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February 19, 2007
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:

    Presidential Campaign 2008 Watch

  • Allan Lichtman on"Obama Set For Big Jewish Push":"There’s no Democrat who has locked in the Jewish vote, It's wide open.... He's well educated, he has sterling intellectual credentials and he seems to have struck the right note on a lot of issues.... The winner in this race is going to be the last person to make a mistake. First-time candidates are mistake-prone." - NY Jewish Week, 2-16-07

BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
BIGGEST STORIES:
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

  • 19/02/1807 - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent

  • 19/02/1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)

  • 19/02/1881 - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

  • 19/02/1919 - Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)

  • 19/02/1941 - Nazi raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation

  • 19/02/1942 - FDR orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

  • 19/02/1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese

  • 19/02/1963 - USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

  • 19/02/1986 - US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later

  • 20/02/1547 - King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII

  • 20/02/1792 - US postal service created; postage 6›-12«›, depending on distance

  • 20/02/1809 - Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state

  • 20/02/1839 - Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia

  • 20/02/1861 - Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms

  • 20/02/1869 - Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis

  • 20/02/1933 - House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition

  • 20/02/1941 - 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland

  • 20/02/1953 - US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

  • 20/02/1962 - John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)

  • 21/02/1764 - John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for"Essay on Women"

  • 21/02/1792 - Congress passes Pres Succession Act

  • 21/02/1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales

  • 21/02/1857 - Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US

  • 21/02/1862 - Confederate Constitution and presidency are declared permanent

  • 21/02/1862 - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM

  • 21/02/1874 - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier

  • 21/02/1885 - Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)

  • 21/02/1895 - NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass

  • 21/02/1916 - Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties)

  • 21/02/1943 - Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews

  • 21/02/1965 – Black nationalist leader Malcolm X is assassinated.

  • 21/02/1972 - Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China

  • 22/02/1495 - French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown

  • 22/02/1630 - Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving

  • 22/02/1819 - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On¡s Treaty)

  • 22/02/1821 - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million

  • 22/02/1854 - 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)

  • 22/02/1856 - 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)

  • 22/02/1861 - On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration

  • 22/02/1864 - -27] Battle at Dalton Georgia

  • 22/02/1889 - Pres Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana and Washington state

  • 22/02/1900 - Hawaii became a US territory

  • 22/02/1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)

  • 22/02/1967 - 25,000 US and S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border

  • 23/02/1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)

  • 23/02/1836 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed

  • 23/02/1861 - Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office

  • 23/02/1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US

  • 23/02/1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law

  • 23/02/1945 - US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue

  • 23/02/1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews

  • 23/02/1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

  • 23/02/1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named"Dolly"

  • 24/02/1803 - Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)

  • 24/02/1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days

  • 24/02/1848 - King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared

  • 24/02/1864 - -Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)

  • 24/02/1868 - 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)

  • 24/02/1868 - House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson

  • 24/02/1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war

  • 24/02/1949 - Israel and Egypt sign an armistice agreement

  • 24/02/1991 - US and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops

  • 25/02/1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)

  • 25/02/1804 - Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus

  • 25/02/1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by Pres Abraham Lincoln

  • 25/02/1870 - Hiram Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS)

  • 25/02/1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

  • 25/02/1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam

    IN THE NEWS:
    REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

    • Harriet A. Washington: Unequal treatment The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present - NYT, 2-18-07

    • Harriet A. Washington: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present, First Chapter - NYT, 2-18-07

    • Marcus Rediker: New book shows that pirate ships could be a refuge for slaves - http://www.jdnews.com, 2-13-07

    • Alexander Rose: The Setauket Spies see the light of day Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring - Newsday, NY, 2-16-07

    • David A. Bell: The idealistic origins of total war - Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker, 2-5-07

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

    • Donald Ritchie, associate Senate historian on"A Divided House Denounces Plan for More Troops":"There is a long tradition of Congressional dissent during wartime, but I don’t know that it’s ever formalized itself the way this is shaping up. Taking a stand in opposition to a commander in chief's decision on a war policy, that's unusual." - NYT, 2-17-07

    SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:

