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| THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | - 05-22-1863 - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg
- 05-22-1947 -"Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
- 05-22-1964 - President Johnson presents"Great Society"
- 05-22-1973 - President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
- 05-23-1618 - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War
- 05-23-1939 - Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
- 05-23-1960 - Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
- 05-24-1626 - Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
- 05-24-1689 - English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
- 05-24-1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
- 05-24-1846 - Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
- 05-24-1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
- 05-24-1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Gov. Cleveland
- 05-25-1810 - Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain
- 05-25-1961 - JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
- 05-26-1521 - Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers
- 05-26-1868 - President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
- 05-26-1896 - Nicholas II, Last Czar of Russia crowned
- 05-26-1937 - Golden Gate Bridge opens
- 05-27-1529 - 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
- 05-27-1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
- 05-28-1731 - All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
- 05-28-1851 - Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
- 05-28-1863 - 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War
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| BIGGEST STORIES: | |
| IN THE NEWS: | - Historians: An Inconvenient Woman She witnessed the resurrection, then vanished,
leaving popes and painters and now 'The Da Vinci Code' to tell her story.
In search of the real Mary Magdalene -
Newsweek, 5-29-06
- Pierre Nora: 'French Parliament Seized by Armenian Lobbyists' -
Zaman Online, 5-21-06
- Ronald Huggins: Professor enjoys 'Code' - as a work of fiction -
Salt Lake Tribune, 5-19-06
- Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer: Dogma over a hot paper muzzles academia -
Houston Chronicle, 5-20-06
- Stewart Evans: EXCLUSIVE: JILL THE RIPPER
EXCLUSIVE Britain's Greatest murder has been unsolved for more than 100 will DNA tests
now prove that the frenzied killer was a WOMAN? -
Mirror.co.uk, 5-20-06
- David Herbert Donald, Guy Fraker, Joseph Medill: Memorial Day marks 150
years since Lincoln's 'Lost Speech' -
Bloomington Pantagraph, 5-20-06
- Jacob Laksin and Kevin MacDonald: MacDonald A Professor of Anti-Semitism? -
FrontPage Magazine, 5-18-06
- Ward Churchill: CU Professor Hit With Another Allegation -
cbs4denver.com, 5-16-06
- Yuan Weishi: Chiang steps out of the darkness of Chinese history -
The Age, Australia, 5-16-06
- Yehuda Bauer: Court Depositon supporting Sudanese Refugees -
Jerusalem Post, 5-16-06
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| REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Tom Lutz: The slacker ethic Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers,
Slackers, and Bums in America -
The Boston Globe, 5-21-06
- Douglas Brinkley: Apocalypse then
New Orleans insider brings the horror of Katrina's aftermath home to the rest of
America The Great Deluge -
Philadelphia Inquirer, 5-21-06
- Winston Groom: The British Are Coming PATRIOTIC FIRE
Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans -
Washington Post, 5-21-06
- Tom Calarco: Reissue of 1849 memoir sheds new light on upstate's Underground Railroad
Abel Brown, Abolitionist -
Albany Times Union, 5-21-06
- Douglas Brinkley: book about more than foul-ups
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast -
Lafayette Daily Advertiser, 5-20-06
- Douglas Brinkley: Portraits of the Catastrophe Known as Katrina
The Great Deluge -
Michiko Kakutani in the NYT, 5-16-06
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| OP-ED: | - David Greenberg: The choice
As Democrats struggle to shape a post-9/11 foreign policy, two defining moments
in their history, the dawn of the Cold War and the '60s antiwar movement, present
stark alternatives -- and reflect a lasting rift within the party -
The Boston Globe, 5-21-06
- Fr. John Wauck: Laugh When You Watch That
The Da Vinci Code's shortcomings aside, at least Dan Brown can poke fun at himself -
The National Review, 5-19-06
- Juan Cole: George W. Nixon -
Informed Comment (blog), 5-17-06
- Scott Gac: Ph.D. in history decides that four years on the academic
market without a tenure-track offer is long enough -
Chronicle of Higher Education, 5-16-06
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| PROFILED: | |
| INTERVIEWED: | |
| QUOTED: | - Manning Marable on Malcom X legacy on the 81st anniversary of his birth:"Malcolm was radical and that part of Malcolm is equally important.
They've turned him into something he wasn't. The embrace of the mainstream is gone
to the extreme that there is a danger of losing what was original." -
Houston Chronicle, 5-19-06
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| SPOTTED: | |
| ON TV: | - PBS: American Experience,"The Man Behind Hitler,"
Monday, May 22 @ 9pm -
PBS
- History Channel:"Beyond The Da Vinci Code ," Sunday, May. 22, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Da Vinci & the Code He Lived By ,"
Sunday, May. 22, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Battle History of the Navy
Born into War," Monday, May. 22, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Battle History of the Navy
Fire and Water," Tuesday, May 23, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Kennedys: The Curse of Power,"
Wednesday, May 24, @ 2pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Conspiracy? Jack Ruby,"
Wednesday, May 24, @ 4pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Battle History of the US Marines
Born in Blood,"
Wednesday, May 24, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Mega Disasters
New York City Hurricane," Wednesday, May 24, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Battle History of the US Marines
Tragedy to Triumph,"
Thursday, May 25, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The"Fighting I": The Story of the USS Intrepid,"
Friday, May 26, @ 6pm ET/PT
- C-Span2, BookTV: History on Book TV: Richard Zachs, Patricia Brady, Douglas
Brinkley, 20th Anniversary Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival -
Making of Presidents Panel,
Sunday, May 21 @ 11:15 pm
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: History on Book TV: William Leuchtenburg, The White House
Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson
Monday, May 23 @ 1:45 am
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: Encore Booknotes: John Keegan, A History of Warfare,
Saturday, May 27 @ 6:00 pm
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: After Words: Richard Brookhiser interviewed by John Splaine,
Sunday, May 28 @ 6:00 pm
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| SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #3, (1 week on list) -
5-28-06
- Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge,
#11, (1 week on list) -
5-28-06
- David Maraniss: Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero,
#16 -
5-28-06
- Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, #19 -
5-28-06
- James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer,
#26 -
5-28-06
- Ronald Kessler: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady,
#28 -
5-28-06
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| FUTURE RELEASES: | - Barbara Leaming: Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, May 22, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Alan Axelrod: Eisenhower on Leadership :
Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory Management, May 22, 2006
Amazon.com
- William J. Bennett: America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I),
May 23, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Ira Rutkow: James A. Garfield (American Presidents Series), May 30, 2006
- G. J. Meyer: A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918,
May 30, 2006
- Peter Beinart: The Good Fight: Why Liberals---
and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again,
May 30, 2006
- Richard Brookhiser: What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions,
Their Answers, May 31, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Christopher Hibbert: Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister,
May 2006
- Juliet Barker: Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England,
June 2006 -
Amazon.com
- George Lakoff: Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America's Most
Important Idea, June 2006 -
- John Lynch: Simon Bolivar: A Life, June 2006
- Rita A. Scotti: Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's,
June 2006
- Martin Gilbert: Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction,
June 13, 2006
- Paul M. Kennedy: The Parliament of Man: The past, Present, and
Future of the United Nations, June 20, 2006
- John Dunn: Democracy : A History, June 28, 2006
Amazon.com
- Nick Bryant: The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and Struggle for Black Equality
, June 30, 2006 -
Amazon.com
- Richard Labunski: James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights,
July 2006
- Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War,
September 2006
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