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November 20, 2006
THANKSGIVING:
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

  • 20/11/1789 - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights

  • 20/11/1815 - Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance

  • 20/11/1862 - Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee under Gen Braxton Bragg

  • 20/11/1866 - Howard University founded (Wash, DC)

  • 20/11/1866 - 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)

  • 20/11/1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero

  • 20/11/1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson

  • 20/11/1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)

  • 20/11/1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, German

  • 20/11/1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten

  • 20/11/1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000

  • 20/11/1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights

  • 20/11/1975 - Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president

  • 21/11/1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass

  • 21/11/1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod

  • 21/11/1789 - North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state

  • 21/11/1824 - 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC

  • 21/11/1852 - Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College

  • 21/11/1877 - Tom Edison announces his"talking machine" invention (phonograph)

  • 21/11/1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub

  • 21/11/1959 - Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

  • 21/11/1963 - JFK flies to Texas

  • 21/11/1973 - Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

  • 21/11/1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto

  • 22/11/1864 - Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties

  • 22/11/1930 - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

  • 22/11/1930 - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit

  • 22/11/1943 - FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan

  • 22/11/1963 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated while travelling through Dallas, Texas in an open-top convertible

  • 22/11/1963 - Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th US president

  • 22/11/1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister

  • 22/11/1992 - Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women

  • 22/11/1996 - OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is"absolutely not true"

  • 23/11/1765 - People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

  • 23/11/1783 - Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)

  • 23/11/1863 - Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, TN begins

  • 23/11/1864 - -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)

  • 23/11/1909 - Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes

  • 23/11/1921 - Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes

  • 23/11/1936 - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce

  • 23/11/1939 - Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star

  • 23/11/1942 - German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad

  • 23/11/1963 - JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House

  • 23/11/1963 - LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)

  • 24/11/1105 - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary

  • 24/11/1863 - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mt begins in Tennessee

  • 24/11/1869 - American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)

  • 24/11/1941 -"Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated

  • 24/11/1944 - US bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo

  • 24/11/1948 - Ireland votes for independence from UK

  • 24/11/1950 - UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas

  • 24/11/1963 - 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

  • 24/11/1974 - Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty

  • 25/11/1783 - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US

  • 25/11/1792 - Farmer's Almanac 1st published

  • 25/11/1864 - Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails

  • 25/11/1864 - Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia

  • 25/11/1867 - US Congress commission looks into"impeachment" of Pres Andrew Johnson

  • 25/11/1913 - Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in White House

  • 25/11/1920 - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)

  • 25/11/1941 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)

  • 25/11/1955 - Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between US states

  • 25/11/1957 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech

  • 25/11/1963 - JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery

  • 25/11/1986 - Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office

  • 25/11/1986 - Iran-Contra affair erupts, Pres Reagan reveals secret arm deal

  • 26/11/1789 - 1st national Thanksgiving

  • 26/11/1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg

  • 26/11/1863 - -Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA

  • 26/11/1864 - Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia

  • 26/11/1898 - -27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die

  • 26/11/1940 - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw

  • 26/11/1969 - Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon

  • 26/11/1973 - Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18«-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

  • 26/11/1985 - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000

  • 27/11/1863 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas

  • 27/11/1868 - Battle at Washita-Gen Custer defeats Cheyennes

  • 27/11/1972 - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government

  • 27/11/1990 - Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher

    BIGGEST STORIES:
    IN THE NEWS:
    REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

    • James MacGregor Burns: Splendid Isolation How uncoupling presidents from their parties has given us less dynamic leaders RUNNING ALONE Presidential Leadership -- JFK to Bush II: Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It - Wa Po, 11-19-06

    • Robert K. Brigham: Is Iraq Another Vietnam? - Wa Po, 11-19-06

    • Alistair Horne: Aftershocks A classic on France's losing fight against Arab rebels contains troubling echoes of Iraq today A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE Algeria 1954-1962 - Wa Po, 11-19-06

    • Books of the battleground Horror and hopelessness of the Great War revived in republished novels - The State, SC, 11-19-06

    OP-ED:
    PROFILED:

    • Lisa Wilson, a professor of American history at Connecticut College, is featured as a commentator in the History Channel's original documentary,"Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower," which will debut on the History Channel at 8 p.m. Sunday - TheDay, CT, 11-15-06

    INTERVIEWED:

    • Michael Oren: Gaza Rockets Challenge Israeli Security - NPR, 11-17-06

    • Eliot Cohen: Weighing Options for the Best Exit from Iraq - 11-13-06

    FEATURE:

    • Timothy B. Tyson: The Ghosts of 1898 Duke historian Tyson explains how prominent North Carolinians seized power and altered the state's history.- News and Observer

    • Marilyn Lake: Anti-Americanism in Australia have predictably hit the headlines this week -

