CAMPAIGN
2008 WATCH: | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:- NEW BLOG:
: A complete roundup of what Historians are saying about the campaign this week.
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BIGGEST STORIES: | BIGGEST STORIES: Independence Day |
HNN STATS THIS WEEK: | HNN STATS THIS WEEK: |
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | |
IN THE NEWS: | IN THE NEWS: |
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:- Daniel Mark Epstein: The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife -
THE LINCOLNS Portrait of a Marriage
NYT, 7-3-08
- David M. Kennedy on Ted Widmer: FOREIGN POLICY
Restoring America's Ideals
A Democrat laments Bush's foreign policy but embraces the goal of spreading liberty
ARK OF THE LIBERTIES
America and the World -
WaPo, 7-6-08
- Biographer claims biography is in decline -
Kathryn Hughes in the Guardian, 6-28-08
- George Rippey Stewart's Names on the Land republished -
Matt Weiland in Slate, 6-30-08
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OP-EDs: | OP-EDs: |
BLOGS: | BLOGS: |
PROFILED: | PROFILED: |
INTERVIEWS: | INTERVIEWS: |
FEATURES: | FEATURES: |
QUOTED: | QUOTED:- Richard Brookhiser, Draws Upon Washington To Illuminate Presidency:"We're a very verbal culture," Mr. Brookhiser explained."Maybe Washington falls behind because of that....
He had the confidence to employ smart people." -
http://www.thebulletin.us, 6-24-08
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HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED: | HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: |
EXHIBITS / WEBSITES: | EXHIBITS / WEBSITES: |
SPOTTED: | SPOTTED: |
CALENDAR: | CALENDAR:- May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's
History for 250th Anniversary -
WaPo, 1-18-08
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ON TV: | - History Channel:"Ben Franklin,"
Friday, July 4, @ 8am ET/PT
- History Channel:" The Revolution: 01 - Boston, Bloody Boston,"
Friday, July 4, @ 10am ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 02 - Rebellion to Revolution,"
Friday, July 4, @ 11am ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 03 - Declaring Independence,"
Friday, July 4, @ 12pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 05 - Path to World War,"
Friday, July 4, @ 1pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 05 - Path to World War,"
Friday, July 4, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 06 - Forging an Army,"
Friday, July 4, @ 3pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 07 - Treason & Betrayal,"
Friday, July 4, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 08 - The War Heads South ,"
Friday, July 4, @ 5pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 09 - A Hornet's Nest,"
Friday, July 4, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution: 10 - The End Game,"
Friday, July 4, @ 7pm ET/PT
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and the Search for Justice in the American South
Author: Gilbert King - Friday,
July 4 @ 10:45am ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - African American Revolutionaries Panel
Authors: Paul Alkebulan; Wesley Hogan; Patrick McGilligan - Friday,
July 4 @ 1:30pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers,
Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World
Author: Michael Meyerson - Friday,
July 4 @ 2:30pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Author: Walter Borneman - Friday,
July 4 @ 7:00pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877
Author: Walter McDougall - Saturday,
July 5 @ 6:00am ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
Authors: Jill Tietjen; Charlotte Waisman - Saturday,
July 5 @ 7:30am & 5:15pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Author: Drew Gilpin Faust - Saturday,
July 5 @ 12:00pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
Author: Stephen Budiansky - Saturday,
July 5 @ 1:15pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History African American National Biography
Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Saturday,
July 5 @ 7:00pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Politics
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
Author: Gil Troy - Sunday,
July 6 @ 8:45pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History
Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made
Democracy Safe for the World
Author: Michael Meyerson - Sunday,
July 6 @ 7:00pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Encore Booknotes
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin - Sunday,
July 6 @ 10:00pm ET -
C-Span2, BookTV
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SELLING BIG (NYT): | SELLING BIG (NYT):- Patrick J. Buchanan: CHURCHILL, HITLER, AND"THE UNNECESSARY WAR,"
#14 -- (4 weeks on list) -
7-06-08
- Thurston Clarke: THE LAST CAMPAIGN
#30 -
7-06-08
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FUTURE RELEASES: | FUTURE RELEASES:- Lewis Lehrman: Lincoln at Peoria, July 4, 2008
- Linda Porter: The First Queen of England, July 8, 2008
- William Marvel: Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862, July 16, 2008
- Lorri Glover: The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America,
August 5, 2008
- Fred E. Haynes: The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle
in Marine Corps History, August 5, 2008
- Patrick Desbois: The Holocaust by Bullets, August 19, 2008
- Robert Dallek: Harry S. Truman (REV), September 2, 2008
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DEPARTED: | DEPARTED: |