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September 15, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights David Reynolds: Host of new British TV series on US history reflects on historic themes of the 2008 election - BBC, 9-15-08
CHICAGO 1968:	Chicago 1968: 40 years Later: On This Day in History....
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: 9/11 Allen Matusow on"Grappling with the lessons of 9/11": The 9/11 attacks seemed like a historic moment, but are they truly history, ripe for study? Yes, says Rice University history professor Allen Matusow, and most historians agree. Recent events can be approached historically even when their half-life is measured in months."There is such a thing as contemporary history," said Matusow, who specializes in 20th century American history."People who live through it know things. One is how they felt when it was happening. The mere fact of distance does not get you closer to the truth about an event. The best history of the Peloponnesian Wars was by Thucydides, and he fought in it." Matusow has the luxury, actually the necessity, to have his students explore the origins of 9/11 in unabbreviated fashion. One of his courses traces the evolution of anti-Western Islamic thought and the birth of al-Qaida in the Afghan war of a generation ago. For younger students, and those who teach them, the hurdle is context in the face of time constraints. - Houston Chronicle, 9-10-08 McCain, Obama Arrive for 9/11 Anniversary - NY Sun, 9-10-08 Gil Troy: 9/11 and the race for the White House - Jerusalem Post, 9-10-08 David McQuilkin on"Sept. 11 leaves confused legacy on college campuses": David McQuilkin, a history and political science professor at Bridgewater, says the 9/11 attacks are no longer the major discussion topic that they once were in his classroom, and students rarely raise the issue. From his perspective as a historian, this is to be expected, because McQuilkin thinks 9/11 will not figure as prominently into the American story as the bombing of Pearl Harbor 60 years earlier. The difference, McQuilkin said, has been the response. After Pearl Harbor, America's immediate, unified, sustained reaction saw the country through World War II and established it as a world power (this, at least, is the generally-accepted narrative)."We haven’t seen 9/11 reach that kind of visceral level within the American experience," said McQuilkin. - Rocktown Weekly, VA, 9-11-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Richard L. CravattsL:"How to Get the World To Hate Israel" - - 8-4-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Wendy McElroy: "The Police Worry About Your Health" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 7-28-08 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Rob Alford:"What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?" 12-08-03 All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 15/09/1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8] 15/09/1656 - England and France sign peace treaty 15/09/1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution 15/09/1862 - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV 15/09/1914 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I 15/09/1923 - Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror 15/09/1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 15/09/1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 15/09/1959 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit 15/09/1963 - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham 15/09/1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor 16/09/1630 - Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston 16/09/1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time 16/09/1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories 16/09/1908 - Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp 16/09/1940 - Luftwaffe attacks center of London 16/09/1940 - FDR signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft) 16/09/1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto 16/09/1968 - Richard Nixon appears on"Laugh-in" 16/09/1971 - 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses 16/09/1974 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters 17/09/1562 - Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon 17/09/1691 - Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter 17/09/1787 - US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention 17/09/1796 - Pres George Washington delivers his farewell address 17/09/1850 - Great fire in San Francisco 17/09/1862 - Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die 17/09/1900 - Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed 17/09/1952 -"I am an American Day" and"Constitution Day" renamed"Citizenship Day" 17/09/1986 - US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice 18/09/1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage 18/09/1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 18/09/1793 - Pres Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 18/09/1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs 18/09/1850 - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 18/09/1851 - NY Times starts publishing (2› a copy) 18/09/1862 - General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 18/09/1895 - Booker T Washington delivera"Atlanta Compromise" address 18/09/1914 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 18/09/1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration 18/09/1947 - National Security Act, passes 18/09/1987 - US and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles 19/09/1676 - Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire 19/09/1777 - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga 19/09/1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president 19/09/1863 - Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 19/09/1873 - Black Friday: Jay Cooke and Co fails, causing a securities panic 19/09/1911 - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights 19/09/1941 - Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars 20/09/1530 - Luther advises protestant monarch compromise 20/09/1664 - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men 20/09/1797 - US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston 20/09/1850 - Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue 20/09/1861 - Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union 20/09/1863 - Battle of Shepardstown VA 20/09/1863 - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends 20/09/1881 - Chester A Arthur sworn in as 21st president 20/09/1961 - James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi 20/09/1963 - JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon 20/09/1976 - Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women 20/09/1990 - Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message 21/09/1621 - King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling 21/09/1745 - Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army 21/09/1776 - 5 days after British take NY - Great fire in NY 21/09/1784 - Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser 1st success US daily newspaper 21/09/1792 - Proposal by Collot D'Herbois, to abolish the monarchy in France - 1st French Republic forms 21/09/1814 -"Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem 21/09/1863 - Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga 21/09/1897 - NY Sun runs famous"Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 21/09/1922 - Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 21/09/1981 - Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Dan Preston: UMW prof helps PBS hosts verify Monroe letter - Culpeper Star Exponent, VA, 9-15-08 Africa has a right to claim reparations, says Niger historian - http://www.apanews.net, 9-12-08 David Reynolds: Will host ambitious new British TV series about the US - Telegraph, 9-12-08 Ann M. Little: Historian complains she was a victim of bullying in her department - Piper Fogg in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 9-12-08 Critics assail quality of new State Department histories - Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists, 9-10-08 Joel Beinin: Campus Watch assails his views (again) but praises his candor - Campus Watch, 9-10-08 New posting to curriculum board reignites history wars in Australia - Australian, 9-10-08 House Panel Fully Funds NHPRC; Increases Funding for NARA - Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH), 9-9-08 National Security Archive and Historians Secure Long Secret Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony - National Security Archive, 9-9-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Ron Suskind: Reign of Counterterror THE WAY OF THE WORLD A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism - NYT, 9-14-08 Ron Suskind: THE WAY OF THE WORLD A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, First Chapter - NYT, 9-14-08 Andrew J. Bacevich: We Got Trouble THE LIMITS OF POWER The End of American Exceptionalism - NYT, 9-14-08 Fergus M. Bordewich on Annette Gordon-Reed: American Roots THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO An American Family - WaPo, 9-14-08 Bob Woodward: Yes Men What happens when the president's advisers don't speak up THE WAR WITHIN A Secret White House History 2006-2008 - WaPo, 9-14-08 Mark A. Noll: Undressing the Body Politic GOD AND RACE IN AMERICAN POLITICS A Short History - WaPo, 9-14-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs & LETTERS: Gil Troy: The More Things Stay the Same - WaPo, 9-14-08 Robert Bateman: Historian pleads for people to write down their memories of 9-11 - WaPo, 9-11-08 STEVEN J. KEILLOR: Playground politics: A fable for adults - International Falls Daily Journal, MN, 9-9-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Joseph Lane: McCain's Closing of the"Enthusiasm Gap" (Thanks to