    • A Northern City's Southern Shame:"New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," a well-designed, richly informative exhibition opening at the New-York Historical Society - New York Sun, 11-16-06

    • Gabor Boritt: Lincoln's Hanover speech helped shape his legend - http://www.eveningsun.com, 11-12-06

    QUOTED:

    • Cynthia Harrison on"National Organization for Women at 40":"They concluded, quite sensibly, that they needed to form organization that wasn't sponsored by the government, so that they would have a completely free hand. It was at this convention that this group of women sat down at a table. Betty Freidan famously wrote the letters NOW on a napkin, and they formed the National Organization for Women." - NPR, 11-18-06

    • Levon Panos Dabagian Armenian historian rejects"Armenian genocide":"Turkish history has never had genocide against Armenians" - NGO 'Right of Choice', Azerbaijan, 11-14-06

    SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:

    • Nov. 20, 2006: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities and chair of African American Studies at Harvard, will discuss and show clips from his new PBS documentary,"African American Lives," during a Nov. 20 event at UNLV - UNLV The Rebel Yell, NV, 11-16-06

    • Nov. 20, 2006: Sucheta Mazumdar: Duke Historian to Discuss U.S.-China Trade at at noon Monday, Nov. 20, in Room 229 of the Carr Building on Duke’s East Campus - Duke University, NC, 11-16-06

    • Nov. 26, 2006: Gary D. Joiner will sign copies of his books from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble at 6646 Youree Drive in Shreveport, LA - Shreveport Times, LA, 11-17-06

    • Feb. 23 to 25, 2007: John Gillingham: Camden Conference marks its 20th anniversary, Feb. 23 to 25, 2007, at the Camden Opera House - 8-15-06 - Sold-out Camden Conference offers satellite seating at Strand knox.VillageSoup.com, ME, 10-29-06

    HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:
    ON TV:

    • C-Span2, BookTV: 2006 National Book Awards Ceremony, Sunday, November 19 at 7:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

    • C-Span2, BookTV: History on Book TV Timothy Egan,"The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl," Sunday, November 19 at 8:30 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

    • PBS: American Experience"RFK", Monday November 27, @ 9pm ET - PBS

    • History Channel:"Home for the Holidays: The History of Thanksgiving," Sunday, November 19, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower" Sunday, November 19, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Presidential Prophecies," Monday, November 20, @ 5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai," Tuesday, November 21, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1789-1825," Tuesday, November 21, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1825-1849," Tuesday, November 21, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives :Native American Wars: The Apache" Wednesday, November 22, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives :Custer at Little Big Horn" Wednesday, November 22, @ 3pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"History's Mysteries :The First Americans" Wednesday, November 22, @ 5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Inside Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" Wednesday, November 22, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"American Eats :Holiday Foods" Wednesday, November 22, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1849-1865," Wednesday, November 22, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1865-1885," Wednesday, November 22, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Presidents :1885-1913," Wednesday, November 22, @ 11pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of The Mayflower," Thursday, November 23, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Home for the Holidays: The History of Thanksgiving," Thursday, November 23, @ 11pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Shootout :Okinawa: The Last Battle of WWII" Friday, November 24, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Special : The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Saturday, November 25, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Kennedys: The Curse of Power," Saturday, November 25, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Engineering An Empire" Marathon, Saturday, November 25, @ 1-5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Native Americans in the Civil War," Sunday, November 26, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Banned from The Bible," Sunday, November 26, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Special :Beyond The Da Vinci Code," Sunday, November 26, @ 10pm ET/PT

    SELLING BIG (NYT):

    • Evan Thomas: SEA OF THUNDER, #19 - 11-26-06

    • Hampton Sides: BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West #27 - 11-26-06

    • David Nasaw: ANDREW CARNEGIE, #30 - 11-26-06

    FUTURE RELEASES:

    • Stanley Weintraub: 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

    • David M. Glantz: Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (University Press of Kansas), November 2006

    • Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006

    • A. J. Langguth: Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) November 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

    • Judith Lissauer Cromwell: Dorothea Lieven: A Russian Princess in London and Paris, 1785-1857, (McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers), November 2006

    • Stella Tillyard: Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings (Random House Publishing Group), December 2006

    • Jeremy Black: George III: America's Last King, (Yale University Press), December 2006

    • Gill Bennett: Churchill's Mystery Man, (Taylor & Francis, Inc.), December 2006

    • David Greenberg: Calvin Coolidge: The 30th President, 1923-1929 (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), December 26, 2006

    • Geoffrey Perret: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), February 6, 2007

    • Margaret MacMillan: Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World, (Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group), February 13, 2007

    DEPARTED:
    Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 20:03
    November 13, 2006
    ELECTION 2006 SPECIAL:

