May 15, 2007

May 14, 2007

BIGGEST STORIES: King Herod Discovered	Herod: The Bible's biggest villain - Independent, UK, 5-8-07
BIGGEST STORIES: Jamestown 400th	Michael Beschloss: Jamestown, Virginia: How To Make History Cool - Newsweek, 4-30-07 Jamestown Uncovered Historian Michael Beschloss on the un-Disnyfied story behind Jamestown - Newsweek, 4-30-07
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: Edwin Black:"Hitler's Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich (Part 1)" - 4-23-07 Most Popular Blog Entry: Manan Ahmed:"A [Gendered] Appeal: AHA Panel '08" - 5-2-07 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq 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: 05-14-1796 - Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccine to 8-year-old James Phipps. 05-14-1804 - The Lewis and Clark expedition set out from St. Louis. 05-14-1904 - The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri. 05-14-1948 - British rule in Palestine came to an end as The Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel. Within hours, Israel was under attack from Arab forces. 05-14-1955 - The Warsaw Pact was signed by the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries. It finally dissolved in 1991. 05-14-1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, was launched into orbit. 05-15-1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress. 05-15-1911 - The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act. 05-15-1918 - The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia. 05-15-1972 - Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency. 05-15-1988 - The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. 05-16-1770 - Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France. 05-16-1868 - The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson. 05-16-1929 - The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931. 05-16-1991 - Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress. 05-16-1997 - President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country. 05-17-1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement. 05-17-1875 - The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky. 05-17-1954 - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education. 05-17-1973 - Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin. 05-17-1987 - An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62. 05-17-1997 - Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 05-18-1642 - The city of Montreal was founded by the French. 05-18-1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate. 05-18-1896 - The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as"separate but equal." 05-18-1980 - Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years. 05-18-1994 - Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over. 05-18-2000 - A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse. 05-18-2004 - Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India. 05-19-1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded. 05-19-1588 - The 130-ship-strong Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was defeated in August. 05-19-1643 - The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor met to form the New England Confederation. 05-19-1921 - Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants. 05-19-1935 - British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as"Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. 05-19-1962 - Marilyn Monroe sang"Happy Birthday" to president John F. Kennedy. 05-19-1992 - The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect. 05-19-1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York. 05-20-1506 - Christopher Columbus died in Spain. 05-20-1861 - North Carolina voted to secede from the Union. 05-20-1927 - Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis. 05-20-1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. 05-20-1961 - A mob attacked a busload of"freedom riders" in Montgomery, Ala., setting the bus on fire. 05-20-1996 - In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination. 05-20-2002 - East Timor became the newest nation.
IN THE NEWS:	Shaul Bakhash: MESA protests Iran's arrest of his wife - Informed Comment (Blog), 5-12-07 Top Nebaska H.S. History Teacher Shown the Door After Showing Baghdad ER - The Progressive, 5-11-07 Hatem Bazian: Campus Watch goes after him - Campus Watch, 5-10-07 Ken Burns: Under pressure, decides to integrate Hispanic voices into his WW II film after all - Press Release -- American GI Forum and HACR, 5-10-07 Manan Ahmed: AHA approves panel after he includes a woman - Scott Jaschik at the website of Inside Higher Ed, 5-10-07 Raul Hilberg and Avi Shlaim: Speak out in defense of the Holocaust scholarship of Norman Finkelstein - Democracy Now, 5-9-07 Dee Brown: HBO movie based on his book distorts history - NYT, 5-9-07 Shaul Bakhash: Iranians arrest his wife - AP, 5-9-07 Martin Gilbert and Henry Kissinger: Only 2 historians invited to the state dinner with the queen of England - NYT, 5-8-07 Michael Beschloss: Newsweek cover story built around his new book - HNN Staff (5-14-07) Allen Weinstein: Uses position to draw attention to National History Day - National Archives, 5-8-07 Ramachandra Guha: Indian historian defends Pakistan claim on Kashmir - http://www.pakistanlink.com, 5-5-07
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE on Robert Dallek: The Odd Couple NIXON AND KISSINGER Partners in Power NYT, 5-13-07 E. Howard Hunt with Greg Aunapu. Foreword by William F. Buckley Jr.: Watergate Warrior AMERICAN SPY My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond - NYT, 5-13-07 Margaret MacMillan on Robert Dallek: The World in Their Hands A historian examines a combative collaboration NIXON AND KISSINGER Partners in Power - WaPo, 5-13-07 Daniel Jonah Goldhagen on Saul Friedländer: The War Years A scholar who survived the Nazis completes his life's work THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 WaPo, 5-13-07 Molly O'Neill: A moveable feast of essays, memoirs, fiction -- all focused on food AMERICAN FOOD WRITING An Anthology with Classic Recipes WaPo, 5-13-07 Various new publications on Slavery and Its Legacies WaPo, 5-13-07 Krisztian Ungvary: New book highlights WWII atrocities - http://www.budapestsun.com, 5-9-07 Lynn Hunt: Her new book on human rights is praised - Gary Bass in the New Republic, 5-3-07
OP-ED:	Murray N. Rothbard: Modern Historians Confront the American Revolution - Lew Rockwell, CA, 5-11-07 Michael Beschloss: A President's Ultimate Test - Newsweek, 5-14-07 Frederick Kagan: Plan B? Let's Give Plan A Some Time First - NYT, 5-6-07