Palin) - Britannica Blog, 9-10-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Mike Denham: FSC Professor Keeps Focus on Florida History - The Ledger, FL, 9-15-08 Stendhal at his best: A 'worthless' historian - Michael Johnson in the International Herald Tribune, 9-11-08 Charles Arnade: USF professor stood up for human rights EDUCATION: Experiences shaped Charles Arnade's approach to big issues - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL, 9-10-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Dwight Pitcaithley: A Historian's Take on the National Park Service - National Parks Traveler Online, 9-10-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Sean Wilentz: Out on a Partisan Limb? - Russell Jacoby in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 9-19-08 Gabor Boritt: College professor gives Bush tour of battlefield - The Evening Sun, PA, 9-6-08 Christopher Gennari: Digital camera digitizes historic papers - UPI, 9-10-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Leonid Petrov on"Kim rumours provide a wake-up call": For Leonid Petrov, North Korea historian at Australian National University, this tug of war over reforms is key to how North Koreans will respond to the demise of Kim Jong-il. He says the population was badly traumatised by the death of Kim Il-sung - partly because of the personality cult which surrounded him, but partly also because it heralded a period of intense isolation and impoverishment in which more than a million people may have died. Dr Petrov suggests any internal candidate able to preserve short-term stability would probably be more conservative than Kim Jong-il. But he warns against any such candidate attempting to roll back the economic reforms that have allowed North Koreans a little more room to make an independent living. - BBC News, 9-10-08
ANNOUNCEMENTS:	ANNOUNCEMENTS: Museum Of Jewish Heritage Announces Public Programming Schedule - HULIQ (press release), NC, 9-9-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Richard J. Evans appointed new Regius Professor of Modern History - Cambridge Network, UK, 9-15-08
EXHIBITS / WEBSITES:	EXHIBITS / WEBSITES: Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina Museum Exhibition Design Team Announced - Carolina Newswire (press release), NC, 9-8-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Michael Beschloss: Historian Says Decades From Now Bush Legacy Could Be One Of High-Regard -"The way presidential history works is that the longer you wait, the fairer the judgment. Looking back, we have access to all kinds of information – letters, correspondence, records." - Bristol Herald Courier, 9-14-08 Thurston Clarke: Recalls"turmoil" of JFK era in Yale talk - Yale Daily News, 9-9-08 Mark Scherer: Historian, First Amendment lawyer discuss conflicting rights - First Amendment Center, TN, 9-5-08 Lerone Bennett, Jr; Lincoln not hero of legend - http://www.theithacajournal.com, 9-4-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: September 17, 2008: Proctor.Michael Gannon, professor emeritus of history from UF, will open the Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Pugh Hall Ocora with a talk titled"Ponce De Leon and the Discovery of Florida." The series is sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. - University of Florida, Gainesville, 9-12-08 September 17, 2008: Princeton historian Barbara Oberg, general editor of"The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," will deliver a Constitution Day lecture on"Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Citizens" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University - Princeton University, NJ, 9-10-08 September 18, 2008: Dr. Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, will deliver the Richard S. Wells Lecture. Lepore's topic will be"Paper Trail: The Rise and Fall of the Paper Ballot." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Jaylee M. Mead Auditorium of the Patricia A. Sullivan Science Building at the University of North Carolina Greensboro - UNCG University News, NC, 9-15-08 October 18, 2008: History buffs and students alike are encouraged to attend"The Legacy of Stones River: Pathways to Freedom" in Murfreesboro, an Oct. 18 symposium focusing on the demise of slavery during the Civil War and feature distinguished speakers. - Murfreesboro Post, TN, 9-15-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week The Weather Channel's original program:"When Weather Changed History": Season 2 debuts October 5 with an episode dedicated to the Chicago Fire of 1871. Repeats of Season 1 are on Every Sunday at 9pmET with re-airings through out the week. - When Weather Changed History Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 History Channel:"Mega Disasters: Earthquake in the Heartland," Monday, September 15, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Journey to 10,000 BC," Monday, September 15, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Houdini: Unlocking the Mystery: Houdini: Unlocking the Mystery," Tuesday, September 16, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Surviving History: - Surviving History," Marathon Tuesday, September 16, @ 4-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries: Mega-Structures of the Deep," Tuesday, September 16, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special: An Alien History of Planet Earth," Wednesday, September 17, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"UFO Files: UFOs and the White House," Wednesday, September 17, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Bigfoot in New York," Wednesday, September 17, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Lake Monsters of the North," Wednesday, September 17, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Raptor's Last Stand ," Wednesday, September 17, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Day the Towers Fell. ," Thursday, September 18, @ 12pm ET/PT History Channel:"Journey to 10,000 BC," Thursday, September 11, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Last Stand of The 300," Thursday, September 18, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers," Friday, September 19, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives: The Civil War: Antietam," Friday, September 19, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Journey to the Center of the World," Friday, September 19, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Gold Mines," Friday, September 19, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest," Marathon, Saturday, September 20, @ 2-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Saturday, September 20, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Forbidden City Revealed," Sunday, September 21, @ 5pm ET/PT C-Span2, BookTV: History Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution Author: Tony Williams - Saturday at 12:00 PM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Author: Douglas Blackmon - Saturday at 1:30 PM - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams Author: Panel of Speakers - Saturday at 4:00 PM - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Sear Carr,"The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm" Author: Sean Carr Saturday at 10:40 AM, Saturday at 2:40 PM, and Sunday at 10:40 PM - C-Span2, BookTV
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Week of September 14, 2008 Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #2 -- (6 weeks on list) - 9-21-08 David Freddoso: THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA #5 -- (5 weeks on list) - 9-21-08 Andrew Bacevich: THE LIMITS OF POWER #6 -- (5 weeks on list) - 9-21-08 Kaylene Johnson: SARAH #13 -- (1 week on list) - 9-21-08 Thomas Frank: THE WRECKING CREW #16 -- (4 weeks on list) - 9-14-08 Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway: WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL #19 - 9-21-08 T. J. English: HAVANA NOCTURNE #26 - 9-21-08 Noah Andre Trudeau: SOUTHERN STORM #29 - 9-21-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Jeffry D. Wert: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart, September 23, 2008 Tom Chaffin: The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, September 30, 2008 James M. McPherson: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief, October 7, 2008 Jeff Belanger: Who's Haunting the White House?: The President's Mansion and the Ghosts Who Live There, October 7, 2008 David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Joe Hilley: Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader, October 16, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 21, 2008 Laurence Bergreen: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, October 21, 2008 H. W. Brands: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 4, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008 Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, November 11, 2008 Gary May: John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845, December 9, 2008 George S. McGovern: Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865, December 23, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Philip Secrist: Civil War historian was 80 - Atlanta-Journal Constitution, 9-9-08

Posted on: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 01:28

September 1, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Convention Updates All Week Long @ Campaign 2008 Highlights Campaign 2008 Highlights: : A complete roundup of what Historians are saying about the campaign this week. Democratic Convention Day 4: August 28, 2008 Democratic Convention Day 3: August 27, 2008 Democratic Convention Day 2: August 26, 2008 Democratic Convention Day 1: August 25, 2008
