| HNN STATS THIS WEEK: | |
| BIGGEST STORY: | - Historians: In Post-Quake San Francisco, Lessons for New Orleans After the Flood -
NYT, 4-16-06
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| IN THE NEWS: | - Adam Goodheart: Historian wants DNA test for academy's John Paul Jones -
The Capital, 4-16-06
- Tariq Ramadan: Hearing for Muslim Barred by U.S. -
NYT, 4-14-06
- Historians: Racism phobia can muzzle the truth -
Sydney Morning Herald, 4-14-06
- Timothy Naftali: Nixon Library Appointment Applauded -
Bruce Craig in the newsletter of the National Coalition for History,
4-14-06
- Hiram Bingham: Peru dispute has long, murky past -
Yale Daily News, 4-14-06
- Mikhail Anikin: Claims Dan Brown plagiarized him -
The Daily Telegraph, 4-13-06
- Paul Kramer: Iraq, Afghan Wars Parallel Philippine Invasion -
Newswire, 4-12-06
- Alan Levy: His protest against political correctness at Slippery Rock -
Daniel Pipes in the NY Sun, 4-11-06
- Historians: Is George W. Bush the worst president in 100 years? -
Macleans, 4-11-06
- Historians: Expose Government Reclassification Effort -
Bruce Craig in AHA Perspectives (April 2006), 4-1-06
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| REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Frederick Brown: The Man Behind Bovary Flaubert: A Biography -
NYT, 4-16-06
- Frederick Brown: The Man Behind Bovary Flaubert: A Biography First Chapter -
NYT, 4-16-06
- Richard White: Kingfish First Chapter -
NYT, 4-16-06
- Randal Jelks: History of rights, racism rings true today
African Americans in the Furniture City-
The Grand Rapids Press, 4-16-06
- Joshua Zeitz: Flapper : A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who
Made America Modern First Chapter -
NYT, 4-16-06
- Julia E. Sweig on Stephen Kinzer: The Meddlesome Uncle Sam
OVERTHROW America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
WashingtonPost, 4-16-06
- Colin G. Calloway: A Giveaway of Half a Continent The Scratch
of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America -
American Heritage, 4-15-06
- John Lewis Gaddis: This 'War' may leave some readers cold
The Cold War -
Daily Yomiuri, 4-16-06
- Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince & Michael Baigent: Behind the Da Vinci Code -
Globe and Mail, 4-15-06
- David Brown: He Defined Postwar Liberalism
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography -
NY Sun, 4-14-06
- Catherine Allgor: Dolley Madison is Subject of UCR Historian's Latest Book
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation -
UC Riverside Newsroom, 4-14-06
- Garry Wills: Wills's Jesus -
Martin E. Marty in Sightings, the newsletter of the Martin Marty Center
at the University of Chicago Divinity School, 4-10-06
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| OP-ED: | |
| PROFILED: | |
| INTERVIEWED: | |
| QUOTED: | - Joe Boskin noted that a military death can tear through the heart of a small
community:"They have a collective memory that often is not part of a big city.
And everyone feels a death like this more keenly, because of a small town's
communal nature." -
Boston Globe, 4-16-06
- Richard Kohn: Growing ranks of ex-generals bash Rumsfeld -
Chicago Tribune, 4-14-06
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| SPOTTED: | - Richard John Neuhaus: NBC's"Meet the Press" - 4-16-06
- Joyce Appleby: To Speak on"The Legacy of America's First Generation,"
Thursday, Apr. 27 @ Baylor University -
Baylor University, 4-13-06
- Thomas Fleming: To speak on Washington's Secret War,
Wednesday, April 26, @ Mercyhurst College -
Mercyhurst College News, 4-12-06
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| ON TV: | - PBS: American Experience,"The Great San Francisco Earthquake,"
Monday, Apr. 24 @ 9pm -
PBS
- History Channel:"10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America"
Antietam, Sunday, Apr. 16, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Mega Disasters: The San Francisco Earthquake"
Sunday, Apr. 16, @ 8pm ET/PT; Tuesday, Apr. 18, @ 8pm ET/PT and Saturday, Apr. 22, @ 6pm
ET/PT -
History Channel
- History Channel:"Declassified The Tet Offensive,"
Thursday, Apr. 20 @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America" Marathon,
All day Saturday, Apr. 22, @ 8am-6pm ET/PT
- C-Span2, BookTV: Booknotes, Jon Kukla, A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana
Purchase and the Destiny of America,
Saturday, Apr. 22 @ 6pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
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| SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, #3 (3 weeks on list)
4-23-06
- James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer,
#8, (9 weeks on list)
4-23-06
- Ronald Kessler: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady,
#12, (1 week on list) -
4-23-06
- Jon Meacham: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the
Making of a Nation ,
#14, (1 week on list) -
4-23-06
- Garry Wills: What Jesus Meant,
#28 -
4-23-06
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,
#32 -
4-23-06
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| FUTURE RELEASES: | - Robert Dallek & Terry Golway:
Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Mark Bowden: Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with
Militant Islam, April 25, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Shelby Steele: White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise
of the Civil Rights Era, May 2, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the
Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 9, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War,
May 9, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different,
May 18, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- William J. Bennett: America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I),
May 23, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Juliet Barker: Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England,
June 2006 -
Amazon.com
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| APPOINTED: | |
| HONORED: | - Elizabeth Blackmar: 2006 recipient of the Mark Van Doren Award for
exceptional teaching at Columbia -
Columbia Spectator, 4-13-06
- Robert H. Ferrell: To be honored at conference -
Salt Lake Tribune, 4-9-06
- Lisa Wilson: Received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical
Society-National Endowment of the Humanities for
Cinderella's Family: Stepfamily Tradition in Eighteenth-century New England -
Connecticut College
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