HISTORY BUZZ:
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POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS: |
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BIGGEST NEWS STORIES: |
- Avinoam Patt: University Of Hartford Professor Says Holocaust Museum Shooting Is Evidence
Anti-Semitism Still Exists: "The museum is very threatening to deniers. It is not just a memorial but a museum that makes a statement to nearly
2 million visitors a year, educating people about the cancer of genocide," said Avinoam Patt, who teaches
American and European Jewish history.... -
Hartford Courant, 6-11-09
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On This Day in History.... This Week in History.... June , 2009 - John Lewis Gaddis"June 1979, the Nine Days of John Paul II":
Thirty years ago, the Bishop of Rome returned to Poland for the first time since his recent election to the papacy.
America's premier Cold War historian, John Lewis Gaddis of Yale, is not ambiguous in his judgment of what happened
next:"When John Paul II kissed the ground at the Warsaw airport on June 2, 1979, he began the process by which
communism in Poland—and ultimately everywhere—would come to an end." Professor Gaddis is right: the Nine Days of
John Paul II, June 2-10, 1979, were an epic moment on which the history of the 20th century pivoted, and in a more
humane direction.... -
Catholic Star Herald, 6-11-09
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IN THE NEWS: |
- Great Caesar's Ghost! Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing?:
To the pessimists evidence that the field of diplomatic history is on the decline is everywhere. Job openings on
the nation’s college campuses are scarce, while bread-and-butter courses like the Origins of War and American
Foreign Policy are dropping from history department postings. And now, in what seems an almost gratuitous insult,
Diplomatic History, the sole journal devoted to the subject, has proposed changing its title.... -
NYT, 6-10-09
- Australian National University professor David Horner: Professor to write ASIO history:
ASIO has commissioned an historian to write an unclassified history of the spy agency as its new headquarters
take shape.... -
The Age, Australia, 6-12-09
- John Hope Franklin: Brooklyn College Celebrates Historian and Announces Award and Conference
in His Name -
Brooklyn College, 6-8-09
- Randolph-Macon Woman's College Professor and Historian Margaret Pertzoff:
Wintergreen Farm owner leaves $1.4M bequest to Randolph College -
Nelson County Times, 6-
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- Paul Krugman vs. Neill Ferguson: Letting the Data Speak -
NYT, 6-16-09
- Derek J. Penslar: Contested Space Maps in Teaching About Israel -
Shma, 6-12-09
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REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS: |
- Michael Kazin on Simon Schama: What So Proudly He Hails
THE AMERICAN FUTURE A History -
WaPo, 6-14-09
- Simon Schama: THE AMERICAN FUTURE A History, Chapter One -
WaPo, 6-14-09
- Simon Schama: Despite the Crises, Seeing a Star-Spangled Destiny in the Mirror of Time
THE AMERICAN FUTURE A History -
NYT, 6-9-09
- Simon Schama: The American Future: A History
Historian Simon Schama offers a portrait of America with its complexities and contradictions. -
CS Monitor, 6-15-09
- Vincent J. Cannato: American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
'American Passage': It's Ellis Island's history, and ours, too -
USA Today, 6-15-09
- BEVERLY GAGE on Jackson Lears: American Macho
REBIRTH OF A NATION The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 -
NYT, 6-14-09
- Gillian Tett: Rewriting the Rules
FOOL'S GOLD
How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe -
NYT, 6-14-09
- Gillian Tett: FOOL'S GOLD
How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe,
First Chapter -
NYT, 6-14-09
- Chris Bray on Doug Stanton: The Stuff of Which Movies Are Made
HORSE SOLDIERS
The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan -
WaPo, 6-14-09
- Robert Fulford on D.D. Guttenplan, John Earl Haynes: Two views on I.F. Stone
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America -
National Post, 6-14-09
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QUOTES: |
- Bill Clinton: Historian John Hope Franklin was 'angry, happy man':
The late historian John Hope Franklin was"an angry, happy man" whose work as the head of a commission on race
helped pull the country together, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.
Clinton was one of a dozen speakers at a service at Duke Chapel to honor Franklin and his wife, Aurelia,
who would have celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary Thursday....
"Now, we're laughing," Clinton said."But the man was 80 years old. He was perhaps the most distinguished living
American historian. He did write this in a funny way. And he wrote it in a way that you knew he didn't think it
was funny. He was a genius at being a passionate rationalist. An angry, happy man. A happy, angry man."...
In 1997, Clinton appointed Franklin to lead his Initiative on Race. Because of that report and Franklin's work on it,"we are a different country," Clinton said."For 10 years, we've been working to become a communitarian country.