MLK, JR: 45 YEARS:	Martin Luther King, Jr."I have a dream speech": 45 years Later: Recalling the"Dream" Speech, 45 Years On - WaPo, 8-28-08 Witnesses to Dream Speech See a New Hope - NYT, 8-28-08 Years Later, Lewis Watches History Being Made - WaPo, 8-28-08 Obama Readies for Historic Speech; From MLK 'I Have a Dream' to 'Yes We Can' First Black Major Party Nominee Speaks on Martin Luther King March Anniversary - ABC News, 8-28-08
CHICAGO 1968:	Chicago 1968: 40 years Later: Convention of '68 pivotal in U.S. history: The struggle framed the breakdown of both social order and political discourse in the 1960s, historian David Farber writes in his book,"Chicago '68.""Chicago '68 was seen by almost all who participated in it and by most of those who watched it on TV as more than just another protest marked by violence, intolerance and excess," he wrote."Chicago '68 marked a crisis in the nation's political and cultural order."... "The convention uncovered the polarization of America," said Lendol Calder, an associate professor of history at Augustana College in Rock Island, who teaches a course on the 1960s."It put it on television for everybody to see." - Quad City Times, 8-27-08 Tom Wilson: 1968 Democratic Convention unforgettable - Galesburg Register-Mail, IL, 8-26-08 Essay: Norman Mailer's Great American Meltdown - NYT, 8-24-08 Jeremi Suri on"Inouye's 1968 speech was look at future": Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the 1968 convention showed how much the Democratic Party, split by race and the Vietnam War, was changing. Inouye had endorsed Humphrey and was aligned with the establishment, but Suri said Inouye — as a symbol — did not represent the Democratic political machine or the majority of delegates inside the International Amphitheatre."It didn't tell people where the party was then. It told them where the party was going," said Suri, author of the book"Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente," which examined the 1960s. - Honolulu Advertiser, 8-25-08 Michael Kazin on"Inouye's 1968 speech was look at future": Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who was arrested at the Chicago protests, said Inouye's speech did not have much impact on those outside the convention."I don't think he was all that visible," he said."Clearly, he was a symbol of a nonwhite Democrat who had been a war hero despite what had happened to Japanese-Americans during the war." The bitterness over Humphrey's nomination in 1968 led the party to give more weight to the primary system, Kazin said, and opened up the nomination process to politicians from outside the establishment like Jimmy Carter — a populist Georgia governor — in 1976 and Obama this year."If you want to look at one event that made it quite public that the Democratic Party was not the same party which had won all these elections and really controlled the political dialogue, this is the event to look to," said Kazin, the co-author of"America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s." - Honolulu Advertiser, 8-25-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: LBJ Centenniel Robert Dallek: Legacy of LBJ endures 100 years after his birth -"Johnson was as strong a personality as we have had in the White House," said historian Robert Dallek, author of a two-volume biography of Johnson."As was said of Lincoln, his ambition was an engine that never ceased running." - Seattle Post Intelliger, 8-26-08 Robert Caro speaks of the LBJ centennial:"I want to remember him in his days of just undiluted glory," says Caro, a Pulitzer Prize winner currently in the middle of his fourth and final Johnson volume, which will cover his vice presidency and presidency...."You listen to the ones who were concerned with what Lyndon Johnson did on the domestic side, and you say, 'There never was a surer touch. There never was more of an understanding of what exactly needed to be done to get this legislation passed,'" Caro says."Then you turn to Vietnam, reading the minutes of the meetings, talking to people. You have a sense of a man who didn't know what to do. ... If I write this book correctly, that contrast will emerge."...."I see Barack Obama as the apex of the Lyndon Johnson legacy," Caro believes, saying that his presumed nomination would not have been possible without the civil rights legislation that enabled millions of blacks to vote."But you can't talk about Iraq without talking about Vietnam," he adds."You can't leave that out. His presidency did not end in triumph." AP, 8-24-08 Michael Beschloss on"Robert Caro speaks of the LBJ centennial":"Every generation pays very close attention to the major controversies of the time and when Johnson left office, in 1969, Vietnam was still raging and a lot of Americans were furious at Johnson," Beschloss says."They weren't thinking about a lot of things they had liked about him, like civil rights. And in 1969 people were not as aware as historians are now of the efforts he made to get the country out of the war." - AP, 8-24-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Richard L. CravattsL:"How to Get the World To Hate Israel" - - 8-4-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Wendy McElroy: "The Police Worry About Your Health" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 7-28-08 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Rob Alford:"What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?" 12-08-03 All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 31/08/1850 - Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery and Clay Streets 31/08/1864 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties 31/08/1907 - England, Russia and France form Triple Entente 31/08/1914 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die) 31/08/1935 - FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents 31/08/1963 -"Hot line" between Moscow-Washington, DC installed 01/09/0069 - Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem 01/09/1267 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem 01/09/1535 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) 01/09/1666 - Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed 01/09/1752 - Liberty Bell arrives in Phila 01/09/1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire 01/09/1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem 01/09/1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey 01/09/1864 - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties 01/09/1864 - Battle of Petersburg VA 01/09/1939 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 01/09/1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 01/09/1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 01/09/1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan) 01/09/1962 - UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion 02/09/1743 - England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms 02/09/1752 - Last Julian calender day in US and England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) 02/09/1796 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated 02/09/1870 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies 02/09/1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises,"Speak softly and carry a big stick" 02/09/1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane 02/09/1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz 02/09/1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) 02/09/1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Political Scientists Question the Direction of American Political Studies - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 8-29-08 Convention '08: Studying History as It Happens - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 8-28-08 Sean Wilentz: Under attack from Obama fans for raising doubts about Obama - Jim Sleeper at TPM Cafe (blog), 8-28-08 David Irving: Sues for loss of archives - http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk, 8-28-08 Author defends Maori cannibalism book after complaint of racism - Otago Daily Times (NZ), 8-27-08 Britain's Thatcher Has Dementia - NYT, 8-26-08 A digital project by historians illustrates voting patterns over time via a series of animated map - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 8-25-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Curtis Sittenfeld: First Lady, Second Version AMERICAN WIFE - NYT, 8-28-08 Curtis Sittenfeld: AMERICAN WIFE, First Chapter - NYT, 8-29-08 Fall Books Preview 2008 - WaPo, 8-31-08 Andrew J. Bacevich: Speaking Truth to a Superpower We consume too much . . . go to war too often . . . and don't govern ourselves wisely enough THE LIMITS OF POWER The End of American Exceptionalism - WaPo, 8-31-08 Phillip N. Raccine: Letters tell first-hand accounts of Southern life Gentlemen Merchants : A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870 - North Florida NewsDaily, FL, 8-25-08 Kristie Macrakis: Her new book exposes the amazing array of tricks used by Stasi to spy on people - Harvard Magazine, 7-1-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs & LETTERS : Sean Wilentz: How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party - Rolling Stone, 9-4-08 Julian Zelizer: Barack Obama Does Not Have to Be Another Jimmy Carter - Huffington Post, 8-27-08 David Greenberg: Why Biden's plagiarism shouldn't be forgotten - Slate, 8-25-08 Sean Wilentz: A Liberal's Lament - Newsweek, 8-23-08 John Lewis Gaddis: How history might regard Bush - American Interest, 8-1-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Martin Kramer: Objects to apparent endorsement of an anti-Israel rally by Georgetown Arab center - Martin Kramer at his blog, 8-26-08 Andrew Bacevich: Spat between him and HNN blogger turns negative - Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 8-23-08 Timothy Furnish: Historian returns from trip to Iran - Timothy Furnish at his blog, mahdiwatch.com, 8-25-08 Andrew Bacevich: His appearance on Bill Moyers's show draws darts as well as hearts - Chris Bray at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 8-19-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Vietnamese historian spends a lifetime collecting old maps - http://www.thanhniennews.com, 8-28-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Stevenson's 1952, Clinton's 1992 Speeches Among Historian Favorites - NPR, 8-28-08 Q & A - DAVID WILLIAMS: Historian suggests Southerners defeated Confederacy Valdosta State professor pens Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War - Atlanta Journal Constitution, 8-23-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Ken Burns: Produces documentary about Ted Kennedy - Democratic National Convention, 8-25-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Rick Perlstein The Yippie Show How some media-savvy leftists inadvertently helped the right, and vice versa: In Nixonland, his insightful study of the period, the historian Rick Perlstein points out that Nixon"welcomed conflict that served him politically. A briefing paper came to the president's desk in the middle of March instructing him to expect increased violence on college campuses that spring. 