PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: | |
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: | - David Blight: Prof. debunks Douglass myth -
Yale Daily News, 2-1-07
- James T. Campbell: Historian to Discuss Brown University's
Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice -
Bryn Mawr Now, 2-1-07
- Adrienne Israel: The History of Black History Month -
Guilfordian, NC, 1-26-07
- Thomas Sugrue: Black History Month Programming on Emmy Award-Winning WQED tv13 -
Earthtimes.org, 1-24-07
- Black History Month Tells Story of Determination and Triumph -
Media Newswire, NY, 1-29-07
- Plenty of ways to mark Black History Month -
Annapolis Capital, MD, 1-28-07
- David Blight: 2007 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Examines"Slavery and the Memory Boom: Why, and Why Now?"
free public program will be held in the Paul Robeson Campus Center,
Rutgers-Newark, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 17.
The campus center is at 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. -
R-N Online Campus News, NJ, 1-25-07
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HNN STATS THIS WEEK: | |
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | - 05/02/1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II
- 05/02/1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
- 05/02/1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
- 05/02/1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
- 05/02/1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
- 05/02/1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court," court packing" plan failed
- 05/02/1969 - US population reaches 200 million
- 06/02/1862 - Gen Ulysses S Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
- 06/02/1862 - Ulysses S Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
- 06/02/1865 - Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
- 06/02/1899 - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
- 06/02/1918 - Britain grants women (30 and over) vote
- 06/02/1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March
- 06/02/1956 - U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
- 06/02/1974 - US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
- 06/02/1978 - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
- 07/02/1569 - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
- 07/02/1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
- 07/02/1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate"I had rather be right than president"
- 07/02/1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
- 07/02/1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
- 07/02/1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy finds" communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 07/02/1956 - Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
- 07/02/1962 - President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
- 07/02/1964 - Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
- 07/02/1973 - Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
- 07/02/1983 - 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
- 08/02/1622 - King James I disbands the English parliament
- 08/02/1690 - French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire
- 08/02/1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
- 08/02/1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
- 08/02/1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
- 08/02/1887 - Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
- 08/02/1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
- 08/02/1904 - Russo-Japanese War begins
- 08/02/1915 -"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
- 08/02/1940 - Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
- 08/02/1942 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
- 08/02/1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
- 08/02/1969 - Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
- 08/02/1971 - South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
- 08/02/1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
- 09/02/1775 - English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion
- 09/02/1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
- 09/02/1861 - Tennessee votes against secession
- 09/02/1861 - Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and VP of CSA
- 09/02/1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
- 09/02/1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
- 09/02/1950 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
- 09/02/1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on"Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
- 10/02/1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
- 10/02/1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England
- 10/02/1840 - British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
- 10/02/1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