After being known as a country know by our divisions from 1968 to 2008, people know us as a country known by our
unity. His life and work in no small measure helped to produce that." -
AP - Michal Belknap"Get a Life? Not If You Want to Be One of the Nine
The debate building up to the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings suggests that real-world experiences are
of suspect value in administering the law. Really?":
Michal Belknap, a historian and law professor at California Western School of Law, is writing a biography of
Justice Tom Clark, who was appointed to the court in 1949 after practicing oil and gas law."As far as I'm aware," Belknap said,"nobody ever asked him whether his background as an oil and gas lawyer would
influence his thinking in oil and gas cases. The reason they gave them to him was that he was the only person who
could understand those cases."... -
MillerMcCune.com
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PROFILES & FEATURES: |
- Alex Roland: After four decades, is America over the moon?:
Four decades after the first lunar landing, a series of new missions revives debate over their value -
The Arizona Republic, 6-14-09
- Christopher Howse"Why Queen Mary wanted to burn:
Queen Mary's abbreviated reign can now be, if not forgiven, at least understood, says Howse.... -
Telegraph, UK, 6-12-09
- Divided We Stand:
What would California look like broken in three? Or a Republic of New England? With the federal government
reaching for ever more power, redrawing the map is enticing, says Paul Starobin... -
WSJ, 6-13-09
- Jean Libby: John Brown's legacy hasn't changed; America has -
AP, 6-13-09
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INTERVIEWS: |
- For Timothy Garton Ash, Europe Means Shared History:
What does it mean to be European, and what is Europe's future? For answers, RFE/RL correspondent Ahto Lobjakas
spoke to the British historian and essayist Timothy Garton Ash in the Estonian capital Tallinn after attending"Rethinking Enemies of Open Society," a forum organized by the Open Estonia Foundation.... -
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, 6-7-09
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HONORS, AWARDED &APPOINTED: |
- Dr. William Anthony Hay: Elected as a Fellow of Britain's Royal Historical Society after writing about
a historical period that had yet to receive much scholarly attention,"The Whig Revival: 1808 - 1830".... -
Starkville Daily News, 6-15-09
- Historian Stephen B. Oates was honored recently with a lifetime achievement award from the Abraham Lincoln
Group of New York: "I was ecstatic," Oates said."It wasn't anything I expected." Oates who has received numerous awards including
the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award said,"This probably tops them all." -
MassLive.com, 6-14-09
- Peter Bol, Vincent Brown, Ann Harrington: Six faculty named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows
Chosen for accomplishments in literature, history, or art -
Harvard University Gazette, 6-11-09
- Susan Cahan: Art historian selected for newly created deanship:
Yale College Dean Mary Miller announced Thursday the appointment of Susan Cahan, the associate dean for academic
affairs of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the newly created
position of associate dean for the arts in Yale College.... -
Yale Daily News, 6-11-09
- The historian and scholar and principal of Aberdeen University, Professor C Duncan Rice,
receives a knighthood:
Three university vice-chancellors and a head teacher have received knighthoods in the
Queen's Birthday Honours list.... -
BBC, 6-12-09
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & SPOTTED: |
- Harvey Kaye: UW-Green Bay professor discussed Thomas Paine on PBS program"Bill Moyers' Journal" -
UW-Green Bay, 6-9-09
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EVENTS CALENDAR: |
- June 2009: National Archives Continues Year-Long 75th Anniversary Celebration in June with
H.W. Brands, Donald Ritchie, Robert Remini -
Press Newswire, 5-28-09
- August 1, 2009: An Evening with Ken Burns: Kens Burns has been making documentary films for more
than 30 years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce
some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of Burns'
films,"More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source." This evening will afford
Chautauqua an opportunity to hear one of the most influential documentary makers of all time. Chautauqua
Institutition. For more info 716-357-6200. -
Jamestown Post-Journal, 5-21-09
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- C-SPAN2:BOOK TV Weekend Schedule
- PBS American Experience:
Mondays at 9pm
- History Channel:
Weekly Schedule
- History Channel: "Clash of the Cavemen" -
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The Universe: Beyond the Big Bang" -
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Life After People" -
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Underwater Universe" -
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Life After People: The Road to Nowhere" -
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The Real Tomb Hunters: Snakes, Curses, and Booby Traps" -
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Ancient Discoveries: Ancient New York" -
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Rome: Engineering an Empire" -
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Hippies" -
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Modern Marvels: 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's Tech" Marathon-
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4-8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Expedition Africa: 03 - Hunters Become The Hunted" -
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "UFO Hunters" Marathon -
Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 2-5pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Band of Brothers" Marathon -
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 1:30-8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Secret Access: Air Force One" -
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "The Presidents: 1885-1913" -
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Andrew Jackson" -
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel: "Expedition Africa: 04 - African Monsoon" -
Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT
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BEST SELLERS (NYT): |
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COMING SOON BOOKS: |
- Douglas Brinkley, Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, 1858-1919,
June 30, 2009
- Caroline Moorehead: Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era,
June 30, 2009
- Michael McMenamin: Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor,
July 1, 2009
- Elinor Burkett: Golda (Reprint), July 1, 2009
- Mike Evans (Editor): Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World, July 7, 2009
- Roger S. Bagnall: Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, July 14, 2009
- David Maraniss: Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World (Reprint), July 14, 2009
- Buzz Aldrin: Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon, July 23, 2009
- Alice Morse Earle: Child Life in Colonial Times (Paperback), July 23, 2009
- William A. DeGregorio: The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents, Seventh Edition, August 15, 2009
- Douglas Hunter: Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World, September 1, 2009
- Annette Gordon-Reed: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (Paperback), September 8, 2009
- Jon Krakauer: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman,
September 15, 2009
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DEPARTED: |
- Philip D. Curtin:
Longtime Johns Hopkins University professor reshaped the history of the African slave trade -
WaPk, 6-14-09
- Him Mark Lai: Dies at 83; scholar was called dean of Chinese American studies -
LAT, 6-14-09
- PATRICIA MARCIA CRAWFORD, HISTORIAN: Inquisitive woman for the ages -
The Age, Australia, 6-12-09
- Professor Perez Zagorin: Who has died on April 26 aged 88, was an American historian who specialised
in the English Civil War but was shunned by the academic establishment in his own country during the McCarthy era... -
Telegraph, UK, 6-9-09
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