      ELECTION 2006: HISTORIANS' COMMENTS

      RESULTS:
      SENATE: DEM 51 (+6) -- GOP 49 (-6)
      HOUSE: DEM 229 (+29) -- GOP 196 (-28) (10 UNDECIDED)
      GOVERNOR: DEM 28 (+6)-- GOP 21 (-6)
      CNN

    • Rick Perlstein:"we are forced to reckon with an uncomfortable question. Republicans cheat" - American Prospect, 11-10-06

    • Julian Zelizer: We Won! Now What The Heck Do We Do? A rousing congressional victory fraught with traps - U.S. News & World Report, 11-12-06

    • Julian Zelizer: We Won! Now What The Heck Do We Do? A rousing congressional victory fraught with traps - U.S. News & World Report, 11-12-06

    • Julian Zelizer on"Social Security at roots of shift Democrats set groundwork in reform fight":"Now it's on their back to put together one, two, three big issues for them to go on. People are not as united once you're in the power of governing. That's when the disputes will start to come out." - Boston Globe, 11-12-06

    • Allan Lichtman on"Trend toward centrist candidates may transform both parties":"We knew people were disgusted with the war. The surprise was the extent to which people responded to the corruption and how tired they are of sold-out government. People want a government that works for them, not one that is sold-out, and on the Republican side, that works for John McCain." - San Jose Mercury News, 11-12-06

    • Douglas Brinkley about"Democrats Gain Control Of Congress" on CBS' The Early Show:"I think history will mark it as the death of the Neocon movement and the beginning of a realist foreign policy that comes from both Democrats and Republicans. The days of the Bush doctrine of pre-striking an enemy, I think, are over." - CBS News, 11-10-06

    • Robin Gerber on"Women Bring New Power, Perspective to Congress":"The power of the mirror is huge. What we see, we believe we can become. And so that's why Nancy Pelosi's sitting in that speaker's chair is huge. For women, that is definitely the most significant thing that happened.... She had five children before she came into politics. And that old 'four cookies, five children' problem is a similar problem that she’s going to have to solve as speaker." - NPR, 11-10-06

    • Historians rate America's worst presidents: The Republican performance in this week's midterm elections has led many commentators to describe Bush as the most disastrous leader in US history. But what about the competition? We asked the experts to cast their votes - Independent, UK, 11-10-06

    • Gil Troy: Dems should walk softly Party would be wise not to repeat mistakes that led to GOP's downfall - The Montreal Gazette, 11-9-06

    • Scholars Put Historical Frame Around Current Governmental Shift: Presidential historian Michael Beschloss; Ellen Fitzpatrick, professor of American history at the University of New Hampshire; and Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian, scholar in residence at George Mason University Scholars discuss how history will view the events of the week, from the Democratic takeover of Congress to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation in response to the administration's handling of the Iraq war - Newshour with Jim Lehrer, 11-9-06

    • Julian Zelizer on"America's first Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to drive a '100-hour' agenda through the House":"Pelosi has been able to maintain unity among Democrats, keep legislators on the same page and on message, count votes effectively, and cause problems for House Republicans. She clearly inherited her father's political skills. Now, she will have no choice but to focus on keeping the Democratic machine intact, pushing her party to focus on politically effective issues and finding policies that will attract some Republican support." - Christian Science Monitor, 11-9-06

    • Allan Lichtman on"Democrats win majority in Senate" on CTV Newsnet:"This was a president who has lost the confidence of the American people."His approval rating was much lower than Bill Clinton's was when the Republicans took over the Congress in 1994. They don't believe that the course we're on in Iraq is going to lead to a successful end any time soon. Americans and Iraqis seem to be dying to no end. They seemed to be endemic to a Republican party that has grown arrogant and that seemed much too sold-out to the interests of its big business clients." - CTV News, 11-8-06

    • Julian Zelizer on"In House, Democrats vow aggressive agenda":"Once they have power, the spotlight's on them, not on the GOP, They have to switch from opposition mode to governing mode, and they have to do it with a Republican president who's not going to want to work with them." - Boston Globe, 11-8-06

    • Robert Dallek, Douglas Brinkley: How Will a Midterm Sweep for Democrats Affect Bush's Legacy? - NPR, 11-8-06

    • Lee Edwards on"Bush, Stung By Election Loss, May Need to Change Style, Agenda":"Much like Reagan, Bush will wind up thinking about his place in history, He doesn't want the last two years to be total gridlock." - Bloomberg, 11-7-06

    HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
    THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

    • 13/11/1553 - English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason

    • 13/11/1775 - American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

    • 13/11/1789 - Ben Franklin writes"Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes"

    • 13/11/1839 - 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY

    • 13/11/1875 - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms

    • 13/11/1921 - US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty

    • 13/11/1922 - Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY

    • 13/11/1933 - 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn

    • 13/11/1956 - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses

    • 13/11/1979 - Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president

    • 13/11/1986 - US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran

    • 14/11/1732 - 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila

    • 14/11/1832 - 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts

    • 14/11/1906 - Roosevelt becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country (Panama)

