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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | - 21/08/1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
- 21/08/1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
- 21/08/1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
- 21/08/1863 - Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
- 21/08/1864 - Battle of Summit Point, VA
- 21/08/1945 - Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
- 22/08/0565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
- 22/08/1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
- 22/08/1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
- 22/08/1642 - Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament
- 22/08/1654 - 1st Jewish immigrant to US, Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
- 22/08/1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
- 22/08/1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
- 22/08/1846 - US annexes New Mexico
- 22/08/1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
- 22/08/1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
- 22/08/1956 - Pres Eisenhower and VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
- 22/08/1975 - Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
- 23/08/1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
- 23/08/1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
- 23/08/1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
- 23/08/1903 - 6th Zionist Congress, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
- 23/08/1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
- 23/08/1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin
- 23/08/1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
- 23/08/1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley
- 23/08/1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
- 23/08/1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
- 24/08/0079 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
- 24/08/0410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
- 24/08/1349 - Jews
- 24/08/1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
- 24/08/1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
- 24/08/1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists
- 24/08/1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
- 24/08/1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party,
at height of McCarthyism
- 24/08/1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
- 25/08/1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
- 25/08/1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
- 25/08/1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
- 25/08/1921 - US signs peace treaty with Germany
- 25/08/1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
- 26/08/1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
- 26/08/1920 - 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted
- 26/08/1964 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
- 27/08/1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
- 27/08/1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
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BIGGEST STORIES: | |
IN THE NEWS: | - Geoffrey Blainey: Feds lay down law on history -
The Canberra Times, Australia, 8-18-06
- Australian Historians: Nothing left but to burst their bubble -
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, 8-19-06
- 'Traditional' history set to make a comeback -
NEWS.com.au, Australia, 8-17-06
- Australian Historians: Critical mark for history summit -
The Age, Australia, 8-14-06
- Douglas Brinkley: Lambasted for his book on Katrina -
Michael Grunwald in the New Republic, 8-14-06
- Currie Ballard: Historian discovers he is descended from the slave couple
that wrote Swing Low, Sweet Chariot -
Melanie Eversley in USA Today, 8-15-06
- Australian History Summit Drawing Praise & Criticism -
Richard Allsop in The Australian, 8-15-06
- Paul Berman: Verbal Front in the Terror War: 'Islamofascism' -
NPR, 8-15-06
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REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Alan Brinkley on Randall B. Woods: The Making of a War President
LBJ Architect of American Ambition -
NYT, 8-20-06
- Randall B. Woods: LBJ Architect of American Ambition, First Chapter -
NYT, 8-20-06
- Randall Woods: A rave for UA prof -
Arkansas Times, 8-20-06
- Jason Sokol: A young historian explores what the struggle for freedom meant
for white neighbors of Southern blacks
THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights,
945-1975 -
Wa Po, 8-20-06
- James Bowman: In Brief: Honor Bound Honor: A History -
Wa Po, 8-20-06
- Douglas Brinkley, Jed Horne: Storm surge Three books recount how a hurricane called
Katrina became a national disaster -
The State, SC, 8-20-06
- Sir Martin Gilbert on David G. Dalin: Hitler's Pope?
The Myth of Hitler's Pope:
How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From the Nazis -
American Spectator, 8-16-06
- Paul Kennedy on the U.N.: It's Imperfect, but Consider the Alternative -
NYT, 8-16-06
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OP-ED: | |
PROFILED: | |
INTERVIEWED: | |
FEATURE: | - Douglas Brinkley, Charles Reagan Wilson, John Hope Franklin:
Reflecting on lessons storm taught about race and poverty -
AP, 8-19-06
- Dale Walde: Archeologist re-writing accepted Plains Indian history -
Star Phoenix, 8-16-06
- Dan Snow: Culloden defeat should be celebrated, says historian -
The Sunday Times, UK, 8-20-06
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QUOTED: | - John Hope Franklin"Reflecting on lessons storm taught about race and poverty":"As far as race in America is concerned, Katrina was just another example of the
failure of the people of the United States to come to terms with a centuries-old
problem ... and make a forthright effort to solve it. Thus, it ranks with the failure
of our schools to serve the needs of blacks and whites alike. ... It is a bed-mate
with the disparities in housing, not only in New Orleans but across the nation." -
AP, 8-19-06
- Jonathan Sarna on"Trends 101: The New Jewish Life on Campus":"It's much more common to see college students wearing yarmulkes, and
outwardly displaying other Jewish symbols. Like other cultural groups, there's
been a coming out." -
Reform Judaism, NY, 8-17-06
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SPOTTED AND EVENTS CALENDAR: | |
ON TV: | - History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of
the Mayflower -
- C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton,
authors of"Without Precedent," interviewed by Marvin Kalb,
Sunday, August 20 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents Public Lives: Debby Applegate,
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher,
Monday, August 21 at 1:00 am -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History on Book TV: Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers:
The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism,
Monday, August 13 at 3:50 pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
- History Channel:"The Revolution
12 - Road to the Presidency,"
Sunday, August 20, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Miracle of Stairway B,"
Sunday, August 20, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Hitler and Stalin: Roots of Evil,"
Monday, August 21, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds
Jesus' Jerusalem,"
Monday, August 21, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome
Capital of the World ,"
Monday, August 21, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Rommel," Marathon
Monday, August 21, @ 2-5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Egyptian Book of the Dead,"
Tuesday, August 22, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Strange Egypt, August 16, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome
Capital of the World,"
Tuesday, August 22, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Infamous Murders
Political Assassinations,"
Wednesday, August 16, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The World Trade Center,"
Wednesday, August 16, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome
Sex and the Imperial City,"
Wednesday, August 23, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Exodus Decoded,"
Thursday, August 24, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome
Gladiators and Slaves,"
Thursday, August 24, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Rome: Engineering an Empire,"
Friday, August 25, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome
Chaos,"
Friday, August 25, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome
Doom?,"
Friday, August 25, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ottoman Empire: The War Machine,"
Saturday, August 26, @ 8pm ET/PT
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Thomas E. Ricks: FIASCO
The American Military Adventure in Iraq,
#3, (3 weeks on list) -
8-27-06
- Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #8, (14 weeks on list) -
8-27-06
- Ron Suskind: THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE
Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11,
#12, (8 weeks on list) -
8-27-06
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FUTURE RELEASES: | - 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
- 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
- Gil Troy: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, October 4, 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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