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| THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | - 31/07/1620 - Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
- 31/07/1777 - Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
- 31/07/1864 - Ulysses S Grant is named General of Volunteers
- 31/07/1914 - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
- 01/08/1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
- 01/08/1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
- 01/08/1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
- 01/08/1834 - Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
- 01/08/1855 - Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
- 01/08/1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
- 01/08/1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn
- 01/08/1914 - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
- 01/08/1944 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
- 01/08/1982 - Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
- 02/08/1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
- 02/08/1776 - Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
- 02/08/1802 - Napoleon declared"Counsel for Life"
- 02/08/1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his"Back To Africa" program in NYC
- 02/08/1943 - Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
- 02/08/1945 - Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman and Churchill
- 02/08/1965 - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
- 03/08/1676 - Nathaniel Bacon publishes"Declaration of People of Virginia"
- 03/08/1923 - VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
- 03/08/1948 - FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a" communist"
- 03/08/1990 - US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
- 04/08/1558 - 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
- 04/08/1789 - French National Meeting ending feudal system
- 04/08/1914 - US declares neutrality in WW I
- 04/08/1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
- 04/08/1964 - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James
E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
- 04/08/1977 - Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
- 05/08/1391 - Jews are massacred in Toledo and Barcelona Spain
- 05/08/1846 - Oregon country divided between US and Britain at 49th parallel
- 05/08/1921 - Treaty of Berlin: US and Germany sign separate peace treaty
- 05/08/1945 - Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
- 05/08/1963 - Britain, US and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
- 05/08/1964 - US begins bombing North Vietnam
- 05/08/1974 - Pres Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
- 05/08/1981 - Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
- 05/08/1986 - US Senate votes for SDI-project (Star Wars)
- 06/08/1787 - Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
- 06/08/1806 - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
- 06/08/1815 - US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
- 06/08/1945 - Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by"Enola Gay"
- 06/08/1965 - LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks
- 06/08/1990 - UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
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| BIGGEST STORIES: | |
| IN THE NEWS: | |
| REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Peter W. Galbraith and Fouad Ajami: Out of One, Many -
NYT, 7-30-06
- Peter W. Galbraith: THE END OF IRAQ
How American Incompetence Created a War Without End, First Chapter -
NYT, 7-30-06
- Fouad Ajami: THE FOREIGNER'S GIFT
The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq. First Chapter -
NYT, 7-30-06
- Thomas E. Ricks: The March of Folly
A damning new book by a Post Pentagon reporter shows how Iraq fell into chaos
FIASCO The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Washington Post, 7-30-06
- Jed Horne: The Drowning
A New Orleans newspaper editor chronicles the devastation of his hometown.
BREACH OF FAITH Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City -
Washington Post, 7-30-06
- Douglas Brinkley, Jed Horne: REVIEW, Three Hurricane Katrina books
Catastrophe in the Crescent City
Writers view what went wrong from unique vantage points -
Kansas City Star, 7-30-06
- Randall Woods' 'LBJ: Architect of American Ambition' -
Austin American-Statesman, 7-30-06
- Odd Lovoll: Book explores Norwegian pride in small town Minnesota -
Grand Forks Herald, 7-29-06
- Jonathan Wright: 'Ambassadors', Tracing the History of Diplomacy -
NPR, 7-26-06
- James Bowman: Importance of honor in the Middle East -
John Tierney in the NYT, 7-25-06
- Christopher Phelps: Back into"The Jungle" -
Scott McLemee at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 7-23-06
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| OP-ED: | - David Greenberg: Why the villain of The History Boys is the better teacher -
Slate, 7-24-06
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| PROFILED: | |
| INTERVIEWED: | |
| FEATURE: | - David Garrow: A shameful racist pattern along the Mason-Dixon Line -
7-29-06
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7-29-06
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| QUOTED: | - John Gomez on"85 years before Sept. 11, there was Black Tom Island":"There was no question about Black Tom being an act of terror, and I believe
the Germans were responsible . . . but the case has never truly been solved.
I think the real answers are still in Germany." -
AP, 7-30-06
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| SPOTTED: | |
| EVENTS CALENDAR: | |
| ON TV: | - History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of
the Mayflower -
- C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents Anthony Arthur Radical Innocent:
Upton Sinclair, Sunday, July 30 at 6:45 pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Thomas Ricks,
author of"Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq," interviewed by Col.