    • David McCollough: Prize winning historian visits ISU - WJBC News, IL, 2-16-07

    • Thomas G. Alexander: Historian discusses 1857 massacre - Deseret News, UT, 2-17-07

    • February 25, 2007:James McPherson, a Civil War historian and the Pulitzer Prize-win ning author of"Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era," will be the speaker Feb. 25 during the annual benefit dinner for the Westminster Foundation at Princeton, the Presbyterian Campus Ministry at Princeton University. The evening will begin at 6 with a reception, followed by dinner and program at 6:30. - Trenton Times, NJ, 2-15-07

    • February 25, 2007: William Leuchtenburg"The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson" at 5 PM - http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/

    • February 14, 2007: Eric Foner,"American Reconstruction (1865-1877)" Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06

    • March 20, 2007: Alan Brinkley, The Harlem Renaissance, Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06

    • 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 APPOINTMENTS:
    ON TV:

    • C-Span2, Book TV : General Assignment: Robert Caro, Reflections on Robert Moses, Sunday, February 18 at 10 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

    • C-Span2, Book TV : Andrew Roberts, author of"A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900" and Chalmers Johnson, author of"Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic", Author Call-In Programs with Andrew Roberts and Chalmers Johnson, Sunday, February 19 at 12 am - C-Span2, BookTV

    • C-Span2, Book TV : John Barletta, Riding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch, Sunday, February 19 at 2:30 am - C-Span2, BookTV

    • PBS: The American Experience:"NEW YORK UNDERGROUND" Monday, February 19, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS

    • History Channel:"Star Trek Tech," Sunday, February 18, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Star Wars: Empire of Dreams," Sunday, February 18, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"How William Shatner Changed the World ," Monday, February 19, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier," Monday, February 19, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Fort Knox: Secrets Revealed," Tuesday, February 20, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Man, Moment, Machine :Hunting Bonnie & Clyde," Tuesday, February 20, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Godfathers" Wednesday, February 21, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Weird Weapons :The Allies" Wednesday, February 21, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:" Weird Weapons :The Axis" Wednesday, February 21, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Weapons of Mass Destruction" Wednesday, February 21, @ 10pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Comets: Prophets of Doom," Thursday, February 22, @ 5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt," Thursday, February 22, @ 5pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Braveheart's Scotland," Thursday, February 22, @ 7pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Secret Societies," Thursday, February 22, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Nazi Prophecies," Thursday, February 22, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers," Friday, February 23, @ 2pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Dogfights: The Greatest Air Battles," Friday, February 23, @ 9pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier," Saturday, February 24, @ 8pm ET/PT

    • History Channel:"Quest for Dragons," Saturday, February 24, @ 10pm ET/PT

    SELLING BIG (NYT):

    • Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY #5 (3 weeks on list) - 2-18-07

    • Dore Gold: THE FIGHT FOR JERUSALEM, #17 - 2-18-07

    • Dinesh D'Souza: THE ENEMY AT HOME, #32 - 2-18-07

    NEW ON THE WEB:

    • Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Cultural History : This website presents ongoing research into the song"Follow the Drinking Gourd" and its cultural history. The song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map. The song has also p layed an important role in the Civil Rights and folk revival movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and in contemporary elementary school education.

    • SoldierStudies.org: New online database archive for the preservation of Civil War correspondences, is a searchable database of soldiers and their correspondences.

    EXHIBITIONS:

    • Echoes in the Ice: Collages of Polar Explorers by Rik van Glintenkamp: In recognition of International Polar Year, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) announces a unique exhibition celebrating intrepid explorers and their travels to the farthest"ends" of the Earth. Opens January 26, 2007 - Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University

    FUTURE RELEASES:

    • Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic [American Empire Project], (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), February 6, 2007

    • 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

    • Benton Rain Patterson: With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown (St. Martin's Press), February 6, 2007

    • Andrew Roberts: History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, HarperCollins Publishers), February 6, 2007

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

    • John McManus: Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, (Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated), March 2007
    Monday, February 26, 2007 - 20:47
    February 12, 2007
    PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:

      Presidential Campaign 2008 Watch

    • Richard Norton Smith on"Obama will announce candidacy at historic venue":"Lincoln came out of the wilderness, figuratively and politically, and to some degree the same can be said of Obama. Somebody who looked at his resume in 1860 might well have questioned the experience he had, particularly given the perilous times that were ahead. But he had a genius for advocacy. He had a voice." - Chicago Tribune, 2-10-07

    • Timothy Walch on"Bush keeps away from trail White House focuses on end-of-term goals":"It's very hard, I think, psychologically and politically, for somebody who has been the most powerful person in the world to begin gradually to detach themselves from power." - Concord Monitor, NH, 2-8-07

    BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
    BIGGEST STORIES:
    HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
    THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

    • 12/02/1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah

    • 12/02/1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves

    • 12/02/1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826

    • 12/02/1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps

    • 12/02/1873 - Congress abolishes bimetallism and authorizes $1 and $3 gold coins

    • 12/02/1909 - National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms

    • 12/02/1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC

    • 12/02/1924 - President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech

    • 12/02/1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist govt employees

    • 12/02/1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia

    • 13/02/1566 - St Augustine, Florida founded

    • 13/02/1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded

    • 13/02/1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared president

    • 13/02/1864 - Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi

    • 13/02/1895 - Moving picture projector patented

    • 13/02/1907 - English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested

    • 13/02/1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans

    • 13/02/1968 - US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam

    • 14/02/1130 - Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II

    • 14/02/1689 - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne

    • 14/02/1848 - James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)

    • 14/02/1876 - A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

    • 14/02/1896 - Theodor Herzl publishes"Der Judenstaat"

    • 14/02/1949 - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)

    • 14/02/1962 - 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV

    • 14/02/1971 - Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House

    • 15/02/1851 - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave

    • 15/02/1861 - Ft Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)

    • 15/02/1862 - Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee

    • 15/02/1879 - Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct

    • 15/02/1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom

    • 15/02/1918 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland

    • 15/02/1929 - St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)

    • 15/02/1933 - Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

    • 15/02/1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf

    • 16/02/1741 - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing

    • 16/02/1760 - Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC

    • 16/02/1864 - Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army

    • 16/02/1914 - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF)

    • 16/02/1917 - 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid

    • 16/02/1959 - Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista

    • 17/02/1621 - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony

    • 17/02/1801 - House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr

    • 17/02/1865 - -18] Battle of Charleston SC

    • 17/02/1865 - Columbia SC burns down during Civil War

    • 17/02/1870 - Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War

    • 17/02/1915 - Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded

    • 17/02/1933 - US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition

    • 17/02/1933 - 1st issue of"Newsweek" magazine published

    • 17/02/1938 - 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)

    • 17/02/1943 - Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews

    • 17/02/1949 - Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel

    • 17/02/1964 - US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights

    • 17/02/1969 - Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister

    • 17/02/1972 - President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China

    • 18/02/1503 - Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)

    • 18/02/1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa

    • 18/02/1861 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Ala

    • 18/02/1865 - Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC

    • 18/02/1865 - Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city

    • 18/02/1927 - US and Canada begin diplomatic relations

    • 18/02/1970 - US president Nixon launches"Nixon-doctrine"

    • 18/02/1988 - Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

      IN THE NEWS:
      REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:
      OP-ED:
      PROFILED:
      INTERVIEWED:
      FEATURE:
      QUOTED:

      • Douglas Brinkley: New Orleans' future bleak, historian says - Hattiesburg American, MS, 2-11-07

      • Douglas Brinkley"New Orleans' future bleak":"The act of not doing enough is a policy; it's a decision....(The government's) answer is, 'Don't live below sea level. Don't live in the Lower Ninth (Ward), don't rebuild - move to Hattiesburg. It's an unfortunate confluence that when New Orleans needs a great leader, there's a void.... The reason you would do it (rebuild) is because you believe the heritage places like Gulfport and Biloxi and New Orleans are important ... and that if the Italians can save Venice, surely the United States can save these places, but you have to believe in culture to make that happen." - Hattiesburg American, MS, 2-11-07

      SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:
      HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTMENTS:

      • Asif A. Siddiqi: His book"Challenge To Apollo" (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2000), was named one of the"Five Best" books on outer space in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in its Dec. 30th issue. - Fordham University, 2-9-07

