PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: | - Bruce Schulman:"One man’s flip-flop can be another man's 'admirable flexibility.'" -
NYT, 11-4-07
- Gil Troy on"EYE ON EDWARDS | A CAROLINAS NATIVE CAMPAIGNS FOR PRESIDENT
Casting his vote for kid-friendly campaign""'In the age of the modern presidential campaign, the candidate is using anything to get traction.'
He said candidates invoke a one-way street of privacy, in which they invite media scrutiny of their children but
only at the candidates' choosing." -
Charlotte Observer, 11-4-07
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | This Week in History:- 05/11/1639 - 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
- 05/11/1854 - Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000
- 05/11/1871 - Susan B Anthony arrested in Rochester NY and fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
- 05/11/1872 - Ulysses S Grant re-elected US president
- 05/11/1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage
- 05/11/1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and Pres Taft (R)
- 05/11/1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas
- 05/11/1940 - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
- 05/11/1946 - John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives
- 05/11/1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) and George C Wallace for presidency
- 06/11/1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres
- 06/11/1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres
- 06/11/1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
- 06/11/1871 - Pres Grant re-elected
- 06/11/1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
- 06/11/1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
- 06/11/1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
- 06/11/1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
- 06/11/1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
- 06/11/1940 - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
- 06/11/1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
- 06/11/1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
- 06/11/1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
- 06/11/1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more
- 06/11/1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
- 06/11/1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
- 06/11/1973 - Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
- 06/11/1986 - Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
- 07/11/1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
- 07/11/1805 - Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
- 07/11/1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
- 07/11/1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president
- 07/11/1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US
- 07/11/1864 - 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
- 07/11/1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
- 07/11/1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
- 07/11/1917 - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
- 07/11/1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
- 07/11/1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
- 07/11/1955 - Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas
- 07/11/1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- 07/11/1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
- 07/11/1989 - NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins)
- 08/11/1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
- 08/11/1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
- 08/11/1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
- 08/11/1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
- 08/11/1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president
- 08/11/1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
- 08/11/1904 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
- 08/11/1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
- 08/11/1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
- 08/11/1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
- 08/11/1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US president
- 08/11/1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California
- 08/11/1988 - George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
- 09/11/1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence
- 09/11/1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
- 09/11/1862 - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
- 09/11/1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his"March to the Sea"
- 09/11/1906 - T Roosevelt is 1st pres to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)
- 09/11/1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
- 09/11/1938 - Kristallnacht, (Crystal Night) - Germans break windows owned by Jews,
Jews forced to wear Star of David
- 09/11/1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
- 10/11/1891 - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
- 10/11/1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works)
- 10/11/1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
- 10/11/1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
- 11/11/1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws)
- 11/11/1640 - John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
- 11/11/1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
- 11/11/1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
- 11/11/1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
- 11/11/1860 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
- 11/11/1864 - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
- 11/11/1865 - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
- 11/11/1918 - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
- 11/11/1921 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary)
- 11/11/1939 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's"God Bless America"
- 11/11/1987 - Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
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IN THE NEWS: | |
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Robert Draper, The Imperial Presidency
DEAD CERTAIN The Presidency of George W. Bush,
THE TERROR PRESIDENCY Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration -
NYT, 11-4-07
- Jonathan D. Spence: Invasion and Occupation
About 350 years ago, a gentleman's quiet, happy life was suddenly upended
RETURN TO DRAGON MOUNTAIN Memories of a Late Ming Man -
WaPo, 11-4-07
- Greg Behrman: Demise of a Metaphor
Why the Marshall Plan's success is not so easy to repeat
THE MOST NOBLE ADVENTURE
WaPo, 11-4-07
- Simon Sebag Montefiore: The Young and the Ruthless
Stalin was a precocious gangster, robber and arsonist
YOUNG STALIN -
WaPo, 11-4-07
- 'The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed
Washington and Polarized America' by Ronald Brownstein -
Los Angeles Times, CA, 11-4-07
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: Washington's ultimate insider -
Globe and Mail, Canada, 11-3-04
- Dana Frank: Historian looks sideways at local landmarks -
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com, 10-29-07
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FEATURE: | |
INTERVIEWED: | - Conversation with…Dr. Avinoam Patt
Professor says Jewish GIs went beyond the call of duty to help Holocaust victims they liberated -
Jewish Ledger, 10-31-07
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SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR: | - Nov 6, 2007: Rennard Strickland noted legal scholar and astute historian will return to his hometown
to present a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Muskogee Public Library -
Muskogee Daily Phoenix, OK, 11-4-07
- Nov 6, 2007: 6:30 P.M., J.H. Elliott, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University
of Oxford, discusses"Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830" at the Inter-American
Development Bank, Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center, 1330 New York Ave. NW.
