May 11, 2009

May 11, 2009: Professor Runs for President of Sudan & Obama's History Budget

HISTORY BUZZ:

POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS:

This Week's Political Highlights
May 4, 2009: President Obama's Second 100 Days Begins.... & Dealing with H1N1
April 29, 2009: President Barack Obama's 100 Days Press Conference

BIGGEST NEWS STORIES:

Abdullahi Ibrahim: MU professor to run for presidency of Sudan - The Kansas City Star, 5-3-09

2010 Obama budget for history projects is ...: Under the Obama administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget request, funding for the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) would increase by $7 million from the current fiscal year's $447 million to $454 million.... - Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH) (5-8-09)

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

On This Day in History....
This Week in History.... May 11-17, 2009

IN THE NEWS:

Ron Zupko: Marquette University professor, wife donate $1 million for scholarship fund - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5-7-09

Snags Hit Google Settlement With Authors and Publishers, and Antitrust Worries Rise - AHA Blog (5-7-09)

Louisiana State U. Press Might Get the Ax: Louisiana State University Press, one of the South’s top scholarly publishers, could fall victim to its state's budget hemorrhage, and supporters are rallying to keep it alive. - Chronicle of Higher Ed (5-7-09)

Eric Foner: Taken to task in Pat Buchanan's conservative magazine - Source: Paul Gottfried in American Conservative (5-4-09)

James Corbett: California high school history teacher found guilty for saying creationism is"superstitious nonsense" - Source: AP (5-4-09)

Richard Hovannisian:"A joint historians' commission is a dangerous trap" - Source: http://www.reporter.am (5-2-09)

Carma Hinton: Historian is being sued by Tiananmen Square student activist - Source: Excerpt from an Open Letter posted on the website of the Long Bow Group, Inc, which is run by GMU historian Carma Hinton (4-15-09)

OP-EDs & BLOGS:

Daniel Pipes: Explains why he felt comfortable hiring Steven J. Rosen - Source: Philadelphia Bulletin (5-5-09)

James McPherson: Wal-Mart vs. the Wilderness - McPherson Explains why Wal-Mart shouldn't build near the Wilderness battlefield - Source: WaPo (5-3-09)

Paul Krugman vs. Niall Ferguson: Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson (wonkish) - Paul Krugman at his NYT blog (5-2-09)

Ben Macintyre: Writer admits he fingered the wrong man in book about WW I soldier A Foreign Field: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War - Source: The Times (UK) (4-29-09)

REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS:

Jeff Guinn, Paul Schneider: Outlaws in Love GO DOWN TOGETHER The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, BONNIE AND CLYDE The Lives Behind the Legend - NYT, 5-10-09

Jeff Guinn:GO DOWN TOGETHER The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, First Chapter - NYT, 5-10-09

MICHAEL KAZIN on T. J. Stiles: Ruthless in Manhattan THE FIRST TYCOON The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt - NYT, 5-10-09

T. J. Stiles: THE FIRST TYCOON The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Excerpts - NYT, 4-29-09

Susan Jacoby: A Clash of Symbols ALGER HISS AND THE BATTLE FOR HISTORY - NYT, 5-10-09

Susan Jacoby: ALGER HISS AND THE BATTLE FOR HISTORY, First Chapter - NYT, 5-10-09

John Dittmer: Bancroft Prize Recipient Prof. Publishes The Good Doctors - DePauw University, 5-9-09

Juan Cole: Islamophobia ENGAGING THE MUSLIM WORLD - NYT, 5-7-09

Peter W. Rodman: The Deciders and How They Decided PRESIDENTIAL COMMAND Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush - NYT, 5-8-09

Peter W. Rodman: PRESIDENTIAL COMMAND Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, First Chapter - NYT

Benjamin Carter Hett on Richard J. Evans: HISTORY Brutally Violent and Destined for Defeat THE THIRD REICH AT WAR - WaPo, 5-10-09

Leslie H. Gelb: A Wonky Witness to History POWER RULES How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy WaPo, 5-10-09

Diana Butler Bass: RELIGION Christian Conundrums A People's History of Christianity - WaPo, 5-10-09