      • Philip Nicolosi: Teacher wins Paul Gagnon Prize - AHA Blog, 2-8-07

      ON TV:

      • C-Span2, Book TV : 2006 Miami Book Fair: Thomas Evans"The Education of Ronald Reagan," Sunday, February 11 at 8:10 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

      • PBS: The American Experience:"AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Visits NEW ORLEANS" Monday, February 12, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS

      • History Channel:"Alaska: Dangerous Territory," Sunday, February 11, @ 10pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :New Maya Revelations," Monday, February 12, @ 9pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Engineering An Empire :The Aztecs," Monday, February 12, @ 10pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" Wednesday, February 14, @ 8pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Nixon: A Presidency Revealed," Thursday, February 15, @ 8pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Thursday, February 15, @ 10pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"The Presidents," Marathon 1789-1945 Saturday, February 17, @ 11am-5pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Nixon: A Presidency Revealed," Saturday, February 17, @ 5pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Special :An Alien History of Planet Earth," Saturday, February 17, @ 8pm ET/PT

      • History Channel:"Save Our History :The Search for George Washington," Saturday, February 17, @ 10pm ET/PT

      SELLING BIG (NYT):

      • Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY #5 (3 weeks on list) - 2-18-07

      • Dore Gold: THE FIGHT FOR JERUSALEM, #17 - 2-18-07

      • Dinesh D'Souza: THE ENEMY AT HOME, #32 - 2-18-07

      NEW ON THE WEB:

      • Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Cultural History : This website presents ongoing research into the song"Follow the Drinking Gourd" and its cultural history. The song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map. The song has also p layed an important role in the Civil Rights and folk revival movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and in contemporary elementary school education.

      • SoldierStudies.org: New online database archive for the preservation of Civil War correspondences, is a searchable database of soldiers and their correspondences.

      EXHIBITIONS:

      • Echoes in the Ice: Collages of Polar Explorers by Rik van Glintenkamp: In recognition of International Polar Year, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) announces a unique exhibition celebrating intrepid explorers and their travels to the farthest"ends" of the Earth. Opens January 26, 2007 - Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University

      FUTURE RELEASES:

      • Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic [American Empire Project], (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), February 6, 2007

      • 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

      • Benton Rain Patterson: With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown (St. Martin's Press), February 6, 2007

      • Andrew Roberts: History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, HarperCollins Publishers), February 6, 2007

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

      • John McManus: Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, (Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated), March 2007

      DEPARTED:

      • Nelson W. Polsby: 72, Author and a Scholar of Politics, Dies - NYT (2-9-07)

      • J. Merton England: National Science Foundation Historian Was 91 - WaPo, 2-5-07
      Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 21:01
      February 5, 2007
      PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:

        Presidential Campaign 2008 Watch

      • Tom Schwartz on"Sources Say Obama Will Announce 2008 Bid February 10":"Lincoln was able to use that space to accept the Republican nomination to run for the Senate, and eventually that led to a series of debates which have become the gold standard for political discourse in this country. There's symbolism everywhere." - All Headline News, 2-1-07

      BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
      HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
      THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

      • 05/02/1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II

      • 05/02/1778 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina

      • 05/02/1861 - Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress

      • 05/02/1865 - Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)

      • 05/02/1930 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins

      • 05/02/1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court," court packing" plan failed

      • 05/02/1969 - US population reaches 200 million

      • 06/02/1862 - Gen Ulysses S Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee

      • 06/02/1862 - Ulysses S Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi

      • 06/02/1865 - Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief

      • 06/02/1899 - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

      • 06/02/1918 - Britain grants women (30 and over) vote

      • 06/02/1933 - 20th Amendment goes into effect: Pres term begins in Jan not March

      • 06/02/1956 - U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)

      • 06/02/1974 - US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon

      • 06/02/1978 - Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office

      • 07/02/1569 - King Philip II forms inquistion in South America

      • 07/02/1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states

      • 07/02/1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate"I had rather be right than president"

      • 07/02/1862 - Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC

      • 07/02/1864 - Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida

      • 07/02/1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy finds" communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs

      • 07/02/1956 - Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled

      • 07/02/1962 - President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba

      • 07/02/1964 - Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour

      • 07/02/1973 - Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

      • 07/02/1983 - 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)

