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March 20, 2006
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
BIGGEST STORY:
IN THE NEWS:
REVIEWED:

  • Alan Brinkley on Kevin Phillips: Clear and Present Dangers American Theocracy - NYT, 3-19-06

  • Eric Foner on Raymond Arsenault: Bound for Glory Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice - NYT, 3-19-06

  • Ira Berlin & Leslie M. Harris: Our Captive Past Slavery in New York - NYT, 3-19-06

  • Harvey C. Mansfield: Who's the Man? Manliness - NYT, 3-19-06

  • Elaine Feinstein: Not Silenced Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova - NYT, 3-19-06

  • Richard Carwardine: British Historian Crafts Masterful Political Biography of Abraham Lincoln - Huntington News Network, 3-17-06

  • Kevin Phillips: Tying Religion and Politics to an Impending U.S. Decline American Theocracy - NYT, 3-17-06

  • Francis Fukuyama: Supporter's Voice Now Turns on Bush America at the Crossroads - NYT, 3-14-06

OP-ED:
PROFILED:

  • James L. Swanson: Fascinated by Lincoln's Assassination, and the Trail of the Killer - NYT, 3-15-06

INTERVIEWED:
QUOTED:

  • Jill Lepore on teaching about slavery in the North: Most Americans do not know the story of slavery in the North. There's no reason to hide the fact that New York City was built by slaves. It's an important part of the city's past." - AP, 3-17-06

  • Michael Kazin on the Third Anniversary of the Iraq War:"During Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson said we can fight them there or fight them here, but no one believed it. This time, there's more fear about what happens next." - Courier Post Online, 3-19-06

SPOTTED:
ON TV:

  • PBS: American Experience,"Murder of the Century," Monday, Mar. 20, 2006 @ 9pm - PBS

  • History Channel: UFO Files Texas' Roswell, Monday, March 20 @ 8pm ET/PT -

  • History Channel: Digging for the Truth"Troy: Of Gods and Warriors," Monday, March 20 @ 9pm ET/PT

  • History Channel: The True Story of the Philadelphia Experiment, Wednesday, March 22 @ 11pm ET/PT

  • History Channel: Decoding The Past Secret Brotherhood of Freemasons, Thursday, March 23 @ 9pm ET/PT

  • History Channel: Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces, Friday, March 24 @ 8pm ET/PT

  • Caligula: Reign of Madness, Friday, March 24 @ 10pm ET/PT

  • C-Span2: After Words: Kevin Phillips and Grover Norquist, Saturday, March 25 @ 9:00 pm & Sunday, March 26 @ 6:00 pm @ 9:00 pm - BookTV

  • History Channel: Women's History Month Listings - History Channel

SELLING BIG (NYT):

  • James L. Swanson: Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, #6, (5 weeks on list) 3-26-06

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #11 (20 weeks on list) - 3-26-06

  • David McCullough: 1776, #26 - 3-26-06

FUTURE RELEASES:

  • Kevin Phillips:American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, Mar. 21, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Mar. 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Ronald Kessler: Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady, Apr. 4, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Jon Meacham: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, Apr. 4, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006- Amazon.com

  • Robert Dallek & Terry Golway: Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Nathaniel Philbrick: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com

HONORED:
DEPARTED:
Monday, March 20, 2006 - 03:17
March 13, 2006
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
BIGGEST STORY:
IN THE NEWS:
REVIEWED:

  • Sarah Dunant: 16th-Century Fox In the Company of the Courtesan Historical Fiction - NYT, 3-12-06

  • Sarah Dunant: In the Company of the Courtesan Historical Fiction, First Chapter - NYT, 3-12-06

  • Sarah Dunant: Historical horizontal advancement In the Company of the Courtesan Historical Fiction - Houston Chronicle, 3-10-06

  • Peter Richardson: The conscience of California American Prophet: The Life & Work of Carey McWilliams - LA Times, 3-12-06

  • Michael Kazin: Beyond monkey business Bryan as reformer A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan - Baltimore Sun, 3-12-06

  • Texas Reads: Histories focus on 1800s events, figures - Bryan College-Station Eagle, 3-12-06

OP-ED:
PROFILED:
INTERVIEWED:
QUOTED:

  • Peter Kornbluh on Chile:"ultimate study of morality - or the lack of it - in American foreign policy." - Chicago Tribune, 3-10-06

SPOTTED:
ON TV:

  • Elyse Luray: 'History Detectives' will be on the Hunt at 'Atlantique City' March 25-26 - News-antique.com, 3-8-06

  • History Channel: THE HISTORY OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY, Friday, Mar. 17, 2006 @ 7PM/ET - History Channel

  • History Channel:"Digging for the Truth: City of the Gods" Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006 @ 7PM/ET - History Channel

