BIGGEST STORIES: | Ken Burns: PBS clarifies that Burns won't re-cut 'The War' -
WaPo, 4-19-07 - Ken Burns: Library of Congress, PBS, and Ken Burns Team Up
to Gather Oral Histories -
AHA Blog, 4-19-07
- Ken Burns: Agrees To Expand Documentary -
WaPo, 4-18-07
- Ken Burns: Hispanic filmmaker to join Burns' 'The War' -
AP/MSNBC, 4-17-07
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | - 04-23-1616 - Playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
- 04-23-1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death (later reduced to a life
sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
- 04-23-2004 - The U.S. resumed diplomatic relations with Libya.
- 04-24-1800 - Library of Congress was established.
- 04-24-1898 - Spain declared war on the U.S..
- 04-24-1915 - Turks began deportation of Armenians that led to the massacre of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians.
- 04-24-1916 - The Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, Ireland. Although
unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
- 04-24-1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 04-25-1901 - New York became the first state to require license plates on cars.
- 04-25-1915 - British, Australian, and New Zealand forces landed at Gallipoli.
- 04-25-1928 - The first seeing eye dog was presented to Morris S. Frank.
- 04-25-1945 - Delegates met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.
- 04-25-1953 - The Francis Crick and James Watson article describing the
double helix of DNA is published in the magazine Nature.
- 04-25-1992 - Islamic forces took over most of Kabul, Afghanistan after the Soviet-controlled government collapsed.
- 04-25-2003 - The Georgia legislature voted to scrap the"Confederate flag" design from its state flag.
- 04-26-1607 - Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.
- 04-26-1865 - John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.
- 04-26-1937 - The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.
- 04-26-1986 - The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.
- 04-26-1994 - The first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.
- 04-26-2000 - Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
- 04-27-1521 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a fight with natives of the Philippines.
- 04-27-1865 - The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when there was an explosion aboard the Sultana; more than 1,400 people were killed.
- 04-28-1788 - Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.
- 04-28-1789 - Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
- 04-28-1945 - Benito Mussolini was executed.
- 04-28-2004 - The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when
graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners
were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II.
- 04-29-1429 - Joan of Arc entered the city of Orléans. She would end its
months-long siege and would become known as the"Maid of Orléans."
- 04-29-1916 - The Easter rebellion in Ireland ended with the surrender of Irish nationalists.
- 04-29-1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration cam
- 04-29-1992 - A Los Angeles jury acquitted four police officers accused of
beating Rodney King. Massive rioting and looting ensued.
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IN THE NEWS: | |
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Marilyn Nissenson: Tabloid Queen
THE LADY UPSTAIRS Dorothy Schiff and The New York Post -
NYT, 4-22-07
- David Cannadine on Lynne Olson:
Their Finest Hour How a group of upstart Tories toppled Neville Chamberlain
TROUBLESOME YOUNG MEN
The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power And Helped Save England -
WaPo, 4-22-07
- The Blind Prisoner
How a Polish noble survived World War II when other prisoners of war didn't
MICHELANGELO IN RAVENSBRUCK One Woman's War Against the Nazis -
WaPo, 4-22-07
Walter Isaacson on John Lukacs: Cold War Realist
GEORGE KENNAN A Study of Character
WaPo, 4-22-07 - Amanda Vaill on Virginia Rounding: Mother Russia
A new book focuses on the personal life of the magnificent 18th-century empress
CATHERINE THE GREAT Love, Sex,and Power
WaPo, 4-22-07
- Maya Jasanoff on Lynn Hunt: Revolutionary Thought
How"all men were created equal" became"self-evident"
INVENTING HUMAN RIGHTS A History
WaPo, 4-22-07
- David O. Stewart: The Long Hot Summer and the More Perfect Union
THE SUMMER OF 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
NYT, 4-20-07
- Robert Dallek: Parsing the Nixon and Kissinger Pas de Deux
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power -
NYT, 4-17-07
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OP-ED: | |
PROFILED: | |
INTERVIEWED: | - Robert Satloff: A 'Righteous' Honor for an Arab Who Saved Jews -
NPR, 4-19-07
- New Set of MLK Papers Sparks Controversy -
NPR, 4-7-07
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FEATURE: | |
QUOTED: | |
SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR: | - Food, sex conference draws SRO crowds
Radcliffe hosts experts on food, gender, and culture -
Harvard University Gazette, MA, 4-19-07
- National Archives 'American Conversation' With Doris Kearns Goodwin on April 22 -
PR Newswire (press release), NY, 4-18-07
- 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
- 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
- Harvey Mansfield: Picked to deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities -
Website of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 3-22-07
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HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS: | |
ON TV: | - C-Span2, Book TV : History on Book TV: Michael Lerner,"Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City" on
Sunday, April 22 at 12:00 pm
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, Book TV : After Words: After Words: David Pietrusza,
author of"1920: The Year of the Six Presidents" interviewed by Ann Compton on
Saturday, April 21 at 9:00 pm and Sunday, April 22 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, Book TV : Public Lives: Debby Applegate,"The Most Famous Man in
America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher"
on Sunday, April 22 at 4:25 pm and Monday, April 23 at 12:45 am
C-Span2, BookTV
- PBS: The American Experience:"Summer of Love"
Monday, April 23, 2007 at 9pm ET -
PBS
- History Channel:"Sherman's March"
Sunday, April 22, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Hunt for the Lost Ark"
Monday, April 23, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :The Real Sin City: Sodom & Gomorrah,"
Monday, April 23, @ 3pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Ramses' Egyptian Empire,"
Monday, April 23, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Braveheart's Scotland,"
Monday, April 23, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Hitler's Supercity,"
Monday, April 23, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Knights Templar,"
Monday, April 23, @ 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :04 - Scotland's Sin City,"
Monday, April 23, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Atlantis: New Revelation,"
Monday, April 23, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities of the Underworld,"
Monday, April 16, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Exorcism: Driving Out the Devil,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Witch Hunt,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Worlds :The Real Dracula,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Modern Marvels :The Alaskan Oil Pipeline,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries :15 - Machines of The East,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Man Moment Machine :Alexander the Great and the Devastating
Catapult,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Caligula: Reign of Madness,"
Tuesday, April 24, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Gestapo :The Sword Unsheathed,"
Wednesday, April 18, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Barbarians II :Franks,"
Wednesday, April 25, @ 3pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Barbarians II :Lombards,"
Wednesday, April 25, @ 3pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Engineering An Empire :The Persians,"
Wednesday, April 25, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :04 - Scotland's Sin City,"
Wednesday, April 25, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History : Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History,"
Thursday, April 26, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Tales of the FBI :The Bureau vs. the Klan,"
Thursday, April 26, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Shootout :Tet Offensive,"
Thursday, April 19, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Special :Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives,"
Thursday, April 26, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers : Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers,"
Friday, April 28, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Legacy of Al Capone,"
Friday, April 20, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Dogfights :11 - Dogfights of the Middle East,"
Friday, April 28, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Man Moment Machine :Patton and the Desperate Tank Attack,"
Friday, April 28, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Mega Movers" Marathon,
Saturday, April 29, @ 1-5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Dogfights: The Greatest Air Battles,"
Saturday, April 29, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Sherman's March,"
Saturday, April 29, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The States :02 - Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Iowa, Delaware,"
Saturday, April 29, @ 10pm ET/PT
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Walter Isaacson: EINSTEIN HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE
#1 (1 week on list) -
4-29-07
- Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY
#33 -
4-29-07
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NEW ON THE WEB: | |
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
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