Apr 8, 2007

April 9, 2007

BIGGEST STORIES:	Ilan Pappe: Historian hits out at Jewish student lobby - Higher Education Supplement, 4-8-07 Ilan Pappe: UK Jewish leaders concerned over university appointment - http://ejpress.org (4-5-07)
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: Rick Shenkman:"Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2007 OAH Convention: Day 3" - 4-01-07 Most Popular Blog Entry: Thomas C. Reeves:"Teaching the Many Instead of the Few" - 3-29-07 Hottest Topic: History of Terrorism 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:	This Week in History: 04-02-1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida. 04-02-1792 - Congress authorized the first U.S. mint, in Philadelphia. 04-02-1865 - Confederate president Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. 04-02-1870 - Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States. 04-02-1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. 04-02-1932 - Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son. 04-02-1982 - Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Britain 04-02-2005 - Pope John Paul II died. 04-03-1882 - Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back by Bob Ford, one of his own gang members, reportedly for a $10,000 reward. 04-03-1936 - Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. 04-03-1948 - President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which would foster the recovery of war-torn Europe. 04-04-1818 - Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state. 04-04-1841 - President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration. 04-04-1945 - The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation. 04-04-1949 - The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed. 04-04-1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. 04-04-1973 - The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City. 04-05-1614 - Pocahontas married John Rolfe. 04-05-1792 - George Washington cast the first presidential veto. 04-05-1887 - Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling"water" in the manual alphabet. 04-05-1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians. 04-05-1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain. 04-06-1862 - The Battle of Shiloh in the American Civil War began. 04-06-1896 - First modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece. 04-06-1917 - U.S. declared war on Germany and entered World War I. 04-06-1994 - The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash. 04-07-1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh. 04-07-1913 - 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women. 04-07-1927 - U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission. 04-07-1948 - The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded. 04-07-1994 - Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered. 04-08-1513 - Ponce de León claimed Florida for Spain. 04-08-1913 - The 17th Amendment was ratified, requiring the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislators. 04-08-1935 - The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was approved by Congress to help alleviate joblessness during the Great Depression. 04-08-1946 - The League of Nations assembled for the last time. 04-09-1731 - Robert Jenkins's ear was cut off, sparking the War of Jenkins’s Ear between Spain and England. 04-09-1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. 04-09-1942 - American and Philippine troops on Bataan were overwhelmed by Japanese forces during World War II. The"Bataan Death March" began soon after. 04-09-1959 - NASA announced the selection of America’s first astronauts, including Alan Shepard and John Glenn. 04-09-1963 - Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen. 04-09-1992 - Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted of drug and racketeering charges. 04-09-2003 - American Marines pulled down Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad after U.S. commanders declared his rule ended. 04-10-1790 - The U.S. patent system was formed. 04-10-1866 - The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was chartered. 04-10-1912 - Titanic set sail on its fateful voyage. 04-10-1970 - Paul McCartney announced the official split of the Beatles. 04-10-1974 - Israeli prime minister Golda Meir announced her resignation. 04-10-1998 - The Northern Ireland"Good Friday Accord" was reached. 04-11-1814 - Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba. 04-11-1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect. 04-11-1945 - Allies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. 04-11-1951 - President Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur. 04-11-1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act. 04-11-1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown. 04-11-1981 - President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after he was shot in an assassination attempt. 04-12-1861 - The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked. 04-12-1862 - James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive"The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie. 04-12-1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt died. 04-12-1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft. 04-12-1999 - Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. 04-13-1598 - The Edict of Nantes gave religious tolerance to the Huguenots in France. 04-13-1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actor. 04-13-1970 - Apollo 13 announced"Houston, we've got a problem," when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the Moon. 04-13-1975 - Civil War began in Lebanon when gunmen killed 4 Christian Phalangists who retaliated by killing 27 Palestinians. 04-14-1775 - Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American antislavery society. 04-14-1828 - Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary. 04-14-1860 - The first pony express rider reached his destination of San Francisco. He left St. Joseph, Mo., on April 3. 04-14-1865 - Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. 04-14-1912 - Titanic hit the iceberg that would sink her the next morning. 04-15-1861 - In response to the attack on Fort Sumter three days earlier, President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops. 04-15-1912 - Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg. 04-15-1920 - A paymaster and guard were murdered in Braintree, Mass. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the crime. 04-15-1945 - Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was liberated by Canadian and British forces.
