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September 17, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: Ruth Rosen: Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie - 9-11-06 Most Popular Blog Entry: Mark Grimsley:"The Path to 9/11": Exploiting an American Tragedy , CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, 8-9-06 Hottest Topic: 9/11: Five Years Later Most Popular Feature:"Classroom Lesson Plans: Teaching About 9-11," Bruce Craig. All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
BIGGEST STORIES:	Phillip Zelikow: Just why was he chosen as executive director of the 9-11 commission? - Max Holland, writing in the American Spectator, 9-15-06 Juan Cole: Blog posts taint historian's candidacy at Yale - Columbia Daily Spectator (Columbia U.), 9-15-06
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	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 22/09/1692 - Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass) 22/09/1817 - John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State 22/09/1862 - President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 22/09/1893 - 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield 22/09/1970 - Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses 22/09/1973 - Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State 22/09/1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in SF Calif 23/09/1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement 23/09/1780 - Brit Maj John Andr‚ reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt 23/09/1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest 23/09/1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 23/09/1863 - Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins 23/09/1941 - General de Gaulle forms govt in exile in London 23/09/1949 - Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation 23/09/1952 - Richard Nixon makes his"Checker's" speech 23/09/1957 - White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw 23/09/1976 - Ford-Carter TV debate 23/09/1979 - Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC 23/09/1979 - Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC 24/09/1789 - President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 24/09/1789 - Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court 24/09/1789 - Congress creates Post Office 24/09/1845 - 1st baseball team is organized 24/09/1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal 24/09/1890 - Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned 24/09/1950 -"Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel 24/09/1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools 24/09/1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
IN THE NEWS:	Tom Devine: Scottish intellectuals 'are talking the country down' - Sunday Herald, UK, 9-17-06 Don Heinrick Tolzman: Fighting to keep his job after a U of Cincinnati investigating committee said he included another author's material in his textbook"The German-American Experience." - Prominent historians sign Euston Manifesto - Euston Manifesto, 9-12-06 Allan Lichtman: Fails to win Democratic nomination for Senate in Maryland - Baltimore Sun, 9-13-06 Bernard Lewis: U.S. May Lose War on Terror - New York Sun, 9-14-06 Jaclyn LaPlaca: Missing Credentials - Ella Powers at Inside Higher Ed (9-12-06) Eric Alterman: Mainstream Blog Pioneer Alterman Axed by MSNBC - Editor & Publisher, 9-11-06 Thomas S. Kidd: Explaining the links between Protestants and Muslims - Martin Marty in Sightings, the newsletter of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School, 9-11-06 Roy Rosenzweig: His scholarly article on Wikipedia is drawing readers to the online encyclopedia - Sage Ross at Wikipedia, 8-31-06
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Frank Rich: Theater of War THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina - NYT, 9-17-06 An Interview With Frank Rich - NYT, 9-17-06 Fritz Stern: The Persistence of Memory A great historian offers a memoir about a life marked by the shadow of Nazism - FIVE GERMANYS I HAVE KNOWN - Wa Po, 9-17-06 Randall Woods: Sympathetic look at Johnson includes flaws LBJ: Architect of American Ambition - Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH, 9-17-06
OP-ED:	Eric Alterman: Defends reputation of I.F. Stone from communist spy charge - Eric Alterman in the Nation, 9-18-06
PROFILED:	Stephen Kercher: History professor writes analysis on 60s comedians - Advance Titan, WI, 9-10-06
INTERVIEWED:	Peter Ascoli: The Man Who Built Sears & Roebuck - NPR, 9-16-06 Howard Zinn: Interviewed by conservative radio host - Howard Zinn interviewed by Dennis Prager at frontpagemag.com, 9-12-06
FEATURE:	Andrew Bacevich & Thomas Henriksen: Raise questions about President Bush's historical analogies - Howard LaFranchi in the Christian Science Monitor, 9-6-06
QUOTED:	Edward Luck on"World leaders face a U.N. overloaded with crises":"It is a very subtle, very deep, very divisive issue. I don't think anyone is going to come away as the great savior of the Middle East. We are just not at that point." - Reuters AlertNet, UK, 9-17-06 Kevin Starr on Thomas Starr King"California diminishes its shining Starr":"Is he suddenly chopped liver? When you're building up a frontier commonwealth, deeply ethical public and religious figures are extremely important, and from that point of view he enlarged the definition of what it means to be a Californian. He helped transform California from a frontier to a province." - Toledo Blade, OH, 9-17-06