    • 14/11/1908 - Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light

    • 14/11/1935 - Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship

    • 14/11/1942 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)

    • 14/11/1960 - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans

    • 14/11/1968 - Yale University announces it is going co-educational

    • 14/11/1968 -"National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning

    • 15/11/1532 - Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn

    • 15/11/1660 - 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)

    • 15/11/1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland

    • 15/11/1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress

    • 15/11/1791 - 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens

    • 15/11/1864 - Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta

    • 15/11/1881 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)

    • 15/11/1920 - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva

    • 15/11/1936 - Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact

    • 15/11/1939 - FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC

    • 15/11/1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews

    • 15/11/1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War

    • 16/11/1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

    • 16/11/1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution

    • 16/11/1798 - Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress

    • 16/11/1811 - Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards

    • 16/11/1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business

    • 16/11/1864 - Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

    • 16/11/1907 - Oklahoma becomes 46th state

    • 16/11/1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR

    • 16/11/1945 - Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College

    • 16/11/1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel

    • 16/11/1950 - US pres Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat

    • 16/11/1973 - Pres Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline

    • 17/11/1558 - Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary

    • 17/11/1798 - -21) Snow storms in New England, 100s die

    • 17/11/1800 - John Adams is 1st pres to move into the White House

    • 17/11/1800 - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building

    • 17/11/1863 - Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address

    • 17/11/1863 - -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN

    • 17/11/1869 - Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas

    • 17/11/1937 - Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement

    • 17/11/1938 - Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws

    • 17/11/1962 - Pres Kennedy dedicates Dulles Intl Airport outside Wash DC

    • 17/11/1969 - SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland

    • 17/11/1973 - Pres Nixon tells AP"...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

    • 17/11/1993 - US House of Representatives approve Nafta

    • 18/11/1793 - Louvre officially opens in Paris

    • 18/11/1805 - Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent

    • 18/11/1805 - Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America

    • 18/11/1961 - JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

    • 19/11/1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast

    • 19/11/1794 - Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain

    • 19/11/1861 - Julia Ward Howe committed"Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper

    • 19/11/1863 - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg;"4 score and 7 years..."

    • 19/11/1874 - William Marcy"Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment

    • 19/11/1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

    • 19/11/1950 - US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe

    • 19/11/1985 - Pres Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time

      IN THE NEWS:
      REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

      • Bob Woodward: Now What? STATE OF DENIAL - NYT, 11-12-06

      • Bob Woodward: STATE OF DENIAL, First Chapter - NYT, 11-12-06

      • Historians raise intriguing ideas in imaginary visits to favorite events - Buffalo News, 11-12-06

      • Michael Lind: Postwar An early attempt to chart America's course in the world after Iraq THE AMERICAN WAY OF STRATEGY U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life Wa Po, 11-9-06

      • Jonathan Kirsch: Judgment Day Why Revelation remains the most incendiary chapter of the New Testament A HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD How the Most Controversial Book of the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization - Wa Po, 11-12-06

      • Bettina Aptheker: A critique of her memoir by conservative David Horowitz - David Horowitz at FrontPageMag.com, 11-10-06

      • Edward Said: Subject of a new book that takes Orientalism to task - NYT, 11-1-06

      • Andrew Roberts: Roasted by a reviewer in the Economist - Economist, 11-4-06

      • Gil Troy: What's the dish on Hillary? HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON POLARIZING FIRST LADY - Chicago Sun-Times, 10-29-06

      OP-ED:
      PROFILED:
      INTERVIEWED:
      FEATURE:
      QUOTED:

      • Douglas Brinkley on"'Bobby': A Labor Of Love Those Involved With Emilio Estevez's Film on RFK Say It Sends An Important Message":"The hard-boiled political operative of 1961, say, to 1964, changes. It becomes from '65 to '68 the champion of the underdog. The myth of Robert Kennedy and the emotional aspect of his persona [is] the man who dared to care about the poor and the forgotten people. Bobby Kennedy entered the other America — people of barrios, people of ghettos — and was embraced by them. And that's the Robert Kennedy that gets celebrated. - CBS News, 11-12-06

      • Robert Allison: Quoted in Out of the Shadows In a region of higher education giants, little Emerson College has quietly built an alumni list that's a who's who of Hollywood, invested millions in revitalizing Boston's Theater District, and emerged as a player on the national scene of performing arts schools -

      SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:

      • Nov. 12, 13, 2006: Dr. Christopher Browning will present two talks during the annual Einspruch Holocaust Lecture Series Nov. 12-13 at the University of Texas at Dallas - Dallas Morning News, 11-6-06