'Good!' he wrote across the face." - Reason Online, 8-27-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: September 4, 2008: Nautical Archaeologist and Historian David C. Switzer will speak at Portland Harbor Museum on Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Switzer's illustrated talk is entitled,"The Submarine O-9: Lost and Found in the Gulf of Maine in 1941." - MaineToday.com, ME, 8-16-08 September 6, 2008: Morristown New Jersey Fall museum programs begin with spooky history - Dailyrecord.com, NJ, 8-16-08 September 15, 2008: Douglas Brinkley at Open VISIONS Forum (OVF) season at Fairfield University. OVF, the lecture series presented by University College at Fairfield University, which presents political pundits, historians, actresses and activists with diverse, provocative and lively views of current and historical topics, will start out with historian Douglas Brinkley on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. - Redding Pilot, CT, 8-2-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week The Weather Channel's original program:"When Weather Changed History": Season 2 debuts October 5 with an episode dedicated to the Chicago Fire of 1871. Repeats of Season 1 are on Every Sunday at 9pmET with re-airings through out the week. - When Weather Changed History Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 History Channel:"Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers," Saturday, August 30, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Boneless Horror," Sunday, August 31, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Tougher In Alaska," Marathon Monday, September 1, @ 2-8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The True Story of Killing Pablo," Tuesday, September 2, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Organized Crime: A World History: Colombia," Tuesday, September 2, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Organized Crime: A World History: Russia," Tuesday, September 2, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: New York: Secret Societies," Tuesday, September 2, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life After People," Wednesday, September 3, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters: Glacier Meltdown," Wednesday, September 3, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"Bible Code II: Apocalypse and Beyond: Bible Code II: Apocalypse and Beyond," Wednesday, September 3, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: American Werewolf," Wednesday, September 3, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Hunter Becomes Hunted," Wednesday, September 3, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hillbilly: The Real Story," Thursday, September 4, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Tougher In Alaska: Extreme Isolation," Friday, September 5, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Civil War Tech," Friday, September 5, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire: The First Barbarian War," Friday, August 29, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #1 -- (4 weeks on list) - 9-7-08 David Freddoso: THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA #6 -- (3 weeks on list) - 9-7-08 T. J. English: HAVANA NOCTURNE #14 -- (5 weeks on list) - 9-7-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Robert Dallek: Harry S. Truman (REV), September 2, 2008 Mary C. Henderson: The Story of 42nd Street: The Theatres, Shows, Characters, and Scandals of the World's Most Notorious Street (First Edition), September 2, 2008 Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez: Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, (Paperback edition), Yale University Press, September 2, 2008. Paul Douglas Lockhart: The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army, September 9, 2008 Jeffry D. Wert: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart, September 23, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 7, 2008 David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008

Posted on: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 23:50

August 25, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights: : A complete roundup of what Historians are saying about the campaign this week. Sean Wilentz A Liberal's Lament To win, Obama must convince the country that he is a man of substance, not just style. History suggests this won't be easy:"But will Obama, amid the pulsating theatrics, also attempt the less glamorous and more difficult task of explaining specifically where he wants to move the country, and how he proposes to move it, above and beyond reciting his policy positions?" Wilentz asks."History, as well as recent public-opinion polls, suggests that he badly needs to do so." - Newsweek, 8-23-08 Laura McCall on"The first time around: A look at the 1908 DNC":"Everybody in 1908 thought Denver was kind of a cow town," said Denver historian Dr. Laura McCall."Denver wanted to give an impression that it was sophisticated and had culture. I think there's still something of an inferiority complex here that is totally undeserved." - 9NEWS.com, CO, 8-25-08
CHICAGO 1968:	Chicago 1968: 40 years Later: Essay: Norman Mailer's Great American Meltdown - NYT, 8-24-08 Jeremi Suri on"Inouye's 1968 speech was look at future": Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the 1968 convention showed how much the Democratic Party, split by race and the Vietnam War, was changing. Inouye had endorsed Humphrey and was aligned with the establishment, but Suri said Inouye — as a symbol — did not represent the Democratic political machine or the majority of delegates inside the International Amphitheatre."It didn't tell people where the party was then. It told them where the party was going," said Suri, author of the book"Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente," which examined the 1960s. - Honolulu Advertiser, 8-25-08 Michael Kazin on"Inouye's 1968 speech was look at future": Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who was arrested at the Chicago protests, said Inouye's speech did not have much impact on those outside the convention."I don't think he was all that visible," he said."Clearly, he was a symbol of a nonwhite Democrat who had been a war hero despite what had happened to Japanese-Americans during the war." The bitterness over Humphrey's nomination in 1968 led the party to give more weight to the primary system, Kazin said, and opened up the nomination process to politicians from outside the establishment like Jimmy Carter — a populist Georgia governor — in 1976 and Obama this year."If you want to look at one event that made it quite public that the Democratic Party was not the same party which had won all these elections and really controlled the political dialogue, this is the event to look to," said Kazin, the co-author of"America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s." - Honolulu Advertiser, 8-25-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: LBJ Centenniel Robert Caro speaks of the LBJ centennial:"I want to remember him in his days of just undiluted glory," says Caro, a Pulitzer Prize winner currently in the middle of his fourth and final Johnson volume, which will cover his vice presidency and presidency...."You listen to the ones who were concerned with what Lyndon Johnson did on the domestic side, and you say, 'There never was a surer touch. There never was more of an understanding of what exactly needed to be done to get this legislation passed,'" Caro says."Then you turn to Vietnam, reading the minutes of the meetings, talking to people. You have a sense of a man who didn't know what to do. ... If I write this book correctly, that contrast will emerge."...."I see Barack Obama as the apex of the Lyndon Johnson legacy," Caro believes, saying that his presumed nomination would not have been possible without the civil rights legislation that enabled millions of blacks to vote."But you can't talk about Iraq without talking about Vietnam," he adds."You can't leave that out. His presidency did not end in triumph." AP, 8-24-08 Michael Beschloss on"Robert Caro speaks of the LBJ centennial":"Every generation pays very close attention to the major controversies of the time and when Johnson left office, in 1969, Vietnam was still raging and a lot of Americans were furious at Johnson," Beschloss says."They weren't thinking about a lot of things they had liked about him, like civil rights. And in 1969 people were not as aware as historians are now of the efforts he made to get the country out of the war." - AP, 8-24-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Richard L. CravattsL:"How to Get the World To Hate Israel" - - 8-4-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Wendy McElroy: "The Police Worry About Your Health" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 7-28-08 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Rob Alford:"What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?" 