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April 21-28, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Primary Season Election Results - NYT
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Robert S. McElvaine:"HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst" - - 4-1-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Judith Apter Klinghoffer: "END OF CHINA'S SURREPTITIOUS RISE" Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 4-5-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" 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: 04-28-1788 - Maryland became the 7th state in the United States. 04-28-1789 - Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh. 04-28-1945 - Benito Mussolini was executed. 04-28-2004 - The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's 60 Minutes II. 04-29-1429 - Joan of Arc entered the city of Orléans. She would end its months-long siege and would become known as the"Maid of Orléans." 04-29-1916 - The Easter rebellion in Ireland ended with the surrender of Irish nationalists. 04-29-1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration cam 04-29-1992 - A Los Angeles jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating Rodney King. Massive rioting and looting ensued. 04-30-1803 - France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. 04-30-1812 - Louisiana became the 18th state in the United States. 04-30-1939 - U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World's Fair.The signal was transmitted from the Empire State Building. 04-30-1945 - Adolf Hitler and his newly married mistress Eva Braun committed suicide. 04-30-1975 - The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam. 04-30-2003 - Libya accepted responsibility for the 1998 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. 05-01-1707 - The Act of Union joined England and Scotland to form Great Britain. 05-01-1931 - The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. 05-01-1941 - Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York. 05-01-1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president. 05-01-1960 - The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Soviet territory. 05-01-2003 - President Bush made a speech aboard an aircraft carrier proclaiming"major combat operations in Iraq have ended." 05-02-1945 - The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin. 05-02-1955 - Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 05-02-1994 - Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election. 05-02-1997 - The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years. 05-03-1937 - Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind. 05-03-1948 - The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property. 05-03-1979 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England. 05-03-2001 - The United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year. 05-04-1626 - Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons. 05-04-1886 - The Haymarket Square riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration. 05-04-1932 - Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion. 05-04-1961 - Civil rights activists, called"freedom riders," left Washington, DC for New Orleans. 05-04-1970 - Four Kent State University students were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration. 05-04-1998 - The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for his series of bombings that killed three and injured 23. 05-05-1809 - Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman to be granted a patent. The patent was for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread. 05-05-1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena. 05-05-1891 - Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor. 05-05-1925 - John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism. 05-05-1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space. 05-05-2004 - Pablo Picasso's"Boy with a Pipe" became the most expensive painting ever sold.
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Martin E. Marty: Cited by Pastor Wright as a great influence - Bill Moyers Journal, 4-25-08 Sam Wineburg: Criticized for"snide disdain of commentators and historians who criticize the young" - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 4-24-08 Edward Renehan: Secret revealed in historic document theft case - Newsday, 4-21-08 Togolese historian condemns Olympic boycott calls - China View, 4-18-08 Nada Shabout: There is more to be mourned than Iraq's ancient treasures - Laura Wilkinson in the Daily Star, 4-18-08 Dov Levin: Historian gives back award received in 1993 from Lithuania - Jerusalem Post, 4-6-08 Legal History Project Includes 3 UB Law School Contributors - UB News Center, NY,
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Carol Felsenthal: Books of The Times After Life in White House, No Place Feels Like Home CLINTON IN EXILE A President Out of the White House - NYT, 4-28-08 Jonathan Rieder: Talking the Talk THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UPON ME The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. - NYT, 4-27-08 Don Jordan and Michael Walsh: Master and Servant WHITE CARGO The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America - NYT, 4-27-08 Joseph E. Persico: The women who made a man out of FDR Franklin & Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life - WaPo, 4-27-08 W. Patrick McCray: Writes a history of"moonwatchers" - Press Release, 4-22-08 Gerard J. DeGroot: His new book questions whether the era of the 60s was marvelous or misguided - Jay Parini at the website of the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 4-25-08 Joseph E. Persico: Says FDR's affair with Lucy Mercer never ended apparently No End of the Affair Franklin & Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life - NYT, 4-20-08 Tony Judt: Through the Past, Darkly REAPPRAISALS Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century - NYT, 4-20-08 Max Hastings: HISTORY \| WORLD WAR II Debating Hiroshima and Nagasaki A British