- 10/02/1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
- 10/02/1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
- 10/02/1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
- 10/02/1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect
- 10/02/1989 - Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
- 11/02/1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
- 11/02/1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
- 11/02/1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
- 11/02/1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
- 11/02/1811 - Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
- 11/02/1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
- 11/02/1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC
- 11/02/1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin
- 11/02/1953 - Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
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IN THE NEWS: | - History Profs Slam Report on Low History IQs -
http://www.cornellsun.com (2-2-07)
- Simon Schama cheats death in helicopter crash -
This is London, UK, 2-1-07
- Edmund Morris & Edward Renehan:
Rebuffed ... TR Association Plans to Stay in Business -
Newsday, 2-1-07
- Timothy Naftali: Admits errors in his new co-authored book on the Soviet Union -
Michael Dobbs in the WaPo, 2-1-07
- Linda Champagne: Niskayuna town historian is history (NY) -
Albany Times Union, 1-31-07
- Tony Judt: Included in essay linking liberal Jews and anti-Semitism -
NYT, 1-31-07
- Gordon Wood: Favorite historian of the liberal establishment,
says conservative -
Steven F. Hayward at Claremont Institute website, 1-26-07
- David Irving says there were never gas chambers at Auschwitz -
AP, 1-24-07
- Martin Gilbert: British historian defends Pius XII -
zenit.org, 1-30-07
- Norman Stone: Azerbaijan media claim British historian was assaulted for
taking the view that Armenians weren't massacred -
http://www.azertag.com, 1-29-07
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REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - DAVID OSHINSKY on Arthur Allen: Preventive Medicine
VACCINE
The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver -
NYT, 2-4-07
- NIALL FERGUSON on Rupert Smith: Ameliorate, Contain, Coerce, Destroy
THE UTILITY OF FORCE The Art of War in the Modern World -
NYT, 2-4-07
- Rupert Smith: THE UTILITY OF FORCE The Art of War in the Modern World,
First Chapter -
NYT, 2-4-07
- Andrew Hussey: Paris Confidential
PARIS
The Secret History -
NYT, 2-4-07
- Maya Jasanoff on Robert and Isabelle Tombs: The Love-Hate Relationship
Britain and France have loathed each other and learned from each other -
THAT SWEET ENEMY
The French and the British From the Sun King to the Present
Wa Po, 2-4-07
- David Laskin on Gary Krist: Blood on the Tracks
In 1910, scores of people died when a wave of snow crushed two stuck trains
THE WHITE CASCADE
The Great Northern Railway Disaster And America's Deadliest Avalanche -
Wa Po, 2-4-07
- Wesley K. Clark on Evan Thomas:
The Battle for the Pacific
A thrilling new history of an epic 1944 clash
SEA OF THUNDER
Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 -
Wa Po, 2-4-07
- Olivier Wieviorka: Whites-only liberation of Paris -
New Zealand Herald, 2-1-07
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OP-ED: | |
PROFILED: | |
INTERVIEWED: | - James McPherson: Lincoln, Congress and 'This Mighty Scourge' -
NPR, 2-3-07
- Christopher Frayling: History of Westerns -
NPR, 2-2-07
- Don J. Wyatt: Explains why Middlebury is stopping history students from citing
Wiki as primary source -
Interview in Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-1-07
- Michael Oren: Perspective on U.S. Middle East Policy -
NPR, 1-29-07
- Rob Satloff: The Heroism of Arabs in the Holocaust Years -
NPR, 1-29-07
- Robert Remini: Missouri Compromise: A Win-Win for Clay -
NPR, 1-26-07
- Alistair Horne: In French interview he says he's not sure what Bush could
learn from his book about Algeria -
Marc Roche in LeMonde (translation by Pascaline Jay) at website of
watchingamerica.com, 1-24-07
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Tracing African-American Genealogy: Why It Matters -
NPR, 1-24-07
- Michael Honey: Interviewed about MLK -
http://www.libraryjournal.com, 1-15-07
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FEATURE: | - Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, posted online by British library -
http://www.bl.uk, 1-29-07
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QUOTED: | - Daniel Pipes"Professor says radical Islam is the threat":"Like the Fascists we defeated in 1945 and the Communists we disempowered in '91,
radical Islamists draw from the best of their society in terms of good families,
wealth and education. Their frustration now is with their position in the world.
They used to be at the forefront of world society in scholarship, money and respect.
