Last Chance to Sign Open Letter to Obama (prominent libertarians, academics, former officials, leftists, etc. already on list)

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February 18, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Primary Season Election Results - NYT Gil Troy, a history professor at McGill University, said Obama is able to mix style and substance with ease like former U.S. president Ronald Reagan."This kind of ease cannot be invented or replicated - you either have it or you don't. Bill Clinton has it, Bob Dole - who has other talents - didn't," Troy said."Ronald Reagan had it (and) Walter Mondale, his opponent in 1984, didn't." - Canada.com, 2-16-08 Douglas Brinkley and Ted Widmer on"Been there, failed at that"For all three of them, their Senate careers are not what people are looking at," Brinkley said, noting that"workhorse" senators Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Sam Brownback dropped out of the race early. Each of the candidates is unique in U.S. history -- Clinton because she is a woman, Obama because he is black and McCain because of his experience as a prisoner of war -- and there are no easy predictions about how they will perform in office, Widmer said."It's a fascinating, volatile moment and no one knows what's going to happen next," he said."And that's good for democracy, too." - 2-11-08 Gerald Gamm on"Clinton-Obama: perils of a long Democratic battle":"Right now, the traditional Democratic coalition is split exactly between them," says Gerald Gamm, an associate professor of political science and history at the University of Rochester in New York. - The Christian Science Monitor, 2-11-08
CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	BIGGEST STORIES: PRESIDENT'S DAY: Americans Rank Lincoln as Top President - AOL, 2-17-08 On President's Day, Remember Your 5 Black Presidents - diversityinc.com, 2-15-08
BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month	BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month: Road to civil rights crossed St. Augustine - AP, 2-17-08 History of Black History Month often overlooked - Muncie Star Press, IN , 2-11-08 Perfect books to read for Black History month - Owen Sound Sun Times, 2-15-08 Detroit Black History Events - Dtroit Free Press, 2-14-08 MID-MICHIGAN EVENTS HONORING BLACK HISTORY MONTH - Lansing State Journal, 2-10-08 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Interviewed in Newsweek about AANB - Newsweek, 2-9-08 Carter G. Woodson: This year's celebration of black history month focuses on his role in creating black history month - www.hattiesburgamerican.com, 2-5-08 Feb. 29, 2008: A historian, educator and author will present a plenary address at the fifth annual Midwest Black History Conference on Feb. 29 at Luther College - WCF Courier, IA, 1-30-08 Museum of Black History Celebration events - Evansville Courier Press, 1-10-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Jim Powell:"Was the Civil War a Terrible Mistake?" - 2-04-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Judith Apter Klinghoffer:"WHO'S FIRST - COUNTRY OR PARTY?" Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 2-3-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: 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 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:	IN THE NEWS: Philip Zelikow vs. Eric Alterman: The 9-11 Commission controversy - Eric Alterman at the website of the Center for American Progress, followed by a response by Philip Zelikow (appended by Alterman to his own article), 2-15-08 David Halberstam: Driver who ran over him sentenced - San Francisco Chronicle, 2-15-08 Niall Ferguson vs. Amartya Sen: How inspiring was the example of the British Empire? - New Republic, 2-15-08 French historian 'unhappy' at condition of historical buildings in India - The Hindu, 2-14-08 Historian reveals how Pius IX decided to proclaim dogma of Immaculate Conception - http://www.catholicnewsagency.com, 2-13-08 John Esposito: Assailed by Campus Watch - Cinnamon Stillwell at the website of Campus Watch, 2-15-08 Justin McCarthy: Says Armenians didn't die from genocide during WWI - http://www.gainesville.com, 2-9-08 Philip Zelikow: Both criticized and defended over work on 9-11 Commission - Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists, 2-11-08 David McCullough: Testifies that the US should double funding for the founding fathers paper projects - Sen. Judiciary Committee, 2-7-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Maureen N. McLane on Daniel Walker Howe: Re-collecting the past A historian puts together a fascinating, richly detailed portrait of America in the early 1800s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 - Chicago Tribune, 2-17-08 Randi Storch: Radical heritage An engaging look at the final years of Chicago's reign as the left-wing capital of America Red Chicago: American Communism and Its Grassroots, 1928-35 - Chicago Tribune, 2-16-08 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore: The power of radicals Historian examines the activists who first took on racism Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights 1919-1950 - News & Observer, 2-17-08 Allen C. Guelzo, William Lee Miller: HISTORY UNITED STATES They Don't Make Debates Like This Anymore Lincoln may have won the debates, but he lost his campaign for the Senate. The Debates that Defined America, PRESIDENT LINCOLN The Duty of A Statesman - WaPo, 2-17-08 Vladislav Zubok on Orlando Figes: HISTORY \| SOVIET UNION The Destruction of Memory Preserving the testimony of the generation that lived under Stalin THE WHISPERERS Private Life in Stalin's Russia - WaPo, 2-17-08 Brian McGinty: Parlous Times How one president finessed the law of the land LINCOLN AND THE COURT - WaPo, 2-14-08 Laton McCartney: There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country - NYT,
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Scott Kurashige: Anderson Cooper Explains Little About Asian Americans - Huffington Post, 2-17-08 Lewis Lehrman: Lincoln of Illinois Goes from funding history projects to writing a history book - NY Sun, 2-12-08 Anne Mitchell Whisnant: A Ph.D. hits the road to promote her crossover book about the Blue Ridge Parkway - Anne Mitchell Whisnant in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-12-08 Ruth Rosen: Tells about her time on a jury - Dissent, 2-1-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Philip Zelikow: A critic assesses his role in steering the 9-11 Commission - Max Holland at his website, WashingtonDecoded, 2-11-08 Historians Flood OHRP With Comments - Zachary M. Schrag at http://institutionalreviewblog, 2-2-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Mark Stoler: Gen. George Marshall understood the wise use of authority - http://www.benningtonbanner.com, 2-11-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: 1968: Slipping into darkness Strife-torn year was watershed for U.S. - Arizona Republic, AZ, 2-18-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Remembering Domestic Terrorism An interview with Beverly Gage Conducted by Christopher Chen - The Politic (Yale Undergrad journal), 2-17-08 Henry Louis Gates: New Encyclopedia Chronicles African