historian argues that the atomic bombings were justified. RETRIBUTION The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 - WaPo, 4-20-08 Francois Cusset: His forthcoming book takes a fresh perspective on how"Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States" - Scott McLemee at the website of Inside Higher Ed, 4-16-08 Mary Lefkowitz: Yale publishes her account of her fight with Afrocentrists - John Leo in the WSJ, 4-15-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Paul Doolan: History: an argument with an end - On Line opinion, Australia, 4-27-08 Frederick Kagan: How We'll Know When We've Won - Weekly Standard, 5-5-08 Gilbert King: Historian says Sup Ct gets history of death penalty wrong - NYT, 4-23-08 Steve Weinberg:"You Want ME to Write the Institutional History?" - Steve Weinberg at the website of InsideHigherEd, 4-17-08 Efraim Karsh: Takes Israel's"New Historians" to task for alleged misuse of evidence Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (Spring 2008), 4-16-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Allan J. Lichtman: Obama & the Battle Still to Come - Britannica Blog, 4-29-08 Nadia Abu El-Haj: Is she a Palestinian? - Martin Kramer at his blog: Sandbox, 4-22-08 Network of Concerned Historians Wants to Know About Legal Cases Involving Members of the Profession - Network of Concerned Historians (NCH), 4-19-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: James Axtell: Prolific history professor retiring after 30 years at William and Mary College - The Flat Hat, VA, 4-24-08 Cleveland Sellers: 40 years after surviving the"Orangeburg Massacre," a civil - Andy Guess at the website of Inside Higher Ed, 4-24-08 8 historians (more or less) among the"Top 100 Public Intellectuals" - Foreign Policy, 4-23-08 Thomas D. Clark: Historian's words ring true today - Tom Eblen in the Lexington Herald-Leader, 4-16-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Michael Walsh: America's First Slaves: Whites - NPR, 4-29-08 Allan Lichtman: Bush Hits Historic Disapproval High - NPR, 4-27-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Historian: Bagpipes history mostly hot air - UPI, 4-19-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Allan Meltzer on"Bernanke May Have to Follow Volcker to Avoid Being Tagged Burns":"You have to take the risk of the possibility of a small recession if you want to avoid ending up with a big one." - Bloomberg, 4-27-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed Lawrence University's Jerald Podair to the Wisconsin Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission - Appleton Post Crescent, 4-21-08 UW historian Jeremi Suri to receive outreach excellence award - University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications, WI, 4-28-08 Alan Charles Kors: $250,000 Prize Awarded to Penn Professor, a Fierce Critic of Speech Codes - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 4-24-08 Robert Caro & Edmund Morgan: Caro inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters; Morgan honored by award - AP, 4-16-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Andrew Wilson: Tells teachers how today's China's more insecure than Qing dynasty - Trudy Kuehner, reporting on a teachers' conference, CHINA'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST, held by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), 4-23-08 Fritz Stern: Lectures at the Council of Foreign Relations - Stanley Katz in AHA Perspectives (April), 4-1-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week History Channel:"Tora, Tora, Tora: The Real Story of Pearl Harbor," Wednesday, April 30, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai," Wednesday, April 30, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :The Manhattan Project," Wednesday, April 30, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest :American Werewolf," Wednesday, April 30, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Kennedys: The Curse of Power," Thursday, May 1, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mysterious Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa" Thursday, May 1, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :Vietnam," Thursday, May 1, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Battle 360 :The Empire's Last Stand," Friday, May 2, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Alaska: Dangerous Territory," Saturday, May 3, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Alaska: Big America," Saturday, May 3, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :Secret Soviet Bases," Monday, May 5, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :08 - New York," Monday, May 5, @ 11pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Philip Bobbitt: TERROR AND CONSENT #12 -- (1 week on list)- 5-4-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Ted Sorensen: Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, May 6, 2008 Scott McClellan: What Happened, May 12, 2008 William F. Buckley, Jr.: Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater, May 12, 2008 John Lukacs: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill's First Speech as Prime Minister, May 12, 2008 Peter Clarke: The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana, May 13, 2008 Thurston Clarke: Last Campaign, May 27, 2008 John S. Eisenhower: Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850, May 27, 2008 Paul Finkelman (Editor): Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson, May 28, 2008 Shane O'Sullivan: Who Killed Bobby?, June 3, 2008 Gil Troy: Leading from the Center, June 9, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Michael Podro: Esteemed art historian dies - Hemel Gazette, UK, 4-25-08

Posted On:: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 00:43