SPOTTED AND EVENTS CALENDAR:	Howard Lamar: Will discuss his new book"Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography" at 6 p.m. Monday at St. Francis Auditorium in the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts - Santa Fe New Mexican, NM, 9-17-06 Kathleen Neils Conzen: Will deliver the 22nd annual O. Truman Driggs Distinguished Lecture at the University of Minnesota, Morris on"Why They Fought: Immigrant Colonists and Minnesota's Civil War," at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, in Humanities Fine Arts Recital Hall - UMM News, Sports & Events, Minnesota, 9-8-06 Howard Segal: Will present a talk about his book,"Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries," at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Room 1030 of the College of Arts, Sciences and Letters Building on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus - Detroit Free Press, 9-10-06 William J. Cooper, noted historian and author of"Jefferson Davis, American," will deliver the 5th Annual Vaughn Lecture in the Humanities at Williams Baptist College, October 12, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. in the WBC Chapel - Williams Baptist College News, AR, 9-12-06 John Gillingham: Camden Conference marks its 20th anniversary, Feb. 23 to 25, 2007, at the Camden Opera House - 8-15-06
HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:	Kamau Braithwaite: Nine awarded IOJ Musgrave medals for '06 - Jamaica Gleaner, 8-17-06 Rebecca J. Scott: University of Michigan Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize - Press Release -- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 9-13-06 Robert Paquette: Named to head Hamilton College think tank - Stephen Balch in the National Review Online, 9-7-06
ON TV:	History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower - C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Joe Mathews, author of"The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy" interviewed by Rachel Smolkin, managing editor for the American Journalism Review, Sunday, September 17 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm- C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: B Book TV presents Simon Schama Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, Sunday, September 17 at 7:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents W. Joseph Campbell, The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms, Sunday, September 17 at 10:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:" The Revolution : 02 - Rebellion to Revolution," Sunday, September 17, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:" Lost Worlds : Braveheart's Scotland," Sunday, September 18, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"American Vesuvius," Monday, September 18, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds : The First Christians," Monday, September 18, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth : The Da Vinci Code: Bloodlines," Monday, September 18, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Violent Earth : Nature's Fury: New England's Killer Hurricane," Tuesday, September 19, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:" Mega Disasters : California's Katrina," Tuesday, September 19, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Days That Shook The World : War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries," Tuesday, September 19, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The True Story of Black Hawk Down," Wednesday, September 20, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Days That Shook The World : The War to End All Wars.," Wednesday, September 20, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Digging For The Truth," Marathon Thursday, September 21, @ 8am-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Where Did It Come From? : Ancient Egypt: Iconic Structures.," Thursday, September 21, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Behind the Mask of Zorro," Friday, September 21, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:" Weird U.S. : Rebels and Traitors," Friday, September 22, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels" Marathon, Saturday, September 23, @ 1-5pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Thomas E. Ricks: FIASCO The American Military Adventure in Iraq, #5, (7 weeks on list) - 9-24-06 Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #11, (18 weeks on list) - 9-24-06 Ron Suskind: THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, #28 - 9-24-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	Edward P. Crapol: John Tyler: The Accidental President, September 2006 Marion V. Creekmore: A Moment of Crisis: The Inside Story of Jimmy Carter in North Korea, September 2006 Charles W. Calhoun: Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, September 2006 Greil Marcus: The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice September 2006 Wilson D. Miscamble: From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War, September 2006 Eva Plach: Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926-1935, September 2006 Ryan Sager: The Elephant in the Room: Libertarians, the Christian Right, and the Looming Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party, September 2006 James E. Wise: Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts, September 2006 Rodric Braithwaite: Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War, September 26, 2006 Aleksandr Fursenko: Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, October 2006 Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia, October 2006 Mark Puls: Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution, October 2006 Norman J. Goda: Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War, October 2006 Ronald J. Olive: Capturing Jonathan Pollard : How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice, October 2006 David Bodanis: Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Swordfights, Bookburnings, Assorted Kings, Seditiou, October 3, 2006 Gil Troy: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, October 4, 2006 Anthony Everitt: Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor, October 10, 2006 Paul Kengor: The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, October 17, 2006 Graeme Fife: The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794, November 2006 Robert M. Collins: Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years, November 2006 Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006
DEPARTED:	Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, Dies; French Opponent of Torture - NYT, 9-14-06 J.S. Holliday: 82, Historian of the California Gold Rush - Los Angeles Times, 9-14-06 Joachim Fest: Hitler biographer dies - Deutsche Welle, 9-12-06

Posted On:: Monday, September 25, 2006 - 12:29

August 20, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: David Carlin:"The World's Longest War" - 8-14-06 Most Popular Blog Entry: Robert KC Johnson:"It's Lamont", CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, 8-9-06 Hottest Topic: Lebanon War Most Popular Feature:Quotes About History, By Ferenc M. Szasz. All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	21/08/1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake 21/08/1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) 21/08/1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois) 21/08/1863 - Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill 21/08/1864 - Battle of Summit Point, VA 21/08/1945 - Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program 22/08/0565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness 22/08/1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard 22/08/1454 - Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus 22/08/1642 - Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament 22/08/1654 - 1st Jewish immigrant to US, Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam 22/08/1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury 22/08/1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman 22/08/1846 - US annexes New Mexico 22/08/1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car 22/08/1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup 22/08/1956 - Pres Eisenhower and VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF 22/08/1975 - Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford 23/08/1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed 23/08/1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass 23/08/1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war 23/08/1903 - 6th Zionist Congress, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state 23/08/1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I 23/08/1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin 23/08/1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) 23/08/1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley 23/08/1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar 23/08/1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf 24/08/0079 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die 24/08/0410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 24/08/1349 - Jews 24/08/1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz 24/08/1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 24/08/1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists 24/08/1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect 24/08/1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party, at height of McCarthyism 24/08/1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party 25/08/1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books 25/08/1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves 25/08/1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station 25/08/1921 - US signs peace treaty with Germany 25/08/1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday) 26/08/1629 - Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate 26/08/1920 - 19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted 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