American Lives - NPR, 2-14-08 Hermann Giliomee: South African historian says his country is in crisis (interview) - http://www.moneyweb.co.za, 2-13-08 David Levering Lewis: Interviewed about his new book on Islam - Boston Globe, 1-27-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Stephen Hess on"Been there, failed at that History shows experience does not guarantee success in the White House":"It's not just how much experience they had, but where and how they got that experience," said Stephen Hess, a senior fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution and an expert in presidential history. Former vice presidents come into office with the best understanding of the executive branch but struggle to create their own legacy, Hess said. Military leaders have the most experience running a large bureaucracy, he said, citing Dwight D. Eisenhower as an example. - 2-11-08 Jean Harvey Baker on"Been there, failed at that History shows experience does not guarantee success in the White House": Lincoln"[He] was just really superb at understanding the crisis of the time and understanding how to get along with people," Goucher College history professor Jean Harvey Baker said. Franklin Roosevelt:"As a human being, his struggle against his infirmity is just as important as his experience in politics," Baker said. - 2-11-08 Ted Widmer on"Been there, failed at that History shows experience does not guarantee success in the White House":"Lincoln was"a towering genius who could have never made it during a normal election," said Brown University historian Ted Widmer, adding that he" came at exactly the moment we needed him." Although other presidents with thin resumes proved to be capable leaders, Lincoln is an extreme example. As Widmer says:"I don't think it's so realistic to think there are a lot of Abraham Lincolns floating around out there." Herbery Hoover:"It's kind of the opposite of the Lincoln argument," Widmer said."An outsider came in and was a very unsuccessful president." "Governors are more used to being the executive. Even if they're from a smaller state, they know how to delegate well, hire and fire, stay within budgets," Widmer said."Senators are more used to working within the system, which can be a good thing." - 2-11-08 Douglas Brinkley on"Been there, failed at that History shows experience does not guarantee success in the White House":"This may look like a lack of political experience, but he learned a lot by being on the ground," said Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley, adding that [Theodore] Roosevelt's time in the West and fighting in the war helped him make wise decisions about land preservation and the military. - 2-11-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Hilary Ballon: Headed to Abu Dhabi - http://www.artsjournal.com, 2-13-08 Books about Lincoln, Douglass, Lee Win 2008 Lincoln Prize - Press Release--Gettysburg College Media Relations, 2-12-08 Elizabeth Brown Pryor: Wins Lincoln Prize for her book on Lee - Press Release, 2-12-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Kenneth Mack: Lawyer, scholar speaks on civil rights history - PennLive.com, 2-13-08 James E. Johnson: Historian details role of the black soldiers during the Civil War - Gloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ, 2-11-08 David McCullough: Historian Taught Online Classroom about George Washington - Press Release, 2-12-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Bernice Johnson Reagon: Rutgers Lecture series pays tribute to civil rights movement - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ, 2-16-08 AHA: Archives Wiki Now Available - Robert Townsend at the AHA blog, 2-12-08
EXHIBITS:	EXHIBITS:
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: Feb. 28, 2008: Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University will speak at Arkansas State University on Feb. 28. Gates will present a lecture —"Bridging the Digital Divide: W. E. B. DuBois and the Encarta Americana" — at 7 p.m. in Centennial Hall, Reng Student Services Center / Student Union, 101 N. Caraway Road, in Jonesboro. - Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 2-10-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week C-Span2, BookTV: President Day Specials on Presidential History, Monday, February 18, @ 1am - Tuesday, February19 @ 7am ET - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"Life After People," Sunday, February 17, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents," Marathon Monday, February 18, @ 4-8pm ET/PT History Channel:"History of the Joke," Monday, February 18, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Tuesday, February 19, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters :New York Earthquake," Tuesday, February 12, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Lincoln Assassination : The Lincoln Assassination," Wednesday, February 20, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mysteries of the Freemasons :America," Wednesday, February 20, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Presidential Prophecies," Wednesday, February 20, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Shootout :Wild West," Wednesday, February 20, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers," Thursday, February 21, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries :Ship of Gold," Thursday, February 21, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :A-Bomb Underground," Thursday, February 21, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Dogfights :Tuskegee Airmen," Thursday, February 21, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters," Marathon Friday, February 22, @ 4-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Prostitution: Sex in the City" Friday, February 22, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Andrew Jackson," Saturday, February 23, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM #7 -- 5 weeks on list - 2-24-08 Tom Brokaw: BOOM! #12 -- 11 weeks on list - 2-24-08 Drew Gilpin Faust: THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING #13 -- 3 weeks on list - 2-24-08 Jacob Weisberg: THE BUSH TRAGEDY #27 - 2-24-08 Diane Ackerman: THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE #27 - 2-24-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Matthew Dennison: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, February 19, 2008 Nick Taylor: American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, February 26, 2008. Howard Taylor: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, February 28, 2008. H. David Stone: Vital Rails, February 28, 2008. John Fea: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America ( U of Pennsylvania Press), February 29, 2008 Joseph Balkoski: From Beachhead to Brittany, March 10, 2008 Susan Nagel: Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, March 18, 2008 James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West (REV), March 24, 2008. Scott McClellan: What Happened, April 28, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Daniel Walker Hollis: USC historian, dies - http://www.thestate.com, 2-12-08 Dan H. Laurence: 87, Bibliographer and George Bernard Shaw Scholar, Is Dead - NYT, 2-10-08