April 14, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Primary Season Election Results - NYT John Hope Franklin endorses Obama - abc11tv.com, NC, 4-14-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Neve Gordon: Decries politicization of archaeology in East Jerusalem dig - YIGAL BRONNER and NEVE GORDON at the website of the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 4-25-08 Professors' petition protests alleged politicization of archaeological work in East Jerusalem - http://www.alt-arch.org/petition.html, 4-9-08 Neve Gordon: Criticized by person he sued for allegedly suppressing freedom of speech - Steve Plaut in the Jewish Press, 4-9-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Robert S. McElvaine:"HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst" - - 4-1-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Robert KC Johnson: "Disenfranchisement" CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, 4-4-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" 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: 04-13-1975 - Civil War began in Lebanon when gunmen killed 4 Christian Phalangists who retaliated by killing 27 Palestinians. 04-14-1775 - Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American antislavery society. 04-14-1828 - Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary. 04-14-1860 - The first pony express rider reached his destination of San Francisco. He left St. Joseph, Mo., on April 3. 04-14-1865 - Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. 04-14-1912 - Titanic hit the iceberg that would sink her the next morning. 04-15-1861 - In response to the attack on Fort Sumter three days earlier, President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops. 04-15-1912 - Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg. 04-15-1920 - A paymaster and guard were murdered in Braintree, Mass. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the crime. 04-15-1945 - Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was liberated by Canadian and British forces. 04-16-1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles"Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland. 04-16-1917 - Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland. 04-16-1947 - Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term" cold war" in a speech in South Carolina. 04-16-1972 - China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift. 04-17-1790 - Benjamin Franklin, U.S. patriot, diplomat, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Philadelphia. 04-17-1895 - The Sino-Japanese War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. 04-17-1961 - Supported by the U.S. government, 1,500 exiles made the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. 04-17-1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was convicted for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. 04-17-1970 - The Apollo 13 astronauts safely splashed down after their near-disastrous flight. 04-17-1975 - Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, ending the five year Cambodian war. 04-18-1775 - Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution. 04-18-1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake destroyed over 4 sq mi. and killed over 500 people. 04-18-1978 - The U.S. Senate voted to hand over the Panama Canal to Panamanian control on Dec. 31, 1999. 04-18-2002 - Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, returned after 29 years in exile. 04-19-1775 - The"shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution. 04-19-1824 - Lord Byron died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks. 04-19-1882 - Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died. 04-19-1933 - The United States went off the gold standard. 04-19-1943 - The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis. 04-19-1993 - The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people. 04-19-1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time. 04-19-2005 - Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. 04-20-1769 - Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 04-20-1841 - The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published. 04-20-1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation. 04-20-1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including the shooters) and 1 teacher were killed; 23 others were wounded.
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: University of Richmond celebrates Edward Ayers' presidential inauguration - AP, 4-11-08 Historians help N-Y Historical Society raise $1.7 million - NY Sun, 4-7-08 Edwin Lewinson: Blind historian heading to jail for civil disobediance protest - http://www.nj.com, 3-26-08 Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War - Press Release, 4-7-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: RICHARD BROOKHISER on Steven Waldman: Religious Intent FOUNDING FAITH Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America - NYT, 4-13-08 Philip Shenon: A Lack of Intelligence THE COMMISSION The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation - NYT, 4-13-08 Philip Shenon: THE COMMISSION The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, First Chapter - NYT, 4-4-08 Douglas A. Blackmon: WSJ reporter in new book says slavery didn't end with the Civi War - What Emancipation Didn't Stop After All SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II - Janet Maslin in the NYT, 4-10-08 Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender: Updating Hofstadter, they produce a new collection of documents on higher ed American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005 - Inside Higher Ed, 4-10-08 Rick Perlstein: First review is in of Nixonland ... Wins praise in Atlantic - Ross Douthat in the Atlantic Monthly, 5-1-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Garry Wills: Two Speeches on Race - NY Review of Books, 5-1-08 Rick Perlstein: All Aboard the McCain Express - Nation, 4-21-08 Jon Wiener: Obama and the Palestinian Professors - Nation, 4-10-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: A quiet revolution at Harvard The new president, Drew Faust, prefers to work out of the limelight, says Joanna Walters - Guardian, UK, 4-8-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Louis P. Masur: Author Looks Behind A