BIGGEST STORIES:	Jack Granatstein: Historian calls plan to pardon soldiers 'nonsense' - Toronto Star, 8-17-06 Historians express unease over WW I pardons (UK) - Ben Fenton in the Telegraph (UK), 8-17-06 U.K. to Pardon WWI Deserters - NPR, 8-17-06
IN THE NEWS:	Geoffrey Blainey: Feds lay down law on history - The Canberra Times, Australia, 8-18-06 Australian Historians: Nothing left but to burst their bubble - Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, 8-19-06 'Traditional' history set to make a comeback - NEWS.com.au, Australia, 8-17-06 Australian Historians: Critical mark for history summit - The Age, Australia, 8-14-06 Douglas Brinkley: Lambasted for his book on Katrina - Michael Grunwald in the New Republic, 8-14-06 Currie Ballard: Historian discovers he is descended from the slave couple that wrote Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Melanie Eversley in USA Today, 8-15-06 Australian History Summit Drawing Praise & Criticism - Richard Allsop in The Australian, 8-15-06 Paul Berman: Verbal Front in the Terror War: 'Islamofascism' - NPR, 8-15-06
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Alan Brinkley on Randall B. Woods: The Making of a War President LBJ Architect of American Ambition - NYT, 8-20-06 Randall B. Woods: LBJ Architect of American Ambition, First Chapter - NYT, 8-20-06 Randall Woods: A rave for UA prof - Arkansas Times, 8-20-06 Jason Sokol: A young historian explores what the struggle for freedom meant for white neighbors of Southern blacks THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 945-1975 - Wa Po, 8-20-06 James Bowman: In Brief: Honor Bound Honor: A History - Wa Po, 8-20-06 Douglas Brinkley, Jed Horne: Storm surge Three books recount how a hurricane called Katrina became a national disaster - The State, SC, 8-20-06 Sir Martin Gilbert on David G. Dalin: Hitler's Pope? The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From the Nazis - American Spectator, 8-16-06 Paul Kennedy on the U.N.: It's Imperfect, but Consider the Alternative - NYT, 8-16-06
OP-ED:	Paul Kennedy: United Nations: The World's Scapegoat Middle East cease-fire will evaporate if great powers hide their failures behind the U.N. - LA Times, 8-20-06 Bruce Kuklick: Textbook Writers: Their Pluses and Minuses - Christianity Today (July/Aug. 2006), 8-18-06
PROFILED:	Karen Armstrong: Islam's Hagiographer - David Thompson at Butterfliesandwheels.com (blog), 7-11-06
INTERVIEWED:	Edwin Black: Interviewed about his new history of our oil addiction - Aron Hirt-Manheimer in Reform Judaism Online, 8-18-06 Maria Cristina Garcia: Cuban Exiles Look to Post-Castro Future - NPR, 8-15-06 Gerald Horne: Book Examines Racism amid Red Scare - NPR, 8-14-06
FEATURE:	Douglas Brinkley, Charles Reagan Wilson, John Hope Franklin: Reflecting on lessons storm taught about race and poverty - AP, 8-19-06 Dale Walde: Archeologist re-writing accepted Plains Indian history - Star Phoenix, 8-16-06 Dan Snow: Culloden defeat should be celebrated, says historian - The Sunday Times, UK, 8-20-06
QUOTED:	John Hope Franklin"Reflecting on lessons storm taught about race and poverty":"As far as race in America is concerned, Katrina was just another example of the failure of the people of the United States to come to terms with a centuries-old problem ... and make a forthright effort to solve it. Thus, it ranks with the failure of our schools to serve the needs of blacks and whites alike. ... It is a bed-mate with the disparities in housing, not only in New Orleans but across the nation." - AP, 8-19-06 Jonathan Sarna on"Trends 101: The New Jewish Life on Campus":"It's much more common to see college students wearing yarmulkes, and outwardly displaying other Jewish symbols. Like other cultural groups, there's been a coming out." - Reform Judaism, NY, 8-17-06
SPOTTED AND EVENTS CALENDAR:	Randall Woods: At the Clinton School of Public Service for a lecture and book signing on August 29 UA of Clinton Schoolof Public Service Charles Dew: Professor brings a new take on slavery at Lynchburg Public Library - Lynchburg News and Advance, VA, 8-16-06
ON TV:	History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower - C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, authors of"Without Precedent," interviewed by Marvin Kalb, Sunday, August 20 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents Public Lives: Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Monday, August 21 at 1:00 am - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History on Book TV: Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, Monday, August 13 at 3:50 pm - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"The Revolution 12 - Road to the Presidency," Sunday, August 20, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Miracle of Stairway B," Sunday, August 20, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hitler and Stalin: Roots of Evil," Monday, August 21, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds Jesus' Jerusalem," Monday, August 21, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome Capital of the World ," Monday, August 21, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rommel," Marathon Monday, August 21, @ 2-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Egyptian Book of the