IN THE NEWS:	Bernard Lewis: All That Glitters Is Not Gold - Hugh Fitzgerald in the New English Review, 4-1-07 Kai Bird: Suggests Alger Hiss Wasn’t a Spy - WaPo, 4-6-07 Historians among those at SMU signing new petition against Bush institute - HNN Staff, 4-6-07 Key history posts at NPS remain unfilled - Lee White in the newsletter of the National Coalition for History, 4-6-07 Sean Wilentz: Receives T-Shirt at OAH - HNN Staff, 4-5-07 Peter Wallenstein: Collaborates with students on book about Virginia history - Collegiate Times, 4-4-07 Stephane Dudoignon: French historian detained in Iran since January - AP, 4-4-07 Charnvit Kasetsiri: Historian wants country called 'Siam' - The Nation (Bangkok, Thailand), 4-3-07 Juan Cole, Howard Zinn: Rally on behalf of Ward Churchill Inside Higher Ed, 4-3-07 Elaine Pagels: The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas" contradicts everything we know about Christianity" - Steve Paulson at Salon.com, 4-2-07 Peter Kirstein: Breaks story about Norman Finkelstein tenure controversy - Kirstein blog, 4-1-07 Will Fitzhugh: Students aren't getting a comprehensive education - Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 3-30-07 Mary Livingston: Archivist spotted Nixon lie - LAT & WaPo, 3-27-07 James Reckner: Vietnam War project in cowboy country - International Herald Tribune, 3-26-07 Carol Loeb Shloss: Wins right to cite Joyce letters - San Jose Mercury News, 3-25-07 Eliot Jaspin and James Loewen: On Ethnic Cleansings ... Their Dispute - Doug Monroe in Atlantic Magazine, 3-26-07
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	JEFFREY FELDMAN: Framing the Debate, First Chapter - NYT 4-8-07 JEFFREY FELDMAN: Magic Words Framing the Debate - NYT 4-8-07 Kevin Boyle on Elliot Jaspin: Ethnic Cleansing, American Style A reporter explores forgotten expulsions of blacks from their hometowns BURIED IN THE BITTER WATERS The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America WaPo, 4-8-07 Joseph J. Ellis on Hugh Brogan: Democracy's Prophet How a young 19th-century French aristocrat grasped America's character ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE A Life - WaPo, 4-1-07 James T. Campbell on Karolyn Smardz Frost, Mary Kay Ricks: Bound for Freedom Celebrating the courage and ingenuity of the Underground Railroad - WaPo, 4-1-07 Robert Dallek: New book says Kissinger kept Nixon in the dark on Yom Kippur War - Reuters, 4-2-07 Morton Smith: Did the late historian make-up a fake"secret gospel"? - Peter Steinfels in the NYT, 3-31-07
OP-ED:	SHERMAN'S MARCH THROUGH THE SOUTH STILL RESONATES AT LSU - Yahoo! News, 4-7-07 Niall Ferguson: Iran targeted the Security Council's weakest link: us - Telegraph (4-1-07) Ilan Pappe: Quitting Israel and heading to UK - Jerusalem Post, 4-1-07 Drew Faust: If you can convince people that Harvard deserves more money, imagine what you could do for our industry writ large - Mark J. Drozdowski is executive director of the Fitchburg State College Foundation, in Fitchburg, Mass. in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 3-26-07
PROFILED:	Robert O. Collins: UCSB Historian Examines Current Crisis in Darfur - UC Santa Barbara, CA, 4-5-07 Yoshiaki Yoshimi: In Japan, a Historian Stands by Proof of Wartime Sex Slavery - NYT, 3-31-07 Jonathan Field: The artist as historian - Savannah College of Art and Design Chronicle, 3-30-07 Jan Gross: Historian's work uncovering the past helps community 'look itself in the eye' - Princeton University, NJ, 3-29-07
INTERVIEWED:	Juan Cole: Khamenei Used British Captives to Energize Iranian Nationalism (interview) - Bernard Gwertzman at the website of the Council on Foreign Relations, 4-5-07 Robert Dallek: John and Elizabeth Edwards: Making a Tough Call - NPR, 3-26-07 Mark Naison: Why U.S never apologized for slavery (video) - Interviewed by Reuters, 3-26-07 Michael Honey: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Memphis Strike (Interview) - Robin Lindley in Seattle's Real Change, 3-21-07
FEATURE:	Tonio Andrade: How Taiwan became Chinese - Andrew Leonard at Salon.com, 4-5-07 Lisa Daniels: Black World War II veterans have largely been left out of historical accounts, but one historian is attempting to change that - http://www.diverseeducation.com, 4-5-07 Andrew Roberts: George Bush's Favorite Historian - Jacob Weisberg at Slate.com, 3-28-07 Historian John Hope Franklin Talks About Racism in America - Voice of America, 3-28-07
QUOTED:	Frederick Kagan Says US is undermining the Mahdi militia:"Sure, those guys are going to get out of the line of fire. They'll wait and see what happens and then design a way to come back and attack the U.S. position with tactics more favorable to them.We have not been allowing (the al-Mahdi Army) to lay low. We have been picking off the leaders in their senior organization. We have established a joint security station. That means we are operating on their home turf and tripping their networks." - Fox News, 3-26-07 Bruce Cumings: U.S. historian says Korean unification unlikely while Kim Jong-il is in power - Yonhap News, South Korea, 3-27-07
SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:	John Hope Franklin: Historian advises the future Students in KC hear a first-hand account of the struggles of the civil rights movement - Kansas City Star, MO, 4-4-07 May 2, 2007: James McPherson, Pulitzer prize-winning Civil War historian to speak at Vanderbilt University at 4:30 p.m. in Ingram Hall, is titled"When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Failure of Peace Negotiations, 1864-1865." - Vanderbilt University News, TN, 4-4-07 April 16, 2007: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Richard Ford at Depauw University for Crain Lecture - DePauw University, IN, 3-23-07 April 17, 2007: Peter Gay: To Deliver Klutznick Lecture at Northwestern University - http://www.juf.org, 3-26-07 Harvey Mansfield: Picked to deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities - Website of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 3-22-07
HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS:	Maya R. Jasanoff: Harvard Move Is a Homecoming for British Historian; Provost Is Back at Ave Maria, but Not as Provost - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-6-07 Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch: Their work on Historical Stats wins honors - Press Release -- UC Riverside, 4-2-07 Serhii Plokhii: Prof Looks Beyond Traditional History Scholar of Ukranian history to join Harvard Faculty this fall - Harvard Crimson, 4-4-07 Thomas E. Woods: Wins $50,000 ISI award - Ralph Luker at Cliopatria (HNN Blog), 3-27-07 David Nasaw: Historian to Receive $50,000 Prize and Title of American Historian Laureate - Press Release -- New-York Historical Society, 3-27-07
ON TV:	History Listings This Week: C-Span2, Book TV : Book TV presents James McPherson"This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War" at Sunday, April 8 at 7:00 pm and Monday, April 9 at 2:00 am C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, Book TV : Book TV presents William Marvel"Mr. Lincoln Goes to War" at Sunday, April 8 at 8:00 pm and Monday, April 9 at 3:00 am C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, Book TV : Book TV presents Presidential Biography Panel with David Greenberg,"Calvin Coolidge"; Ira Rutkow,"James Garfield"; and Sean Wilentz,"Andrew Jackson" at Sunday, April 8 at 10:25 pm C-Span2, BookTV PBS: The American Experience:"Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" Monday, April 16, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS History Channel:"Jesus of Nazareth" Sunday, April 8, @ 11am-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Banned from The Bible Part 1 and 2" Sunday, April 8, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Banned from The Bible II" Sunday, April 8, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Breaking Vegas," Monday, April 9, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Dead Reckoning :Tracings in Blood," Monday, April 9, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Lost Treasures of the Copper Scroll," Monday, April 9, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Mayan Doomsday Prophecy," Monday, April 9, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Street Gangs: A Secret History," Tuesday, April 10, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Big House :Attica Prison," Tuesday, April 10, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special :Meteors: Fire in the Sky," Tuesday, April 10, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Civil War Terror," Wednesday, April 11, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Investigating History :Billy the Kid," Wednesday, April 11, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Inside the Volcano," Thursday, April 12, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Walt Disney World," Friday, April 13, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Dpgfights" Marathon, Saturday, April 14, @ 2-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Tora, Tora, Tora: The Real Story of Pearl Harbor," Saturday, April 14, @ 5pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Walter Isaacson: EINSTEIN #34 - 4-15-07
NEW ON THE WEB:	U.S. Intellectual History blog: The editors of the weblog post news and information, short essays, book reviews and provocative conversation-starting questions, all in the area of U.S. intellectual history. - http://www.us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com
EXHIBITIONS:	"The White House Meets the Bulldozer:" A traveling exhibit from the White House Historical Association, on display through April 22 at the Greensboro Public Library gallery. The exhibit covers the Truman restoration. - Greensboro News Record, NC, 3-17-07
FUTURE RELEASES:	Taylor Branch: Book on Bill Clinton Emerges From 8 Years of Tapes - NYT, 3-21-07 Jonathan M. Elukin: Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish- Christian Relations in the Middle Ages, (Princeton University Press), April 2007 Philip Morgan: The Fall of Mussolini: Italians and the War, 1940-1945, (Oxford University Press), April 2007 Richard Croker: The Boomer Century 1946-2046: How America's Most Influential Generation Changed Everything, (Springboard Press), April 2007 R. Emmett Tyrrell: The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House, (Nelson Current), April 2007 Stephen F. Hayes: Cheney: A Revealing Portrait of America's Most Powerful Vice President, (HarperCollins Publishers), April 3, 2007 Michael Stephenson: Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought (HarperCollins Publishers), April 3, 2007 Saul Friedlander: Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, Vol. 2, (HarperCollins Publishers), April 10, 2007 Georgina Howell: Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), April 17, 2007 Lynne Olson: Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), April 17, 2007 Robert Dallek: Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, (HarperCollins Publishers), April 24, 2007 Orville Vernon Burton: The Age of Lincoln, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), June 2007 Gabor Boritt (Editor): Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, (Oxford University Press, USA), June 2007 William C. Davis: Virginia at War 1862 (Editor) (University Press of Kentucky), June 2007
DEPARTED:	Betsey Fox-Genovese: Memorial Service scheduled - Email sent to HNN, 3-26-07

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