| HNN STATS THIS WEEK: | |
| THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: | - 06-19-1856 First Republican national convention ends
- 06-19-1864 CSS Alabama sunk off France during the Civil War
- 06-19-1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor
- 06-19-1917 Britain's King George V changes royal surname
- 06-20-1782 Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States
- 06-20-1863 West Virginia enters the Union
- 06-20-1963 United States and Soviet Union will establish a"hot line"
- 06-20-1964 Westmoreland becomes Commander of MACV in Vietnam
- 06-21-1788 U.S. Constitution ratified
- 06-21-1864 General Grant extends the Petersburg line during the Civil War
- 06-21-1942 Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya
- 06-21-1964 The KKK kills three civil rights activists: Michael Schwerner,
Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.
- 06-22-1775 Congress issues Continental currency
- 06-22-1944 FDR signs GI bill
- 06-23-1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected as the first president of the Republic of Egypt.
- 06-24-1675 King Philip's War begins
- 06-24-1812 Napoleon's Grande Armee invades Russia
- 06-24-1970 Senate repeals Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- 06-25-1876 Indians defeat Custer at Little Big Horn
- 06-25-1942 Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S.
forces in Europe.
- 06-25-1950 Korean War begins
- 06-24-1993 Kim Campbell takes office as Canada's first female Prime Minister
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| BIGGEST STORIES: | |
| IN THE NEWS: | - Historians: Oh Isaac, we hardly know ye Contributions that Col. Barre made
to America, and history, are often overlooked -
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA, 6-18-06
- Da Vinci is Da Truth? -
Hindustan Times, India, 6-17-06
- Keith Windschuttle: The man behind the history wars takes on Aunty -
The Age, Australia, 6-16-06
- Keith Windschuttle: Appointment fuels ABC ad fears -
Australian Broadcasting Corp., 6-15-06
- Chalmers Johnson: Accused of wanting China to balance the US -
William R. Hawkins at frontpagemag.com, 6-15-06
- John Simmons: Oxford Rejects bequest because of stipulations -
Telegraph (UK), 6-13-06
- John Keiger: The Englishman appointed to help the French government sort out its universities -
Guardian, 6-13-06
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| REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: | - Rebecca Goldstein: The Heretic Jew BETRAYING SPINOZA
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity -
NYT, 6-18-06
- Rebecca Goldstein: BETRAYING SPINOZA
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, First Chapter -
NYT, 6-18-06
Morris Berman: Grim View of a Nation at the End of Days Dark Ages
America: The Final Phase of Empire-
NYT, 6-16-06 - Niall Ferguson: It's long, Niall, but actually, it's too short -
The Observer, UK, 6-18-06
- Patricia Nelson Limerick on Rita Williams: Treacherous territory
If the Creek Don't Rise My Life Out West With the Last Black Widow of the Civil War -
calendarlive.com, 6-18-06
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| OP-ED: | |
| PROFILED: | |
| INTERVIEWED: | - John Hope Franklin: Civil Rights Activist, Historian Discusses New Autobiography on Newshour -
PBS, 6-15-06
- Fernando Arcas Cubero HISTORIAN AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT MALAGA UNIVERSITY -
Sur, Spain, 6-06
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| QUOTED: | - Bob Wilson: Touring Sites That Survived Sherman's March
Union Troops Razed Military, Commercial Infrastructure But Left Much Of Georgia's Antebellum Beauty Unscathed -
Chicago Tribune, 6-18-06
- Keith Watenpaugh: Expert Sources on the Iraq War -
UC Davis, CA, 6-15-06
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| APPEARANCES & SPOTTED: | |
| ON TV: | - History Channel:"The Revolution Rebellion to Revolution,"
Sunday, June 18, @ 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"The Revolution Declaring Independence,"
Sunday, June 18, @ 10pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Modern Marvels The Alaskan Oil Pipeline"
Monday, June 19, @ 7pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"UFO Files Mexico's Roswell," Monday,
June 19, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Digging for the Truth Roanoke: The Lost Colony,"
Monday, June 19, @ 9pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives 6-Day War,"
Tuesday, June 20, @ 6pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Ottoman Empire: The War Machine,"
Thursday, June 22, @ 8pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"History Rocks #1,"
Thursday, June 22, @ 11pm ET/PT
- History Channel:"Modern Marvels," Marathon
Saturday, June 17, @ 1-5pm ET/PT
- C-Span2, BookTV: Encore Booknotes: Jane Holtz Kay,
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back,
Saturday, June 24 @ 6pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
- C-Span2, BookTV: After Words: After Words: Mark Smith interviewed by Nan Aron
Saturday, June 24 @ 9pm, Sunday 25 @ 6pm and 9pm -
C-Span2, BookTV
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| SELLING BIG (NYT): | - Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower, #6, (5 weeks on list) -
6-25-06
- William J. Bennett: America: The Last Best Hope, Vol. I,
#13, (3 week on list) -
6-25-06
- David Maraniss: Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero,
#15, (4 week on list) -
6-25-06
- Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge,
#24 -
6-25-06
- James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer,
#25 -
6-25-06
- Kevin Phillips: American Theocracy, #30 -
6-25-06
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| FUTURE RELEASES: | - 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
- Paul M. Kennedy: The Parliament of Man: The past, Present, and
Future of the United Nations, June 20, 2006
- Ron Suskind: The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's
Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, June 20, 2006
- Lawrence Otis Graham: The Senator and the Socialite: The True
Story of America's First Black Dynasty, June 27, 2006
- Martin Gilbert: The Somme: Herosim and Horror in the First World War
, June 27, 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
- Peter W. Galbraith: End of Iraq: How the United States Unintentionally
Broke Up Iraq and Changed the Middle East, July 2006
- Richard Labunski: James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights,
July 2006
- Peter Wallsten: One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century,
July 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
- Nicholas Lemann: Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War,
September 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
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| HONORED: | - Tsuyoshi Hasegawa: UCSB Historian Wins Prestigious Japanese Book Prize for Acclaimed Book About the Role of the Atomic Bomb in Japan's Surrender in WWII -
6-13-06
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