Posted On:: Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 23:56

January 22, 2008

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on"Dare to consider it: Put both on the ticket":"King's marching and sit-ins and his oratory created a climate that Congress had to respond to," says the biographer, but LBJ's political skills wrestled the legislation through Congress."In this case, we wouldn't just be combining a black and a woman, but the two narratives of the campaign: inspiration and experience, both of which are needed for change. It would be a bold move but a great one." - Washington Post Writers Group, 1-20-08 Steve Ross on"Women turn on 'traitor' Oprah Winfrey for backing Barack Obama Oprah fans leave a barrage of negative messages on her official website in response to the talk show host's support of Obama""The moment a star opens their mouth and endorses one candidate, they alienate half their viewership." - Sunday Times, UK, 1-20-08 William Jelani Cobb on"From Alabama to Obama" Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on Obama:"They can either go quietly into the night or they can spend four years or eight years taking pot shots at Obama. They are on very, very thin ice right now.... Now they are having to do frantic, rear-guard marching. Jesse has been ambivalent. He endorsed Obama and then he criticized him, and everyone in politics knows you don't endorse someone and then criticize them." - Sunday Paper, 1-20-08 Obama and the Southern vote The idea of a black president stirs up old prejudices and new hopes in Tennessee and South Carolina - The Denver Post, 1-20-08 Super Tuesday is all over the map - Kansas City Star, 1-19-08 Analysis: Poor showing means Thompson likely to pull the plug - Gannett News Service, 1-20-08 'He's no John Kennedy’: Excitement surrounding Sen. Obama's campaign evokes comparisons - Robert Dallek: Dallek, now retired from Boston University and a Kennedy biographer, said Obama has gone beyond Kennedy in one respect - he’s appealing to Republicans and independents more openly."Obama is being more bipartisan than Kennedy ever was," Dallek said. He notes that Obama also claims a direct link to the Kennedy legacy - he's been endorsed by JFK's speech writer and adviser Ted Sorensen. - The Patriot Ledger, MA, 1-18-08 Editorial: Remembering That the Prize is the Presidency - The Berkeley Daily Planet, 1-18-08 Dan Carter on"Dirty tricks erupt in S.C. GOP race":"Lee Atwater definitely established a kind of baseline for under-the-table politics and the use of tactics I don't think you'd want to defend to your mama." - Miami Herald, 1-18-08 E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Working-Class Blues To win the general election, the Democrats will need to speak to the concerns of the white working class - The New Republic, 1-17-08 Mark Kornbluh: Mich. voter turnout third highest in history"I would expect that we're a Democratic primary (area) which does not have all the candidates in it. It would be hard to motivate students to the polls in that primary.... At MSU you saw very little mobilization going on for voters because the Democratic ballot did not give MSU voters the choice they wanted." - MSU State News, MI, 1-16-08 Sean Wilentz: History Vindicates Clinton The New Republic: Remarks On LBJ, MLK Jr. Reflect Reality Of Civil Rights Movement - CBS News, 1-14-08 Edwards Has More Claim on King Than Clinton or Obama, Duke Professor Says Even Edwards' $400 hair cut is reminiscent of King, says Timothy Tyson - Duke News, 1-17-08
BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month	Scholars say King still as relevant today as 40 years ago - Ocala.com, FL, 1-20-08 Museum of Black History Celebration events - Evansville Courier Press, 1-10-08 African-American Experience in Vermont - Vermont Public Radio, 1-19-08 Encyclopedia Invites Public to Make, Be History - UK News, KY, 1-17-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article: Rick Shenkman:"Reporter's Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Wash. DC)" - 1-3-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Steven Horwitz:"The Paul Newsletters and the Problem of the Paleos" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 1-10-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	This Week in History: New Feature: On This Day in History... 21/01/1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's"Power of Sympathy," is published 21/01/1861 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign 21/01/1950 - NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury 21/01/1953 - John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State 21/01/1977 - Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders 22/01/1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned 22/01/1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC 22/01/1863 - Union Gen Burnside's"Mud March" 22/01/1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops 22/01/1944 - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy 22/01/1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa 22/01/1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency 22/01/1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions 22/01/1973 - US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord 23/01/1492 -"Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed 23/01/1552 - 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England 23/01/1556 - Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China 23/01/1571 - Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London 23/01/1793 - Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized 23/01/1845 - Uniform US election day for president and VP authorized 23/01/1849 - Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US 23/01/1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator 23/01/1933 - 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20 23/01/1950 - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel 23/01/1961 - Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films 23/01/1964 - 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections 23/01/1973 - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War 24/01/1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland 24/01/1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by US Col Price 24/01/1964 - 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes 25/01/1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne 25/01/1533 - England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) 25/01/1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary 25/01/1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy 25/01/1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) 25/01/1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass 25/01/1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) 25/01/1858 - Mendelssohn's"Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia 25/01/1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac 25/01/1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden 25/01/1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms 25/01/1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago 25/01/1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa 25/01/1907 - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts and Letters 25/01/1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later 25/01/1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK) 25/01/1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris 25/01/1988 - VP Bush and Dan Rather clash on"CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair 26/01/1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol 26/01/1802 - Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library 26/01/1861 - Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede 26/01/1862 - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 26/01/1863 - 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms -- War Dept authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops 26/01/1870 - Virginia rejoins US 26/01/1907 - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed 26/01/1926 - Television 1st demonstrated (J L Baird, London) 26/01/1939 - Filming begins on"Gone With the Wind" 26/01/1942 - 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland 26/01/1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed 26/01/1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations 26/01/1998 - Pres Clinton says"I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" 27/01/1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia 27/01/1823 - Pres Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America 27/01/1870 - After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union 27/01/1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 27/01/1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC) 27/01/1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court 27/01/1941 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Jap assault on Pearl Harbor 27/01/1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 27/01/1945 - Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) 27/01/1973 - US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and milt draft -- William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty 27/01/1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) 27/01/1977 - 1st broadcast of"Roots" mini-series on ABC TV 27/01/1988 - Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court 27/01/1992 - Pres candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair 28/01/1547 - 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England 28/01/1581 - James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland 28/01/1858 - John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry 28/01/1865 - Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners 28/01/1878 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper 28/01/1915 - 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK) 28/01/1915 - US Pres Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates 28/01/1916 - 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson
IN THE NEWS:	Tony Taylor: The one-sided history wars - The Age, Australia 1-18-08 Jan Gross: Princeton Historian Could Face Criminal Charges Over Book in Poland - WaPo, 1-18-08 Jan Gross: Poland May Sue Author of Book on Treatment of Jews - Reuters, 1-11-08 An historic decision for Gordon Brown Who will he appoint to the Regius Professorship of Modern History at the University of Cambridge? - Guardian UK, 1-16-08 Historians linking up with sociologists to examine the family - Email from Stephanie Coontz to HNN, 1-17-08 Historians file brief in SCOTUS in support of DC gun law - HNN Staff, 1-15-08 AHA criticized for ignoring needs of job applicants - Michael Bowen at the website of Inside Higher Ed, 1-14-08 David Irving: Talk axed - Liverpool Echo, 1-12-08 Maha Nassar: Montana wants to hire her, but along with her husband, too? Some complain. - http://www.missoulian.com, 1-6-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Elisabeth Bumiller: Consent and Advise CONDOLEEZZA RICE An American Life:A Biography - NYT, 1-20-08 Elisabeth Bumiller: CONDOLEEZZA RICE An American Life:A Biography, First Chapter - NYT, 1-20-08 Hugh Wilford: A Word From Our Sponsor THE MIGHTY WURLITZER How the CIA Played America - NYT, 1-20-08 Jacob Weisberg: THE PRESIDENCY Sins of the Son An attempt to penetrate the family drama behind George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq THE BUSH TRAGEDY - WaPO, 1-17-08 Jacob Weisberg: THE BUSH TRAGEDY Interview - WaPO, 1-15-08 Brian Jay Jones: The man who gave us Rip, Ichabod and the Headless Horseman WASHINGTON IRVING An American Original - WaPO, 1-17-08 D. Graham Burnett: Trying Leviathan The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature - NYT, 1-20-08 Edward J. Larson: Scholar sheds light on 1800's confusing election - Deseret Morning News, 1-20-08 Lincolniana New and not so new perspectives on arguably the greatest of our presidents - WaPO, 1-17-08 Steve Penfold: From teatime to Timbits THE DONUT A Canadian History - Globe and Mail, Canada, 1-19-08 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: His published journal entries barely mention Israel or the Holocaust - SHIMSHON ARAD in the Jerusalem Post, 1-15-08 David Levering Lewis: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis says a long military-religious campaign bore seeds of troubled 21st century history God's Crucible _ Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 - AP, 1-15-08 Jacob Heilbrunn: Confrontation is central to the neocon movement's origins and tactics, says the author of a new book They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 1-14-08
OP-EDS:	Frederick Kagan: Says new law allowing Baathists back into government is promising - Op ed in the WaPo signed by Jack Keane, Frederick W. Kagan and Michael O'Hanlon, 1-20-08 Peter H. Wood: Recalls teaching his last class - Peter H. Wood at Common-Place.org, 1-1-08 Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, Juan Cole: Critic claims they are ignoring progress in Iraq - Jonathan Schanzer at the website of Campus Watch, 1-16-08 Franck Salameh: Says we need"true diversity in Middle East studies" - Franck Salameh at the website of Campus Watch (and Frontpagemag.com), 1-16-08 Eric Hobsbawm: Remembers life under Weimar - London Review of Books, 1-24-08 Thai Jones: Recalls when her parents were on the run 60's activists - Thai Jones in the NYT, 1-6-08
BLOGSPHERE:	Daniel Larison: Historian, attacked in Commentary for nostalgia for Confederacy, responds - Daniel Larison at his blog, 1-18-08 Edward J. Renehan: Announces on his blog that he is bi-polar - Renehan Blog, 1-14-08
PROFILED:	Studs Terkel: At 91, he has a right to ramble a bit - Palm Beach Post, 1-11-08 Former History Professor Robert Martin, Morris lawmaker retires after 23 years - NJ Blog, New Jersey, 1-20-08
FEATURES:	1968: A Spiral of Chaos and Death Johnson calls it quits; King, Kennedy are shot - US News, 1-18-08 The Far Side of the Boat James Horton discusses the history of slavery and race with Bullis students - Potomac Almanac, VA, 1-18-08 Joseph Amato: 'A Place of Many Places' The Center for Rural and Regional Studies at SMSU - Worthington Daily Globe, MN, 1-19-08 George Mason University's Center for History and New Media is at the forefront of the new wave of collecting history - Washington Times, 1-10-08
INTERVIEWS:	Clayborne Carson: Interviewed about the MLK Papers project - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 1-14-08 James Loewen: Wants to pressure Sundown Towns to change - Email from James Loewen, 1-14-08
QUOTED:	Founders' letters lag in delivery Slow publication vexes scholars David McCullough:"You can tell a lot about a society from how it spends money. If this society is unwilling to spend it on something of such immense and colossal importance, then something is seriously wrong.... These volumes of the founders are more of a monument than anything built in stone," he said. - Barbara oberg: Jefferson complained that writing was drudgery, but he seemed to thrive on it. His handwriting is flowing, consistent, easy to understand, and quite beautiful." - Philadelphia Inquirer, 1-20-08 Founders' letters lag in delivery Slow publication vexes scholars Barbara Oberg: Jefferson complained that writing was drudgery, but he seemed to thrive on it. His handwriting is flowing, consistent, easy to understand, and quite beautiful." - Philadelphia Inquirer, 1-20-08 Jean Pfaelzer: Author says U.S. should learn immigration lessons of a century ago"The idea of temporary workers has proven to be wrong by the history. The Chinese were perceived as temporary people in this country ... and they became very vulnerable because they didn't have any rights." - San Francisco Chronicle, 1-14-08 Connie Young Yu:"It's a subject matter that has been so hidden from our history books; Jean brings it to life and describes the process and the climate of the popular opinion at the time. It's hard for Americans to believe that, because it goes against the democratic beliefs in this country." - San Francisco Chronicle, 1-14-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	Finalists Named: National Book Critics Circle Awards - New York Observer, 1-14-08 Roy Rosenzweig Prize in History and New Media Established in Professor's Memory - Center for History and New Media (CHNM), 1-15-08
SPOTTED:	State's black experience is focus 'KENTUCKY AFRICAN AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA' IS THOUGHT TO BE A FIRST - Kentucky.com, KY, 1-17-08 Douglas Brinkley to spoke in Ruston, LA on Thursday - Shreveport Times, 1-16-08
CALENDAR:	Jan 23, 2008: Richard Steigmann-Gall will give a lecture entitled"Neither Aryan nor Semite: Mutability and Identity in the Third Reich." at 3 p.m. at the University's of Vermont's Old Mill building - Burlington Free Press, 1-7-08 Feb. 9, 2008: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois-Chicago professor of history and African-American studies, will give a free presentation on what roles African-Americans played in the railroad industry titled,"Black Railroaders and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement," @ 2 p.m. at the National Railroad Museum's Fuller Hall Theater - Green Bay Press Gazette, 1-20-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	History Listings This Week: PBS: America Experience The Lobotomist, Monday, January 21, 2008 @ 9pm EST C-Span2, BookTV: History The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secrets Author: Seth Shulman, Sunday, January 20, @ 8PM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: After Words: Kiron Skinner,"The Strategy of Campaigning," interviewed by Marcus Mabry, Sunday, January 20, @ 9PM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation Author: Drew Hansen, Sunday, January 20, @ 10PM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History Jason Emerson,"The Madness of Mary Lincoln" Author: Jason Emerson, Sunday, January 20, @ 11PM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, The Crisis That Shocked The Nation Author: Elizabeth Jacoway, Monday, January 21, @ 1AM ET - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"Lost Book of Nostradamus," Sunday, January 20, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Last Days on Earth," Sunday, January 20, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Our Generation :Martin Luther King Assassination," Monday, January 21, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Martin Luther King Jr. Day: The Making of a Dream," Monday, January 21, @ 2:30pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Doomsday 2012: The End of Days," Monday, January 21, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life After People," Monday, January 21, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Last Stand of The 300," Tuesday, January 22, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds :Braveheart's Scotland," Tuesday, January 22, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters :Hawaii Apocalypse," Tuesday, January 22, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Prophecies of Israel," Tuesday, January 22, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Street Gangs: A Secret History," Wednesday, January 23, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life After People," Wednesday, January 23, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest :American Werewolf," Wednesday, January 23, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree," Wednesday, January 23, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces," Thursday, January 24, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden," Thursday, January 24, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past :Mayan Doomsday Prophecy," Thursday, January 24, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds," Marathon Friday, January 25, @ 2-6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Tsunami 2004: Waves of Death," Friday, January 25, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"A Global Warning?," Friday, January 25, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries," Marathon Saturday, January 26, @ 2-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Nostradamus: 500 Years Later," Saturday, January 26, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Countdown to Armageddon," Saturday, January 26, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Tom Brokaw: BOOM! #15 -- 10 weeks on list - 1-27-08 Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM #10 -- 1 week on list - 1-27-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	Joseph Wheelan: Mr. Adam's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress, January 28, 2008. Mark Puls: Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution, February 5, 2008. Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, February 5, 2008. Brian McGinty: Lincoln and the Court, February 15, 2008. Matthew Dennison: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, February 19, 2008 Nick Taylor: American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, February 26, 2008. Howard Taylor: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, February 28, 2008. H. David Stone: Vital Rails, February 28, 2008. John Fea: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America ( U of Pennsylvania Press), February 29, 2008 Joseph Balkoski: From Beachhead to Brittany, March 10, 2008 Susan Nagel: Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, March 18, 2008 James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West (REV), March 24, 2008. Scott McClellan: What Happened, April 28, 2008
DEPARTED:	Harry C. Payne: Former president Payne dies at 60 - The Williams Record, MA, 1-16-08 Earl Nation: 97; urologist, medical historian - LAT, 1-11-08