PROFILED:	Alan Brinkley, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Drew Gilpin Faust: Leading efforts for universities to focus on teaching not just research - NYT, 5-11-07 H.R. McMaster: Subject of a New Yorker Profile - George Packer in the New Yorker, 4-10-07
INTERVIEWED:	Michael Beschloss: Interviewed on Comedy Central (video) Comedy Central, 5-9-07 Harriet Washington: Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Interview) - Robin Lindley in Seattle's Real Change (Note: The interview published here is longer.), 5-9-07 James McPherson: Says he's not a military historian (interview) - Paul Morton at bookslut.com, 5-1-07
FEATURE:	Leon Litwack: His last class - UC Berkeley News, 5-8-07 Michel Foucault: Should we have been shocked by"revelations" about his book on madness? - Inside Higher Ed, 5-9-07 Alistair Horne: Bush's favorite historian - Gary Kamiya at Salon.com, 5-8-07 Robert Caro: Sees no reason to revise his view of Robert Moses - NYT, 5-6-07
QUOTED:	Bernard Lewis: Credits Bush in war on terrorism - Joseph Puder at frontpagemag.com, 5-11-07
SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:	Kenneth Jackson, Henry Binford: COMPETING VISIONS Planning the future of cities - Chicago Tribune, 5-13-07 Deborah Lipstadt: Holocaust historian draws record audience - Canadian Jewish News, 5-10-07 Historians Put Katrina into Perspective - OAH Newsletter, 5-1-07 Harvey Mansfield: Delivers 2007 Jefferson Lecture - National Coalition for History, 5-9-07
HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS:	Mo Healy: OSU professor selected for humanity fellowship - Corvallis Gazette Times, OR, 5-8-07 James T. Campbell: Wins $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize - NYT, 5-10-07 Thomas Fleming: Chosen as new president of the Society of American Historians - HNN, 5-8-07
ON TV:	History Listings This Week: C-Span2, Book TV : History on Book TV: Harriet Washington,"Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present" on Sunday, May 13 at 12:00pm C-Span2, BookTV PBS: The American Experience:"ALEXANDER HAMILTON Revealed" Monday, May 13, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS History Channel:"Hippies" Sunday, May 13, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :04 - Scotland's Sin City" Sunday, May 13, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :06 - Rome's Hidden Empire" Sunday, May 13, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Save Our History :Secrets of Jamestown" Monday, May 14, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Save Our History :Godspeed to Jamestown," Monday, May 14, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Presidential Prophecies," Monday, May 14, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Investigating History :The JFK Assassination," Monday, May 14, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Man, Moment, Machine :JFK & the Crisis Crusader," Monday, May 14, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :07 - Catacombs of Death," Monday, May 14, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :The Da Vinci Code: Bloodlines," Monday, May 14, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Bible Code: Predicting Armageddon," Monday, May 14, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Fort Knox: Secrets Revealed," Tuesday, May 15, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History," Tuesday, May 15, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Godfathers," Wednesday, May 16, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Las Vegas," Wednesday, May 16, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hell: The Devil's Domain," Thursday, May 17, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries :Alaska's Bermuda Triangle," Thursday, May 17, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries :The Mysteries of Devil's Triangles," Thursday, May 17, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :The Colosseum," Thursday, May 17, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :07 - Catacombs of Death," Thursday, May 17, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"Deep Sea Detectives :The Death of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Friday, May 18, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special : Warrior Queen Boudica," Friday, May 18, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Movers," Marathon Saturday, May 19, @ 2-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special : The Templar Code," Saturday, May 19, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:" The States :05 - Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Hawaii, South Carolina, Montana," Saturday, May 19, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Walter Isaacson: EINSTEIN HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE #1 (3 weeks on list) - 5-20-07 Robert Dallek: NIXON AND KISSINGER #19 - 5-20-07 Hermione Lee: EDITH WHARTON #32 - 5-20-07
FUTURE RELEASES:	Peter Heather: The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, (Oxford University Press), May 2007 Jean Edward Smith, FDR, (Random House Publishing Group), May 15, 2007 Robert Service: Comrades!: A History of World Communism, (Harvard University Press), May 15, 2007 Kieran Doherty: Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World, (St. Martin's Press), May 15 2007 Susan Dunn: Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia, (Perseus Publishing), May 2007 Ronald Reagan: The Reagan Diaries, (HarperCollins Publishers), May 22, 2007 Elizabeth Drew: Richard M. Nixon: The 37th President, 1969-1974, (Times Books), May 28, 2007 Kevin P. Spicer: Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust (Indiana University Press), May 28, 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 Jack Valenti: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood, (Crown Publishing Group), June 5, 2007 Steve Vogel: The Pentagon: A History, (Random House Publishing Group), June 5, 2007 Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, HarperCollins Publishers, June 12, 2007 Orville Vernon Burton: The Age of Lincoln, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), June 12, 2007 Brian K. Bugge: The Mystique of Conspiracy: Oswald, Castro, and the CIA, (Provocative Ideas), June 28, 2007 Kathryn C. Statler: Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam, (University Press of Kentucky) July 28, 2007
DEPARTED:	David Halberstam: Weekly Standard denounces his brand of war reporting - Scrapbook in the Weekly Standard, 5-14-07 Alfred Chandler, Jr.: Harvard Business Historian, dead at 88 - Press Release -- Harvard Business School, 5-11-07

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