February 12, 2007

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	Presidential Campaign 2008 Watch Richard Norton Smith on"Obama will announce candidacy at historic venue":"Lincoln came out of the wilderness, figuratively and politically, and to some degree the same can be said of Obama. Somebody who looked at his resume in 1860 might well have questioned the experience he had, particularly given the perilous times that were ahead. But he had a genius for advocacy. He had a voice." - Chicago Tribune, 2-10-07 Timothy Walch on"Bush keeps away from trail White House focuses on end-of-term goals":"It's very hard, I think, psychologically and politically, for somebody who has been the most powerful person in the world to begin gradually to detach themselves from power." - Concord Monitor, NH, 2-8-07
BLACK HISTORY MONTH:	Lost Civil-Rights Era Documents Found in Florida - NPR, 2-10-07 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
BIGGEST STORIES:	Drew Faust: New Harvard President to Be Named Sunday - AP, 2-11-07 Drew Faust: Faust's path to Harvard Truth-seeker's activism detailed - Boston Globe, MA, 2-11-07 Drew Faust: Harvard Poised to Name Woman President - NPR, 2-10-07 Drew Gilpin Faust: New President of Harvard - NYT, 2-9-07 Drew Gilpin Faust: Tops Harvard's short list - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2-6-07 Drew Gilpin Faust: Historian may emerge to lead Harvard Boston Globe, 2-4-07
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: Timothy R. Furnish:"Anti-Semitism in Islam: Israel Didn’t Start the Fire" - 2-05-07 Most Popular Blog Entry: Jonathan Dresner: The 2006 Cliopatria Awards: Nominations, The Cliopatria Awards, 10-30-06 Hottest Topic: Gerald Ford, R.I.P. Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	12/02/1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah 12/02/1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 12/02/1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826 12/02/1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps 12/02/1873 - Congress abolishes bimetallism and authorizes $1 and $3 gold coins 12/02/1909 - National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms 12/02/1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC 12/02/1924 - President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech 12/02/1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist govt employees 12/02/1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia 13/02/1566 - St Augustine, Florida founded 13/02/1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded 13/02/1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared president 13/02/1864 - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi 13/02/1895 - Moving picture projector patented 13/02/1907 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 13/02/1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans 13/02/1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam 14/02/1130 - Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II 14/02/1689 - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne 14/02/1848 - James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady) 14/02/1876 - A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor 14/02/1896 - Theodor Herzl publishes"Der Judenstaat" 14/02/1949 - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel) 14/02/1962 - 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV 14/02/1971 - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House 15/02/1851 - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave 15/02/1861 - Ft Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) 15/02/1862 - Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee 15/02/1879 - Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct 15/02/1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom 15/02/1918 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 15/02/1929 - St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago) 15/02/1933 - Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt 15/02/1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf 16/02/1741 - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing 16/02/1760 - Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC 16/02/1864 - Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army 16/02/1914 - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF) 16/02/1917 - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid 16/02/1959 - Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista 17/02/1621 - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 17/02/1801 - House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr 17/02/1865 - -18] Battle of Charleston SC 17/02/1865 - Columbia SC burns down during Civil War 17/02/1870 - Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War 17/02/1915 - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded 17/02/1933 - US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition 17/02/1933 - 1st issue of"Newsweek" magazine published 17/02/1938 - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London) 17/02/1943 - Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews 17/02/1949 - Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel 17/02/1964 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights 17/02/1969 - Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister 17/02/1972 - President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China 18/02/1503 - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) 18/02/1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa 18/02/1861 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala 18/02/1865 - Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC 18/02/1865 - Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city 18/02/1927 - US and Canada begin diplomatic relations 18/02/1970 - US president Nixon launches"Nixon-doctrine" 18/02/1988 - Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