- Nov 6, 2007: Jill Norgren: Historian to speak Tuesday about first woman presidential candidate at
7 p.m. Tuesday at the Gerald R. Ford Museum Auditorium, 303 Pearl St., Grand Rapids.-
Grand Haven Tribune, MI, 11-2-07
- Nov 7, 2007: Gerhard Weinberg: Scholar who discovered sequel to Main Kampf to give lecture"Hitler's Lost Plan" will be shown at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7 followed by a talk given by Weinberg at
Linebaugh Public Library
http://www.murfreesboropost.com (10-31-07)
- Nov 12, 2007: Lamar University's J. Lee Thompson found fascination in British history – and now he’s a world-class scholar
and author on the subject. On Monday, Nov. 12, he'll share that expertise with campus and community as Lamar's
2007 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer -
Lamar University, TX, 11-1-07
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ON TV: | History Listings This Week:- C-Span2, Book TV : Reese Erlich: The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis
Sunday, November 4 @ 7:00pm
C-Span2, BookTV
History
- C-Span2, Book TV : The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly
Authors: Mark Bowden; James Fallow; Christopher Hitchens; William Langewiesche; Robert Vare,
Monday, November 5 @ 6:30am
C-Span2, BookTV
- History Channel:"MonsterQuest :America's Loch Ness Monster"
Sunday, November 4, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces,"
Monday, November 5, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Titanic's Achilles Heel,"
Monday, November 5, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Titanic's Tragic Sister,"
Monday, November 5, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Titanic Tech,"
Monday, November 5, @ 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :11 - Dracula's Underground"
Monday, October 29, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree,"
Monday, October 29, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Angkor Wat: The Eighth Wonder,"
Monday, October 29, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Lincoln Assassination : The Lincoln Assassination,"
Tuesday, November 6, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Conspiracy? :Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?,"
Tuesday, November 6, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Conspiracy? :RFK Assassination,"
Tuesday, November 6, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Columbus: The Lost Voyage,"
Wednesday, November 7, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"History's Mysteries :The True Story of Mutiny on The Bounty,"
Wednesday, November 7, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Big Build :Viking Longboat,"
Wednesday, November 7, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre,"
Thursday, November 8, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean,"
Thursday, November 8, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Brothers in Arms: The Untold Story of The 502 : D-Day,"
Friday, November 9, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Human Weapon," Marathon
Saturday, November 10, @ 2-5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Universe : Beyond the Big Bang,"
Saturday, November 10, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"How the Earth Was Made,"
Saturday, November 10, @ 10pm ET/PT
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Rick Atkinson: THE DAY OF BATTLE
#20 -
11-04-07
- David Halberstam: THE COLDEST WINTER
#23 -
11-04-07
- Geoffrey C. Ward: THE WAR
#28 -
11-04-07
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FUTURE RELEASES: | - Stephen William Berry: House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War
(Houghton Mifflin Company, November 5, 2007)
- M. Stanton Evans: Blacklisted by History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy and His
Fight against America's Enemies, (Crown Publishing Group, November 6, 2007)
- Chad Alan Goldberg: Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to
Workfare, November 15, 2007
- Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia, Paperback,
December 4, 2007
- The Great Experiment, by Strobe Talbott (S&S, Jan.). How mere tribes became great nations.
- James J. Sheehan: Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?, (Houghton, Jan.). The rejection of violence
after World War II redefined a continent. Europe chose material well-being over war.
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