Apr 16, 2006

March 27, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article:"Staughton Lynd & Carl Mirra: I Am A Revisionist Historian", 3-13-06 Most Popular Blog Entry:"BUY DANISH" ASK MY DANISH FRIENDS/UPDATE", Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 1-28-06 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
BIGGEST STORY:	Justin McCarthy: American Professor claims Armenian genocide is British propaganda - Turkish Weekly, 3-20-06
IN THE NEWS:	Historians: Discovery of Red Army phrasebook hints at Soviet plans to fight Hitler on British front - Scotland on Sunday, 3-26-06 Michael Bradley: Historic site to bring Victorian era back to life - Daily News Journal, 3-26-06 David Garrow: Battery charge dropped in former law prof's case - Emory Wheel, 3-24-06 Historian John Hope Franklin: To Deliver Duke's Commencement Address - Duke University News and Communications, 3-23-06 Martin van Creveld: Revisionists without a clue - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 3-26-06 Allan Lichtman: Picks up endorsement of George McGovern - Press Release -- Lichtman Campaign, 3-24-06 Andrew Wiese, Robert Bruegmann, Dolores Hayden, Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue: A new wave of scholars challenges common assumptions about sprawl and urban growth - Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 3-24-06 Gaddis Smith, Paula Hyman, Paul Kennedy: Profs' degrees are relics of old University tradition Full professors are still required to have a Yale degree - Yale Daily News, 3-23-06 Antwi Akom: Criminal Charges Are Dropped Against San Francisco State U. Professor - Chronicle of Higher Education, 3-22-06 Waskar Ari: Appeal for Bolivian historian denied visa in USA - Press Release -- Network of Concerned Historians (NCH), 3-20-06 Allan Lichtman: Makes a splash with a new ad in his bid for the Senate - Campaign Website, 3-20-06 Roberto De Mattei: Vatican confab"rehabilitates" Crusades - London Times, 3-20-06
REVIEWED:	Paul Berman on Francis Fukuyama: Neo No More America at the Crossroads - NYT, 3-26-06 Joshua Zeitz: Zelda, Clara and Other Women Gone Wild Flapper : A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern - NYT, 3-24-06 Francis Fukuyama: The War Among the Conservatives A leading neocon thinker breaks ranks with his former allies over Iraq - Washington Post, 3-26-06 Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Why Can't Democrats Win? Crashing the Gate Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics - NYT, 3-26-06 Jane Glover: They Loved Wolfgang Mozart's Women - NYT, 3-26-06 Gershom Gorenberg, Walter Laqueur: The Battle for the Holy Land - Washington Post, 3-26-06 Historical Fiction, James Morrow: Wicked In colonial America, a young woman sets out to prove that there's no such thing as witches - Washington Post, 3-26-06 James L. Swanson: 'Manhunt' a thrilling history - The Post and Courier, 3-26-06 John Lewis Gaddis: Misses the Soviet angle in the Cold War - Tony Judt in the NY Review of Books, 3-23-06 Michael Kazin: William Jennings Bryan A Complicated, Consequential Leader A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan - Christianity Today, 3-20-06
OP-ED:	William Kashatus: Study of history shows we are much better prepared today to face threat of flu - Centre Daily, 3-26-06 Clay Jenkinson: How public TV can make life better, rob you of sleep - Bismarck Tribune, 3-26-06 Manning Marable: Horowitz v. Marable - David Horowitz at frontpagemag.com, 3-24-06 James R. Russell: Criticizes profs, praises David Horowitz - frontpagemag.com, 3-22-06
PROFILED:	John Hope Franklin: Scholar fears future of young black men - Herald Tribune, 3-26-06 Sean Wilentz: Historian Holds Dual Job of Dylan Buff - AP, 3-25-06 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: How a quiet professor became an unlikely hero for feminists - Robin Wilson in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 3-24-06 Anne King Gregorie: Snubbed by her professors, historian made history herself - The State (Columbia, South Carolina), 3-23-06 Matthew Lassiter, Joseph Crespino and Kevin Kruse: New wave of scholars s ees a South no longer unique - New Orleans Times-Picayune, 3-21-06 Ivor Noel Hume: His story is one of uncovering Virginia history and burying rumors - dailypress.com, 3-20-06
INTERVIEWED:	Sean Wilentz: Interviewed about censure - Chronicle of Higher Education, 3-24-06
QUOTED:	Historian David McCullough to a Senate Committee in June on the No Child left Behind Act:"history is being put on the back burner or taken off the stove altogether in many or most schools, in favor of math and reading." - LA Daily News, 3-26-06
SPOTTED:	John Hope Franklin: Will speak Wednesday, Mar. 29, 2006 at the Hyatt Sarasota, Florida - Herald Tribune, 3-26-06 Historians: Banquet reflects on Carter G. Woodson - Herald-Dispatch, 3-26-06 Erich Fiegle: Meeting with Austrian Historian - azertag.com, 3-26-06 Larry Hartzell: Historian tracing baseball's WWII significance, Mar. 28, 2006 - Holmdel Independent, 3-22-06 Frank Buscher: Professor helps hunt down Nazis - Lacrosse Tribune, 3-21-06
ON TV:	History Channel: Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence, Sunday, March 26 @ 8pm ET/PT - PBS: American Experience,"Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film" Monday, Mar. 27 @ 9pm - PBS History Channel: Battlefield Detectives"The War of 1812: the Chesapeake and the Shannon" Wednesday, Mar. 29 @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel: Hitler and Stalin: Roots of Evil, Wednesday, Mar. 27 @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel: The Plot to Kill Ronald Reagan, Thursday, Mar. 30 @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel: True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai, Saturday, Apr. 1 @ 6pm ET/PT C-Span2, BookTV: In Depth: Shelby Steele, Sunday, Apr. 2 at 12pm & Monday, Apr. 3, @ 12am- BookTV
SELLING BIG (NYT):	James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, #13, (6 weeks on list) 4-2-06 Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #19 - 4-2-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com Ronald Kessler: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady, Apr. 4, 2006 - Amazon.com Jon Meacham: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, Apr. 4, 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 Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com
HONORED:	Laura Claridge, Megan Marshall, Nate Blakeslee: Win Prizes - NYT, 3-25-06 Ron Chernow: Named PEN America Center President - Yahoo News, 3-24-06
DEPARTED:	Denis Twitchett: Historian of China, Dies at Age 80 - Princeton.edu, 3-22-06

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