Kathleen Burk: Professor looks at relationship between Britain and USA Swindon Advertiser, 5-6-09

Allan M. Winkler: History professor writes book on Pete Seeger To Everything There is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song - Source: Press Release--Miami University (Ohio) (4-30-09)

QUOTES:

Alan Sked"Inbreeding May Have Doomed Spain's Habsburg Dynasty" Enfeebled and sterile, Charles II's genes made him the last of his line, researchers say: The family faced a challenge because they needed to marry Catholic spouses of equal rank -- a rarity -- and because dynastic marriages were used to keep territories within the family's grasp, explained Alan Sked, a historian at the London School of Economics and Political Science. What would have happened if the Habsburgs hadn't married each other? Sked, the historian, said"there would have been changes in alliances, boundaries and policies. Most of all, the Habsburgs would have produced more capable and intelligent rulers." - Forbes, 5-8-09

William Loren Katz: Historian notes that Reagan wanted torturers put on trial - Source: William Loren Katz in an email circulating on the Internet (5-2-09)

PROFILES & FEATURES:

End of the Trail?: Discovery of Everett Ruess' remains solves 75-year-old mystery - or not - The Durango Herald, 5-10-09

Benny Morris: The Israeli left isn't where it used to be - Source: Evan R. Goldstein in Foreign Policy (4-1-09)

Thomas Sugrue: Penn historian"has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country" - Source: UPenn Gazette, (4-30-09)

INTERVIEWS:

Ronald C. White Jr.: Interview about Lincoln's faith - Source: http://www.christianitytoday.com (4-22-09)

Historian Alfred McCoy: Obama Reluctance on Bush Prosecutions Affirms Culture of Impunity - Source: Democracy Now (5-1-09)

HONORS, AWARDED &APPOINTED:

Bruce Moran: Named Outstanding Researcher of the Year at the University of Nevada, Reno - UNR NevadaNews, 5-6-09

Ken Heineman: Ohio University Lancaster veteran leaving Lancaster to head up history department in Texas - Lancaster Eagle Gazette, 5-3-09

Ken Coates, Whitney Lackenbauer, William Morrison: Arctic Front sweeps the Donner Three historians and one political scientist share $35,000 prize for best book on Canadian public policy Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North - Globe and Mail, 4-30-09

SPOTTED:

Stan Katz: Rutgers conference honors memory of William Appleman Williams - Source: The Chronicle of Higher Ed (5-6-09)

EVENTS CALENDAR:

June 11-14, 2009: The ninth annual"Reacting to the Past" Institute at Barnard College (New York), Annual summer history institute at Barnard College - Source: Press Release (4-21-09)

ON TV:

PBS, Monday April 20, at 9pm: Seeing History Through Indians' Eyes:"We Shall Remain" NYT, 4-12-09 (pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain)

Donald Fixico: History professor advises new PBS documentary"We Shall Remain" - ASU Web Devil, 4-21-09

C-SPAN2:BOOK TV Weekend Schedule

PBS American Experience: Mondays at 9pm

History Channel: Weekly Schedule

History Channel: "Art of War" - Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT

History Channel: "The Plague" - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT

History Channel: "The Lost Pyramid" - Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT

History Channel: "Patton 360" Marathon - Friday, May 15, 2009 at 2-7pm ET/PT

History Channel: "The Templar Code" - Friday, May 15, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT

History Channel: "Last Stand of The 300" - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 5pm ET/PT

History Channel: "Angels & Demons Decoded" - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT

History Channel: "Beyond The Da Vinci Code" - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT

BEST SELLERS (NYT):

NYT Non-Fiction Best Sellers List - May 17, 2009

#14 - Jon Meacham: AMERICAN LION (15 weeks on list)

#22 - T. J. StilesTHE FIRST TYCOON

#31 - Niall Ferguson: THE ASCENT OF MONEY

COMING SOON BOOKS:

Thomas Childers: Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II, May 13, 2009

Simon Schama, American Future: A History, May 19, 2009

Geoffrey Blainey, Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific, May 25, 2009

Richard Ben-Veniste: Emperor's New Clothes: Exposing the Truth from Watergate To 9/11, May 26, 2009

Douglas Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1919, June 30, 2009

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