      • Nov. 19, 2006: Historian, author, and Middlebury College Professor Ron Powers will appear on Nov. 19. Powers is the author of"Mark Twain," considered as a definitive biography, and he is co-author of the book that forms the basis of director Clint Eastwood's film current film about Iwo Jima,"Flags of Our Fathers." - Rutland Herald, VT, 11-6-06

      • Feb. 23 to 25, 2007: John Gillingham: Camden Conference marks its 20th anniversary, Feb. 23 to 25, 2007, at the Camden Opera House - 8-15-06 - Sold-out Camden Conference offers satellite seating at Strand knox.VillageSoup.com, ME, 10-29-06

      HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:
      ON TV:

      • History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower -

      • C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Nicholas Lemann, author of"Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War" interviewed by Herman Belz, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Sunday, November 12 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

      • PBS: American Experience"Annie Oakley", Monday October 30, @ 9pm ET - PBS

      • History Channel:"Engineering an Empire :The Aztecs", Sunday, November 12, @ 11pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Brothers in Arms: The Untold Story of The 502 :D-Day," Monday, November 13, @ 2pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Investigating History :The JFK Assassination," Monday, November 13, @ 6pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Modern Marvels :The Manhattan Project" Monday, November 13, @ 7pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Engineering an Empire :The Maya: Death Empire," Monday, November 13, @ 9pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Secret Cities of the A-Bomb," Monday, November 13, @ 10pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:" Conspiracy? :Lincoln Assassination," Tuesday, November 14, @ 6pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Days That Shook The World :Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand/Last Day in Hitler's Bunker" Wednesday, November 15, @ 6pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand" Thursday, November 16, @ 2pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Conspiracy? :Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?," Thursday, November 16, @ 6pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Conspiracy? :RFK Assassination" Friday, November 17, @ 6pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Modern Marvels," Marathon Saturday, November 18, @ 1-5pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Civil War Terror" Saturday, November 18, @ 4pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Civil War Tech" Saturday, November 18, @ 7pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Prostitution: Sex in the City," Saturday, November 18, @ 8pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"The History of Sex :Ancient Civilizations," Saturday, November 18, @ 9pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"The History of Sex :The Eastern World," Saturday, November 18, @ 10pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"The History of Sex :The Middle Ages," Saturday, November 18, @ 10pm ET/PT

      SELLING BIG (NYT):

      • Frank Rich: THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina, #21 - 11-11-06

      • Hampton Sides: BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West #25 - 11-11-06

      FUTURE RELEASES:

      • Evan Thomas: Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

      • Stanley Weintraub: 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

      • David M. Glantz: Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (University Press of Kansas), November 2006

      • Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006

      • A. J. Langguth: Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) November 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

      • Stella Tillyard: Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings (Random House Publishing Group), December 2006

      • David Greenberg: Calvin Coolidge: The 30th President, 1923-1929 (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), December 26, 2006

      • Geoffrey Perret: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), February 6, 2007

      DEPARTED:
      Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 18:31
      November 6, 2006
      HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
      BIGGEST STORIES:
      ELECTION 2006:

      • Julian E. Zelizer on Election 2006 Scandals:"So many different kinds of scandals going on at the same time, that's pretty unique. There were scandals throughout the '70s, multiple scandals, but the number of stories now are almost overwhelming." - San Antonio Express, TX, 11-5-06

      THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

      • 06/11/1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th pres

      • 06/11/1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate pres

      • 06/11/1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)

      • 06/11/1871 - Pres Grant re-elected

      • 06/11/1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day

      • 06/11/1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes

      • 06/11/1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan

      • 06/11/1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace

      • 06/11/1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres

      • 06/11/1940 - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president

      • 06/11/1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million

      • 06/11/1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor

      • 06/11/1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)

      • 06/11/1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more

      • 06/11/1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)

      • 06/11/1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey

      • 06/11/1973 - Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor on NYC

      • 06/11/1986 - Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

      • 07/11/1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic

      • 07/11/1805 - Lewis and Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean

      • 07/11/1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan

      • 07/11/1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president

      • 07/11/1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US

      • 07/11/1864 - 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes

      • 07/11/1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

      • 07/11/1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president

      • 07/11/1917 - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power

      • 07/11/1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president

      • 07/11/1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)

      • 07/11/1955 - Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas

      • 07/11/1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

      • 07/11/1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)

      • 07/11/1989 - NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins)

      • 08/11/1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges

      • 08/11/1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library

      • 08/11/1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women

      • 08/11/1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent

      • 08/11/1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president

      • 08/11/1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president

      • 08/11/1904 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)

      • 08/11/1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote

      • 08/11/1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building

      • 08/11/1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila

      • 08/11/1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US president

      • 08/11/1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California

      • 08/11/1988 - George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency

      • 09/11/1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence

      • 09/11/1799 - Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France

      • 09/11/1862 - US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

      • 09/11/1864 - Sherman issues preliminary plans for his"March to the Sea"

