Feb 20, 2006

February 20, 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:	Florida Historians: History Plays 'Fail to the Chief' for Some Presidents - The Ledger, 2-19-06 Outcry PBS criticized for panel with coming show on Armenian deaths - Relish Now, 2-19-06 Doris Kearns Goodwin: Store provides one-stop Lincoln shopping - AP, 2-19-06 Robert Middlekauff & Jack Rakove: Bill Stanley's library bid goes national - Norwich Bulletin, 2-18-06 Juan Cole: Yale search for scholar spotlights politics in classroom - The Yale Herald, 2-17-06 Presidential Historians: And the top 10 worst presidential blunders are... - CNN, 2-18-06 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: Council Calls for Halt in FAS Dean Search - Havard Crimson, 2-16-06 Ellen Schrecker: On a McCarthyite Crusade, claims Horowitz website - Jacob Laksin at Frontpagemag.com, 2-16-06 David Irving: Tests Europe's free speech - BBC News (2-16-06) Waskar Ari: American Historical Association expresses concern about denial of visa to Georgetown University PhD from Bolivia - Press Release--American Historical Association, 2-16-06 Don Heinrich Tolzmann: Response to allegations of plagiarism - HNN, 2-16-06 Robert David ("KC") Johnson: Slush Money in the Groves of Academe - FrontPageMagazine.com, 2-15-06 David Irving: Says he has no choice but to admit charges of Holocaust denial - Telegraph (UK), 2-15-06 Juan Cole: Attacked by David Horowitz - Inside Higher Ed, 2-13-06
REVIEWED:	Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Family Values - NYT, 2-19-06 Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt, First Chapter - NYT, 2-19-06 Richard Carwardine: Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power The Model President - NYT, 2-19-06 Richard Carwardine: Oxford professor offers scholarly look at Lincoln - The Oregonian, 2-19-06 Historians: Hollywood has gone from helping fight World War II to churning out bombs and duds - Washington Post, 2-19-06 Mary Habeck: Historian contends jihadists are trying to make the world fit Islam - LA Times, 2-19-06 William E. Ellis: A History of Eastern Kentucky University - Lexington Herald-Leader, 2-19-06 Jaroslav Pelikan: Yale historian compares Bible to 'American Scripture' - the Constitution - AP, 2-18-06 David Horowitz: Historians Named as Dangerous Radicals - Ralph Luker at the HNN blog, Cliopatria, 2-14-06 Chris Wickham & Julia M. H. Smith: A new framework for European history - Times Literary Supplement (UK), 2-15-06
OP-ED:	A. Roger Ekirch: Dreams Deferred - NYT, 2-19-06
PROFILED:	Dan Roberts: Columnist follows in Tucker's footsteps - The Virginian-Pilot, 2-19-06 Derrick Evans: Post-Katrina, Black Historian Works to Save Black History in Gulf Town - Newhouse News Service, 2-17-06
INTERVIEWED:	Douglas Brinkley: Historian pens book on Katrina - Palm Beach Post, 2-19-06
QUOTED:	Mark F. Fernandez on Mardi Gras:"That's part of the way New Orleanians deal with stress, they blow off some steam, so to speak." - AP, 2-19-06
SPOTTED:	Noam Chomsky, MIT Lecture: Venezuela is an Example of True Solidarity - Periodico 26 (Cuba), 2-19-06 Paul Bernard Liptz: Will speak about Israel's modern day situation at Miami's Congregation Bet Breira (Feb. 24-26, 2006) - Miami Herald, 2-19-06 Edward Linenthal: to Speak at Ithaca College on the Founding of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Feb. 28, 2006) - Ithaca College News Releases, 2-15-06 Lonnie Bunch: New Smithsonian Institution museum director spoke @ Marquette U. - Marquette Tribune, 2-15-06 John D'Emilio: To give lecture @ Knox College on civil rights activist Bayard Rustin - Daily Review Atlas, 2-13-06
ON TV:	PBS: Conclusion"Reconstruction: The Second Civil War" on American Experience, (Monday, Feb. 20, 2006 @ 10PM/ET) - PBS, WGBH History Channel:"Little Ice Age: The Big Chill" (Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 8-10PM ET/PT) - History Channel PBS: Continuation"Auchwitz: Inside the Nazi State." (Check local listings) PBS BookTV: David Roll & Keith McFarland discuss Louis Johnson and the Arming of America: The Roosevelt and Truman Years, (Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006 1PM ET) - C-Span History Channel: Black History Month 2006 TV Schedule - historychannel.com
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #11 (2 weeks on list) - 2-19-06 Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #14 (16 weeks on list) - 2-19-06 David McCullough: 1776, #21 - 2-19-06 Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster: Parish Priest, #32 - 2-19-06
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 Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com
HONORED:	Doris Kearns Goodwin: Receives 2006 Lincoln Prize - AScribe, 2-16-06 Terry D. Martin: Harvard Russian History Professor Tenured - Harvard Crimson, 2-16-06 Edward Lengel, Stacy Schiff, Stanley Weintraub: Finalists for $50,000 George Washington Book Prize - Press Release -- Washington College, 2-15-06
DEPARTED:	Robert Peterson: Historian of Negro Leagues Baseball, dies at 80 - NYT, 2-16-06

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