PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: | - GARRY WILLS: Two Presidents Are Worse Than One -
NYT, 1-26-08
- CAROLINE KENNEDY: A President Like My Father -
NYT, 1-27-08
- Gil Troy: Clinton must not let her husband be seen as leader -
Newsday, 1-27-08
- Sean Wilentz: Obama's misuse of history
Despite the candidate's claims, Lincoln and Kennedy were seasoned politicians before they became president -
LAT, 1-26-08
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BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month | |
HNN STATS THIS WEEK: | |
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | This Week in History:- New Feature: On This Day in History...
- 28/01/1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
- 28/01/1581 - James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
- 28/01/1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
- 28/01/1865 - Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
- 28/01/1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
- 28/01/1915 - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
- 28/01/1915 - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
- 28/01/1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
- 29/01/1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
- 29/01/1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
- 29/01/1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
- 29/01/1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
- 29/01/1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
- 29/01/1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
- 29/01/1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
- 29/01/1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
- 29/01/1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
- 29/01/1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
- 29/01/1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
- 30/01/1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
- 30/01/1487 - Bell chimes invented
- 30/01/1647 - King Charles I handed over to English parliament
- 30/01/1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
- 30/01/1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
- 30/01/1798 - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
- 30/01/1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
- 30/01/1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
- 30/01/1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
- 30/01/1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
- 30/01/1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen
- 30/01/1939 - Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
- 30/01/1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
- 30/01/1957 - US Congress accepts"Eisenhower-doctrine"
- 30/01/1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp
- 30/01/1972 - Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
- 30/01/1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts
- 30/01/1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
- 30/01/1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
- 31/01/1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
- 31/01/1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
- 31/01/1865 - Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
- 31/01/1871 - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky
- 31/01/1950 - Pres Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb
- 31/01/1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins
- 01/02/1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
- 01/02/1790 - Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
- 01/02/1810 - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
- 01/02/1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
- 01/02/1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede
- 01/02/1862 - Julia Howe publishes"Battle Hymn of Republic"
- 01/02/1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
- 01/02/1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
- 01/02/1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
- 01/02/1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
- 01/02/1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of"400" to describe socially elite
- 01/02/1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
- 01/02/1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
- 01/02/1953 -"General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
- 01/02/1953 -"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
- 01/02/1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
- 01/02/1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
- 01/02/1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
- 01/02/1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
- 01/02/1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
- 01/02/1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
- 01/02/1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
- 02/02/1536 - Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
- 02/02/1550 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed
- 02/02/1843 - US and British settlers in Oregon Country choose govt committee
- 02/02/1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
- 02/02/1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF
- 02/02/1863 - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
- 02/02/1876 - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
- 02/02/1913 - NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
- 02/02/1942 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
- 02/02/1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
- 02/02/1954 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
- 02/02/1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
- 03/02/1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
- 03/02/1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
- 03/02/1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
- 03/02/1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
- 03/02/1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
- 03/02/1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
- 03/02/1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
- 03/02/1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse
- 03/02/1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
- 03/02/1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
- 03/02/1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
- 03/02/1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed
- 03/02/1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
- 03/02/1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
- 03/02/1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
- 03/02/1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs
- 03/02/1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
- 04/02/1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth
- 04/02/1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
- 04/02/1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as Pres and VP
- 04/02/1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
- 04/02/1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
- 04/02/1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes name"Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
- 04/02/1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
- 04/02/1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss and SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy
- 04/02/1864 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
- 04/02/1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
- 04/02/1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
- 04/02/1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
- 04/02/1945 - FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
- 04/02/1997 - Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
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IN THE NEWS: | - OAH rooms renting like hot cakes at NYC Hilton ... get them while they last -
HNN Staff, 1-23-08
- Heinrich August Winkler: Says Germans have drawn lessons from Hitler -
Earth Times, 1-24-08
- Ghettoized Poli Sci Textbooks -
Inside Higher Ed, 1-25-08
- Jan Gross: Poland fuming over American historian's book -
AP, 1-23-08
- Guido Knopp: Church of Scientology Slams German Tabloid for Publishing Comments Comparing Tom Cruise to
Nazi Minister -
Fox News, 1-23-08
- Guido Knopp: German historian likens Cruise speech to Goebbels -
Guardian, 1-21-08
- Tariq Ramadan: Muslim scholar appeals US visa refusal -
AFP, 1-23-08
- Tom Blanton: Featured in new documentary,"Secrecy" -
National Security Archive, 1-24-08
- Historians celebrate release of Iranian filmmaker who had uncovered mass grave of regime opponents -
Network of Concerned Historians (NCH), 1-23-08
- Robert Faggen: Editing of Frost Notebooks in Dispute -