  • History Channel: Women's History Month Listings - History Channel

SELLING BIG (NYT):

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #8 (19 weeks on list) - 3-19-06

  • David McCullough: 1776, #23 - 3-19-06

  • James Risen: State of War, #29 - 3-19-06

  • Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #32 - 3-19-06

FUTURE RELEASES:

  • Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Mar. 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Apr. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006- Amazon.com

  • Robert Dallek & Terry Golway: Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com

LEAVING:

DEPARTED:

  • Richard P. McCormick: Hundreds fill Rutgers: Kirkpatrick Chapel to celebrate beloved professor's life - The Star Ledger, 3-10-06
Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 19:13
March 6, 2006
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
IN THE NEWS:
REVIEWED:

  • Heather Cox Richardson reviewing Eric Foner: A Dream Deferred FOREVER FREE The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction - Washington Post, 3-5-06

  • Michael Kazin: The Man With the Silver Tongue A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan - NYT, 3-5-06

  • Michael Kazin: A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan First Chapter - NYT, 3-5-06

  • Mark Kurlansky: The Mollusk That Made Manhattan The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - NYT, 3-5-06

  • Mark M. Smith: USC professor has a sense of racial stereotypes - The State, 3-5-06

  • David Reynolds: Fascinating look at Churchill's on words on WWII IN COMMAND OF HISTORY: CHURCHILL FIGHTING AND WRITING THE SECOND WORLD WAR- Toledo Blade, 3-5-06

  • Eric Burns: Book chronicles colorful history of early journalism Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism - Gwinnett Daily Post, 3-5-06

  • Michael Kazin: His New bio of William Jennings Bryan - Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Ed, 3-1-06

  • Charles Hill: Subject of a former student's biography - Michiko Kakutani in the NYT, 2-28-06

OP-ED:

  • David Sirota: Tom Friedman Becomes America's Chief Revisionist Historian - Huffington Post, 3-4-06

  • Fred Kaplan: Yes, We Should Worry About Iran Do we really want to relive the Cold War nuclear nightmare? - Slate, 3-3-06

PROFILED:
INTERVIEWED:
QUOTED:

  • Gil Troy on Bill Clinton's Canadian Tour:"He's the first presidential rock star in American history. He still has this tremendous skill set. He can seduce a room like nobody else in America.... He [Mr. Clinton] couldn't help himself. It's pathological. It's not like he doesn't know his own skill sets. He stole the show, but in stealing the show, he stole it from her [Hillary Clinton]." - The Globe and Mail, 3-4-06

SPOTTED:
ON TV:

  • History Channel: Women's History Month Listings - History Channel

  • History Channel: Train Wreck in Lake Michigan, Monday 6, 2006 @ 10PM/ET - History Channel

  • History Channel:"Warrior Queen Boudica", Friday, Mar. 10, 2006 @ 8PM/ET - History Channel

  • C-Span2's BookTV: Richard Barnet, author of The Rockets' Red Glare: When America Goes To War -- The Presidents and the People, Saturday, Mar. 11, 2006 @ 6PM/ET - C-Span

  • History Channel: THE HISTORY OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY, Friday, Mar. 17, 2006 @ 7PM/ET - History Channel

SELLING BIG (NYT):

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #7 (18 weeks on list) - 3-12-06

  • David McCullough: 1776, #17 - 3-12-06

  • Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster: Parish Priest, #28 - 3-12-06

  • Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #32 - 3-12-06

  • James Risen: State of War, #33 - 3-12-06

FUTURE RELEASES:

  • Liza Picard: Victorian London : The Tale of a City 1840--1870, Mar. 7, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Mar. 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Apr. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006- Amazon.com

  • Robert Dallek & Terry Golway: Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com

  • Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com

HONORED:

  • Don Rittner: Honored with the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Award - Albany Times Union, 3-2-06

DEPARTED:

  • Arnold A. Rogow: 81, a Writer Who Put History on the Couch, Dies - NYT, 3-2-06
Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 18:57
February 27, 2006
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
MOST POPULAR:

  • Judith Klinghoffer: Blog Post"Buy Danish," now holds the record for most comments on HNN's comment boards - over 2200 of them!