Jeffrey McCausland (US Army-retired),
Sunday, July 30 at 5:50 pm and at 8:55 pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents Mark Danner
The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History,
Sunday, July 30 at 12:00 pm and at 11:00 pm and Monday, July 31 at 5:00 am -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents Ramesh Ponnuru with Eric Cohen
The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for
Human Life,
Sunday, July 30 at 4:00 pm and Monday, July 31 at 6:30 am -
C-Span2, BookTV
- History Channel:"Mega Disasters
San Francisco Earthquake: Part 1,"
Sunday, July 30, @ 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Antichrist
Part 1,"
Sunday, July 30, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Antichrist
Zero Hour,"
Sunday, July 30, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution
09 - A Hornet's Nest,"
Sunday, July 30, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds
Ramses' Egyptian Empire,"
Sunday, July 30, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Declassified
The Taliban,"
Tuesday, August 1, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Greensboro Massacre,"
Wednesday, August 2, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Search for Atlantis,"
Thursday, August 3, @ 2m ET/PT
- History Channel:"Deep Sea Detectives
Great Lakes Ghost Ship,"
Thursday, August 3, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ancient Marvels
Ancient Discoveries: Heron of Alexandria,"
Thursday, August 3, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Decoding The Past
Mayan Doomsday Prophecy,"
Thursday, August 3, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"History's Mysteries
Secret Brotherhood of Freemasons,"
Friday, August 4, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds," Marathon
Saturday, August 5, @ 12-3pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Real Tomb Hunters: Snakes, Curses, and Booby Traps,"
Saturday, August 5, @ 5pm ET/PT
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| SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Ron Suskind: THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE
Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11,
#4, (5 weeks on list) -
8-6-06
- Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #7, (11 weeks on list) -
8-6-06
- James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer,
#23 -
8-6-06
- William J. Bennett: America: The Last Best Hope, Vol. I,
#28 -
8-6-06
- David Maraniss: Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero,
#34 -
8-6-06
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| FUTURE RELEASES: | - Juan Williams: Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of
Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do about It,
August 1, 2006
- Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,
August 8, 2006
- Mark Schleifstein: Path of Destruction: The Destruction of New Orleans
and the Coming Age of Superstorms, August 2006
- Judith Hicks Stiehm: Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel
Peace Prize, August 2006
- Mark Grotelueschen: AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I,
August 2006
- Jim Powell: Bully Boy: The Truth about Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy,
August 8, 2006
- John Botte: Aftermath: Unseen 9/11 Photos by a New York City Cop,
August 22, 2006
- Zahi A. Hawass: Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of
the Pyramid Builders, August 22, 2006
- Robert Young Pelton: Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror,
August 29, 2006
- Edward P. Crapol: John Tyler: The Accidental President,
September 2006
- Marion V. Creekmore: A Moment of Crisis: The Inside Story of
Jimmy Carter in North Korea, September 2006
- Charles W. Calhoun: Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party
and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, September 2006
- Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War,
September 2006
- Greil Marcus: The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
September 2006
- Wilson D. Miscamble: From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and
the Cold War,
September 2006
- Eva Plach: Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's
Poland, 1926-1935, September 2006
- Ryan Sager: The Elephant in the Room: Libertarians, the
Christian Right, and the Looming Battle for
the Soul of the Republican Party,
September 2006
- James E. Wise: Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts,
September 2006
- Rodric Braithwaite: Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War,
September 26, 2006
- Aleksandr Fursenko: Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an
American Adversary, October 2006
- Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia,
October 2006
- Mark Puls: Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution,
October 2006
- Norman J. Goda: Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War,
October 2006
- Ronald J. Olive: Capturing Jonathan Pollard : How One of the
Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice,
October 2006
- David Bodanis: Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the
Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire,
Swordfights, Bookburnings, Assorted Kings, Seditiou, October 3, 2006
- Anthony Everitt: Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor,
October 10, 2006
- Paul Kengor: The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism,
October 17, 2006
- Graeme Fife: The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794,
November 2006
- Robert M. Collins: Transforming America: Politics and Culture During
the Reagan Years, November 2006
- Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the
Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006
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| HONORED: | - Craig Symonds: Sea battle book earns prize for professor
Retired Naval Academy educator's work on 'crucial engagements' captures award -
Baltimore Sun, 7-30-06
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| DEPARTED: | |