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February 4, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	Allan J. Lichtman on"McCain Surge Has Jewish Dems Worried McCain Up, Giuliani Out As Super Tuesday Looms":"His strategy was absolutely baffling. He did everything possible to take himself out of it." Lichtman, like some Jewish Republicans, said Giuliani's early lead was misleading. Giuliani, who supported abortion and gay rights as mayor of New York and whose personal life troubled many in the party’s Evangelical base,"was never right for the Republicans," he said."But his numbers were high at first because the Republican field was seen as weak." Giuliani also polled high early in the race when international threats were top issues for voters. McCain’s resurgence, Lichtman said, the growing strength of Romney and the sudden shift away from foreign policy concerns and toward economic worries neutralized that initial advantage. Giuliani's collapse means a big boost for McCain among Jewish Republicans, Lichtman said,"because of his national security experience and his strong stands on the Middle East. People know him, he has a record." - New York Jewish Week, 1-30-08 Stephen Hess on"Relative Power We Elect Our Leaders, and Dynasties Are Few, but Sometimes Ascension Looks Like an Inheritance":"Initially it was a question of who is best prepared to serve. Then over time it be comes a question of branding." The nation's first leaders were chosen from"the creme de le creme of the country." - WaPo, 2-3-08
BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month	America Still Draws Lessons from an Era when Humans Were Property As Americans observe Black History Month this February, considerable attention is being focused on a single stroke of a pen, 200 years ago. 2008 marks the bicentennial of a law that banned future U.S. participation in the international slave trade. VOA's Ted Landphair reports, that historic measure was the topic of a day-long symposium at the National Archives in Washington. - VOA, 2-4-08 Feb. 29, 2008: A historian, educator and author will present a plenary address at the fifth annual Midwest Black History Conference on Feb. 29 at Luther College - WCF Courier, IA, 1-30-08 MID-MICHIGAN EVENTS HONORING BLACK HISTORY MONTH - Lansing State Journal, 2-4-08 Detroit Black History Events - Dtroit Free Press, 2-3-08 The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Defending the right to organize Employees, unions struggle for justice in a climate that favors business over people - Commercial Appeal, 2-3-08 Revealing a truth history had hidden Black re-enactors being called on to tell the story of slavery in the region - Albant Times-Union, 2-3-08 Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Project Includes Famous and Obscure Black Americans 'African American National Biography' tells the stories of 4,000 historical figures - The Ledger, 2-1-08 Barrington Walker: Why we need Black History Month February's designation reminds Canada of its multiracial origins, work remaining to be done - Queens Journal, 2-1-08 Slave ties to British revealed - Bucks County Courier Times, 2-1-08 Black historical figures get their due The African American National Biography shines light on the famous, overlooked - WaPo, LAT, 1-28-08 Museum of Black History Celebration events - Evansville Courier Press, 1-10-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	Most Popular Article:"Historians for Obama" - 11-26-07 Most Popular Blog Entry: Judith Apter Klinghoffer:"WHO'S FIRST - COUNTRY OR PARTY?" Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 2-3-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	This Week in History: New Feature: On This Day in History... 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 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:	Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez: Long a target of enemy dreams of destruction, Dimona finally tastes real violence - Jerusalem Post, 2-5-08 Ore. historical society to show off basement collection - USA Today, 2-4-08 Meir Zamir: Churchill Gov't Secretly Proposed Anti-Zionist Plan, Scholar Says - Press Release--David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 2-3-08 Philip Zelikow: His independence as director of the 9-11 Commission reportedly comes into question in new book - HNN Staff, 2-1-08 National Security Archive and Historical Associations Petition for Release of Rosenberg Grand Jury Records - National Security Archive, 1-31-08 Mitja Ferenc: Slovenia hears of yet more WW II mass graves in historian's quest to expose extent of revenge - Chicago Tribune, 1-29-08 Fight breaks out among archivists and historians about the decision to turn over Iraqi archives to Hoover Institution - HNN Staff, 1-29-08 Professors for ... Hoover? - Doug Lederman at the website of Inside Higher Ed, 1-29-08 Historians signing a petition to stop US from building a base in the Czech Republic - NY Review of Books, 2-14-08 David Levering Lewis: Historian sees Christian conquest of Spain as lesson - Carl Hartman in a dispatch by the AP, 1-27-08 Lindsay Baker: Tarleton professor authors article on history of Texas museum - North Texas E-News, 1-22-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	Sally McMillen: Seneca Falls: The story of the women who changed the world A historian looks at the early women's rights movement and the reformers America has forgotten - Christian Science Monitor, 2-5-08 Jacob Weisberg: Who's Your Daddy? THE BUSH TRAGEDY - NYT, 2-1-08 Jacob Weisberg: THE BUSH TRAGEDY, First Chapter - NYT, 2-1-08 Ethan Rarick: DESPERATE PASSAGE The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West - NYT, 2-3-08 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore: BOOK REVIEW 'Defying Dixie:' by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore The origins of the U.S. civil rights movement from 1919 to 1950 Defying Dixie The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 - LAT, 2-3-08 Alan Pell Crawford: Thomas Jefferson, Reexamined An account of his later years depicts him as a hypocrite and possibly a swindler TWILIGHT AT MONTICELLO The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson - WaPo, 1-31-08 Jonah Goldberg: Sticks and Stones Who has more affinity with fascism -- liberals or conservatives? LIBERAL FASCISM The Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning - WaPo, 2-3-08 Seth Shulman: Telephone Tag Did a great inventor claim credit for the telephone after peeking at someone else's work? THE TELEPHONE GAMBIT Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret - WaPo, 2-3-08 Hugh Wilford: The spooks who ruled the States Hugh Wilford's masterful study of the CIA, The Mighty Wurlitzer, points up its unparalleled influence on American affairs, says Peter Preston The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America - Guardian UK, 2-3-08 Margaret Tennant: New book traces history of welfare in New Zealand The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840-2005 - Massey University News, 2-4-08 Russell L. Peterson: Scholar argues that late-night comedians, by offering political cynicism instead of satire, foster electoral apathy - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-1-08 Mark E. Neely Jr.: His new book given a blistering review by James McPherson - James McPherson in the NY Review of Books (subscription only), 2-14-08 David Oshinsky: In the Heart of the Heart of Conspiracy Disses the new book on Joe McCarthy - NYT Book Review, 1-27-08