IN THE NEWS:	Ariel Toaff: Anger after Bar-Ilan historian suggests blood libels based in fact - Ha'aretz, AP, 2-11-07 Georgetown changes history requirements - The Hoya, 2-6-07 Joseph Loconte: The mayor of London debates Daniel Pipes - Weekly Standard, 2-5-07 Historians submit petition in favor of AHA anti-war Resolution - Perspectives, the newsmagazine of the AHA, 2-1-07 AHA vote on anti-war resolution planned for March - Perspectives, the newsmagazine of the AHA, 2-1-07 Francis Fukuyama: His changed tune on Iraq upsets old allies - Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian, 2-3-07 William Polk: Bill in Congress is based on his book on Iraq withdrawal - Email from William Polk to HNN, 2-7-07 Ariel Toaff: Professor outrages Jews with book claim - Telegraph, 2-8-07 Charnvit Kasetsiri: Thai Historian calls for unity to fight lawsuit against author - http://www.bangkokpost.com, 2-7-07 Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt opposes genocide denial law - Spiked (2-06-07) H.R. McMaster et al: Petraeus selects team of warrior-intellectuals - MSNBC, 2-4-07 US denying visas to Iraqi scholars and others caught up in bureaucratic nightmare - Email from Omar Dewachi circulating on the Internet, 2-5-07 Historians ask SMU to reject presidential library unless Bush voids privacy order - http://www.dallasnews.com 2-5-07
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	James T. Patterson on Adam Fairclough: Stand and Deliver How African American teachers in the South undermined Jim Crow A CLASS OF THEIR OWN Black Teachers in The Segregated South - WaPo, 2-11-07 Randall B. Woods: History professor paints magnificent portrait of LBJ LBJ: ARCHITECT OF AMERICAN AMBITION - The State, SC, 2-3-07 Paul Conkin: New book gauges The State of the Earth - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/release, 2-7-07 Erik Larson: Celebrated author's historical imaginings blur line between fact and fiction - Patrick T. Reardon in the Chicago Tribune, 1-28-07 Scott Reynolds Nelson: Book about John Henry ignites debate - Chronicle of Higher Education, 2-6-07 Khalid al-Dakhil: Saudi Writer Recasts Kingdom's History - WaPo, 2-4-07
OP-ED:	Howard Zinn: Calls for"people's impeachment hearings" AlterNet, 2-3-07
PROFILED:	J. Patrick White: AHA notes his death in July '06 - Perspectives, the newsmagazine of the AHA, 2-1-07 Tariq Ramadan: Profiled in the NYT Magazine - Ian Buruma in the NYT, 2-4-07
INTERVIEWED:	Paul Kengor:"WWRD?"—"What Would Reagan Do?" An Interview with Historian Paul Kengor - Blogger News Network, 2-9-07 Max I. Dimont: Why did the Jews survive (old interview) - Rabbi William Berkowitz in the Algemeiner Journal (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2-8-07 Daniel Pipes: Interviewed on TV about his disrupted appearance at UC Irvine - Daniel Pipes website, 2-7-07
FEATURE:	Bryant Simon: The man who knows why we're so hooked on coffee - David Smith in the Guardian, 1-28-07 Gary Gallagher: Takes his students to battlefields - http://www.cavalierdaily.com, 2-1-07
QUOTED:	Douglas Brinkley: New Orleans' future bleak, historian says - Hattiesburg American, MS, 2-11-07 Douglas Brinkley"New Orleans' future bleak":"The act of not doing enough is a policy; it's a decision....(The government's) answer is, 'Don't live below sea level. Don't live in the Lower Ninth (Ward), don't rebuild - move to Hattiesburg. It's an unfortunate confluence that when New Orleans needs a great leader, there's a void.... The reason you would do it (rebuild) is because you believe the heritage places like Gulfport and Biloxi and New Orleans are important ... and that if the Italians can save Venice, surely the United States can save these places, but you have to believe in culture to make that happen." - Hattiesburg American, MS, 2-11-07
SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:	Doris Kearns Goodwin: Historian gives audience reasons why Lincoln was great leader - http://www.venturacountystar.com, 2-7-07 February 13, 2007: Paul F. Boller Jr.: Historian takes a playful look at our country's leaders Scholar nudges politics aside to examine how U.S. presidents spent their free time at 7:30 p.m., Eureka College - Peoria Journal Star, IL, 2-11-07 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
HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS:	Asif A. Siddiqi: His book"Challenge To Apollo" (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000), was named one of the"Five Best" books on outer space in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in its Dec. 30th issue. - Fordham University, 2-9-07 Philip Nicolosi: Teacher wins Paul Gagnon Prize - AHA Blog, 2-8-07
ON TV:	C-Span2, Book TV : 2006 Miami Book Fair: Thomas Evans"The Education of Ronald Reagan," Sunday, February 11 at 8:10 pm - C-Span2, BookTV PBS: The American Experience:"AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Visits NEW ORLEANS" Monday, February 12, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS History Channel:"Alaska: Dangerous Territory," Sunday, February 11, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :New Maya Revelations," Monday, February 12, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Engineering An Empire :The Aztecs," Monday, February 12, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" Wednesday, February 14, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Nixon: A Presidency Revealed," Thursday, February 15, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Thursday, February 15, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents," Marathon 1789-1945 Saturday, February 17, @ 11am-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Nixon: A Presidency Revealed," Saturday, February 17, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special :An Alien History of Planet Earth," Saturday, February 17, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Save Our History :The Search for George Washington," Saturday, February 17, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY #5 (3 weeks on list) - 2-18-07 Dore Gold: THE FIGHT FOR JERUSALEM, #17 - 2-18-07 Dinesh D'Souza: THE ENEMY AT HOME, #32 - 2-18-07
NEW ON THE WEB:	Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Cultural History : This website presents ongoing research into the song"Follow the Drinking Gourd" and its cultural history. The song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map. The song has also p layed an important role in the Civil Rights and folk revival movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and in contemporary elementary school education. SoldierStudies.org: New online database archive for the preservation of Civil War correspondences, is a searchable database of soldiers and their correspondences.
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
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
DEPARTED:	Nelson W. Polsby: 72, Author and a Scholar of Politics, Dies - NYT (2-9-07) J. Merton England: National Science Foundation Historian Was 91 - WaPo, 2-5-07

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