GEORGE F. KENNAN
George F. Kennan: At 98, veteran diplomat declares Congress must take lead on war with Iraq.
http://www.thehill.com/issues/092502/kennan.shtm

THE INVENTOR WHO FIRST FLEW A PLANE IN FRONT OF A CROWD (NOT THE WRIGHT BROTHERS)-- NPR
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with building the first airplane, but they weren't the first to fly one before an audience. A rival inventor named Glenn Curtiss holds that claim to fame.
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=150613

DIARY OF THE MOST FAMOUS CIVIL SERVANT EVER
We know more about a government servant of the 17th century than about any other man who ever lived, not excluding Churchill, Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy. We are familiar with Samuel Pepys's bowel movements and emotions, his human relationships and infidelities.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$URVMO3IEUXYQZQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/arts/2002/09/22/botom22.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/09/22/bomain.html

ERIC HOBSBAWM
How did such an intelligent man become a communist?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$URVMO3IEUXYQZQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/arts/2002/09/22/bohob222.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/09/22/bomain.html

AMERICANS BATTLING OVER HISTORIC SITES
From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, national parks that once confined their interpretation to military maneuvers and strategy are now beginning to talk about the causes and consequences of the Civil War. That's upsetting to some people.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020930/misc/30civil.htm

THE TRUE LEGACY OF JOHN WESLEY POWELL
John Wesley Powell is best known as an explorer of the Colorado River and surrounding regions. But his greatest legacy may be the early warnings he sounded about settlement and water use in the West. A century after his death, Powell's ideas are earning new credibility. http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/sept/powell/index.html

HITLER'S BEST FRIEND
The debate over Albert Speer's responsibility for Nazi war crimes rages on in Joachim Fest's new biography of the Third Reich's master architect and planner: Speer: The Final Verdict. http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/09/26/speer/index.html

WHY MARCHING IS SO CRUCIAL
The success of the British public's mass demonstrations against previous wars such as Vietnam show why this Saturday's Stop the War march in London is so important to revealing the public's new opposition to war with Iraq. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,799476,00.html

BELGIUM CONFRONTS ITS HEART OF DARKNESS
Belgium finally confronts the dark history of its cruel reign over the Congo. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/arts/21LEOP.html

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
NPR marks the 140th anniversary of the preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation, with a conversation with Professor Allen Guelzo of Eastern University. He's the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=150405

JESSE JAMES, REVISED
The author of a new book claims James was a terrorist bent on keeping alive the cause of the Old South. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E26%257E871236%257E,00.html

LEGENDARY VIKING FARM UNCOVERED IN ICELAND
UCLA: California archeologists have discovered a Viking Age farm in northern Iceland that may have been home to Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first European child born in North America and a hero in Norse folk legends. http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1032240961596B241&set_id=1

TALKING HISTORY RADIO PROGRAMS
Talking History is a thirty-minute weekly radio program sponsored by the Organization of American Historians that separates fact from fiction and myth from reality through interviews with nationally recognized historians and writers. Recent shows include such topics as the history of caffeine, the life of Mother Jones, and the history of air conditioning. Click here to download the latest programs in MP3 format.
http://talkinghistory.oah.org/arch2002.html#Anchor-27985

HISTORY LESSONS FOR WARTIME PRESIDENTS AND THEIR GENERALS
Steven Weisman discusses Eliot A. Cohen's new book, Supreme Command (summer reading for President Bush), in which Cohen argues that all successful wartime presidents must be willing to overrule their military commanders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/opinion/15SUN3.html

A WHIFF OF DREAD FOR THE LAND OF HOPE
Simon Schama advocates a dose of pessimism with regard to dealing with future terrorist threats against the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/weekinreview/15SCHA.html

'INVENTING AMERICA': A TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY
A New York Times book review of Inventing America, a college textbook featuring"science and technology as integral elements of American history" by historians Pauline Maier, et al.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/books/review/15NASART.html

BUILDING NATIONAL RESOLVE BY TALKING ABOUT IT
Bruce Schulman argues the case for national debate over war in Iraq, claiming that in wars initiated after wide-ranging public debate, the nation's resolve was strengthened and a spirit of sacrifice and collective endeavor was engendered. On the contrary, going to war in the absence of this process has historically fostered division, doubt and discontent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/weekinreview/15SCHU.html

TARGETED BY A HISTORY OF HATRED
Bernard Lewis attempts to answer the question of why some Muslim nations find the U.S. so contemptible.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59594-2002Sep9.html

RESEARCH BRINGS A NEW DIMENSION TO 'A CANDIDATE'S VOICE'
A new study by researchers at Kent State University suggests that the way in which presidential candidates use their voices to communicate in debate determines the outcome of the election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/social/17DEBA.html

CARO HAS ONE TO GO ON JOHNSON BUT NO RUSH
The New York Times profiles author and historian Robert Caro as he prepares to begin the fourth and final volume of his biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/books/17CARO.html

MAYA CARVINGS TELL OF 2 SUPERPOWERS
The recently discovered Dos Pilas heiroglyphs are expected to shed light on the clashes of arms at the zenith of the classic Maya culture, which embraced much of central America and southern Mexico, and perhaps the causes of its eventual collapse more than two centuries later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/science/19MAYA.html