      • 08/02/1622 - King James I disbands the English parliament

      • 08/02/1690 - French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire

      • 08/02/1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)

      • 08/02/1861 - Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala

      • 08/02/1865 - 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany

      • 08/02/1887 - Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)

      • 08/02/1894 - Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks

      • 08/02/1904 - Russo-Japanese War begins

      • 08/02/1915 -"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA

      • 08/02/1940 - Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland

      • 08/02/1942 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

      • 08/02/1944 - 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin

      • 08/02/1969 - Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

      • 08/02/1971 - South Vietnamese troops invade Laos

      • 08/02/1973 - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

      • 09/02/1775 - English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion

      • 09/02/1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president

      • 09/02/1861 - Tennessee votes against secession

      • 09/02/1861 - Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and VP of CSA

      • 09/02/1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US

      • 09/02/1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

      • 09/02/1950 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists

      • 09/02/1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on"Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)

      • 10/02/1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass

      • 10/02/1763 - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England

      • 10/02/1840 - British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg

      • 10/02/1855 - US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship

      • 10/02/1890 - Around 11M acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement

      • 10/02/1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine

      • 10/02/1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam

      • 10/02/1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect

      • 10/02/1989 - Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)

      • 11/02/1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England

      • 11/02/1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened

      • 11/02/1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes

      • 11/02/1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery

      • 11/02/1811 - Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years

      • 11/02/1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state

      • 11/02/1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC

      • 11/02/1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin

      • 11/02/1953 - Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

        IN THE NEWS:
        REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

        • DAVID OSHINSKY on Arthur Allen: Preventive Medicine VACCINE The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver - NYT, 2-4-07

        • NIALL FERGUSON on Rupert Smith: Ameliorate, Contain, Coerce, Destroy THE UTILITY OF FORCE The Art of War in the Modern World - NYT, 2-4-07

        • Rupert Smith: THE UTILITY OF FORCE The Art of War in the Modern World, First Chapter - NYT, 2-4-07

        • Andrew Hussey: Paris Confidential PARIS The Secret History - NYT, 2-4-07

        • Maya Jasanoff on Robert and Isabelle Tombs: The Love-Hate Relationship Britain and France have loathed each other and learned from each other - THAT SWEET ENEMY The French and the British From the Sun King to the Present Wa Po, 2-4-07

        • David Laskin on Gary Krist: Blood on the Tracks In 1910, scores of people died when a wave of snow crushed two stuck trains THE WHITE CASCADE The Great Northern Railway Disaster And America's Deadliest Avalanche - Wa Po, 2-4-07

        • Wesley K. Clark on Evan Thomas: The Battle for the Pacific A thrilling new history of an epic 1944 clash SEA OF THUNDER Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 - Wa Po, 2-4-07

        • Olivier Wieviorka: Whites-only liberation of Paris - New Zealand Herald, 2-1-07

        OP-ED:
        PROFILED:
        INTERVIEWED:
        FEATURE:

        • Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive, posted online by British library - http://www.bl.uk, 1-29-07

        QUOTED:

        • Daniel Pipes"Professor says radical Islam is the threat":"Like the Fascists we defeated in 1945 and the Communists we disempowered in '91, radical Islamists draw from the best of their society in terms of good families, wealth and education. Their frustration now is with their position in the world. They used to be at the forefront of world society in scholarship, money and respect. And they believe that the only way they can achieve that again is to impose Sharia law across the world." - Malibu Times, CA, 1-31-07

        SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:

        • Douglas Brinkley: Lauded historian to speak at USM, Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in the R.C. Cook University Union, Rooms B and C on the Southern Miss Hattiesburg campus - Hattiesburg American,MS, 2-2-07

        • February 25, 2007: William Leuchtenburg"The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson" at 5 PM - http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/

        • February 14, 2007: Eric Foner,"American Reconstruction (1865-1877)" Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06

        • March 20, 2007: Alan Brinkley, The Harlem Renaissance, Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06

        • 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 APPOINTMENTS:
        ON TV:

        • C-Span2, Book TV : Book TV presents After Words: Eric Klinenberg, author of"Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media" interviewed by Ben Scott, Sunday, February 4 at 9:00 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

