POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS:

This Week's Political Highlights

• Political Highlights: Remembering Senator Edward (Ted) M. Kennedy, 1932-2009 HNN, 9-1-09

BIGGEST NEWS STORIES:

• Betsy McCaughey: NYT says historian's profile has risen sharply as a result of her involvement in Obama health care debate "Resurfacing, a Critic Stirs Up Debate Over Health Care" - NYT (9-4-09)
• Betsy McCaughey Addresses New York Times: Charges of Falsehoods But No Evidence - Reuters, 9-5-09

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

On This Day in History....

This Week in History.... September 7-13, 2009

IN THE NEWS:

• Brian Merlis and John Manbeck: Historians spar over Brooklyn history - The Huffington Post (9-3-09)
• Spain to publish interview with Holocaust denier David Irving - Google News (9-3-09)
• Ged Lynn: Historian walks through Luton in awareness march Luton Today (9-3-09)
• Götz Aly: Makes Controversial Remarks about the Contribution of Black and Asian Soldiers in WWII telegraph.co.uk (9-4-09)
• Darío A. Euraque: Trinity Historian Turned Cultural Guardian Standing Up To New Honduran Regime - Hartford Courant, (8-30-09)

OP-EDs & BLOGS:

• DREW GILPIN FAUST: Crossroads The University's Crisis of Purpose - NYT, 9-6-09
• Lawrence Glickman: Blogs about the Whole Foods Boycott - Washington Post (9-2-09)

REVIEWS & FIRST CHAPTERS:

• Steven F. Hayward: Another One for the Gipper THE AGE OF REAGAN The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989 - NYT, 9-6-09
• Veronica Buckley: Undercover Queen THE SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS XIV Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon - NYT, 9-6-09
• Janet Soskice: Two of a Kind THE SISTERS OF SINAI How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels - NYT, 9-6-09
• Fred Kaplan: Planting the Seeds of the Sixties: 1959 The Year Everything Changed - WaPo, 9-4-09
• Fred Kaplan: 1959 The Year Everything Changed, Excerpt - WaPo, 9-4-09
• Norman Podhoretz: RELIGION Speaking in Generalities WHY ARE JEWS LIBERALS? WaPo, 9-4-09
• Marina Belozerskaya: HISTORY Getting Attached to the Past TO WAKE THE DEAD A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology - WaPo, 9-4-09
• Edward M. Kennedy: Books of The Times Kennedy's Rough Waters and Still Harbors TRUE COMPASS A Memoir - NYT, 9-4-09
• Kennedy Memoir Doesn't Ignore Lows - NYT, 9-3-09
• Sam Tanenhaus: History of conservatism shown in Tanenhaus new book - SF Gate (9-1-09)

PROFILED & FEATURED:

• Professor Christopher Elrington: Historian who devoted his career to the 'Victoria County History' - The Independent (9-1-09)
• A look at John Lukacs: Historian cannot be removed from his story - The Budapest Times (8-31-09)

INTERVIEWED:

• A conversation with Jill Lepore - Humanities (9-1-09)
• Interview with Rodney Stark: The Crusades were "a justified war waged against Muslim terror and aggression" - http://www.medievalists.net (9-3-09)
• Historians Helen Rappaport and Lisa Hilton: are women guilty of "feminising" their subject? [audio 5 minutes, 51 seconds] - BBC (Radio 4) (9-2-09)

HONORED, AWARDED &APPOINTED:

• Michael Szonyi: Chinese Historian Tenured at Harvard - The Harvard Crimson (8-31-09)

SPOTTED:

• NASA historian Andrew Chaikin: "Space historian" talks up lunar exploration at the OMNIMAX Theater at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) - The Bee (9-2-09)

EVENTS CALENDAR:

• Inaugural Semester-long seminar on Constitutional History offered at N-Y Historical Society this fall: Lincoln's Constitution will be taught at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, on Thursday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. The seminar will be held on September 17 and 24 and on October 1, 15, 22, and 29, 2009. NYHS Press Release (7-20-09)

ON TV:

• BBC to launch new series on history of Christianity - Religious Intelligence, 6-19-09
• C-SPAN2: BOOK TV Weekend Schedule
• PBS History Detectives: Mondays at 9pm
• History Channel: Weekly Schedule
• History Channel: "Next Nostradamus" - Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 10pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Last Stand of The 300" - Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Cities Of The Underworld: Maya Underground" - Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Nostradamus: 2012" - Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Next Nostradamus" - Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Decoding The Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy" - Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" - Friday, September 11, 2009 at 2pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Countdown to Ground Zero" - Friday, September 11, 2009 at 4pm ET/PT
• History Channel: Zero Hour: The Last Hour of Flight"" - Friday, September 11, 2009 at 6pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "The Day the Towers Fell" - Friday, September 11, 2009 at 7pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "102 Minutes that Changed America / Witness to 9/11" - Friday, September 11, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "The Crumbling of America" - Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 5pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "Manson" - Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT
• History Channel: "The Templar Code" - Monday, September 14, 2009 at 8pm ET/PT

BEST SELLERS (NYT):

NYT Non-Fiction Best Sellers List - September 13, 2009

• #1 - Michelle Malkin: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
• #3 - Ronald Kessler: IN THE PRESIDENT'S SECRET SERVICE
• #11 - J. Randy Taraborrelli: THE SECRET LIFE OF MARILYN MONROE
• #16 - Douglas Brinkley: THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR
• #17 - Peter S. Canellos: LAST LION
• #20 - C. David Heymann: BOBBY AND JACKIE
• #32 - Doug Stanton: HORSE SOLDIERS

COMING SOON BOOKS:

• Jon Krakauer: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, September 15, 2009
• Dean C. Jessee (Editor): The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 1: Manuscript Revelation Books, September 2009
• James Patterson: The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller, September 28, 2009
• Timothy Egan: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, October 19, 2009
• Gil Troy, Vincent J. Cannato, eds.: Living in the Eighties, October 23, 2009
• L. Fletcher Prouty: JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, (Paperback), November 1, 2009
• Edward Kritzler: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge, (Paperback), November 3, 2009
• Anthony Haden-guest: Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night (Paperback), December 8, 2009

DEPARTED:

• Historian William Abbot, Former Editor of George Washington Papers, Dies - UVA Today (University of Virginia) (9-3-09)
• G.M. Hiranandani: Eminent Naval historian passes away - Press Trust of India (9-3-09)
• William Wright Abbot III Obituary - DailyProgress.com (9-2-09)