OP-EDS:	History lessons - Herald-Tribune, FL, 2-2-08 NYT Ethicist deals with problem posed by historian - Randy Cohen, The Ethicist, in the NYT Magazine, 2-3-08 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost, says Joseph Epstein in Commentary - Commentary (subscription only), 2-1-08 James Barr: Historian says Lawrence of Arabia invented rape scene to hide his own sexuality - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-1-08
PROFILED:	Howard Zinn: Roasted in New Criterion - New Criterion: Notes & Comments, 2-1-08
FEATURES:	Holly A. Mayer: The Thinkers: Prof says women vital to the birth of America - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1-28-08 Simon Schama: Can he cook? - Mary Beard at Times Online (UK), 1-28-08
INTERVIEWS:	Gregory Wilson: History teacher's specialty is 1968 U of Akron professor concludes America's major issues reached apex that year - Beacon Journal, 2-4-08 Eric Weitz: Historian Says Weimar Republic Holds Potent Lessons for Today - Deutsche Welle, 1-30-08
QUOTED:	Douglas Brinkley told CBS News after the State of the Union speech:"I thought this was a boilerplate speech," presidential historian, It was in many ways the legacy speech." - CBS/AP, 1-29-08 Thomas Sugrue: Law school students need to be taught about history of racism, he says - http://www.michiganlawyer.com/, 2-1-08 Chris Toensing: Troop surge in Iraq not successful, historian says - http://media.www.thetraveleronline.com, 1-30-08 Juan Cole: Historian Says Political Language About Islam Aims to Manipulate Voters - http://www.infozine.com, 1-30-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	Matt Childs: Historian leaves Florida to get around state ban on trips to Cuba - St. Petersburg Times, 1-23-08 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Named Editor of WaPo Online Magazine for Blacks - NYT, 1-28-08
NEW SITES / BLOGS:	Website helps keep citations straight - Inside Higher Ed, 1-31-08
CALENDAR:	Feb. 5, 2008: 6:30 P.M. Jesse J. Holland, a congressional reporter for the Associated Press, presents a lecture,"The Hidden History of Washington, D.C.: The African-American Presence in the Capitol, the White House and the National Mall," drawn from his recent book Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C., at the Cleveland Park Branch Library, Connecticut Ave. & Macomb St. NW, 202-282-3080. - WaPo, 2-3-08 Feb. 6, 2008: Omer Bartov, Distinguished Professor of European History, Brown University, Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (Princeton University Press, 2007), Jewish Heritage Museum - Jewish Heritage Museum Feb. 6, 2008: Holocaust historian and interim director for the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies, Francis R. Nicosia, will lecture on"Hachschara and Haavara: Jewish Sources and Nazi Emigration Policy Before the Final Solution" at the University of Vermont on Wednesday, February 6 at 3 p.m. in John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill - This Week @ UVM, 2-4-08 Feb. 7, 2008: Historian and scholar David Blight will be at Wilton Public Library, CT on Thursday, Feb. 7 to discuss his new book"A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation" (Harcourt, 2007) - Wilton Villager, 1-4-08 Feb. 9, 2008: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois-Chicago professor of history and African-American studies, will give a free presentation on what roles African-Americans played in the railroad industry titled,"Black Railroaders and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement," @ 2 p.m. at the National Railroad Museum's Fuller Hall Theater - Green Bay Press Gazette, 1-20-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	History Listings This Week: History Channel:"Decoding The Past : Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle," Tuesday, February 5, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries," Tuesday, February 5, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries :The Mysteries of Devil's Triangles," Tuesday, February 5, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds :The Pagans," Tuesday, February 5, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Gold Mines," Tuesday, February 5, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"An Alien History of Planet Earth," Wednesday, February 6, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"UFO Files :The Pacific Bermuda Triangle," Wednesday, February 6, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"UFO Files :The Pacific Bermuda Triangle," Wednesday, February 6, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Stalking Jihad," Thursday, February 7, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :Vietnam," Thursday, February 7, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :02 - City of Caves," Thursday, February 7, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Return of the Pirates" Friday, February 8, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries :Secret Plunder: GI Looters" Friday, February 8, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels :Silver Mines," Friday, February 8, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Caligula: Reign of Madness," Friday, February 8, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Band Of Brothers," Marathon Saturday, February 9, @ 2-5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Alaska: Big America," Saturday, February 9, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Little Ice Age: Big Chill," Saturday, February 9, @ 10pm ET/PT C-Span2, BookTV: History A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom Author: David Blight, Saturday, February 9, @ 1& 10pm ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: After Words: Michael Long, editor of"First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson" interviewed by Kevin Merida, associate editor of The Washington Post, Saturday, February 9, @ 9pm ET & Sunday, February 10, @ 9pm ET- C-Span2, BookTV
SELLING BIG (NYT):	Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM #6 -- 3 weeks on list - 2-10-08 Drew Gilpin Faust: THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING #15 -- 1 week on list - 2-10-08 Tom Brokaw: BOOM! #17 2-10-08 Mark Booth: THE SECRET HISTORY OF WORLD #26 - 2-10-08 Jacob Weisberg: THE BUSH TRAGEDY #31 - 2-10-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	Mark Puls: Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution, February 5, 2008. Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography, February 5, 2008. Brian McGinty: Lincoln and the Court, February 15, 2008. Matthew Dennison: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, February 19, 2008 Nick Taylor: American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, February 26, 2008. Howard Taylor: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, February 28, 2008. H. David Stone: Vital Rails, February 28, 2008. John Fea: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America ( U of Pennsylvania Press), February 29, 2008 Joseph Balkoski: From Beachhead to Brittany, March 10, 2008 Susan Nagel: Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, March 18, 2008 James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West (REV), March 24, 2008. Scott McClellan: What Happened, April 28, 2008
DEPARTED:	Margaret Truman Daniel, President’s Daughter and Popular Author, Dies at 83 - NYT, 1-30-08 Jim Zwick: Twain scholar, dead at age 51 - Hartford Courant. 1-30-08 Marius B. Jansen: He's remembered by colleagues and students as the most eminent historian of modern Japan - Japan Times, 1-27-08 David Rattray: One year after he was killed ... still remembered - http://www.iol.co.za, 1-25-08

