Apr 30, 2006

April 24, 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: Judith Apter Klinghoffer:"ON IRANIAN NEGOTIATORS AND BLOGGERS", Deja vu -- Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 4-19-06 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:	Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2006 OAH Convention (Wash. D.C. April 19-22) - Rick Shenkman for HNN, 4-20-06
IN THE NEWS:	Fakhreddin Azimi: History professor traces 100-year quest for democracy in Iran The UConn Advance, 4-24-06 J. Fred MacDonald: Soundtrack to war Soldiers in Iraq rap about the battles, the danger, and their emotions on new CD - Toledo Blade, 4-23-06 Willie Ruff: Yale professor seeks expertise from RSU professor - Claremore Daily Progress John Taylor: Make the capital a province, historian says - Toronto Star, 4-22-06 Historians: Will Iran be next on U.S. hit list? - Toronto Star, 4-22-06 Sean Wilentz: Professor nabs cover of Rolling Stone - Daily Princetonian, 4-21-06 Juan Cole: Right-Wing Ivy Leaguers Try to Derail Appointment - Truthdig, 4-20-06 Allen Weinstein: Commended by the NYT - NYT Editorial, 4-19-06 Laura Bier: An Inadvertent Endorsement of Campus Watch - Daniel Pipes at frontpagemag.com, 4-17-06
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Alan Taylor: The Divided Ground First Chapter - NYT, 4-23-06 Mark Felt & John O'Connor: Secret Agent Man A G-MAN'S LIFE The FBI, Being"Deep Throat," and the Struggle for Honor in Washington - Washington Post, 4-23-06 David Traxel: 'Crusader Nation' Continues Saga Begun by Historian Traxel with '1898' - Huntington News Network, 4-21-06
OP-ED:	Sean Wilentz: The Worst President in History? One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush - Rolling Stone Allen Weinstein: Gets support of predecessor on reclassification policy - John Carlin, in a letter posted on Archives Listserve, 4-17-06
PROFILED:	Whitfield J. Bell Jr.: 'He's a brilliant historian' Philosophical group to honor retired Dickinson professor - The Patriot News, 4-23-06 David Oshinsky: History prof surprises everyone - including himself - by winning a Pulitzer - Austin American-Statesman, 4-21-06 Carl Nightingale: Race, urban studies are his passion - University at Buffalo Reporter, 4-21-06 Aviad Kleinberg: Israeli leftist - Steve Plaut at frontpagemag.com, 4-20-06 Niall Ferguson: Reeling Them In With Cards and Flowers - Harvard Crimson, 4-19-06 Joseph Ellis: Pulitzer roster has Eli pedigree - Yale Daily News, 4-17-06
INTERVIEWED:	HNN Audio Interviews with Historians (Podcasts) at OAH - HNN Jonathan Zimmerman: On Educational Imperialism - HNN Podcast Edward Berkowitz: Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 - HNN Podcast Michael Schudson: The Public's Right to Know HNN Podcast James Loewen: Why We Haven't Talked About Sundown Towns HNN Podcast David Montgomery: Defending Historians' Academic Freedom in Our Own Times - HNN Podcast Lisa Norling: Threats to Academic Freedom in Minnesota - HNN Podcast Michael J.C. Taylor: The Threat to Academic Freedom in North Dakota - HNN Podcast Sarah Vowell: Presidential Assassinations in American History - HNN Podcast Alan Dawley: Is the OAH Ignoring the Iraq War? HNN Podcast Robert Weible: Why Historians Must Begin to Engage the Public - HNN Podcast Mark Feldstein: Why the FBI Came Knocking on My Door Demanding to See the Jack Anderson Papers - HNN Podcast Pamela Cochran: Biblical Feminism (Podcast) David Greenberg: The Conservative Invention of the Liberal Media HNN Podcast Joshua Zeitz: The Catholic-Fundamentalist Alliance Against Communism - HNN Podcast Daniel Williams: The Republican Party and Abortion ... The Role of a Religious Issue in a Partisan Agenda HNN Podcast Paul Kramer: Interviewed about his new book on imperialism - Michael Hill in the Balt Sun, 4-16-06
QUOTED:	Douglas Brinkley on FOX News:"Dick Cheney at this point has been - he's one of the great pubic servants in American history - but he's become a liability. You have a President with poll numbers around 35% approval with a Vice President in the 20s. You've got to make a change." - News Hounds, 4-21-06
SPOTTED:	Tony Platt will be joining now 90 year-old Martin Dannenberg to discuss his book Bloodlines on May 7, 2006: at 2:00 p.m. at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore and at 6:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble in Pikesville, Maryland. Simon Schama: Rembrandt writer speaks Wednesday - Rutland Herald, 4-22-06
ON TV:	PBS: American Experience,"The Alaska Pipeline" Monday, Apr. 17 @ 9pm - PBS History Channel:"Standing Tall at Auschwitz" Tuesday, Apr. 25, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hitler's Lost Plan" Tuesday, Apr. 25, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hitler's Family" Tuesday, Apr. 25, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hitler's End" Tuesday, Apr. 25, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Zero Hour The Last Hour of Flight 11," Friday, Apr. 28, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Grounded on 9/11" Friday, Apr. 28, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Pacific: The Lost Evidence" Sunday, Apr. 30 @ 4-7pm ET/PT C-Span2, BookTV: Booknotes,: Paul Johnson A History of the American People, Saturday, April 29, @ 8pm - C-Span2, BookTV
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, #4 (4 weeks on list) 4-30-06 James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, #11, (10 weeks on list) 4-30-06 Ronald Kessler: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady, #16 - 4-30-06 Jon Meacham: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation , #18 - 4-30-06 Karen Armstrong: The Great Transformation, #21 - 4-30-06 Garry Wills: What Jesus Meant, #24 - 4-30-06 Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #31 - 4-30-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	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:	Pete Daniel: Named new incoming president-elect of the OAH - Rick Shenkman reporting for HNN, 4-22-06
HONORED:	Lawrence Levine, Geoffrey Ward and Tiya Alicia Miles: win awards at the OAH annual meeting - HNN, 4-23-06 Paula S. Fass: One of three UC Berkeley faculty members win Guggenheim fellowships - UC Berkeley, 4-20-06 Julian Zelizer: Wins Guggenheim - Press Release, Boston University, 4-19-06 Caroline M. Elkins: History Prof Snags Nonfiction Pulitzer - Harvard Crimson, 4-18-06 Caroline Elkins: Wins Pulitzer Prize - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-18-06 Edmund S. Morgan: Wins Pulitzer Citation - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-18-06 Martin Sherwin: Wins Pulitzer Prize - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-18-06 David M. Oshinsky: Wins Pulitzer Prize - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-18-06
DEPARTED:	Robert Carson: The British Museum's expert in unravelling mysteries of Imperial Rome's coinage (Obit.) - Guardian, 4-18-06

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