Shocking Photo That Weakened America's Anti-Busing Movement - Hartford Courant, 4-14-08 David McCullough: His next book is about Paris (interview) - http://www.pittsburghlive.com, 4-5-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Gary W. Gallagher: UVa professor gives cinema’s Civil War a reality check - Charlottesville Daily Progress, VA, 4-9-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Marvin Dunn: Historian Unsatisfied with Fla. Apology for Slavery: The apology is a meaningless act that only a dolt or outright racist would oppose. It cost the state nothing and of course, there was not a word about the thorny question of reparations. As one of the African Americans to whom the apology was aimed, it was not enough." - NPR, 4-7-08 David A. Hollinger: Says academic freedom is threatened - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 4-7-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Susan Mann: Pioneering Historian of China Wins Highest Peer Honor - Press Release--UC Davis, 4-9-08 William Cronon to receive Colman Barry Award from SJU - St. John's University, 4-7-08 Saul Friedlander: Historian wins Pulitzer Prize - http://www.pulitzer.org/, 4-7-08 Daniel Walker Howe: Wins 2008 Pulitzer Prize in history - http://www.pulitzer.org/, 4-7-08
EXHIBITS:	EXHIBITS: McLean County Museum of History offers look into Lincoln Legacy Starting May 12, students can take a tour to Springfield to learn more about President Abraham Lincoln - Daily Vidette, IL, 3-26-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Historian Fischer highlights successes of great American leaders - Tufts Daily, MA, 4-4-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: April 16, 2008: Historian to Discuss East Germany under Communist Rule at SUNY Cortland - SUNY Cortland News, 4-11-08 April 16, 2008: Holocaust historian to kick off Stetson University series - Peter Black, senior historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at 7:30 p.m. in the Elizabeth Hall Chapel, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, Florida - Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL, 4-14-08 April 24-26, 2008: Bernard Lewis: Will Deliver Keynote Speech at ASMEA's Annual Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. - Press Release--ASMEA, 4-10-08 April 24-27, 2008: Conference: Columbia 1968 and the World - http://www.columbia1968, 3-12-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week History Channel:"Bible Battles," Tuesday, April 8, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Biblical Disasters :Biblical Disasters," Tuesday, April 8, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters :The Next Pompeii?," Tuesday, April 15, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Naked Archaeologist :The Would Be Messiah/The Search for St. Peter," Tuesday, April 15, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Universe : Beyond the Big Bang," Wednesday, April 16, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Universe :Secrets of the Sun," Wednesday, April 16, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:" The Universe :Spaceship Earth," Thursday, April 17, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Universe :Jupiter: The Giant Planet" Thursday, April 17, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Universe :Alien Galaxies" Thursday, April 17, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:" The Universe :The Moon" Thursday, April 17, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :New York: Secret Societies," Thursday, April 17, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Street Gangs: A Secret History," Friday, April 18, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries :Five Points Gangs," Friday, April 18, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Battle 360 :D-Day in the Pacific," Friday, April 18, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"How the Earth Was Made," Saturday, April 19, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem," Saturday, April 19, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey," Saturday, April 19, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Max Hastings: RETRIBUTION #12 -- (3 weeks on list)- 4-20-08 Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM #20 - 4-20-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Tony Judt: Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, April 17, 2008 Ted Sorensen: Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, May 6, 2008 Scott McClellan: What Happened, May 12, 2008 William F. Buckley, Jr.: Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater, May 12, 2008 John Lukacs: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill's First Speech as Prime Minister, May 12, 2008 Peter Clarke: The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana, May 13, 2008 Thurston Clarke: Last Campaign, May 27, 2008 John S. Eisenhower: Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850, May 27, 2008 Paul Finkelman (Editor): Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson, May 28, 2008 Shane O'Sullivan: Who Killed Bobby?, June 3, 2008 Gil Troy: Leading from the Center, June 9, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Greg Dening: An imaginative and original historian, dies at 76 - The Age (Australia), 4-9-08 Alan Dawley, historian and activist, dies at 64 - Philadelphia Inquirer, 4-7-08

Posted On:: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 00:20