Dead," Tuesday, August 22, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Strange Egypt, August 16, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome Capital of the World," Tuesday, August 22, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Infamous Murders Political Assassinations," Wednesday, August 16, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"The World Trade Center," Wednesday, August 16, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome Sex and the Imperial City," Wednesday, August 23, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Exodus Decoded," Thursday, August 24, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome Gladiators and Slaves," Thursday, August 24, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rome: Engineering an Empire," Friday, August 25, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome Chaos," Friday, August 25, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life and Death in Rome Doom?," Friday, August 25, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ottoman Empire: The War Machine," Saturday, August 26, @ 8pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Thomas E. Ricks: FIASCO The American Military Adventure in Iraq, #3, (3 weeks on list) - 8-27-06 Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #8, (14 weeks on list) - 8-27-06 Ron Suskind: THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, #12, (8 weeks on list) - 8-27-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	Mark Schleifstein: Path of Destruction: The Destruction of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, August 2006 Judith Hicks Stiehm: Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, August 2006 Mark Grotelueschen: AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I, August 2006 John Botte: Aftermath: Unseen 9/11 Photos by a New York City Cop, August 22, 2006 Zahi A. Hawass: Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders, August 22, 2006 Robert Young Pelton: Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror, August 29, 2006 Edward P. Crapol: John Tyler: The Accidental President, September 2006 Marion V. Creekmore: A Moment of Crisis: The Inside Story of Jimmy Carter in North Korea, September 2006 Charles W. Calhoun: Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, September 2006 Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, September 2006 Greil Marcus: The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice September 2006 Wilson D. Miscamble: From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War, September 2006 Eva Plach: Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926-1935, September 2006 Ryan Sager: The Elephant in the Room: Libertarians, the Christian Right, and the Looming Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party, September 2006 James E. Wise: Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts, September 2006 Rodric Braithwaite: Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War, September 26, 2006 Aleksandr Fursenko: Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, October 2006 Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia, October 2006 Mark Puls: Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution, October 2006 Norman J. Goda: Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War, October 2006 Ronald J. Olive: Capturing Jonathan Pollard : How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice, October 2006 David Bodanis: Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Swordfights, Bookburnings, Assorted Kings, Seditiou, October 3, 2006 Gil Troy: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, October 4, 2006 Anthony Everitt: Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor, October 10, 2006 Paul Kengor: The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, October 17, 2006 Graeme Fife: The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794, November 2006 Robert M. Collins: Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years, November 2006 Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006
DEPARTED:	Kermit Hall: Remembered by Oxford University Press - Email message from Nancy Toff, editorial director, Oxford University Press, 8-14-06 Kermit Hall: Historian and University President Dies in Swimming Accident - Albany Times Union, 8-14-06

Posted On:: Monday, September 18, 2006 - 13:25

September 11, 2006

HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: Jeff Mankoff: Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn't Make It So - 8-21-06 Most Popular Blog Entry: Mark Grimsley:"The Path to 9/11": Exploiting an American Tragedy , CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, 8-9-06 Hottest Topic: 9/11: Five Years Later Most Popular Feature:Quotes About History, By Ferenc M. Szasz. All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