NEW BROOKLYN MUSEUM EXHIBIT DEVOTED TO NUDES
"Exposed: The Victorian Nude," organized by Tate Britain, is a fascinating show uncovering the caustic debates that surrounded the nude even as it proliferated on the walls of Victorian Britain's salons.
http://www.newsday.com/features/printedition/ny-ffart2923286sep15.story?coll=ny%2Dfeatures%2Dprint

HISTORY OF TAX BATTLES FROM LINCOLN TO WILSON
He's covered politics, economics and international affairs for The New York Times for over 30 years. He now writes editorials for the paper. In his new book, The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson The Fierce Battles over Money and Power That Transformed the Nation (Simon & Schuster) he looks at the battles over "wealth, power and fairness" that led to the establishment of the income tax.
http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=09%2F16%2F2002

HISTORIC PRESERVATION
How we preserve artifacts of the past; how practices differ in the East and the West.
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/display/inn_books_and_lit/books.txt

VINLAND MAP--ANTI-NAZI PLOY?
A Norwegian historian says she has fingered the forger: a German Jesuit priest named Josef Fischer, whom she believes made the map partly to protest the Nazi regime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/14/arts/design/14MAP.html

JESSE JAMES COMPARED TO BIN LADEN
Osama bin Laden is hardly the first terrorist to kill Americans in America. Nor was Timothy McVeigh. Think back, rather, 125 years ago--to Jesse James.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/kisor/sho-sunday-kisor15.html

HISTORIANS SAY 9-11 DID NOT CHANGE THE WORLD
For some historians the jury is still out as to whether the events of a year ago, devastating and traumatic as they were, represented a one-off episode in history or a decisive turning point.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2002/0912/cn8-1.html

COMPARISONS BETWEEN PATRIOTISM TODAY AND DURING WORLD WAR I
If you’re looking for parallels to life in post-9/11 America, says Dave Walter, the research historian for the Montana Historical Society in Helena, look no further than Montana during World War I.
http://www.montanaforum.com/rednews/2002/09/13/build/freedoms/pastpresent.php?nnn=3

STATE MUSEUM RECEIVE AFFILIATE STATUS FROM SMITHSONIAN
the affiliation program was started when Lawrence Small, Smithsonian secretary, realized that the institution displays only 2 percent of its artifacts. Why not let the American people enjoy the items that are in storage?
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/html/D8F0D44F-15B7-4E39-97F6-36D5A1074617.shtml

SMITHSONIAN EXHIBITS 9-11 ARTIFACTS
Associated Press reports on the debut of the new exhibit.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/entertainment/4050575.htm

JAPAN INVASION MYTH
Japan never intended to invade Australia in World War II, according to the principal historian at the Australian War Memorial.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/11/1031608248314.html

NPR: HOW OTHER MAJOR EVENTS HAVE BEEN REMEMBERED
NPR's Robert Smith looks at how other momentous events have -- and haven't -- been remembered through history, and speaks with historians about how one year later, Sept. 11 is in some ways a story without an ending.
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=149750

LOST CITY UNCOVERED
Robert Siegel talks with Tom Lewis, operation manager at Thurmond Lake Parks in Clarks Hill, S.C., about remnants of the colonial settlement of Petersburg. The remains of Petersburg have been revealed as the waters of Thurmond Lake receded during this summer's drought. The town was once Georgia's second-largest city. It was flooded 50 years ago when the lake was created.
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=149704

BENEATH HISTORIC FASHIONS
History's unmentionables come out of the closet in a new calendar from the Costume Society of America called Underwear: Beneath Historic Fashions. The calendar depicts undergarments from the early 18th century to the 1960s.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/aug/underwear/index.html

FRENCH RESISTANCE FIGHTER
The life of Henri Rol-Tanguy, a leader in the French Resistance during World War II, and praised for his efforts to liberate Paris, is recalled by host Liane Hansen and guest John Sweets, a history professor at the University of Kansas, and author of The Politics of Resistance in France, 1940-1944.
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=150042

MCPHERSON ON ANTIETAM: BLOODIEST BATTLE OF CIVIL WAR
The battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 is remembered as the bloodiest day in American history and as a lost opportunity for a decisive Union victory. Neal Conan talks with James McPherson who argues that Antietam was in fact the turning point of the civil war.
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=150122

NAPOLEON'S SOLDIERS
The excavation of a mass grave of Napoleon’s soldiers could provide insights into both the French emperor’s biggest military blunder and lifestyles in 19th-century Europe.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/805695.asp

THAT WAS THE DAY THAT WAS
This article, which appeared in Wired magazine on 9/04/2002, reports on the various archival projects that seek to capture the e-mails, text messages, weblogs, videos and other digital snapshots of the 9/11 tragedy.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54729,00.html

CONGRESSIONAL STUDY: WAR POWERS ACT
The Congressional Research Service reports on presidential compliance with the War Powers Act (which Arthur Schlesinger Jr once referred to as"toy handcuffs"). http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB81050.pdf

THE GUNS OF SEPTEMBER
Nicholas Kristof highlights the contrasts between Bush and Iraq and JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/opinion/13KRIS.html

ONE YEAR LATER
Michael Miner looks at how Chicago papers covered the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
http://www.chireader.com/hottype/2002/020913_1.html .

A MEMORY BANK FOR THE PLANET
Rings of bristlecone pines, Earth's oldest trees, hold clues to global warming and human history. Scientist Thomas Harlan seeks the missing link in a record of nearly 12,000 years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-bristlecone13sep13.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dtodays%2Dtimes .

WHO KILLED KING TUT?
Two U.S. gumshoes think they've solved the