Apr 21, 2007

April 16, 2007

BIGGEST STORIES:	Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein: A Bitter Spat Over Ideas, Israel and Tenure - NYT, 4-12-07 Norman Finkelstein: MESA expresses concern his tenure case has been politicized - Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association, Letter on the Finkelstein Case, 4-10-07
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:	04-16-1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles"Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland. 04-16-1917 - Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland. 04-16-1947 - Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term" cold war" in a speech in South Carolina. 04-16-1972 - China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift. 04-17-1790 - Benjamin Franklin, U.S. patriot, diplomat, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Philadelphia. 04-17-1895 - The Sino-Japanese War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. 04-17-1961 - Supported by the U.S. government, 1,500 exiles made the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. 04-17-1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was convicted for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. 04-17-1970 - The Apollo 13 astronauts safely splashed down after their near-disastrous flight. 04-17-1975 - Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, ending the five year Cambodian war. 04-18-1775 - Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution. 04-18-1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake destroyed over 4 sq mi. and killed over 500 people. 04-18-1978 - The U.S. Senate voted to hand over the Panama Canal to Panamanian control on Dec. 31, 1999. 04-18-2002 - Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, returned after 29 years in exile. 04-19-1775 - The"shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution. 04-19-1824 - Lord Byron died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks. 04-19-1882 - Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died. 04-19-1933 - The United States went off the gold standard. 04-19-1943 - The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis. 04-19-1993 - The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people. 04-19-1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time. 04-19-2005 - Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. 04-20-1769 - Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 04-20-1841 - The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published. 04-20-1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation. 04-20-1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including the shooters) and 1 teacher were killed; 23 others were wounded. 04-21-1836 - Texan army under Sam Houston defeated Mexicans in the Battle of San Jacinto. 04-21-1918 -Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious World War I German flying ace known as the"Red Baron," was killed in action. 04-21-1975 - South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned. 04-21-1995 - Timothy McVeigh was arrested in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing. 04-22-1500 - Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal. 04-22-1509 - Henry VIII became king of England. 04-22-1864 - Congress authorized the inscription"In God We Trust" on coins minted as U.S. currency. 04-22-1889 - The land rush in Oklahoma began when it was opened to settlers. 04-22-1970 - The first Earth Day was observed. 04-22-1994 - Richard M. Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81. 04-22-2000 - Armed immigration agents took Elian Gonzalez from the Miami home of his relatives to reunite him with his father.
IN THE NEWS:	George Weigel: In the middle of debate about Catholic just-war theory - PETER STEINFELS in the NYT, 4-14-07 Richard Cornelius: Historian: Scopes trial scene needs repairs - AP, 4-14-07 Paul Daw: Divine inspiration - News & Star, UK, 4-13-07 Ken Burns: PBS Reverses Position; Will Include Latinos in Burns Documentary - PRNewswire, 4-11-07 Andrew Roberts: Bush-friendly historian has links to white supremacists - Johann Hari in the New Republic, 4-13-07 KC Johnson: Featured on Nightline - Ralph Luker at Cliopatria (HNN Blog), 4-13-07 Rosanne Adderley: Colleagues rally to her defense at Tulane - HNN, 4-11-07 Consortium Forming to Keep The Concord Review in Business - Education Week (4-11-07) James W. Laine: Indian Court Overrules Effort to Prosecute American Scholar Whose Book Sparked a Riot - Chronicle of Higher Education, 4-11-07 Armenian historian: Akdamar Church re-opening a"peace-offering" from Turkey - http://www.hurriyet.com, 4-11-07 Alwyn Ruddock: Revolutionary Claims Of A Dead Historian - http://www.sciencedaily.com, 4-10-07 Kai Bird: Victim of sloppy reporting - Eric Alterman at his blog, Altercation,4-9-07