      • 09/11/1906 - T Roosevelt is 1st pres to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)

      • 09/11/1924 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)

      • 09/11/1938 - Kristallnacht, (Crystal Night) - Germans break windows owned by Jews, Jews forced to wear Star of David

      • 09/11/1984 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

      • 10/11/1891 - 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)

      • 10/11/1911 - Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works)

      • 10/11/1933 - Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic

      • 10/11/1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington

      • 11/11/1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws)

      • 11/11/1640 - John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London

      • 11/11/1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law

      • 11/11/1778 - Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre

      • 11/11/1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China

      • 11/11/1860 - 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina

      • 11/11/1864 - Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia

      • 11/11/1865 - Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor

      • 11/11/1918 - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)

      • 11/11/1921 - Pres Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary)

      • 11/11/1939 - Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's"God Bless America"

      • 11/11/1987 - Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court

        IN THE NEWS:
        REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

        • Election Day (Review of various books on elections and politics) - NYT, 11-5-06

        • Richard Parker on David Cannadine and David Nasaw: Pittsburgh Pirates MELLON An American Life and ANDREW CARNEGIE NYT, 11-5-06

        • David Cannadine: MELLON An American Life, First Chapter - NYT, 11-5-06

        • Jeff Broadwater: A founding father insisted that the Constitution wasn't worth ratifying without a bill of rights GEORGE MASON Forgotten Founder - Wa Po, 11-5-06

        • Kate Williams: Wicked How a poor girl used her beauty to ascend Britain's social heights ENGLAND'S MISTRESS The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton - Wa Po, 11-5-06

        • Niall Ferguson: The Cruelest Century A scholar blames history's bloodiest era on volatile economies, divided societies and fading empires - THE WAR OF THE WORLD Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West - Wa Po, 11-5-06

        • James C. Klotter: State historian's book a balanced look at life in early 20th century - Bowling Green Daily News, 11-5-06

        • Andrew C. Delos: A Noted Historian Reveals the True Story of Jesus and Paul Myths We Live By: From the Life and Times of Jesus and Paul - PR Web (press release), 11-5-06

        • Robert Scales: Review of Max Boot's War Made New - WSJ, 10-31-06

        • H. W. Brands: The Money Men - Newsweek, 11-5-06

        • David S. Brown: Middle Man Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography - Commentary, NY, 11-1-06

        OP-ED:
        PROFILED:
        INTERVIEWED:
        FEATURE:
        QUOTED:

        • Michael Kazin on"stark moral choices" of the 1960s in"Where's the protest?" :"Either you were on the side of moral equality, of treating everyone decently in the world, or you were on the side of imperialism and racism." - Boston Globe, 11-5-06

        • Jack Granatstein on"Pearson and the myth of neutrality":"Because Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize, every Canadian came to believe that all we did was peacekeep. 'We don't fight wars. The Americans fight wars. We keep the peace. We're the world's pre-eminent middlemen. We're almost neutral.' Well, of course, this was nonsense." - Toronto Star, Canada, 11-5-06

        • Victor Davis Hanson on"Must a 'Democracy' Fight Against Terror?":"Do you encourage democracy, even though an illiberal party may take power and have one vote, one time?" - NPR, 11-3-06

        SPOTTED:
        SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR::

        • Nov. 7, 2006: Melvin I. Urofsky: Death, Suicide, Morality and the Law Hartman Hotz lecturer and leading historian Melvin I. Urofsky will discuss legal, istorical, ethical and medical issues related to right-to-die arguments in the E. J. Ball Courtroom at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7. - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines, 10-30-06

        • Nov. 8, 2006: Thomas Renna, professor of history at SVSU, will be holding a lecture entitled"Fundamentalisms in Conflict on Temple Mount: A Historian's Perspective" Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall - Valley Vanguard, MI, 11-6-06

        • Nov. 8, 2006: Historian and scholar Edward Kissi will speak about his new book,"Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia: Some Lessons for Comparative Theoretical Study of Genocide," at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Rose Library of the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne St., at Clark University - Worcester Telegram, MA, 11-6-06

        • Nov. 9, 2006: Urban historian Kenneth Jackson will discuss New Jersey's history and future -- and its potential as a role model for other states -- in a lecture set for 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in McCosh 50 - Princeton University, 11-1-06

        • Nov. 12, 13, 2006: Dr. Christopher Browning will present two talks during the annual Einspruch Holocaust Lecture Series Nov. 12-13 at the University of Texas at Dallas - Dallas Morning News, 11-6-06

        • Nov. 19, 2006: Historian, author, and Middlebury College Professor Ron Powers will appear on Nov. 19. Powers is the author of"Mark Twain," considered as a definitive biography, and he is co-author of the book that forms the basis of director Clint Eastwood's film current film about Iwo Jima,"Flags of Our Fathers." - Rutland Herald, VT, 11-6-06