12-08-03 All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 25/08/1485 - Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III 25/08/1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers 25/08/1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans was founded by French settlers and named after the Duke of Orleans. 25/08/1768 - Capt James Cook departs from Plymouth with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean 25/08/1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books 25/08/1829 - Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican govt refuses 25/08/1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves 25/08/1915 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage 25/08/1944 - Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation by Allied forces. 25/08/1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine 26/08/1846 - W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF) 26/08/1874 - 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee 26/08/1920 - 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted 26/08/1942 - 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France 26/08/1945 - Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II 26/08/1964 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ 27/08/1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia) 27/08/1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war 28/08/0476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted 28/08/1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established 28/08/1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay 28/08/1655 - New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service 28/08/1862 - Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000 28/08/1862 - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC 28/08/1884 - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD 28/08/1916 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I 28/08/1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared 28/08/1963 - Martin Luther King Jr's"I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 28/08/1968 - Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Nationall Convention 28/08/2005 - Hurricane Katrina hammers the south eastern United States, especially New Orleans, Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi 29/08/1640 - English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland 29/08/1756 - England and France meet in war 29/08/1786 - Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass 29/08/1862 - Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station) 29/08/1916 - US Congress accept Jones Act: Philippines independence 29/08/1939 - Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II 29/08/1944 - 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees 29/08/1945 - Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan 29/08/1957 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 29/08/1968 - Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago) 30/08/1563 - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled 30/08/1682 - William Penn left England to sail to New World 30/08/1776 - US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC 30/08/1781 - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War 30/08/1843 - 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party) 30/08/1854 - John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels 30/08/1862 - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY 30/08/1862 - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee 30/08/1862 - 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union 30/08/1945 - Gen MacArthur lands in Japan 30/08/1967 - US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice 31/08/1850 - Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery and Clay Streets 31/08/1864 - Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties 31/08/1907 - England, Russia and France form Triple Entente 31/08/1914 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die) 31/08/1935 - FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents 31/08/1963 -"Hot line" between Moscow-Washington, DC installed
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: A digital project by historians illustrates voting patterns over time via a series of animated map - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 8-25-08 University of Chicago historian Norman Golb pioneered work on the Dead Sea Scrolls--Did another scholar not give him due credit? - HNN Staff, 8-22-08 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: FBI Probed For Communist Ties (but never found any) - Newsmax.com, 8-19-08 Douglas Brinkley: His next book on TR cited by NYT columnist - Bob Herbert in the NYT, 8-19-08 History gets a lift from Congress - Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH), 8-8-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Phillip N. Raccine: Letters tell first-hand accounts of Southern life Gentlemen Merchants : A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870 - North Florida NewsDaily, FL, 8-25-08 Kenneth M. Pollack: War and Peace A PATH OUT OF THE DESERT A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East - NYT, 8-24-08 Kenneth M. Pollack: A PATH OUT OF THE DESERT A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East, First Chapter - NYT, 8-24-08 Brenda Wineapple: Emily's Tryst WHITE HEAT The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson - NYT, 8-24-08 Quil Lawrence: Friends in Unfriendly Places INVISIBLE NATION How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East - NYT, 8-24-08 Tom Gjelten: Rum and Revolution How the Bacardi family mixed business and politics to build a liquor empire BACARDI AND THE LONG FIGHT FOR CUBA The Biography of a Cause WaPo, 8-24-08 Andrew Meier: Liquidated The grisly fate of a true believer THE LOST SPY An American in Stalin's Secret Service - WaPo, 8-24-08 Simon Baatz: Jonathan Yardley on 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago' This infamous crime was committed by teenagers, killing for kicks FOR THE THRILL OF IT Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago - WaPo, 8-24-08 Robert Dallek: Historian to offer short bio on Harry S Truman - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8-19-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs & LETTERS : Denise Spellberg: She denies her critical comments put the kabash on a novel about Islam - Denise A. Spellberg, letter to the editor of the WSJ, 8-9-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Timothy Furnish: Historian returns from trip to Iran - Timothy Furnish at his blog, mahdiwatch.com, 8-25-08 Andrew Bacevich: His appearance on Bill Moyers's show draws darts as well as hearts - Chris Bray at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 8-19-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Steven J. Dick: The Life and Times of a Public Historian - Steven J. Dick at the website of History of Science Society, 7-1-08 Gavin Menzies: Another book, another wild theory 1421: The Year China Discovered the Worldwww.1421.tv - News story in the Telegraph, 8-1-08 Mark Cave: Historian collects stories of life in immediate aftermath of Katrina - Catholic News Service, 8-21-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: David Williams: Historian suggests Southerners defeated Confederacy Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War - civilwarinteractive, 8-24-08 Virginia Page Fortna: In her new book she focuses on peacekeeping (HNN Interview) - David Liebers, HNN intern, 8-18-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Dorothy West: House Proud in Historic Enclave - NYT, 8-18-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Don Wright on"Panel reflects on Iraq transition":"That was our job to make sense of," said Don Wright, a historian at the Army Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, who co-authored the book. The book was not intended to place blame."Explain what happened but let the reader decide," Wright said. Download the book On Point II, Transition to the New Campaign - Lawrence Journal World, KS, 8-26-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Elizabeth De Wolfe: Wins Book Award - Email from Peter Holloran, 8-9-08 Andrew Ward: Drawing wide praise for his book about slaves The Slaves' War - Steve Weinberg in the Star Trib, 8-20-08 Dan Healey: Scholar awarded grant to investigate history of medicine in the Gulag - BBC, 8-13-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Dane Kennedy & Wm. Roger Lewis: Deliver lectures on decolonization at the Library of Congress - AHA Blog, 8-18-08 Andrew Bacevich: Interviewed by Bill Moyers - PBS, 8-15-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: September 4, 2008: Nautical Archaeologist and Historian David C. Switzer will speak at Portland Harbor Museum on Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Switzer's illustrated talk is entitled,"The Submarine O-9: Lost and Found in the Gulf of Maine in 1941." - MaineToday.com, ME, 8-16-08 September 6, 2008: Morristown New Jersey Fall museum programs begin with spooky history - Dailyrecord.com, NJ, 8-16-08 September 15, 2008: Douglas Brinkley at Open VISIONS Forum (OVF) season at Fairfield University. OVF, the lecture series presented by University College at Fairfield University, which presents political pundits, historians, actresses and activists with diverse, provocative and lively views of current and historical topics, will start out with historian Douglas Brinkley on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. - Redding Pilot, CT, 8-2-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 History Channel:"Secret Access: Air Force One," Monday, August 25, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Prehistoric Monsters Revealed," Tuesday, August 26, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Ink," Wednesday, August 27, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Deep Sea Killers TV14 ," Wednesday, August 27, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"JFK: A Presidency Revealed," Thursday, August 28, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents: 1945-1977," Thursday, August 28, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents: 1977-Present," Thursday, August 28, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem," Friday, August 29, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special: Katrina: American Catastrophe," Friday, August 29, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: Katrina," Friday, August 29, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters: New Orleans," Friday, August 29, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire: The First Barbarian War," Friday, August 29, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #1 -- (3 weeks on list) - 8-31-08 David Freddoso: THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA #6 -- (2 weeks on list) - 8-31-08 Andrew Bacevich: THE LIMITS OF POWER #9 -- (1 week on list) - 8-31-08 T. J. English: HAVANA NOCTURNE #14 -- (4 weeks on list) - 8-31-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Robert Dallek: Harry S. Truman (REV), September 2, 2008 Mary C. Henderson: The Story of 42nd Street: The Theatres, Shows, Characters, and Scandals of the World's Most Notorious Street (First Edition), September 2, 2008 Paul Douglas Lockhart: The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army, September 9, 2008 Jeffry D. Wert: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart, September 23, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 7, 2008 David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Ann Lambton: Did the obits. overlook her great contributions? - Martin Kramer at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH blog), 8-20-08 Douglas Farnie: Historian of the cotton industry - Independent, UK, 8-20-08 Michael Baxandall: Influential art historian, dies at 74 - artinfo.com, 8-19-08 Gary Fink: Labor & political historian, dies - Email from Clifford Kuhn, 8-19-08 John McKay Cammett: Left historian, dies at 81 - Notice of death by Sandi Cooper, his wife, 8-1-08

Posted on: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 00:52

August 18, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights: : A complete roundup of what Historians are saying about the campaign this week.
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Historian David McCullough wins Chicago Tribune Literary Prize - Chicago Tribune, 8-11-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Richard L. CravattsL:"How to Get the World To Hate Israel" - - 8-4-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Wendy McElroy: "The Police Worry About Your Health" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 7-28-08 Hottest Topic: HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst Most Popular Feature: Rob Alford:"What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?" 12-08-03 All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 08-18-1564 - Spanish King Philip II joins Council of Trente 08-18-1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days 08-18-1914 - Pres Wilson issues"Proclamation of Neutrality" 18-08=1920 - Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right 08-18-1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts 08-19-1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France 08-19-1692 - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass 08-19-1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term 08-19-1849 - NY Herald reports gold discovery in California 08-19-1934 - Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) 08-19-1942 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is 08-19-1942 - 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France 08-19-1955 - Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US) 08-19-1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters 08-19-1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) 08-19-1965 - Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences 08-19-1984 - Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres 08-19-1988 - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) 08-20-1619 - 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia 08-20-1781 - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis 08-20-1864 - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties) 08-20-1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims an end to"insurrection" in Tx 08-20-1866 - Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over 08-20-1896 - Dial telephone patented 08-20-1910 - US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua 08-20-1918 - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I 08-20-1974 - Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation 08-21-1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake 08-21-1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) 08-21-1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois) 08-21-1863 - Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill 08-21-1864 - Battle of Summit Point, VA 08-21-1945 - Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program 08-22-0565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness 08-22-1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard 08-22-1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus 08-22-1642 - Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament 08-22-1654 - 1st Jewish immigrant to US, Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam 08-22-1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury 08-22-1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman 08-22-1846 - US annexes New Mexico 08-22-1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car 08-22-1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup 08-22-1956 - Pres Eisenhower and VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF 08-22-1975 - Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford 08-23-1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed 08-23-1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass 08-23-1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war 08-23-1903 - 6th Zionist Congress, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state 08-23-1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I 08-23-1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin 08-23-1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) 08-23-1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley 08-23-1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar 08-23-1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf 08-24-0079 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die 08-24-0410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 08-24-1349 - Jews 08-24-1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz 08-24-1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 08-24-1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists 08-24-1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect 08-24-1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party, at height of McCarthyism 08-24-1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Scots are past masters on British history - The Scotsman, 8-17-08 New book on Mormon-led massacre 150 years ago opens old wounds - CanadianPress, 8-17-08 Peter Stead: 'Today's history A-level is as hard as the one I did in 1961' - WalesOnline, United Kingdom, 8-14-08 Churchill Omitted From Who's Who Of British History - Oneindia, India, 8-12-08 Sheila Rowbotham: A POPULAR lecturer facing enforced retirement when she turned 65 has won a reprieve - Manchester Evening News, 8-12-08 Emilio Kouri: Writing a bi-weekly column about Latinos and their history in the City of Chicago and the United States for the Chicago Tribune's Spanish-language newspaper HOY - University of Chicago Chronicle, 8-14-08 Charlotte Hinger: Kansas History, the state's leading academic journal for historians, published Charlotte Hinger's article" 'The Colored People Hold the Key' - FHSU News and Current Events, KS, 8-12-08 Fredrick Toben: Revisionist Historian Living in Australia Could Be Jailed - Jewish Telegraph Agency, 8-11-08 Asaf Romirowski: Hiring Strategies in Middle East Studies Questioned - Campus Watch, 8-8-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot: The '60s: Once Upon an Optimistic Time THE LIBERAL HOUR Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s - NYT, 8-13-08 G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot: THE LIBERAL HOUR Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s, First Chapter - NYT, 8-13-08 Jerome R. Corsi: Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat ’04 Anti-Kerry Feat The Obama Nation - NYT, 8-13-08 Jerome R. Corsi: The Obama Nation, First Chapter - NYT, 8-12-08 John Carlin: Entering the Scrum PLAYING THE ENEMY Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation - NYT, 8-15-08 Thomas Frank: What’s the Matter With Washington? THE WRECKING CREW How Conservatives Rule NYT, 8-15-08 Eunice Pollack: University of North Texas lecturer's encyclopedia explores Jews' role in modern American history - Dallas Morning News, 8-2-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: David Greenberg: The plight of the lame duck - LATimes, 8-17-08 Ralph E. Shaffer: We're not Georgians, we're Americans - Appeal-Democrat, CA, 8-17-08 MARCIA SUTHERLAND: Africa is the cradle of humanity Dingwall needs to learn history - Jamaica Observer 8-14-08 Tracy Dove: Georgia and Russia: the Case Against a NATO Membership for Tblissi - Einnews Portugal, Portugal, 8-16-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: William Connell: Hidden In Plain Sight - Seton Hall University News & Events, NJ, 8-13-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Q&A