Posted On:: Monday, February 11, 2008 - 17:18

February 11, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Primary Season Election Results - NYT Historians Join New York Feminists For Peace and Barack Obama - Press Release--New York Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama!, 2-4-08 Richard Bushman on"Romney Bid Was a Crucible for Mormons":"It is prejudice," said Richard Bushman, an emeritus professor at Columbia University, who is a leading historian and devout Mormon."Underlying all these questions is that these beliefs are basically crazy so you've got to explain them to us." - AP, 2-9-08
BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month	BIGGEST STORIES: Black History Month: MID-MICHIGAN EVENTS HONORING BLACK HISTORY MONTH - Lansing State Journal, 2-10-08 It's a White Thing Black Americans made the songs, but not the myth of romantic 'authenticity.' If white tastes and obsessions distorted their music, can we ever hear each other? - Newsweek, 2-18-08 Ibrahim Sundiata: Be proud, don't invent history - Brandeis Hoot, 2-8-08 San Jose Valley's black history uncovered by unlikely SJSU scholar - Mercury News, 2-8-08 Carter G. Woodson: This year's celebration of black history month focuses on his role in creating black history month - www.hattiesburgamerican.com, 2-5-08 Feb. 29, 2008: A historian, educator and author will present a plenary address at the fifth annual Midwest Black History Conference on Feb. 29 at Luther College - WCF Courier, IA, 1-30-08 Detroit Black History Events - Dtroit Free Press, 2-3-08 Museum of Black History Celebration events - Evansville Courier Press, 1-10-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article:"Historians for Obama" - 11-26-07 Most Popular Blog Entry: Judith Apter Klinghoffer:"WHO'S FIRST - COUNTRY OR PARTY?" Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer, 2-3-2008 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Ferenc M. Szasz:"Quotes About History" All-Time Favorite:"What Is the Difference Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims--and Why Does It Matter?" 9-9-02
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: 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 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:	IN THE NEWS: Tom Devine, Ted Cowan: WO of Scotland's most eminent history professors are working with the Scottish Government to shape the way children will be taught history in schools - http://news.scotsman.com, 2-8-08 Zinn's 'People's History' to become documentary - The Hollywood Reporter, 2-10-08 JAH Special Issue on Katrina Draws Attention - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-8-08 Col. H.R. McMaster: Says army is slow to adapt to change - NYT, 2-8-08 Historians concerned about death threats against members of a Guatemalan forensic anthropology team - Network of Concerned Historians (NCH), 2-8-08 Historian and human rights activist Lü Gengsong [= Lu Gengsong] sentenced to four years in prison for subversion - Network of Concerned Historians (NCH), 2-8-08 Tariq Ramadan: Calls for Book-Fair Boycotts - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-7-08 Douglas Howard: Joins in criticizing speakers at Air Force Academy who claimed to have once been terrorists - NYT, 2-7-08 Senegalese historian denounces"autocratic trends in Africa" - afriquenligne.fr, 2-5-08 Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez: Long a target of enemy dreams of destruction, Dimona finally tastes real violence - Jerusalem Post, 2-5-08 Constitutional Changes Ratified by AHA Members - AHA Blog, 2-4-08 Historians and Other Scholars Fight Proposed Expansion of IRB Rules - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-4-08 Terry Eagleton: Crucifixion? It wasn't that bad, says professor - Telegraph (UK), 2-4-08 Karen Armstrong: Fate of Pakistan is pivotal - Reuters, 2-3-08 Philip Zelikow: Ties between White House, Sept 11 chief - AP, 2-3-08 Israeli historian, president of college, demands apology from Arab teacher who reprimanded student for wearing Israeli uniform - ynetnews.com, 1-31-08 Drew Gilpin Faust: Business Week misquoted her, she says, igniting controversy - Drew Faust in a letter to the editor of Business Week (followed by editor's clarification), 1-24-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Keith Windschuttle: Stolen Generations report attacked BRINGING Them Home, the landmark report that found indigenous children were systematically taken from their parents to"breed out" Aboriginality, was built on the"misrepresentations and misinterpretations" of professional historians, according to Keith Windschuttle. - news.com.au, 2-9-08 Charles Nicholl: New book opens a window onto Jacobean London and Shakespeare - NYT, 2-8-08 Drew Gilpin Faust: Harvard Leader Drew Faust Breaks New Ground Studying the Past - WaPo, 2-7-08 Charles Freeman: Says Christianity made the West close-minded - Times (UK), 2-3-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Sean Wilentz on Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. - Sean Wilentz in the New Republic (subscribers only), 2-13-08 Stan Katz: Invited to testify about founding fathers' papers - Stan Katz in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 2-8-08 Susan Neiman: Philosopher calls on historians to celebrate the heroes who successfully resisted Hitler - NYT, 2-3-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Walter Johnson: Exploring tangled legacy of slavery Scholar’s goal is understanding both the cruelty and humanity of antebellum period - Harvard University Gazette, 2-7-08 Raymond"Vic" Vickers: Crusading historian Vickers is still battling his detractors - Herald Tribune, 2-10-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Five Best These works capture the hope and turmoil of the post-Civil War period - Wall Street Journal, 2-9-08 Racial heritage of six former presidents is questioned - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2-5-08 Most-Famous Americans According to Today's High School Juniors and Seniors - High schoolers name women, black Americans 'most famous' - USA Today 2-4-08 Chronicle of Higher Education, 2-9-08 A scrapbook of history - poststar.com, 2-10-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Heather Munro Prescott: Author of new history of health centers on campuses discusses their evolution and significance - Interview at Inside Higher Ed, 2-8-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Jay Winter on"The War We ForgotWorld War I has no national monument. No iconic images. And only one soldier is still alive.":"It's all fake. Nobody filmed a single battle," says Jay Winter, a professor of history at Yale University, whose Emmy-winning television documentary"The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century" supplemented newsreels with staged scenes. - Newsweek, 2-10-08 Niall Ferguson on"The War We Forgot World War I has no national monument. No iconic images. And only one soldier is still alive.":"Most of the problems we're grappling with in the Middle East are legacies of the great military binge of 1914–1918," says Niall Ferguson, a revisionist British historian and author of several studies of war. He adds that the British also faced an insurgency when they invaded Baghdad and declared themselves liberators in 1917."The American case in Iraq is one of historical ignorance," he says. - Newsweek, 2-10-08 Michael Beschloss: Says presidents who served in the military helped them be better presidents - Newsweek, 2-2-08 Tristram Hunt: UK students need to be taught history, not pc or patriotic narrative - politics.co.uk, 2-1-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Washington and Lee University's Mark Carey, an Environmental Historian, Wins Leopold-Hidy Prize - Rock Bridge Weekly, 2-8-08 Zeev Sternhell: Wins 2008 Israel Prize - AFP, 2-8-08 Robert Weible: Appointed New York State's chief curator of history - media-newswire, 2-5-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: David W. Blight: Historian's Memphis Visit Presents Complexities of Slavery Emancipation - Memphis Daily News, 2-8-09 Justin McCarthy: Historian tells UF: Armenians didn't die from genocide during WWI - Gainesville Sun, 2-8-09
EXHIBITs:	EXHIBITs: Following money trail of early history of Texas Exhibit puts unique spin on story of republic - Houston Chronicle, 2-6-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: Feb. 12, 2008: Peter S. Carmichael, the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University, will speak at the Cultural Center at the State Capitol on Tuesday evening - Charleston Gazette, 2-10-08 Historians and scholars from the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, Belgium, Sweden and Spain will gather on the Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus on Friday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, Feb. 16, for an academic symposium marking 100 years of boy and girl Scouting around the world and exploring in depth Scouting's impact on world youth and culture. - AScribe Newswire, 2-7-08 Feb. 28, 2008: Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard University will speak at Arkansas State University on Feb. 28. Gates will present a lecture —"Bridging the Digital Divide: W. E. B. DuBois and the Encarta Americana" — at 7 p.m. in Centennial Hall, Reng Student Services Center / Student Union, 101 N. Caraway Road, in Jonesboro. - Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 2-10-08 May-September 2008: Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Deborah A. Lee, Lectures Showcase Leesburg's History for 250th Anniversary - WaPo, 1-18-08 David Zabecki: Hooks up with Stephen Ambrose Tours / Zabecki will lead the 14-day tour to visit historic World War II sites in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Berlin from May 16-30, 2008.- Press Release--Stephen Ambrose Tours, 1-10-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week C-Span2, BookTV: History A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom Author: David Blight, Saturday, February 9, @ 1& 10pm ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: After Words: Michael Long, editor of"First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson" interviewed by Kevin Merida, associate editor of The Washington Post, Saturday, February 9, @ 9pm ET & Sunday, February 10, @ 9pm ET- C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"The True Story of Killing Pablo," Monday, February 11, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld :A-Bomb Underground," Monday, February 11, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Inside the Volcano," Tuesday, February 12, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Disasters :New York Earthquake," Tuesday, February 12, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters," Wednesday, February 13, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives :Custer at Little Big Horn," Wednesday, February 13, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Sherman's March," Thursday, February 14, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," Thursday, February 14, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Little Ice Age: Big Chill," Friday, February 15, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Wrath Of God :Blizzards: Whiteout!" Friday, February 15, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld," Marathon Saturday, February 16, @ 2-5pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jonah Goldberg: LIBERAL FASCISM #6 -- 4 weeks on list - 2-17-08 Drew Gilpin Faust: THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING #7 -- 2 weeks on list - 2-17-08 Jacob Weisberg: THE BUSH TRAGEDY #19 - 2-17-08 Tom Brokaw: BOOM! #22 2-17-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Brian McGinty: Lincoln and the Court, February 15, 2008. Matthew Dennison: The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, February 19, 2008 Nick Taylor: American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, February 26, 2008. Howard Taylor: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, February 28, 2008. H. David Stone: Vital Rails, February 28, 2008. John Fea: The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America ( U of Pennsylvania Press), February 29, 2008 Joseph Balkoski: From Beachhead to Brittany, March 10, 2008 Susan Nagel: Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, March 18, 2008 James Donovan: A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West (REV), March 24, 2008. Scott McClellan: What Happened, April 28, 2008