April 7, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Primary Season Election Results - NYT Beverly Gage: Reconsideration Our First Black President? - NYT, 4-6-08 Andrew J. Bacevich on"Foes target McCain's 100-year war remark":"Were the US to succeed militarily in Iraq, yes, US forces will remain in Iraq for decades to come," said Andrew J. Bacevich, a Boston University professor of international relations and US history and retired Army colonel whose son, an Army soldier, was killed last year by a suicide bomb there."My difference with McCain is I don't think we will prevail militarily in Iraq." - Boston Globe, 4-6-08 David Greenberg: The Hiett winner talks spin, politics and the presidency - Dallas Morning News, 4-6-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Martin Luther King 40th Anniversary King: Special History Channel How Politically Influential Was MLK? - NPR, 4-4-08 Robert Kennedy: Delivering News of King's Death - NPR, 4-4-08 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King slaying marked - Malaysia Sun, 4-4-08 Forty Years Later, Standing Where MLK Was Shot - NPR, 4-3-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Robert S. McElvaine:"HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst" - - 4-1-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Robert KC Johnson: "Disenfranchisement" CLIOPATRIA: A Group Blog, 4-4-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" 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: 04-07-1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh. 04-07-1913 - 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women. 04-07-1927 - U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission. 04-07-1948 - The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded. 04-07-1994 - Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered. 04-08-1513 - Ponce de León claimed Florida for Spain. 04-08-1913 - The 17th Amendment was ratified, requiring the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislators. 04-08-1935 - The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was approved by Congress to help alleviate joblessness during the Great Depression. 04-08-1946 - The League of Nations assembled for the last time. 04-09-1731 - Robert Jenkins's ear was cut off, sparking the War of Jenkins’s Ear between Spain and England. 04-09-1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. 04-09-1942 - American and Philippine troops on Bataan were overwhelmed by Japanese forces during World War II. The"Bataan Death March" began soon after. 04-09-1959 - NASA announced the selection of America’s first astronauts, including Alan Shepard and John Glenn. 04-09-1963 - Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen. 04-09-1992 - Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted of drug and racketeering charges. 04-09-2003 - American Marines pulled down Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad after U.S. commanders declared his rule ended. 04-10-1790 - The U.S. patent system was formed. 04-10-1866 - The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was chartered. 04-10-1912 - Titanic set sail on its fateful voyage. 04-10-1970 - Paul McCartney announced the official split of the Beatles. 04-10-1974 - Israeli prime minister Golda Meir announced her resignation. 04-10-1998 - The Northern Ireland"Good Friday Accord" was reached. 04-11-1814 - Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba. 04-11-1899 - The treaty ending the Spanish-American War took effect. 04-11-1945 - Allies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. 04-11-1951 - President Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur. 04-11-1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act. 04-11-1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown. 04-11-1981 - President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House after he was shot in an assassination attempt. 04-12-1861 - The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked. 04-12-1862 - James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive"The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie. 04-12-1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt died. 04-12-1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft. 04-12-1999 - Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. 04-13-1598 - The Edict of Nantes gave religious tolerance to the Huguenots in France. 04-13-1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actor. 04-13-1970 - Apollo 13 announced"Houston, we've got a problem," when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the Moon. 04-13-1975 - Civil War began in Lebanon when gunmen killed 4 Christian Phalangists who retaliated by killing 27 Palestinians. 04-14-1775 - Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American antislavery society. 04-14-1828 - Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary. 04-14-1860 - The first pony express rider reached his destination of San Francisco. He left St. Joseph, Mo., on April 3. 04-14-1865 - Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. 04-14-1912 - Titanic hit the iceberg that would sink her the next morning. 04-15-1861 - In response to the attack on Fort Sumter three days earlier, President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops. 04-15-1912 - Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg. 04-15-1920 - A paymaster and guard were murdered in Braintree, Mass. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the crime. 04-15-1945 - Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was liberated by Canadian and British forces.
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Joan Beaumont: Historian flags Gallipoli visitor limits - http://www.abc.net.au, 4-3-08 Arthur Schlesinger Jr: Librarians and Book Dealers Dissect a Historian's Treasured Book Collection - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 3-3-08 Claire B. Potter: Historian with tenure wonders if we'd be better off without it - Inside Higher Ed, 3-31-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Peter Morris: The Unnaturals BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 - NYT, 4-6-08 Peter Morris: When the national pastime was child's play BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870 - WaPo, 4-6-08 Jonathan Rieder: HISTORY \| CIVIL RIGHTS His Own Man The great civil rights leader felt the tensions between black and white influences THE WORD OF THE LORD IS UPON ME The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. - WaPo, 4-6-08 David Nichols: Ike misunderstood A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution - http://www.thedailystar.com, 4-3-08 Kristie Macrakis: MSU historian takes