NYT, 1-22-08
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REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - GEOFFREY C. WARD on Drew Gilpin Faust: Death's Army
THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING Death and the American Civil War -
NYT, 1-27-08
- Drew Gilpin Faust: THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING Death and the American Civil War, First Chapter -
NYT, 1-27-08
- Richard M. Cook: In the American Grain
ALFRED KAZIN A Biography -
NYT, 1-27-08
- Michael Kazin on Hugh Wilford: Dancing to the CIA's Tune
The secret funding of American artists and intellectuals in the '50s and '60s
THE MIGHTY WURLITZER How the CIA Played America -
WaPo, 1-24-08
- Andrew Lycett, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley: Beyond Baker Street
Remembering Conan Doyle only as the inventor of Sherlock Holmes is a crime
THE MAN WHO CREATED SHERLOCK HOLMES The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Life in Letters -
WaPo, 1-24-08
- Bernard Lewis: Singled out by Slate's Jacob Weisberg as the Big Thinker behind the Iraq War -
Jacob Weisberg in Newsweek excerpt of his new book, The Bush Tragedy, 1-28-08
- John Marschall: Book explores Nevada's rich Jewish heritage
Jews in Nevada: A History -
Reno Gazette Journal, 1-27-08
- David Levering Lewis: Ouch! Bad review in the LAT -
LAT, 1-23-08
- Elie Wiesel: How did"Night" become a bestseller after rejections from publishers? -
NYT Book Review, 1-20-08
- Götz Aly: Digging into historical archives, he pieces together the life of an 11-year-old victim of
the Holocaust -
NYT Book Review, 1-20-08
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: African American National Biography published after 10 years work -
Press Release--Oxford University Press, 1-21-08
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OP-ED/LETTER TO THE EDITOR: | |
BLOGSPHERE: | |
PROFILED: | |
FEATURE: | |
INTERVIEWED: | |
QUOTED: | - Geoffrey Ward:"The Civil War is the most important thing that ever happened to us as Americans" and Faust's book is remarkable,
because it forces us to look at this much-analyzed event in a wholly new way. Ward called Faust — who recently became
the first woman to be Harvard’s president —"a fine scholar, filled with fresh ideas," and added,"My only worry is
that Harvard's gain will be history's loss." -
NYT, 1-27-08
- Bruce Thompson: Modern civil rights movement began in Maryland, historian says:"Martin Luther King Jr. truly was a leader and should be celebrated, but he didn't create the movement. He stepped into it and broadened it...."He [Charles Houston] said, 'We can sue Jim Crow out of Maryland.' That set a new tone that was going on the
offensive." -
http://www.fredericknewspost.com, 1-22-08
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HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS: | - Constitutional Law Professor Michael J. Klarman Joins Harvard Law School
Winner of 2005 Bancroft Prize, Klarman studies race relations and the role of the Supreme Court -
Harvard Crimson, 1-24-08
- John Nef: Honored by U. of Chicago -
Chicago Tribune, 1-23-08
- Lisa Jardine: Historian chosen to head fertility watchdog (UK) -
Times (UK), 1-24-08
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SPOTTED: | |
SPEAKING/EVENTS CALENDAR: | - Feb. 9, 2008: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois-Chicago professor of history and African-American studies, will give a free presentation on what roles African-Americans played in the railroad industry titled,"Black Railroaders and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement," @
2 p.m. at the National Railroad Museum's Fuller Hall Theater -
Green Bay Press Gazette, 1-20-08
- May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's
History for 250th Anniversary -
WaPo, 1-18-08
- David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic
World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.-
Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
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ON TV: | History Listings This Week:- The History Channel's fascinating Life After People special on Monday night
very much benefited from us humanfolk still being around, delivering 5.4 million viewers —
the cabler's most-watched telecast ever....
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
George H.W. Bush Author: Timothy Naftali, Monday, January 28, @ 2:15AM ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
2007 National Book Festival: Michael Beschloss,"Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America,
1789-1989" Author: Michael Beschloss, Monday, January 28, @ 3:30AM ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
From Berlin to Baghdad: America's Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War World
Author: Hal Brands, Monday, January 28, @ 4AM ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- History Channel:"How the Earth Was Made,"
Sunday, January 27, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :13 - Underground Bootleggers,"
Monday, January 28, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :09 - Freemason Underground,"
Monday, January 28, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :08 - New York,"
Monday, January 28, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :Underground Apocalypse,"
Monday, January 28, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries :Mega-Structures of the Deep,"
Monday, January 28, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"History's Mysteries :Devil's Island: Hell on Earth,"
Monday, January 28, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Lost Book of Nostradamus,"
Tuesday, January 29, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Exodus Decoded,"
Tuesday, January 29, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Tsunami 2004: Waves of Death,"
Tuesday, January 29, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Nostradamus: 500 Years Later,"
Wednesday, January 30, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"History's Mysteries :The Real Dracula,"
Wednesday, January 30, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :11 - Dracula's Underground,"
Wednesday, January 30, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:" MonsterQuest :America's Loch Ness Monster,"
Wednesday, January 30, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"UFO Files :The Pacific Bermuda Triangle,"
Wednesday, January 30, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :Underground Apocalypse,"
Thursday, January 31, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries :Mega-Structures of the Deep,"
Thursday, January 31, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"1968 with Tom Brokaw"
Friday, February 1, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Investigating History :The JFK Assassination,"
Friday, February 1, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Tsunami 2004: Waves of Death,"
Friday, February 1, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Universe," Marathon
Saturday, February 2, @ 2-5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Life After People,"
Saturday, February 2, @ 5pm ET/PT
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM
#3 -- 2 weeks on list -
2-3-08
- Mark Booth: THE SECRET HISTORY OF WORLD
#32 weeks on list -
2-3-08
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FUTURE RELEASES: | - Joseph Wheelan: Mr. Adam's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress,
January 28, 2008.
- Mark Puls: Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution, February 5, 2008.
- Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, February 5, 2008.
- Brian McGinty: Lincoln and the Court, February 15, 2008.
- Matthew Dennison: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter,
February 19, 2008
- Nick Taylor: American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work,
February 26, 2008.
- Howard Taylor: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, February 28, 2008.
- H. David Stone: Vital Rails, February 28, 2008.
- John Fea: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian
and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (
U of Pennsylvania Press), February 29, 2008
- Joseph Balkoski: From Beachhead to Brittany, March 10, 2008
- Susan Nagel: Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, March 18, 2008
- James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the
American West (REV), March 24, 2008.
- Scott McClellan: What Happened, April 28, 2008
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DEPARTED: | - H. Bradford Westerfield: Influential Yale Professor, Is Dead at 79 -
NYT, 1-27-08
- Miles Lerman: A Leading Force Behind Holocaust Museum, Dies at 88 -
NYT, 1-24-08
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