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REVIEWED: | - Alan Taylor: Divided Ground takes detailed look at oppression of Indian culture -
Tribune Review, 4-9-06
- Irene Nemirovsky: As France Burned Suite Francaise, Historical Novel -
NYT, 4-9-06
- Irene Nemirovsky: As France Burned Suite Francaise, Historical Novel,
First Chapter -
NYT, 4-9-06
- Kevin Phillips: In God's Country American Theocracy -
Washington Post, 4-9-06
- Geoffrey Wheatcroft on R.J.B. Bosworth: Sham and Bluster MUSSOLINI'S ITALY
Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 -
Washington Post, 4-9-06
- Andreas Killen: 1973 The Year That Changed Everything? -
American Heritage, 4-8-06
- Jeremy Krikler: The miners are revolting The Rand Revolt: The 1922 Insurrection
and Racial Killing in South Africa -
Mail & Guardian, 4-7-06
- Barry Drake: Bon Jovi to Jackson, historian spans 80s rock -
Collegiate Times, 4-5-06
- Matthew Countryman: Digging into Philadephia's forgotten racial history -
Jeffrey Berg in the Philadelphia Weekly, 4-4-06
- David Brion Davis: Noted historian delivers definitive history of slavery -
Nashville City Paper, 4-3-06
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INTERVIEWED: | |
QUOTED: | |
SPOTTED: | - Roger Wilkins: Discuss 'Can the Democratic Party Survive George W. Bush?'
Monday, Apr. 17 -
Depauw University News, 4-9-06
- H.W. Brands: Author's visit brings Sam Houston, Texas history to life -
Midland Reporter-Telegram, 04-08-2006
- Foner, Beschloss, Marable & Terkel: Appear on the Jon Stewart Show -
HNN, 4-7-06
- Beth Bailey: Will examine the history of Army recruitment in the United States,
Tuesday, Apr. 11, @ Princeton University -
News @ Princeton, 4-6-06
- Robert Buzzanco: Historian And Foreign Policy Scholar To Speak,
Wednesday, Apr. 26, @ Canisius College -
Canisius College News & Events, 4-6-06
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ON TV: | - History Channel: Special Series Full week presentation of"Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America", Apr. 9-13 @ 9pm ET/PT -
History Channel
- History Channel:"Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History," Monday, Apr. 10 @ 3pm ET/PT
- PBS: American Experience,"The Boy in the Bubble" Monday, Apr. 10, @ 9pm -
PBS
- History Channel: Ten Commandments Part 1, Wednesday, Apr. 12 @ 8pm ET/PT and
Part 2, Thursday, Apr. 13, @ 8pm ET/PT
- Discovery Channel: Mythbusters,"Confederate Rocket," Wednesday,
Apr. 12 at 9pmET/PT -
Discovery Channel
- C-Span2: Charles Adams, For Good & Evil: The Impact of Taxes on
the Course of Civilization, Sunday, Apr. 15 at 6pm -
C-Span2
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, #3 (2 weeks on list)
4-16-06
- James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer,
#7, (8 weeks on list)
4-16-06
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
#20 -
4-16-06
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FUTURE RELEASES: | - Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006-
Amazon.com
- Robert Dallek & Terry Golway:
Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Mark Bowden: Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with
Militant Islam, April 25, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Shelby Steele: White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise
of the Civil Rights Era, May 2, 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
- William J. Bennett: America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I),
May 23, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Juliet Barker: Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England,
June 2006 -
Amazon.com
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HONORED: | - Garry Wills: 2006 recipient of the Order of Lincoln
Medallion, University of Illinois at Springfield (May 6, 2006)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Wins Lincoln Prize for Biography (Forbes coverage) -
Forbes, 4-7-06
- Leo Schelbert: Awarded this year's Swiss expatriate prize -
Swiss info, 4-6-06
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DEPARTED: | - Gerald Fleming: Historians in the field of Agrarian history and the
history of the Holocaust remembered -
History Today, 4-7-06
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