reader behind the scenes of East Germany’s Stasi - http://msutoday.msu.edu, 4-1-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Scary McCain? - American Thinker, 3-30-08 Jonathan Zimmerman: Africa has corner on teacher abuse - Seattle PI, 3-28-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Larry Bartels: Political scientist's new book says lower income voter incomes go up 2% under Dems, less under Repubs - Dani Rodrik's blog, 3-31-08 Kelly Schrum: Says history is being taught differently these days - Washington Times, 3-31-08 UK head teachers want to drop National Curriculum -- including history -- in schools - Telegraph (UK), 3-30-08 Mary Beard: Professor reminds everybody that Hitler invented the Olympic torch - Times (UK), 3-26-08 David Kaiser: Historian Plows Through New Kennedy Assassination Research - Roman Modrowski in the blog: http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com, 3-23-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Alan Brinkley Juggles Life of History Professor, Provost - Columbia Spectator, 4-1-08 Beatrice De Cardi: The world's oldest archaeologist - Independent (UK), 4-4-08 Richard Steven Street: The photographer as historian - Richard Steven Street in"The Photographer's Double," Visual Communication Quarterly (Fall 2007). (Article is not posted online) (9-1-07)
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Marilyn Young: 1968, Forty Years Later: President Lyndon Johnson Announces No Second Term Amid Low Support for Vietnam War in Aftermath of Tet Offensive - Democracy Now, 4-3-08 Josh Marshall: Historian blogger predicts digital media takeover - Daily Princetonian, 4-2-08 Arnold Hirsch: Historian interviewed about post-Katrina housing in New Orleans - NewsHour (PBS), 4-1-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Why Don't More Colleges Teach Military History? Despite its enduring public appeal, and a country at war, the subject gets little respect on campus - US News, 4-3-08 Howard Zinn: Now he's doing history through illustrations - Boston Globe, 4-1-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Robert S. Wistrich: 'UK is European center of anti-Semitism':"Britain has become the center point for the meeting of anti-Semitic trends in Europe.... Anti-Semitism in Great Britain is at least a millennial phenomenon and has been around for 1000 years of recorded history.... The authors are conveying and transmitting to a future generation an embedded anti-Semitism whose influence is impossible to underestimate," - Jerusalem Post, 3-31-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Woody Holton: University of Richmond history professor receives Guggenheim fellowship - Press Release--University of Richmond, 4-4-08
EXHIBITS:	EXHIBITS: McLean County Museum of History offers look into Lincoln Legacy Starting May 12, students can take a tour to Springfield to learn more about President Abraham Lincoln - Daily Vidette, IL, 3-26-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Andrew Bacevich: Historian discusses Iraq War, criticizes Bush administration - Indiana Daily Student, 4-1-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: April 9, 2008: Nation Mag et al. to run April 9 conference on New Deal - Nation, 4-3-08 April 11-13-08: Honestly, how many Abes can there be? Scores of Lincoln impersonators heading to Alton - Belleville News-Democrat, 3-30-08 April 24-27, 2008: Conference: Columbia 1968 and the World - http://www.columbia1968, 3-12-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week C-Span2, BookTV: In Depth: Michael Eric Dyson - Monday, April 7 @ 12:00am ET - C-Span2, BookTV PBS: American Experience:"Amelia Earhart," Monday, April 7 @ 9pm ET History Channel:"Breaking Vegas," Monday, April 7, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Gangland :01 - American Gangster, Gangland :06 - Kings of New York," Monday, April 7, @ 4 & 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life After People," Monday, April 7, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hippies," Tuesday, April 8, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :60's Tech, Modern Marvels :70's Tech," Tuesday, April 8, @ 4 & 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special : An Alien History of Planet Earth," Wednesday, April 9, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"UFO Files :Deep Sea UFOs, UFO Files :Deep Sea UFOs: Red Alert," Wednesday, April 9, @ 4 & 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Comets: Prophets of Doom," Thursday, April 10, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :Maya Underground," Thursday, April 10, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Sharp Shooters," Friday, April 11, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"King," Saturday, April 12, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"True Caribbean Pirates," Saturday, April 12, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM #21 - 4-13-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Cokie Roberts: Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, April 8, 2007 Tony Judt: Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, April 17, 2008 Ted Sorensen: Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, May 6, 2008 Scott McClellan: What Happened, May 12, 2008 William F. Buckley, Jr.: Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater, May 12, 2008 John Lukacs: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning: Churchill's First Speech as Prime Minister, May 12, 2008 Peter Clarke: The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana, May 13, 2008 Thurston Clarke: Last Campaign, May 27, 2008 John S. Eisenhower: Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850, May 27, 2008 Paul Finkelman (Editor): Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson, May 28, 2008 Shane O'Sullivan: Who Killed Bobby?, June 3, 2008 Gil Troy: Leading from the Center, June 9, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Paul Arthur: 60, Film Historian and Critic, Dies - NYT, 3-30-08

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