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April 10, 2006



HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
IN THE NEWS:
REVIEWED:
OP-ED:
PROFILED:
INTERVIEWED:
QUOTED:
SPOTTED:
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
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
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
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
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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