9/11 5TH ANNIVERSARY:	11/09/2001 - Terrorists hijack two passenger planes crashing them into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people 11/09/2001 - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people 11/09/2001 - Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard History Teachers: Bringing 9/11 into classroom Today's students lived it and are studying it - Chicago Tribune, 9-10-06 Peter Bergen, Jack Granatstein: What if 9/11 had not happened? - Toronto Star, 9-10-06 Ken Burns: Born on 9/11: Life at five In 2001, USA WEEKEND introduced six babies, symbols of hope born on that dark day. Today, we catch up with them as they turn 5 - USA Weekend, 9-10-06 9/11 books follow different paths - Indianapolis Star, 9-9-06 Arthur Schlesinger: Joined the chorus of Democrat voices demanding ABC be stopped from airing their 9/11 mini-series - The Conservative Voice, 9-9-06 Joanne Meyerowitz, Thomas Bender, Stephen Thernstrom, Joyce Appleby, Jan Lewis: 9/11 Leaves Its Mark on History Classes - NYT, 9-6-06 Daniel Pipes: Improvising after 9/11 - American Daily, 9-6-06 John Spencer: 9/11 in the Classroom: A Valuable Teaching Moment - Newswise (press release), 9-7-06
KATRINA 1 YEAR LATER:	Leonard Moore, Edward Haas: Roundtable: New Orleans' Race Relations - 9-1-06 Charles L. Sullivan: Historian tells the stories of Gulf Coast hurricanes - Biloxi Sun Herald, 8-26-06
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	11/09/1557 - Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm 11/09/1649 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland, Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists 11/09/1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes"There never was a good war or bad peace" 11/09/1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 11/09/1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs 11/09/1943 - Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated 11/09/1944 - FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference 12/09/1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties 12/09/1862 - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA 12/09/1953 - Sen John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24 12/09/1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate 13/09/1556 - Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain 13/09/1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 13/09/1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US 13/09/1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City 13/09/1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate"Colorado" sinks privateer"Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 13/09/1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe 13/09/1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 13/09/1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 13/09/1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st secretary-general of USSR 13/09/1993 - Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 14/09/1862 - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia 14/09/1872 - Britain pays US $15« M for damages during Civil War 14/09/1917 - Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed 14/09/1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) 14/09/1948 - Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters 14/09/1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary 14/09/1983 - US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner 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
IN THE NEWS:	Juan Cole: Duke as well as Yale decided not to hire him - David White in Campus-Watch.org, 9-7-06 Allen Weinstein: Reports on declassification initiative - Bruce Craig, writing in the newsletter of the Coalition for History, 9-8-06 Jaclyn A. LaPlaca: Claimed she had a degree she didn't - Daily Kent Stater, 9-7-06 Historians: Celebrating birth of male heir, Japanese are seriously concerned about the princesses - Regnum, Russia, 9-6-06 55 Scholars Protest Book's Claims About FDR & Holocaust - Press Release -- The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 9-3-06 Austria's highest court rejects appeal in David Irving trial - International Herald Tribune, 9-4-06 Niall Fergusson: Controversial historian in McCain's Orbit - ABC, 9-4-06 10th annual NSW Premier's History Awards - Arts Hub Australian, Australia, 9-3-06 Neil Parsons: Botswana: Mogae Burns Heritage? - AllAfrica.com, Washington, 8-31-06 Chinese Historians: A textbook example of change in China - NYT, 8-31-06
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Sean Wilentz on Nicholas Lemann: A Less Perfect Union REDEMPTION The Last Battle of the Civil War - NYT, 9-10-06 Nicholas Lemann: REDEMPTION The Last Battle of the Civil War, First Chapter - NYT, 9-10-06 An Interview With Nicholas Lemann with Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of The New York Times Book Review. (MP3 format) Flores A. Forbes: By Any Means Necessary WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party - NYT, 9-10-06 Flores A. Forbes: WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party, First Chapter - NYT, 9-10-06 James Goodman on Jason Sokol: Across the Great Divide THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights - NYT, 9-10-06 Nicholas Lemann: After the War Between the States, the South set out to rise again -- by any means necessary REDEMPTION The Last Battle of the Civil War - WA Po, 9-10-06 Louis Fisher: Writes new book about state secrets - Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists, 9-5-06 Frank Argote-Freyre: Author relates life story of Cuban leader Batista - Holmdel Independent, NJ, 9-6-06