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Edward L. Ayers on Heather Cox Richardson: Inventing the American Mainstream A historian finds the roots of today's politics in the post-Civil War era WEST FROM APPOMATTOX The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War - WaPo, 4-15-07 Hanne Blank: Virgin Territory Is virginity a real condition or was it invented to control women and their sexuality? - VIRGIN The Untouched History WaPo, 4-15-07 Chandra Manning: How Civil War soldiers saw slavery From the beginning, men on both sides regarded it as the reason they were fighting, says an impressive history What This Cruel War Was Over Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War - Philadelphia Inquirer, PA, 4-15-07 Robert James Maddox: In new book he and others take on the Hiroshima revisionists - Press Release for the Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, ed. Robert James Maddox, 4-11-07 Historians criticized for writing the book,"How Green Were the Nazis?" - Alex Beam in the Boston Globe (4-10-07) Matthew Sutton: Book by Oakland University historian and a PBS show examine a 20th-Century evangelist's visual appeal and vast power - Detroit Free Press, 3-31-07
OP-ED:	Jim Ludington: America's Christian principles - Roanoke Times, VA, 4-15-07 Frederick Kagan: Says Biden Gets It Wrong - Weekly Standard, 4-12-07 Juan Cole: How to get out of Iraq - Nation, 4-23-07 Brooke Allen vs. Michael Novak: Were the Founding Fathers Christian? - Michael Novak at Britannica Blog, 4-10-07 Eric Foner: Calls on scholars to honor scholarly work Eric Foner in a review in the NYT Book Review, 4-8-07
PROFILED:	Things I've learned with Prof. Shell-Weiss - Johns Hopkins News-Letter, MD, 4-13-07 Tariq Ramadan: Divisive Scholar Draws Parallels Between Islam and Democracy - WaPo, 4-11-07
INTERVIEWED:	John Hope Franklin: Historian criticizes Cherokee Nation for excluding slave descendants - http://www.examiner-enterprise.com, 4-10-07 Michael Oren: Interviewed about his new book about the Middle East and American misperceptions - Jamie Glazov at frontpagemag.com, 4-10-07
FEATURE:	David Kennedy: Stanford professor creates a historic tour of"farm" ONLY 13 HIKERS MADE IT THE ENTIRE WAY FROM THE SANDSTONE ARCHES - San Jose Mercury News, CA, 4-15-07 Notorious U.S. Supreme Court decision is revisited Conference attendees reassess, reargue 1857’s Dred Scott v. Sandford - Harvard University Gazette, MA, 4-12-07 Harvard researchers head south to preserve ancient inscriptions - Harvard University Gazette, 4-12-07 Scientist as Historian: Falling in Love With France and Its Troves of Ancient History - NYT, 4-10-07
QUOTED:	Titus Brown on"Robinson affected American society Ballplayer's efforts led to changes across the country":"Robinson created a sort of picture that all society should be integrated. That's why we could see a shifting and changing in society in the mid-1950s. Breaking the color barrier did say, 'Maybe it's not so bad that you can have an African- American athlete participate in the so-called American sport. I think people started to rethink it after they saw Robinson." - MLB.com, 4-14-07 Julius Thompson on"Robinson affected American society Ballplayer's efforts led to changes across the country":"If you break down barriers in one field, it directly impacts others, particularly economic, political and social. So for me, it had implications in all these other areas in advancing civil rights and general human rights in the United States and other countries." - MLB.com, 4-14-07 Warren M. Billing on"Judge-judging commission keeps busy": John Fournet"really grew into his black robes once he got on the bench in the 1930s. He became one of the foremost advocates in the country for judical reforms. By the time he retired in 1970, the Louisiana Supreme Court was one of the most efficient, well-managed in the nation." - AP, 4-15-07 Robert Friedel on"Night, light: Bulb faces a dim future But don't flip the switch just yet, even as technology pursues more energy- and cost-efficient forms to brighten our world":"It's pretty hard to imagine a world without electric light. In a sense, Edison's technology spread astonishingly quickly. The electric lights spread more quickly than the digital computer did. We think of the computer accelerating technological change, but, in fact, when it comes to important stuff, not just the marvel of the iPod, the electric light moved much more rapidly." - Orlando Sentinel, FL, 4-14-07
SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:	Alan Brinkley: Historian Gets Rock Star Treatment at MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 4-12-07 Mary Beth Norton: Historian speaks about Salem witch trials - http://www.knoxnews.com, 4-6-07 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 April 18, 2007: Outstanding efforts honored with Heritage Awards the evening's lecture will be presented by Mark David Hall, a professor at George Fox University's Department of History and Political Science, Salem Oregon - April 29, 2007: Jerry Apps: The Two Rivers Historical Society invites members and the public to take a look at"The Lighter Side of Life in the Country" during its annual meeting and"hoedown," starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at the Lighthouse Inn, 1515 Memorial Drive, Two Rivers - Herald Times Reporter, WI, 4-12-07 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:	Catherine Brekus: Four Chicago faculty members are named Guggenheim fellows University of Chicago Chronicle, 4-12-07 Lynn Hunt: Her new book on human rights praised - Gordon Wood in the NYT Book Review, 4-8-07 Lois Huneycutt: Historian joins list of Kemper honorees - Columbia Daily Tribune, MO, 4-8-07 Laurence H. Kant: Professor brings Jewish perspective to seminary - Kentucky.com, KY, 4-14-07 Jay Martin: Professional maritime historian hired for Maritime Museum - http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune, 4-12-07
ON TV:	C-Span2, Book TV : 2007 Abraham Lincoln Institute Symposium Panel Discussion at Sunday, April 15 at 11:10 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:"The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy" Sunday, April 15, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Fort Knox: Secrets Revealed" Sunday, April 15, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The True Story of Alexander the Great," Monday, April 16, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds :The Real Dracula," Monday, April 16, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :The Aztecs: Of Blood and Sacrifice," Monday, April 16, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Lost Empire of Genghis Khaan," Monday, April 16, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities of the Underworld," Monday, April 16, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past : Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle," Tuesday, April 17, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Earth's Black Hole," Tuesday, April 17, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Deep Sea Detectives :Great Lakes Ghost Ship," Tuesday, April 16, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :The Other Nostradamus," Tuesday, April 16, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Man, Moment, Machine :JFK & the Crisis Crusader," Tuesday, April 16, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Gestapo :The Sword Unsheathed," Wednesday, April 18, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Gestapo :The Sword Is Shattered," Wednesday, April 18, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Other Tragedy at Pearl Harbor," Wednesday, April 18, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Man, Moment, Machine :Doolittle's Daring Raid.," Wednesday, April 18, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"The True Story of Killing Pablo," Thursday, April 19, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Heroes Under Fire :Escape from Liberia," Thursday, April 19, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Shootout :Tet Offensive," Thursday, April 19, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Tunnels of Vietnam.," Thursday, April 19, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Countdown to Armageddon," Friday, April 20, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special: Sodom and Gemorrah," Friday, April 20, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :The Holy Grail," Friday, April 20, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Lost Evidence :19 - Battle of Berlin," Friday, April 20, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Band Of Brothers" Marathon, Saturday, April 21, @ 2-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jonestown Paradise Lost," Saturday, April 21, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The States :01 - California, North Carolina, Kansas, New Hampshire, West Virginia," Saturday, April 21, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Sex in the Civil War," Saturday, April 21, @ 11pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Walter Isaacson: EINSTEIN #24 - 4-22-07
NEW ON THE WEB:	Max Holland: Starts website - Press Release--http://www.washingtondecoded.com, 4-11-07 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:	Reginald H. Fuller: 92, New Testament Scholar, Dies - NYT, 4-14-07 H. Bartholomew Cox: Historian, Documents Expert - WaPo, 4-12-07 William Henry Williams: Noted Del. historian, author dies at age 70 - http://www.delmarvanow.com (4-11-07) Werner Maser: Leading Hitler Scholar, Dies at 84 - NYT (4-11-07)

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