Apr 30, 2006

April 17, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article:"Richard L. Cravatts: The Paranoid View of History Infects Harvard", 4-3-06 Most Popular Blog Entry: Timothy Burke:"Thank Your Grandpa For My Cotton Shirt", Cliopatria: A Group Blog, 3-31-06 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:	Historians: In Post-Quake San Francisco, Lessons for New Orleans After the Flood - NYT, 4-16-06
IN THE NEWS:	Adam Goodheart: Historian wants DNA test for academy's John Paul Jones - The Capital, 4-16-06 Tariq Ramadan: Hearing for Muslim Barred by U.S. - NYT, 4-14-06 Historians: Racism phobia can muzzle the truth - Sydney Morning Herald, 4-14-06 Timothy Naftali: Nixon Library Appointment Applauded - Bruce Craig in the newsletter of the National Coalition for History, 4-14-06 Hiram Bingham: Peru dispute has long, murky past - Yale Daily News, 4-14-06 Mikhail Anikin: Claims Dan Brown plagiarized him - The Daily Telegraph, 4-13-06 Paul Kramer: Iraq, Afghan Wars Parallel Philippine Invasion - Newswire, 4-12-06 Alan Levy: His protest against political correctness at Slippery Rock - Daniel Pipes in the NY Sun, 4-11-06 Historians: Is George W. Bush the worst president in 100 years? - Macleans, 4-11-06 Historians: Expose Government Reclassification Effort - Bruce Craig in AHA Perspectives (April 2006), 4-1-06
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Frederick Brown: The Man Behind Bovary Flaubert: A Biography - NYT, 4-16-06 Frederick Brown: The Man Behind Bovary Flaubert: A Biography First Chapter - NYT, 4-16-06 Richard White: Kingfish First Chapter - NYT, 4-16-06 Randal Jelks: History of rights, racism rings true today African Americans in the Furniture City- The Grand Rapids Press, 4-16-06 Joshua Zeitz: Flapper : A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern First Chapter - NYT, 4-16-06 Julia E. Sweig on Stephen Kinzer: The Meddlesome Uncle Sam OVERTHROW America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq WashingtonPost, 4-16-06 Colin G. Calloway: A Giveaway of Half a Continent The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America - American Heritage, 4-15-06 John Lewis Gaddis: This 'War' may leave some readers cold The Cold War - Daily Yomiuri, 4-16-06 Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince & Michael Baigent: Behind the Da Vinci Code - Globe and Mail, 4-15-06 David Brown: He Defined Postwar Liberalism Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography - NY Sun, 4-14-06 Catherine Allgor: Dolley Madison is Subject of UCR Historian's Latest Book A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation - UC Riverside Newsroom, 4-14-06 Garry Wills: Wills's Jesus - Martin E. Marty in Sightings, the newsletter of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School, 4-10-06
OP-ED:	Kevin Starr: The quake that broke San Francisco's spirit - The Mercury News, 4-16-06 Steven B. Vardy: Professor, meet Killer Joe - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4-16-06 Laura Bier: The New Blacklists - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-10-06
PROFILED:	Bryant Simon: Academic Studies Starbucks Cultural Impact - Washington Post, 4-16-06 Michael Oren: From kibbutz to classroom - Yale Daily News, 4-13-06 Sherman Fleek: The military historian who's writing the history of the Iraq war - Salt Lake Tribune, 4-9-06
INTERVIEWED:	Glyn Harper: Supreme award both an honour and a burden for New Zealand's bravest servicemen- New Zealand Herald, 4-12-06
QUOTED:	Joe Boskin noted that a military death can tear through the heart of a small community:"They have a collective memory that often is not part of a big city. And everyone feels a death like this more keenly, because of a small town's communal nature." - Boston Globe, 4-16-06 Richard Kohn: Growing ranks of ex-generals bash Rumsfeld - Chicago Tribune, 4-14-06
SPOTTED:	Richard John Neuhaus: NBC's"Meet the Press" - 4-16-06 Joyce Appleby: To Speak on"The Legacy of America's First Generation," Thursday, Apr. 27 @ Baylor University - Baylor University, 4-13-06 Thomas Fleming: To speak on Washington's Secret War, Wednesday, April 26, @ Mercyhurst College - Mercyhurst College News, 4-12-06
ON TV:	PBS: American Experience,"The Great San Francisco Earthquake," Monday, Apr. 24 @ 9pm - PBS History Channel:"10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America" Antietam, Sunday, Apr. 16, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters: The San Francisco Earthquake" Sunday, Apr. 16, @ 8pm ET/PT; Tuesday, Apr. 18, @ 8pm ET/PT and Saturday, Apr. 22, @ 6pm ET/PT - History Channel History Channel:"Declassified The Tet Offensive," Thursday, Apr. 20 @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America" Marathon, All day Saturday, Apr. 22, @ 8am-6pm ET/PT C-Span2, BookTV: Booknotes, Jon Kukla, A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, Saturday, Apr. 22 @ 6pm - C-Span2, BookTV
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, #3 (3 weeks on list) 4-23-06 James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, #8, (9 weeks on list) 4-23-06 Ronald Kessler: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady, #12, (1 week on list) - 4-23-06 Jon Meacham: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation , #14, (1 week on list) - 4-23-06 Garry Wills: What Jesus Meant, #28 - 4-23-06 Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #32 - 4-23-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	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
APPOINTED:	Timothy Naftali: Named Director of Nixon Presidential Library and Museum - USnewswire.com, 4-10-06
HONORED:	Elizabeth Blackmar: 2006 recipient of the Mark Van Doren Award for exceptional teaching at Columbia - Columbia Spectator, 4-13-06 Robert H. Ferrell: To be honored at conference - Salt Lake Tribune, 4-9-06 Lisa Wilson: Received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society-National Endowment of the Humanities for Cinderella's Family: Stepfamily Tradition in Eighteenth-century New England - Connecticut College
DEPARTED:	Marcus Merriman: Obituary - Guardian (UK), 4-13-06

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