OP-ED:	Niall Ferguson: Did the U.S. overreact to Sept. 11? - Time, 9-3-06 David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz: 9/11: Katrina Started at Ground Zero - TomDispatch.com. 9-5-06 Juan Cole: Shiite vs. Shiite - HNN
PROFILED:	John Lewis Gaddis: The Long Twilight Struggle What a Cold War realist can teach us about winning a"long war" - Opinion Journal, NJ, 9-5-06 Heather Warren: Finding connection within and beyond - University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily, VA, 9-6-06 John T. Cunningham: Historian turns to Washington's Morris days -
INTERVIEWED:	Michael Kazin: A History Both Global and Personal - NPR, 9-1-06
FEATURE:	Andrew Bacevich, Thomas Henriksen: Is it fair to compare terror to cold war? Bush likens the conflict to previous struggles, but analysts say the analogies can go only so far - Christian Science Monitor, 9-6-06 William H. Harbaugh: Vietnam/Iraq Time Warp ... His Cambodia Crisis Speech - Edward J. Renehan Jr. at his blog, 9-5-06 John Thornton: The Angolan slaves who were taken to Bermuda - Mid-Ocean News, Bermuda, 9-8-06 Robert Paquette: Appointed Director of Hamilton College's new Alexander Hamilton Center - National Review Online, 9-7-06 Paul F. Boller: Does it matter if Washington was a Christian? - Belleville News-Democrat, IL, 9-6-06
QUOTED:	Juan Cole on"Was government in on Sept. 11? Internet helps to add fuel to belief by some that terrorists weren't behind attacks":"When you have irrational allegations being made, it raises the question of what is underlying that irrationality. It just seems to me that it's a manifestation of extreme anxiety about the degree to which the U.S. government is not leveling with people." - Detroit News, 9-9-06 Joyce Appleby on"9/11: Is there any more to say?":"It was an attack on a whole range of values in America. Here were two buildings that represented modernity, success, power. Then you have those pictures. They're going to be powerful for a long time." - Christian Science Monitor, MA, 9-7-06 Leo Braudy on"ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story — Almost":"The 9/11 commission comes out with one narrative, which no one reads. Then movies take a piece of it — there's 'United 93' and 'World Trade Center.' The Bush administration is pushing its own narrative of the meaning of 9/11 as justification for its policies. And now a miniseries comes into being that creates a narrative in a semi-documentary, fictionalized manner, which is very persuasive. Suddenly people who felt they know what really happened are being preempted by this fiction. Naturally they are going to be upset about it. Narrative creates closure." - calendarlive.com, CA, 9-9-06 Roy Rosenzweig on"Google opens up 200 years of news":"As a scholar and historian I want as much information as possible, accessible to as many people as possible at the least cost, and the extent to which Google is doing that is compelling." - Trade Arabia, Bahrain, 9-6-06
SPOTTED AND EVENTS CALENDAR:	James Oliver Horton will present the 27th Annual R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture"Naturally Anti-Slavery: Lincoln, Race and the Complexity of American Liberty, at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 16 at the Lincoln Museum - Frost Illustrated, IN, 9-5-06 Kathleen Neils Conzen: Will deliver the 22nd annual O. Truman Driggs Distinguished Lecture at the University of Minnesota, Morris on"Why They Fought: Immigrant Colonists and Minnesota's Civil War," at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, in Humanities Fine Arts Recital Hall - UMM News, Sports & Events, Minnesota, 9-8-06 Howard Segal: Will present a talk about his book,"Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries," at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Room 1030 of the College of Arts, Sciences and Letters Building on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus - Detroit Free Press, 9-10-06 R. David Edmunds and Brian Hosmer: Will speak during the 10th annual Susan B. Horton Cone Family Distinguished Lecture entitled"35 Years of American Indian History" Wednesday, Sept. 13, from 5-7 p.m. in the College of Agriculture auditorium at the University of Wyoming - University of Wyoming News, WY, 9-8-06
HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:	Adam Goodheart: The C.V. Starr Center Welcomes New Director, Prize Winner - Washington College Elm, MD, 9-8-06 Tricia Billes: WA State teacher named History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Sequim Gazette, 9-6-06 David Greenberg et al: Join New Republic blog - David Greenberg at the New Republic blog, Open University, 8-31-06 Sir Martin Gilbert: Internationally renown historian joins Western History department - University of Western Ontario, Western News, 8-31-06 Annette Gordon-Reed: Rutgers-Newark Appoints Nationally Renowned Presidential Scholar to Faculty - R-N Online Campus News, NJ, 8-28-06 Terry Roach receives Collegiate Professor of the Year award - Northeast Arkansas Town Crier, 8-16-06