JONATHAN SARNA - Dallas Morning News, 8-16-08 Texas Tech archives history of Viet Nam - Viet Nam News, Vietnam, 8-11-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: The Christie Pits Riot and the birth of multicultural Toronto - National Post, 8-15-08 Charles Vollan: SDSU historian: Old West offers insights on violence - South Dakota State University, SD, 8-13-08 Fate of Lower East Side Shul Stirs Emotions - NYT, 8-14-08 Betty Laird: Play about KU's first female professor - Fort Mills Times, SC, 8-9-08 N.S. history 'carted away in a Dumpster' Scholar aghast that Government House’s vintage plaster was replaced with Gyproc - TheChronicleHerald.ca, NS, 8-8-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: James Whiteside on"Pain, progress follow 1968's"silent gesture heard around the world"":"The '68 Olympics were a tableau of the cultural and political stresses of the era," said James Whiteside, a history professor at UC Denver."The year 1968 was the year of the youth revolution." - Denver Post, 8-17-08 Melvyn Goldstein on"After the Games, Tibet":"The Dalai Lama has taken the kind of courageous step that great political leaders make at crucial turning points in history," said Melvyn Goldstein, a prominent historian of modern Tibet and a professor at Case Western Reserve University."After more than 20 years of stalemate, the Dalai Lama, at great risk to his standing in the West and among Tibetans in exile, has unilaterally sent Beijing a clear signal that he is now ready to accept the kind of difficult compromises that are needed to resolve the conflict. For the first time in decades, reconciliation is now genuinely possible." - NYT, 8-14-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Allan R. Millett: Spoils of war include honor for historian, the Pritzker Award for lifetime achievement in military writing - The Columbus Dispatch, 8-12-08 Eduardo Obregón Pagán: Picture this: Photo history of Phoenix earns ASU prof Glyph Award - Arizona State University, Tempe, 8-11-08 Glyn Redworth: Historian's appointment honours royal links with Spain - Media Newswire (press release), NY, 8-13-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: September 4, 2008: Nautical Archaeologist and Historian David C. Switzer will speak at Portland Harbor Museum on Thursday, September 4, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Switzer's illustrated talk is entitled,"The Submarine O-9: Lost and Found in the Gulf of Maine in 1941." - MaineToday.com, ME, 8-16-08 September 6, 2008: Morristown New Jersey Fall museum programs begin with spooky history - Dailyrecord.com, NJ, 8-16-08 September 15, 2008: Douglas Brinkley at Open VISIONS Forum (OVF) season at Fairfield University. OVF, the lecture series presented by University College at Fairfield University, which presents political pundits, historians, actresses and activists with diverse, provocative and lively views of current and historical topics, will start out with historian Douglas Brinkley on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. - Redding Pilot, CT, 8-2-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 C-Span2, BookTV: History A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Author: Edward Larson - Sunday, August 17 @ 7:00pm ET - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: T-Rex Hunter," Sunday, August 17, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past: Doomsday 2012: The End of Days," Monday, August 18, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life After People," Monday, August 18, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Samurai," Tuesday, August 19, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"1968 with Tom Brokaw," Wednesday, August 20, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Bigfoot in New York," Wednesday, August 20, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Bloodiest Battle," Wednesday, August 20, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Dark Ages," Thursday, August 21, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Barbarians: Vikings," Friday, August 22, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Gangland: 06 - Kings of New York," Friday, August 22, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Last Stand of The 300," Saturday, August 23, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rome: Engineering an Empire," Saturday, August 23, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #1 -- (2 weeks on list) - 8-24-08 David Freddoso: THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA #5 -- (1 week on list) - 8-24-08 David Maraniss: ROME 1960 #35 - 8-24-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Patrick Desbois: The Holocaust by Bullets, August 19, 2008 Robert Dallek: Harry S. Truman (REV), September 2, 2008 Mary C. Henderson: The Story of 42nd Street: The Theatres, Shows, Characters, and Scandals of the World's Most Notorious Street (First Edition), September 2, 2008 Paul Douglas Lockhart: The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army, September 9, 2008 Jeffry D. Wert: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart, September 23, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 7, 2008 David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Obituaries Walter Hill Jr.: Scholar Opened Window Onto African American History - WaPo, 8-15-08 Dr. Peter J. Schmitt, longtime professor of history at Western Michigan University, died Aug. 6. He was 72 - WMU News, MI, 8-8-08

Posted on: Monday, August 18, 2008 - 01:51

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CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights: : A complete roundup of what Historians are saying about the campaign this week.
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Some of the biggest names in the field of Western history filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to stop the National Park Service from building a proposed expansion to the visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument - Jackson Hole Star Tribune, 8-2-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Richard L. CravattsL:"How to Get the World To Hate Israel" - - 8-4-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Jonathan T. Reynolds: "Heroic Historian" CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, 7-12-08 Hottest Topic: Election 2008: General Most Popular Feature: Rob Alford:"What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?" 12-08-03 All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 08-06-1787 - Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate 08-06-1806 - Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire 08-06-1815 - US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 08-06-1945 - Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by"Enola Gay" 08-06-1965 - LBJ signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks 08-06-1990 - UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq 08-07-1782 - George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart 08-07-1934 - US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down govt's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel"Ulysses" 08-07-1942 - 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is 08-07-1964 - US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution 08-07-1990 - Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia 08-08-1864 - Red Cross forms in Geneva 08-08-1876 - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph 08-08-1890 - Daughters of American Revolution organizes 08-08-1945 - USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea 08-08-1945 - US, USSR, England and France sign Treaty of London 08-08-1945 - Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter 08-08-1953 - US and South Korea initial a mutual security pact 08-08-1968 - Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres 08-08-1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are"damned lies" from govt contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign 08-08-1974 - Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 08-09-1638 - Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx 08-09-1842 - US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty 08-09-1655 - Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts 08-09-1673 - Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674 08-09-1790 - Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world 08-09-1842 - US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty 08-09-1848 - Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president 08-09-1941 - Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR 08-09-1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres 08-10-0070 -"2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx) 08-10-1497 - John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to"Asia" 08-10-1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery 08-10-1846 - Congress charters"nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution 08-10-1941 - FDR and Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland 08-11-1924 - US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news 08-11-1941 - FDR and PM Winston Churchill sign Atlantic Charter 08-12-1676 - 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England 08-12-1867 - Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton 08-12-1898 - Hawaii formally annexed to US 08-12-1898 - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed 08-12-1990 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories 08-12-1994 - Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice 08-13-1608 - John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication 08-13-1792 - Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette 08-13-1906 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas 08-13-1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day) 08-14-1765 - Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree) 08-14-1842 - Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma 08-14-1862 - Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president 08-14-1900 - 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion 08-14-1912 - 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925 08-14-1937 - China declares war on Japan 08-14-1942 - Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa 08-14-1945 - V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II 08-14-1973 - US ends secret bombing of Cambodia 08-15-1534 - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits 08-15-1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims 08-15-1824 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia 08-15-1867 - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England 08-15-1870 - Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado 08-15-1944 - Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence 08-15-1944 - Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast 08-15-1960 - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen 08-15-1969 - Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) 08-16-1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt 08-16-1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan 08-16-1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 08-16-1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed 08-16-1961 - Martin L. King, Jr. protests for black voting right in Miami 08-16-1969 - Woodstock rock festival begins in NY 08-17-1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, VA and found no trace of colonist's he had left there 3 yrs earlier [or Aug 18, 1591] 08-17-1808 - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain 08-17-1862 - Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky 08-17-1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming) 08-17-1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes 08-17-1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 08-17-1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 08-17-1961 - Building of Berlin Wall begins 08-17-1969 - -18] Hurricane Camille, kills 256 in Miss and Louisiana 08-17-1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: LDS historians: Brigham Young fueled hysteria, but didn't order massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, 8-3-08 Lee Formwalt: Leaving the OAH as executive director - Lee Formwalt in the OAH Newsletter, 8-1-08 OAH national headquarters visited by paranormal group tracking ghosts - Lee Formwalt in the OAH Newsletter, 8-1-08 John Bohstedt: Historian Helped Disarm Gunman in Church Shootings - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 7-31-08 Turkey: Historian's dismissal not gesture to Armenia - http://www.todayszaman.com, 7-26-08 Richard Hofstadter: Author accused of plagiarizing Hofstadter - Inside Higher Ed, 7-28-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: ALAN BRINKLEY on Jane Mayer: Black Sites THE DARK SIDE The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals NYT, 8-3-08 Steven Heller: Designing Dictators IRON FISTS Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State NYT, 8-3-08 Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier: Era With No Name AMERICA BETWEEN THE WARS From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror - NYT, 8-3-08 Ian Kershaw, Kevin P. Spicer: All for the Führer Two books raise troubling questions about the Nazis' support from Germany's populace and priests HITLER, THE GERMANS, AND THE FINAL SOLUTION, HITLER'S PRIESTS Catholic Clergy and National Socialism - WaPo, 8-3-08 Mark Kurlansky: Sea of Despond THE LAST FISH TALE The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town - WaPo, 8-3-08 Underwater War Machines - WaPo, 8-3-08 Eunice Pollack: UNT lecturer's encyclopedia explores Jews' role in modern American history - Dallas Morning News, 8-2-08 Jean Edward Smith: He'll be writing a bio of Bush - NYT, 7-30-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Julian Zelizer: Is the convention really a boost? - Politico.com, 7-30-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Robert Service:"What I Found in Mr. Hoover's Papers" - Robert Service writing at the website of http://www.hoover.org (Date accessed.), 7-28-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: David Cecelski: N&O History Columnist Writing Last Column - Raleigh Telegram, 8-1-08 Are historians live David Cannadine and Andrew Roberts an endangered species? Literate, engaging and free from constraint, British historians are the best in the world - Times Online, UK, 7-26-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Kevin R. C. Gutzman: Interviewed about his new book, Who Killed the Constitution? - Jamie Glazov at frontpagemag.com, 7-30-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Albert Bell: Hope professor Roman mystery released - Holland Sentinel, 8-2-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Jim Farmer on"Battle over Confederate flag hits highways":"It's not going to go away," says Jim Farmer, a history professor at the University of South Carolina at Aiken."There is a subculture within the white Southern population, of which the SCV is the most visible voice, that feels besieged by modern culture in general, and they identify the Old South and Confederacy as a way of life and a period of time before the siege began to really hit the South." - Christian Science Monitor, David Brion Davis quoted on"Congress Endorses a Lie About Slavery" - Town Hall, DC, 7-31-08
ANNOUNCEMENTS:	ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: History Book prizes announced (UK) - History Today, 7-29-08
EXHIBITS / WEBSITES:	EXHIBITS / WEBSITES: www.1968nbt.com: High school history teacher has students bring history of 1968 to life - nbs.gmnews.com, 7-3-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Matthew Connelly: Population control 'ruthlessly coercive':"The history of these policies is replete with examples of really grotesque human rights violations. Reproductive rights are the most basic human rights and too often family planning that artful phrase has meant planning other people's families, particularly by aid foundations from wealthier nations in poorer countries." - Canberra Times, 8-1-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: September 15, 2008: Douglas Brinkley at Open VISIONS Forum (OVF) season at Fairfield University. OVF, the lecture series presented by University College at Fairfield University, which presents political pundits, historians, actresses and activists with diverse, provocative and lively views of current and historical topics, will start out with historian Douglas Brinkley on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. - Redding Pilot, CT, 8-2-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 C-Span2, BookTV: History 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War Author: Benny Morris - Sunday, August 3 @ 7:00pm ET - C-Span2, BookTV PBS: History Ditectives, PBS - Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 9pm ET History Channel:"Hippies," Sunday, August 3, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Cannibal Dinosaur," Sunday, August 3, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Dicoveries," Marathon, Monday, August 4, @ 2-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries: Mega-Structures of the Deep," Monday, August 4, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries: Ancient Super Navies," Monday, August 4, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"China's First Emperor," Monday, August 4, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest," Marathon, Tuesday, August 5, @ 2-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Cannibal Dinosaur," Tuesday, August 5, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: T-Rex Hunter," Tuesday, August 5, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Targeted: Osama bin Laden," Wednesday, August 6, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Vampires in America," Wednesday, August 6, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels," Marathon, Thursday, August 7, @ 2-10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The True Story of the Screaming Eagles: The 101st Airborne: The True Story of the Screaming Eagles: The 101st Airborne," Friday, August 8, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Dogfights," Marathon, Friday, August 8, @ 4-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Chocolate," Friday, August 8, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Secrets of the Forbidden City," Saturday, August 9, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Ice Cream," Saturday, August 9, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"China's First Emperor," Saturday, August 9, @ 9pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Roger Crowley: EMPIRES OF THE SEA #11 -- (1 week on list) - 8-10-08 David Maraniss: ROME 1960 #21 - 8-10-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Noah Andre Trudeau: Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea, August 5, 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 Mary C. Henderson: The Story of 42nd Street: The Theatres, Shows, Characters, and Scandals of the World's Most Notorious Street (First Edition), September 2, 2008 Paul Douglas Lockhart: The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army, September 9, 2008 Jeffry D. Wert: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart, September 23, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 7, 2008 David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Donald Fleming: Harvard historian dies at age 84 - Amy Lavoie at the website of the Harvard Gazette, 7-24-08 Deborah Clifford: Vt. historian, dies at 75 - http://www.vpr.net, 7-30-08 Ann Lambton: Persian scholar (Obit.) Times (UK), 7-23-08

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