Independent, 2-2-06
INTERVIEWED:	Allen Guelzo: Lincoln Didn't Boast of His Humble Roots - Gettysburg College Newswise, 2-8-06
QUOTED:	Paul George on Miami, Cuba and the lingering Cold War:"It absolutely is a throwback. Cuban exiles are still worried about the Castro issue, and they hinge everything around that issue, the existence of Castro. But the rest of the country has long forgotten that this Cold War period ever happened." - Monterey Herald, 2-12-06 Douglas Brinkley on New Orleans:"The Lower Ninth Ward is kind of the heart and soul of the African-American experience in New Orleans, and what's New Orleans without the African-American experience? It would be a big statement if we could save the Lower Ninth Ward, and I think some of their cultural photography could be helpful toward that end." - NYT, 2-9-06
SPOTTED:	Frank Nickell: Historian to speak about Underground Railroad - Southeast Missourian, 2-10-06 Gerhard Weinberg: Professor will speak on Nuremberg Trials (Feb. 13, 2006) - Greensboro News-Argus, 2-10-06 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham: Discusses Condoleezza Rice's role in politics, history - MSU The State News, 2-10-06 Elliott West: To Speak At CU-Boulder Center Of The American West Event (Feb. 20, 2006) - CU News and Events, 2-9-06 John Hope Franklin: Holding a mirror to America @ UC-Berkley (Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006) - Berkeleyan, 2-8-06 Kevin Boyle: Ossian Sweet Historian spoke at Florida Southern College - The Ledger, 2-8-06 Charles Bracelen Flood: Civil War historian to visit Wake Forest University (Feb. 17, 2006) - WFU News Service, 2-8-06
ON TV:	PBS:"Reconstruction: The Second Civil War" on American Experience, (Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 @ 9PM/ET) - PBS, WGBH History Channel"The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 @ 8PM ET/PT) - History Channel BookTV on C-Span2: Richard Shenkman, Presidential Ambition (Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006 @ 7PM/ET) - C-Span2 History Channel:"First to Fight: The Black Tankers of WWII" (Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006 @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel History Channel: Black History Month 2006 TV Schedule - historychannel.com
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #14 (15 weeks on list) - 2-12-06 David McCullough: 1776, #18 - 2-12-06 Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #23 - 2-12-06 Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster: Parish Priest, #29 - 2-12-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	Deborah Davis: Party of the Century : The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-and-White Ball, Feb. 24, 2006 - Amazon.com Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry: We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II, Mar. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com Michael Burleigh: Earthly Powers : The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War, Mar. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com Liza Picard: Victorian London : The Tale of a City 1840--1870, Mar. 7, 2006 - Amazon.com Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Apr. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006- Amazon.com Larry Schweikart: America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com
HONORED:	Doris Kearns Goodwin: Wins 16th Annual Lincoln Prize - Press Release -- Gilder Lehrman Institute Margaret MacMillan: U of Toronto Professor appointed to Order of Canada - News@UofT, 2-8-06
DEPARTED:	Music historian Charles K. Wolfe dies at 62 - Ashland City Times, 2-11-06 Cemal Kutay: Prominent Turkish Historian-writer Passes Away - The Anatolian Times, 2-6-06

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