ON TV:	History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower - C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents David Brion Davis Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, Sunday, September 10 at 4:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Lawrence Wright, author of"The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," interviewed by James Zogby, Sunday, September 10 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents Brian Jenkins Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy Strengthening Ourselves, Sunday, September 10 at 10:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"The 9/11 Hijackers: Inside the Hamburg Cell," Sunday, September 10, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:" Zero Hour : The Last Hour of Flight 11," Sunday, September 10, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"World War III? Beyond Lebanon," Sunday, September 10, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Grounded on 9/11," Sunday, September 10, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"American Vesuvius," Sunday, September 10, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Revolution : 01 - Boston, Bloody Boston," Sunday, September 10, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon," Monday, September 11, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Day the Towers Fell," Monday, September 11, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"The 9/11 Commission Report," Monday, September 11, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:" The Man Who Predicted 9/11," Monday, September 11, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Miracle of Stairway B," Monday, September 11, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:" Lost Worlds : Braveheart's Scotland," Monday, September 11, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Countdown to Ground Zero : Countdown to Ground Zero," Monday, September 11, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Where Did It Come From? : Ancient Rome: The Rise of Apartments," Thursday, September 14, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special : The Real Tomb Hunters: Snakes, Curses, and Booby Traps.," Friday, September 15, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds" Marathon, Saturday, September 16, @ 1-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"American Vesuvius," Saturday, September 16, @ 5pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Thomas E. Ricks: FIASCO The American Military Adventure in Iraq, #4, (6 weeks on list) - 9-17-06 Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #14, (17 weeks on list) - 9-17-06 Ron Suskind: THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, #31 - 9-17-06 Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton: Without Precedent The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission, #33 9-17-06
FUTURE RELEASES:	Edward P. Crapol: John Tyler: The Accidental President, September 2006 Marion V. Creekmore: A Moment of Crisis: The Inside Story of Jimmy Carter in North Korea, September 2006 Charles W. Calhoun: Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900, September 2006 Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, September 2006 Greil Marcus: The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice September 2006 Wilson D. Miscamble: From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War, September 2006 Eva Plach: Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926-1935, September 2006 Ryan Sager: The Elephant in the Room: Libertarians, the Christian Right, and the Looming Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party, September 2006 James E. Wise: Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts, September 2006 Rodric Braithwaite: Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War, September 26, 2006 Aleksandr Fursenko: Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, October 2006 Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia, October 2006 Mark Puls: Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution, October 2006 Norman J. Goda: Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War, October 2006 Ronald J. Olive: Capturing Jonathan Pollard : How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice, October 2006 David Bodanis: Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Swordfights, Bookburnings, Assorted Kings, Seditiou, October 3, 2006 Gil Troy: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, October 4, 2006 Anthony Everitt: Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor, October 10, 2006 Paul Kengor: The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, October 17, 2006 Graeme Fife: The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794, November 2006 Robert M. Collins: Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years, November 2006 Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006
DEPARTED:	John Munroe: One of Delaware's best-known historians and a member of the UD faculty for more than 60 years, died Sept. 6. He was 92. - UDaily, DE, 9-7-06 Leonard W. Levy: Distinguished constitutional historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1969 and who taught at Brandeis University and the Claremont Graduate School, died on 24 August 2006 in Ashland, Oregon, at the age of 83 (H-OIEAHC)

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