And they believe that the only way they can achieve that again is to impose Sharia
law across the world." -
Malibu Times, CA, 1-31-07
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SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR: | - Douglas Brinkley: Lauded historian to speak at USM,
Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in the R.C. Cook University Union, Rooms B and C on the
Southern Miss Hattiesburg campus -
Hattiesburg American,MS, 2-2-07
- February 25, 2007: William Leuchtenburg"The White House Looks South:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson" at 5 PM -
http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/
- February 14, 2007: Eric Foner,"American Reconstruction (1865-1877)"
Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS -
Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06
- March 20, 2007: Alan Brinkley, The Harlem Renaissance,
Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS -
Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06
- Feb. 23 to 25, 2007: John Gillingham: Camden Conference marks its
20th anniversary, Feb. 23 to 25, 2007, at
the Camden Opera House -
8-15-06 - Sold-out Camden Conference offers satellite seating at Strand
knox.VillageSoup.com, ME, 10-29-06
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HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS: | - Arvarh Strickland:
University of Missouri poised to honor first black professor -
Biloxi Sun Herald, MS, 1-30-07
- James McPherson et al: Receive Society for Military History 2007 Awards
Press Release, 2-2-07
- Bernard Bailyn, James M. McPherson and John Lewis Gaddis:
Inaugurate the Richard Gilder Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History
Lecture Series -
Press Release -- New-York Historical Society, 2-2-07
- David Cesarani OBE:
Professor of Jewish History at Royal Holloway, University of London has
been awarded the prestigious Gerrard and Ellman Award for his book"Becoming
Eichmann" (2006), by the American Jewish Book Council -
Media Newswire, NY, 1-31-07
- KC Johnson: An award in his future for his blogging on the Duke case? -
Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 1-30-07
- Professor Laura Fair's departure for Michigan State University will
leave the history department without a historian of Africa -
Oregon Daily Emerald, OR, 1-31-07
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ON TV: | - C-Span2, Book TV : Book TV presents After Words: Eric Klinenberg, author of"Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media" interviewed by Ben Scott,
Sunday, February 4 at 9:00 pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
- PBS: The American Experience:"THE LIVING WEAPON"
Monday, February 5, 2007 at 9pm ET -
PBS
- History Channel:"Who Wrote The Bible?,"
Sunday, February 4, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Sex in The Bible,"
Sunday, February 4, @ 9:30pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Saddam and the Third Reich"
Monday, February 5, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :King Tut: Secrets Revealed,"
Monday, February 5, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Iran: The Next Iraq?,"
Monday, February 5, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Special :Eighty Acres of Hell"
Wednesday, February 7, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Weird U.S. :Roadside Distractions"
Wednesday, February 7, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Guns of the Civil War."
Wednesday, February 7, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters :Slave Catchers,
Slave Resisters," Thursday, February 8, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:" Tales of the FBI :The Bureau vs. the Klan,"
Thursday, February 8, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Wild West Tech :The Gunslingers,"
Thursday, February 8, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Exorcism: Driving Out the Devil.,"
Thursday, February 8, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"American Vesuvius,"
Friday, February 9, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Iran: The Next Iraq?,"
Friday, February 9, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Lost Evidence :Sicily,"
Friday, February 10, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom,"
Saturday, February 10, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"True Caribbean Pirates,"
Saturday, February 10, @ 10pm ET/PT
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY
#6 (2 weeks on list) -
2-11-07
- Dinesh D'Souza: THE ENEMY AT HOME,
#19 -
2-11-07
- Evan Thomas: SEA OF THUNDER,
#30 -
2-11-07
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NEW ON THE WEB: | - SoldierStudies.org:
New online database archive for the preservation of Civil
War correspondences, is a searchable database of soldiers
and their correspondences.
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EXHIBITIONS: | - Echoes in the Ice: Collages of Polar Explorers by Rik van Glintenkamp:
In recognition of International Polar Year, the Harvard Museum of Natural History
(HMNH) announces a unique exhibition celebrating intrepid explorers and their
travels to the farthest"ends" of the Earth. Opens January 26, 2007 -
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University
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FUTURE RELEASES: | - Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
[American Empire Project], (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), February 6, 2007
- Geoffrey Perret: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush
Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), February 6, 2007
- Benton Rain Patterson: With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England,
Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown
(St. Martin's Press), February 6, 2007
- Andrew Roberts: History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900,
HarperCollins Publishers), February 6, 2007
- Margaret MacMillan: Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World,
(Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group), February 13, 2007
- John McManus: Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American
Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, (Wiley, John & Sons,
Incorporated), March 2007
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