Mar 5, 2006

February 27, 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
MOST POPULAR:	Judith Klinghoffer: Blog Post"Buy Danish," now holds the record for most comments on HNN's comment boards - over 2200 of them!
BIGGEST STORY:	David Irving: WSJ Editorial - WSJ, 2-24-06 David Irving: Unrepentant ... Smears Jews - The Star (South Africa), 2-24-06 PROFILE: David Irving - BBC News, 2-20-06 David Irving: What Christopher Hitchens has to say - WSJ, 2-23-06 David Irving: Jailed Historian Defiant - Sun (UK), 2-22-06 David Irving: There is no martyrdom in this pathetic denouement - David Cesarani in the Guardian (UK), 2-22-06 David Irving: Three years is not enough say Irving's accusers - The Guardian Unlimited, 2-22-06 David Irving: Irving's twin casts doubt on his brother's backflip - The Australian, 2-22-06 David Irving: British historian gets 3-year prison sentence for denying Holocaust - The State, 2-20-06
IN THE NEWS:	Larry Berman: Professor's request results in two-year CIA odyssey - Times Herald, 2-26-06 Douglas Wilder: Revising what we think about slavery - Houston Chronicle, 2-26-06 Annette Laing: Historian takes children back to the Blitz and Sept. 11, 1940 - AP, 2-25-06 Tenure for 4 Profs in Harvard's African and African-American Studies Department - Harvard Crimson, 2-24-06 Bill Stanley: Historian's work for Huntington library gaining ground - Norwich Bulletin, 2-24-06 Juan Cole: Wants a Libel Attorney - Martin Kramer at his blog, Sandbox, 2-23-06 Drew Gilpin Faust: Radcliffe Civil War Historian being considered for Harvard President - Bloomberg, 2-23-06 Ken Burns takes on WW II - Concord Monitor, 2-23-06 Deboarh E. Lipstadt: Historian quits satricial Holocaust cartoon contest - Haaretz, 2-22-06 Black History Month: Cold month, forgotten history - PSU Daily Vanguard, 2-22-06 Historians: U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review - NYT, 2-21-06 Stephanie Coontz: Gives a pop quiz to readers of the NYT - NYT, 2-19-06
REVIEWED:	Jeffrey Hart & Bruce Bartlett: The Conservative Imagination - NYT, 2-26-06 Jeffrey Hart: The Making of the American Conservative Mind First Chapter - NYT, 2-26-06 Tony Judt: Sixty years of malaise, decline Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Washington Times, 2-26-06 Alan Taylor: What the Indians wanted but didn't get The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution - Washington Times, 2-26-06
OP-ED:	Paul Starobin: History puts current debate over presidential powers in context - National Journal, 2-22-06 Historians: The Biographers' Hail to the Chief - LA Times, 2-20-06
PROFILED:	Daniel Smail: A not-so-brief history of time - Boston Globe, 2-26-06 Greg Osborne:"Quadroon Ball" myths are debunked by Historian - Louisiana Weekly, 2-26-06 Jeffery J. Clarke: Center of Military History chronicles past - Pentagram, 2-24-06 Col. Barrye Price: From history maker to historian - Belvoir Eagle, 2-23-06
INTERVIEWED:	Dr. Chuck Pennacchio: History Lessons a conversation with a Democratic candidate for US Senate - blogcritics.org, 2-26-06 E.L. Doctorow: The March a historical novel set in the Civil War - Time, 2-26-06 John Hope Franklin:"Campuses Must Get Serious" - Black College Wire, 2-20-06
QUOTED:	Gaddis Smith: on Lawrence Summers resignition -"Harvard in some ways is a more difficult place to be the president of because it is so large, with so many different constituencies. Yale has a tradition, which sets it off from Harvard, to talk to each other pretty well." - Yale Daily News, 2-23-06 Philip Kuhn: on Lawrence Summers resignition -"Things had reached a point where there weren't too many good alternatives. There were only bad alternatives. His resigning was bad, and his not resigning was bad. His relationship with the significant portion of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was not productive. I don't consider this a good thing for Harvard." - Yale Daily News, 2-23-06 Milton Sernett & Kathryn Grover: Discussing"works of grace" black churches - Finger Lakes Times, 2-26-06
SPOTTED:	Charles M. Christian: A People's Long Story Fits Fabric Of Nation - Hartford Courant, 2-25-06 William Sewell Jr.: Gave the annual Dorothy J. and Richard W. Burkhardt Lecture Friday at Ball State - Muncie Star Press, 2-23-06 Kenneth Mullinax: One of three Alabamians who spoke at United Nations Friday for Black History Month - NBC13.com, 2-23-06 David Brion Davis: Slavery historian gave Stanfod's Tanner Lecture (Feb. 22-24) - Stanford Report, 2-22-06 Phil Mackey: McConnell Center panel of speakers highlighted top presdential gafs in history - Louisville Cardinal, 2-21-06
ON TV:	PBS:"Hijacked" American Experience, (Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 @ 9PM/ET) - PBS History Channel: John Wesley Powell on"Risk Takers, History Makers" (Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006 @ 8PM/ET) - History Channel History Channel: "Rome: Engineering an Empire" and "Roman Vice" (Friday, Mar. 3, 2006 @ 8PM/ET) - C-Span2's : Charles Sanders, author of The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War on BookTV (Mar. 5, 2006 @ 10PM/ET) - C-Span2 The History Channel Takes Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Gilder Lehrman Collection on HistoryCENTER (Sunday, Mar. 5, & Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006 @ 8AM/Nationwide) - History Channel History Channel: Black History Month 2006 TV Schedule - History Channel
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #10 (17 weeks on list) - 2-26-06 David McCullough: 1776, #18 - 2-26-06 Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #23 - 2-26-06 Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster: Parish Priest, #27 - 2-26-06
FUTURE RELEASES: Rick Newman & Don Shepperd: Bury Us Upside Down : The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Feb. 28, 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 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 Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Mar. 2006 - Amazon.com Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 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 Robert Dallek & Terry Golway: Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 - Amazon.com Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com
DEPARTED:	Paul Avrich, 74, a Historian of Anarchism (Obituary) - NYT, 2-24-06 James E. Hinton: 69, Chronicler in Pictures of 1960's Turbulence, Dies - NYT, 2-23-06 Wendy Haskett: Historian dies at 67 - North County Times, 2-22-06 Theodore Draper: Freelance Historian, Is Dead at 93 - NYT, 2-22-06

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