        • Feb. 23 to 25, 2007: John Gillingham: Camden Conference marks its 20th anniversary, Feb. 23 to 25, 2007, at the Camden Opera House - 8-15-06 - Sold-out Camden Conference offers satellite seating at Strand knox.VillageSoup.com, ME, 10-29-06

        HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:
        ON TV:

        • History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower -

        • C-Span2, BookTV: Book TV presents After Words: Mark Updegrove, author of"Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House" interviewed by Marc Pachter, director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Sunday, November 5 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

        • PBS: American Experience"The Gold Rush", Monday October 30, @ 9pm ET - PBS

        • History Channel:"Nostradamus: 500 Years Later" Sunday, November 5, @ 8pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Sex in World War II :The European Front", Sunday, November 5, @ 11pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Egypt: Engineering an Empire," Monday, November 6, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Nefertiti: The Mummy Returns," Monday, November 6, @ 4pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Engineering an Empire :The Aztecs," Monday, November 6, @ 9pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Athens-Ancient Supercity," Monday, November 6, @ 10pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Viking Raiders," Tuesday, November 7, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Barbarians : Vikings," Tuesday, November 7, @ 4pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Special :Nazi America: A Secret History" Wednesday, November 8, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Conspiracy? :CIA and the Nazis" Wednesday, November 9, @ 4pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," Thursday, November 9, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Faith of My Fathers" Friday, November 10, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"One Time Only :Battle of the Bulge" Friday, November 10, @ 8pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"The Lost Evidence :11 - Battle of Britain" Friday, November 10, @ 9pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Trapped in the Towers: The Elevators of 9/11," Saturday, November 11, @ 9pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Civil War Terror," Saturday, November 11, @ 9pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Sex in the Civil War," Saturday, November 11, @ 9pm ET/PT

        SELLING BIG (NYT):

        • Frank Rich: THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina, #21 - 11-11-06

        • Hampton Sides: BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West #25 - 11-11-06

        FUTURE RELEASES:

        • Evan Thomas: Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

        • Stanley Weintraub: 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

        • David M. Glantz: Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (University Press of Kansas), November 2006

        • Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006

        • A. J. Langguth: Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) November 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

        • Stella Tillyard: Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings (Random House Publishing Group), December 2006

        • David Greenberg: Calvin Coolidge: The 30th President, 1923-1929 (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), December 26, 2006

        • Geoffrey Perret: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), February 6, 2007

        DEPARTED:
        Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 20:07
        October 30, 2006
        HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
        BIGGEST STORIES:
        ELECTION 2006:
        THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

        • 30/10/1270 - 8th and last crusade is launched

        • 30/10/1697 - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

        • 30/10/1864 - The city of Helena, Montana, is founded after miners discover gold

        • 30/10/1893 - Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

        • 30/10/1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator

        • 30/10/1905 -"October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties

        • 30/10/1914 - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins

        • 30/10/1941 - FDR approves Lend-Lease aid to the USSR

        • 30/10/1954 - US Armed Forces end segregation of races

        • 31/10/0834 - 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints

        • 31/10/1517 - Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation

        • 31/10/1541 - Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints"last judgement" in 16th Chapel

        • 31/10/1846 - Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp

        • 31/10/1918 - Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week

        • 31/10/1922 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy

        • 31/10/1940 - Battle of Britain: Germany and Britain control of English Channel, ends

        • 31/10/1941 - Prior to US in WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James

        • 31/10/1963 - Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles and their fans at London Airport

        • 31/10/1968 - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

        • 01/11/1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited

        • 01/11/1765 - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies

        • 01/11/1783 - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's"Farewell Address"

        • 01/11/1800 - 1st president to live in white house (John Adams)

        • 01/11/1861 - Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

        • 01/11/1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes

        • 01/11/1878 - Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)

        • 01/11/1917 - In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat

        • 01/11/1954 - US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign

        • 01/11/1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK says USSR is dismantling missile bases

        • 01/11/1983 - Pres Reagan established Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday

        • 02/11/1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms

        • 02/11/1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen Jackson vs indians

        • 02/11/1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams

        • 02/11/1852 - Franklin Pierce elected as president of US

        • 02/11/1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine

        • 02/11/1948 - Pres Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey

        • 02/11/1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)

        • 02/11/1962 - JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled

        • 03/11/1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI

        • 03/11/1529 - London] 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament

        • 03/11/1796 - John Adams elected president

        • 03/11/1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

        • 03/11/1868 - 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)

        • 03/11/1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans

        • 03/11/1883 - US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans

        • 03/11/1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)

        • 03/11/1948 - Chicago Tribune reports:"Dewey beats Truman"