        • PBS: The American Experience:"THE LIVING WEAPON" Monday, February 5, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS

        • History Channel:"Who Wrote The Bible?," Sunday, February 4, @ 8pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Sex in The Bible," Sunday, February 4, @ 9:30pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Saddam and the Third Reich" Monday, February 5, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :King Tut: Secrets Revealed," Monday, February 5, @ 9pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Iran: The Next Iraq?," Monday, February 5, @ 11pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Special :Eighty Acres of Hell" Wednesday, February 7, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Weird U.S. :Roadside Distractions" Wednesday, February 7, @ 5pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Guns of the Civil War." Wednesday, February 7, @ 6pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters :Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters," Thursday, February 8, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:" Tales of the FBI :The Bureau vs. the Klan," Thursday, February 8, @ 4pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Wild West Tech :The Gunslingers," Thursday, February 8, @ 6pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Exorcism: Driving Out the Devil.," Thursday, February 8, @ 8pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"American Vesuvius," Friday, February 9, @ 2pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"Iran: The Next Iraq?," Friday, February 9, @ 4pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"The Lost Evidence :Sicily," Friday, February 10, @ 8pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom," Saturday, February 10, @ 8pm ET/PT

        • History Channel:"True Caribbean Pirates," Saturday, February 10, @ 10pm ET/PT

        SELLING BIG (NYT):

        • Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY #6 (2 weeks on list) - 2-11-07

        • Dinesh D'Souza: THE ENEMY AT HOME, #19 - 2-11-07

        • Evan Thomas: SEA OF THUNDER, #30 - 2-11-07

        NEW ON THE WEB:

        • SoldierStudies.org: New online database archive for the preservation of Civil War correspondences, is a searchable database of soldiers and their correspondences.

        EXHIBITIONS:

        • Echoes in the Ice: Collages of Polar Explorers by Rik van Glintenkamp: In recognition of International Polar Year, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) announces a unique exhibition celebrating intrepid explorers and their travels to the farthest"ends" of the Earth. Opens January 26, 2007 - Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University

        FUTURE RELEASES:

        • Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic [American Empire Project], (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), February 6, 2007

        • 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

        • Benton Rain Patterson: With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown (St. Martin's Press), February 6, 2007

        • Andrew Roberts: History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, HarperCollins Publishers), February 6, 2007

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

        • John McManus: Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, (Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated), March 2007

        DEPARTED:
        Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 17:57
        January 29, 2007
        PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:

          Presidential Campaign 2008 Watch

        • Robert Dallek on"Rush of Entries Gives '08 Contest Early Intensity":"If Bush were doing well and had a continuing ability to get things done and command the national stage, I think there would be far less focus on the campaign." - NYT, 1-22-07

        STATE OF THE UNION:

        • Robert Dallek on"Tone not as bold as a year ago":"Energy is very hard to focus" during war, he says."War, especially a war that's going badly, is an all-encompassing concern." - 1-24-2007

        • Robert Dallek on the LBJ-Bush parallel:"The two presidents' wartime predicaments represent a strange convergence of two men with vastly different backgrounds and political philosophies." - MSNBC, 1-25-07

        • Why Bush is no Lyndon Johnson In the midst of a war, can an unpopular leader get anything done? Yes - MSNBC, 1-25-07

        BLACK HISTORY MONTH:
        BIGGEST STORIES:
        HNN STATS THIS WEEK:
        THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:

        • 29/01/1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute

        • 29/01/1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate

        • 29/01/1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state

        • 29/01/1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians

        • 29/01/1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)

        • 29/01/1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established

        • 29/01/1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place

        • 29/01/1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)

        • 29/01/1944 - 285 German bombers attack London

        • 29/01/1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians

        • 29/01/1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term

        • 30/01/1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

        • 30/01/1487 - Bell chimes invented

        • 30/01/1647 - King Charles I handed over to English parliament

        • 30/01/1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

        • 30/01/1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks

        • 30/01/1798 - Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument

        • 30/01/1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)