BIGGEST STORY:
IN THE NEWS:
REVIEWED:

  • Jeffrey Hart & Bruce Bartlett: The Conservative Imagination - NYT, 2-26-06

  • Jeffrey Hart: The Making of the American Conservative Mind First Chapter - NYT, 2-26-06

  • Tony Judt: Sixty years of malaise, decline Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Washington Times, 2-26-06

  • Alan Taylor: What the Indians wanted but didn't get The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution - Washington Times, 2-26-06

OP-ED:
PROFILED:
INTERVIEWED:
QUOTED:

  • Gaddis Smith: on Lawrence Summers resignition -"Harvard in some ways is a more difficult place to be the president of because it is so large, with so many different constituencies. Yale has a tradition, which sets it off from Harvard, to talk to each other pretty well." - Yale Daily News, 2-23-06

  • Philip Kuhn: on Lawrence Summers resignition -"Things had reached a point where there weren't too many good alternatives. There were only bad alternatives. His resigning was bad, and his not resigning was bad. His relationship with the significant portion of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was not productive. I don't consider this a good thing for Harvard." - Yale Daily News, 2-23-06

  • Milton Sernett & Kathryn Grover: Discussing"works of grace" black churches - Finger Lakes Times, 2-26-06

SPOTTED:
ON TV:

  • PBS:"Hijacked" American Experience, (Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 @ 9PM/ET) - PBS

  • History Channel: John Wesley Powell on"Risk Takers, History Makers" (Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006 @ 8PM/ET) - History Channel

  • History Channel: "Rome: Engineering an Empire" and "Roman Vice" (Friday, Mar. 3, 2006 @ 8PM/ET) -

  • C-Span2's : Charles Sanders, author of The Boys of Winter: Life and Death in the U.S. Ski Troops During the Second World War on BookTV (Mar. 5, 2006 @ 10PM/ET) - C-Span2

  • The History Channel Takes Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Gilder Lehrman Collection on HistoryCENTER (Sunday, Mar. 5, & Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006 @ 8AM/Nationwide) - History Channel

  • History Channel: Black History Month 2006 TV Schedule - History Channel

SELLING BIG (NYT):

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #10 (17 weeks on list) - 2-26-06

  • David McCullough: 1776, #18 - 2-26-06

  • Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #23 - 2-26-06

  • Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster: Parish Priest, #27 - 2-26-06

FUTURE RELEASES:

  • Rick Newman & Don Shepperd: Bury Us Upside Down : The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Feb. 28, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry: We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II, Mar. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Michael Burleigh: Earthly Powers : The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War, Mar. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Liza Picard: Victorian London : The Tale of a City 1840--1870, Mar. 7, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Mar. 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Apr. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006- Amazon.com

    • Robert Dallek & Terry Golway: Let Every Nation Know, Apr. 17, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 9, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com

    DEPARTED:
    Sunday, March 5, 2006 - 15:36
    February 13, 2006
    HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
    IN THE NEWS:
    REVIEWED:
    OP-ED:
    PROFILED:
    INTERVIEWED:
    QUOTED:

    • Paul George on Miami, Cuba and the lingering Cold War:"It absolutely is a throwback. Cuban exiles are still worried about the Castro issue, and they hinge everything around that issue, the existence of Castro. But the rest of the country has long forgotten that this Cold War period ever happened." - Monterey Herald, 2-12-06

    • Douglas Brinkley on New Orleans:"The Lower Ninth Ward is kind of the heart and soul of the African-American experience in New Orleans, and what's New Orleans without the African-American experience? It would be a big statement if we could save the Lower Ninth Ward, and I think some of their cultural photography could be helpful toward that end." - NYT, 2-9-06

    SPOTTED:
    ON TV:

    • PBS:"Reconstruction: The Second Civil War" on American Experience, (Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 @ 9PM/ET) - PBS, WGBH

    • History Channel"The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 @ 8PM ET/PT) - History Channel

    • BookTV on C-Span2: Richard Shenkman, Presidential Ambition (Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006 @ 7PM/ET) - C-Span2

    • History Channel:"First to Fight: The Black Tankers of WWII" (Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006 @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel

    • History Channel: Black History Month 2006 TV Schedule - historychannel.com

    SELLING BIG (NYT):

    • Doris Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #14 (15 weeks on list) - 2-12-06

    • David McCullough: 1776, #18 - 2-12-06

    • Taylor Branch: At Canaan's Edge, #23 - 2-12-06

    • Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster: Parish Priest, #29 - 2-12-06

    FUTURE RELEASES:

    • Deborah Davis: Party of the Century : The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-and-White Ball, Feb. 24, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Robert L. McLaughlin, Sally E. Parry: We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II, Mar. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Colin G. Calloway: The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of America, Mar. 31, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Michael Burleigh: Earthly Powers : The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War, Mar. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Liza Picard: Victorian London : The Tale of a City 1840--1870, Mar. 7, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Douglas Brinkley: The Great Deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Apr. 1, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Efraim Karsh: Islamic Imperialism : A History, Apr. 11, 2006- Amazon.com

    • Larry Schweikart: America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com

    • Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different, May 18, 2006 - Amazon.com

    HONORED:

    DEPARTED:
    Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - 16:07