        • 03/11/1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres

        • 03/11/1970 - Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

        • 03/11/1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over Pres Bush (R)

        • 04/11/1841 - 1st wagon train arrives in California

        • 04/11/1864 - Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee

        • 04/11/1939 - US allows" cash and carry" arms sales during WW II

        • 04/11/1952 - Eisenhower (R) elected 34th pres beating Adlai Stevenson (D)

        • 04/11/1956 - Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt

        • 04/11/1980 - Ronald Reagan (R) defeats Pres Jimmy Carter (D)

        • 05/11/1639 - 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts

        • 05/11/1854 - Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000

        • 05/11/1871 - Susan B Anthony arrested in Rochester NY and fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant

        • 05/11/1872 - Ulysses S Grant re-elected US president

        • 05/11/1895 - US state Utah accepts female suffrage

        • 05/11/1912 - Woodrow Wilson (D) defeats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) and Pres Taft (R)

        • 05/11/1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas

        • 05/11/1940 - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)

        • 05/11/1946 - John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives

        • 05/11/1968 - Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) and George C Wallace for presidency

          IN THE NEWS:
          REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

          • Hampton Sides: Cowboys and Indians BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West - NYT, 10-29-06

          • Hampton Sides: BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West, First Chapter - NYT, 10-29-06

          • David M. Kennedy on Robert Kagan: Rogue State A pundit argues that the United States has always been an engine of expansion, not a quiet city on a hill. DANGEROUS NATION America's Place in the World From Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century - Wa Po, 10-29-06

          • Jon Wiener on Wolfgang Schivelbusch: Following the leaders Three New Deals Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 LAT, 10-29-06

          OP-ED:
          PROFILED:
          INTERVIEWED:
          FEATURE:
          QUOTED:

          • Robert Dallek in"WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING If Dems win, they should take care" Bush Campaigning for Rep.:"It would hurt Republicans if he fights Democrats tooth and nail. You have a failed administration going from bad to worse. That's the way the public sees it. They want greater balance." - Chicago Tribune, 10-29-06

          SPOTTED AND EVENTS CALENDAR:
          HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:
          ON TV:

          • History Channel coming in November 2006: Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower -

          • C-Span2, BookTV: Robert Kagan,"Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century," Sunday, October 29 at 10:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

          • PBS: American Experience"The Great Fever", Monday October 30, @ 9pm ET - PBS

          • History Channel:"Decoding The Past :In Search of the Real Frankenstein" Sunday, October 29, @ 6pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The Haunted History of Halloween" Sunday, October 29, @ 7pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Vampires Secrets", Sunday, October 29, @ 8pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree", Sunday, October 29, @ 9pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Witch Hunt," Monday, October 30, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Special :Voodoo Secrets.," Monday, October 30, @ 4pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Engineering an Empire :The Aztecs," Monday, October 30, @ 9pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Ramses' Egyptian Empire," Monday, October 30, @ 10pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:" Vampires Secrets," Tuesday, October 31, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree," Tuesday, October 31, @ 4pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The Haunted History of Halloween :The Haunted History of Halloween" Tuesday, October 31, @ 7pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Exorcism: Driving Out the Devil" Tuesday, October 31, @ 8pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Man Moment Machine :Alexander the Great and the Devastating Catapult" Tuesday, October 31, @ 10pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"D-Day: The Lost Evidence :D-Day: The Lost Evidence," Thursday, November 2, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Shootout :Iwo Jima: Fight to the Death." Friday, November 3, @ 8pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History :Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History," Saturday, November 4, @ 8pm ET/PT

          SELLING BIG (NYT):

          • Frank Rich: THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina, #12, (5 weeks on list)- 11-5-06

          • Hampton Sides: BLOOD AND THUNDER An Epic of the American West #23 - 11-5-06

          FUTURE RELEASES:

          • Aleksandr Fursenko: Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, October 2006

          • James L. Swanson: Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution (HarperCollins Publishers), October 31, 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

          • Mark Halperin: Way to Win: Clinton, Bush, Rove, and the Trade Secrets for Taking the White House in 2008 (Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group), 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

          • Thomas J. McGuire: The Philadelphia Campaign (Stackpole Books), October 2006

          • Judith Summers: Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved (Bloomsbury USA), November 1, 2006

          • Evan Thomas: Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

          • Stanley Weintraub: 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), November 2006

          • David M. Glantz: Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (University Press of Kansas), November 2006

          • Adam LeBor: "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide, November 2006

          • A. J. Langguth: Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group) November 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

          • Stella Tillyard: Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings (Random House Publishing Group), December 2006

          • David Greenberg: Calvin Coolidge: The 30th President, 1923-1929 (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), December 26, 2006

          • Geoffrey Perret: Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power into a Threat to America's Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), February 6, 2007

          DEPARTED:
          Sunday, November 5, 2006 - 20:55