        • 30/01/1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols

        • 30/01/1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC

        • 30/01/1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

        • 30/01/1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen

        • 30/01/1939 - Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews

        • 30/01/1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed

        • 30/01/1957 - US Congress accepts"Eisenhower-doctrine"

        • 30/01/1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp

        • 30/01/1972 - Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die

        • 30/01/1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts

        • 30/01/1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)

        • 30/01/1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

        • 31/01/1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army

        • 31/01/1865 - Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)

        • 31/01/1865 - Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

        • 31/01/1871 - Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky

        • 31/01/1950 - Pres Truman OKs building of hydrogen bomb

        • 31/01/1968 - Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins

        • 01/02/1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence

        • 01/02/1790 - Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)

        • 01/02/1810 - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)

        • 01/02/1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC

        • 01/02/1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede

        • 01/02/1862 - Julia Howe publishes"Battle Hymn of Republic"

        • 01/02/1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)

        • 01/02/1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins

        • 01/02/1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)

        • 01/02/1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern Calif and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)

        • 01/02/1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of"400" to describe socially elite

        • 01/02/1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)

        • 01/02/1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion

        • 01/02/1953 -"General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts

        • 01/02/1953 -"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television

        • 01/02/1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth

        • 01/02/1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala

        • 01/02/1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news

        • 01/02/1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president

        • 01/02/1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head

        • 01/02/1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp

        • 01/02/1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile

        • 02/02/1536 - Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires

        • 02/02/1550 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed

        • 02/02/1843 - US and British settlers in Oregon Country choose govt committee

        • 02/02/1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million

        • 02/02/1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF

        • 02/02/1863 - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time

        • 02/02/1876 - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis

        • 02/02/1913 - NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens

        • 02/02/1942 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans

        • 02/02/1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

        • 02/02/1954 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)

        • 02/02/1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC

        • 03/02/1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)

        • 03/02/1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily

        • 03/02/1783 - Spain recognizes US independence

        • 03/02/1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)

        • 03/02/1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional

        • 03/02/1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture

        • 03/02/1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi

        • 03/02/1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse

        • 03/02/1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed

        • 03/02/1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act

        • 03/02/1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down

        • 03/02/1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed

        • 03/02/1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

        • 03/02/1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

        • 03/02/1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)

        • 03/02/1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs

        • 03/02/1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

        • 04/02/1586 - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth

        • 04/02/1787 - Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails

        • 04/02/1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as Pres and VP

        • 04/02/1822 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa

        • 04/02/1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland

        • 04/02/1854 - Alvan Bovay proposes name"Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc

        • 04/02/1855 - Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela

        • 04/02/1861 - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Ala, Ga, Fla, La, Miss and SC elect Jefferson Davis pres of Confederacy

        • 04/02/1864 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax

        • 04/02/1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads

        • 04/02/1914 - US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law

        • 04/02/1942 - Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II

        • 04/02/1945 - FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta

        • 04/02/1997 - Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish

          IN THE NEWS:
          REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:

          • Marc Fisher: Radio Days SOMETHING IN THE AIR Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation - NYT, 1-28-07

          • Michael B. Oren: Midnight at the Oasis POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present - NYT, 1-28-07

          • Jan Crawford Greenburg: 'Supreme Conflict' SUPREME CONFLICT The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court NYT, 1-23-07

          • Michael B. Oren: America and the Mideast, long before the Bushes POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present - San Francisco Chronicle, CA, 1-28-07

          • Sarah E. Igo: Inventing a 'norm': Sociologists, sexologists and pollsters painting America by numbers Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public Advertisement - Baltimore Sun, MD, 1-28-07

          • MARTIN GOODMAN: Sacrifice at the altar of empire Rome & Jerusalem - The Clash of Ancient Civilisations - Scotsman, UK, 1-26-07

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

          • Robert Dallek on" Is Bush already a lame duck?":"A lame duck president is someone who in our recent history is in his second term. ... He doesn't have the clout to influence the Congress, to assert himself that effectively, even in the conduct of foreign policy, because people know he is only going to be there another two years." - CNN, 1-23-07

          • John Kitchens on"Dozens in Charlotte protest Iraq war":"It's created more terrorists than it's gotten rid of." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL, 1-28-07

          SPOTTED & SPEAKING EVENTS CALENDAR:

          • February 2, 2007: Archie P. McDonald will speak Friday at an event hosted by Tyler Junior College's School of University Studies, A Dutch-treat buffet will begin 6 p.m. Friday in the Piano Room at Traditions restaurant, 6206 S. Broadway Ave. The program will begin at 6:45 p.m - Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX, 1-25-07

          • February 25, 2007: William Leuchtenburg"The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson" at 5 PM - http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/

          • February 14, 2007: Eric Foner,"American Reconstruction (1865-1877)" Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06

          • March 20, 2007: Alan Brinkley, The Harlem Renaissance, Time to be announced, McLain Auditorium, MHS - Larchmont Gazette, NY, 11-29-06

          • 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

          • North Gate Professional Seminar Reconstructing the Past: When History and Journalism Meet, The Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkley, Saturday, April 21, 2007, 8:30 am -- 4:30 pm, North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley - Event Details

          HONORED, AWARDED, AND APPOINTED:
          ON TV:

          • C-Span2, Book TV : Christopher Hitchens, Francine Prose, Edmund Morris, James Atlas, 2006 Miami Book Fair: Biography Panel, Sunday, January 28 at 8:10 pm - C-Span2, BookTV

          • PBS: The American Experience:"The Berlin Airlift" Monday, January 29, 2007 at 9pm ET - PBS

          • History Channel:"Fort Knox: Secrets Revealed," Sunday, January 28, @ 8pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The Plague" Monday, January 29, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree," Monday, January 29, @ 4pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Digging For The Truth :Lost Empire of Genghis Khaan," Monday, January 29, @ 9pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Alaska: Dangerous Territory" Tuesday, January 29, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Braveheart's Scotland" Tuesday, January 30, @ 9pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The Exodus Decoded" Wednesday, January 31, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Tsunami 2004: Waves of Death" Wednesday, January 31, @ 4pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Giganto: The Real King Kong," Thursday, February 1, @ 8pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The History of Sex :From Don Juan to Queen Victoria," Thursday, February 1, @ 11pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Jonestown Paradise Lost :," Friday, February 2, @ 2pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The Lost Evidence :18 - Battle of the Bulge," Friday, February 2, @ 8pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Dogfights," Marathon Saturday, January 27 @ 1-5pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"The True Story of Black Hawk Down," Saturday, January 20 @ 5pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Digging For The Truth," Marathon Saturday, February 3, @ 1-5pm ET/PT

          • History Channel:"Fort Knox: Secrets Revealed," Saturday, February 3, @ 5pm ET/PT

          SELLING BIG (NYT):

          • Michael B. Oren: POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY #10 (1 week on list) - 2-4-07

          • Evan Thomas: SEA OF THUNDER, #20 - 2-4-07

          NEW ON THE WEB:

          • SoldierStudies.org: New online database archive for the preservation of Civil War correspondences, is a searchable database of soldiers and their correspondences.

          EXHIBITIONS:

          • Echoes in the Ice: Collages of Polar Explorers by Rik van Glintenkamp: In recognition of International Polar Year, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) announces a unique exhibition celebrating intrepid explorers and their travels to the farthest"ends" of the Earth. Opens January 26, 2007 - Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University

          FUTURE RELEASES:

          • James M. McPherson: This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (Oxford University Press), January 2007

          • Dominic Green: Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1898 (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group), January 2007

          • Geoffrey Roberts: Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (Yale University Press), January 2007

          • David A. Bell: The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, (Houghton Mifflin Company), January 2007

          • Dinesh D'Souza: Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11 (Doubleday Publishing), January 16, 2007

          • Edward Luce: In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Doubleday Publishing), January 16, 2007

          • Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic [American Empire Project], (Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated), February 6, 2007

          • 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

          • Benton Rain Patterson: With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown (St. Martin's Press), February 6, 2007

          • Andrew Roberts: History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, HarperCollins Publishers), February 6, 2007

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

          • John McManus: Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible, (Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated), March 2007

          DEPARTED:

          • Portuguese historian Antonio de Oliveira Marques dies at 73 - AP, 1-24-07
          Sunday, February 4, 2007 - 21:49