Posted On:: Monday, February 11, 2008 - 17:06

SUPER TUESDAY SPECIAL: Historians' Comments

SUPER TUESDAY SPECIAL: Historians' Comments

Stats

Primary Season Election Results - NYT

Democrats # of Delegates

Hillary Clinton 845

Barack Obama 765

Republicans # of Delegates

John McCain 613

Mitt Romney 269

Mike Huckabee 190

Historians' Comments

Allan J. Lichtman on"Democrat battle continues as GOP leader emerges" (Video) - CTV, Canada AM, 2-6-08

Gil Troy on"Democrat battle continues as GOP leader emerges" (Video) - CTV, Canada AM, 2-6-08

Allan J. Lichtman:"McCain has won the nomination, but he has not yet won the love of conservatives," Allan J. Lichtman, a presidential historian at American University, told Canada AM on Wednesday."That was clearly indicated by Huckabee's surprising strength in the South ... and Romney's strength in the West. John McCain has a lot of work to do to knit this party together." Powerful conservative voices like talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson of Focus on the Family"have been vitriolic in their denunciations of McCain," Lichtman said.
"It just shows how little endorsements count for in American politics," Lichtman said."It shows a lot of working-class people in Massachusetts thought Hillary Clinton had a better plan for their future than Barack Obama." In Georgia, eight of 10 African-Americans supported Obama, he said.
Lichtman said the battle among the Democratic heavyweights goes on -- and could continue for months."This is trench warfare," he declared."Remember, the Democrats don't have winner-take-all primaries, so it's going to be very difficult to break this logjam." Ultimately, the race could conceivably come down to who the approximately 800"super delegates" -- elected politicians and party officials -- decide to support, he said. There could also be a fight over whether to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida. Those delegates were disqualified when the states moved up their primaries without permission, Lichtman said."It's absolutely unpredictable, and both Obama and Clinton have their very enthusiastic supporters. Both have a very strong claim on being powerful candidates."
Whatever happens, Lichtman said this election could be historic, and not just because a black man or white woman could become president."This is a turning-point election. This is the end of the Bush era, and it could be the end of the conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan," he said. - CTV, Canada AM, 2-6-08

Doug Wead: Huckabee Rises - News Max, 2-6-08

Julian Zelizer on"Romney's White House bid in doubt after losses":"He can't be the conservative candidate of the Republican Party and not win in any big states. It's hard to see why he would go on for too much longer." - Reuters, 2-6-08

Julian Zelizer:"Once again, Hillary Clinton has held her ground and scored important wins. This one will go down to the wire." - Bloomberg, 2-6-08

William Jelani Cobb on"Huckabee pulls off Georgia win; Obama trounces Clinton":"What we're seeing is a groundswell of support and a number of people willing to break with the old traditions," said , a history professor at Spelman College and an Obama supporter. - AP, 2-6-08

Brooks Simpson:"He will represent himself as a very powerful and informed person when it comes to foreign policy. I don't think that's any secret," said Brooks Simpson, an Arizona State University history professor, who has studied and written on the presidency. McCain will let voters know he is comfortable and determined to exercise American forces abroad, but in a manner starkly different from the current administration."He would make it very clear that the way the United States would conduct itself in international affairs, especially military operations, would reflect American values. That's one of the keys to his positions on torture, for example," Simpson said. - East Valley Tribune, AZ, 2-6-08

Allan Lichtman:"These Democratic contests were fought almost to a dead heat. Neither Obama nor Clinton emerged tonight with the sort of decisive lead that puts pressure on one another to withdraw or prompts the Democratic establishment to tell one of them to get out." - Red Orbit, TX, 2-6-08

Historians Reflect on Super Tuesday's Evolving Role The American presidential nomination process has taken many twists and turns in the nation's history, and this year's prominence of the Feb. 5 voting contests represents its latest turn. Historians discuss Super Tuesday's origins and its implications for the presidency. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, Presidential Historian: Well, by the 1980s, Democrats were worried that there weren't enough things that represented African-Americans in the process, so they thought one way of doing this is to have a Super Tuesday with a lot of southern states, black voters within the Democratic Party. But the other impulse was very different. The Democratic establishment worried that these Democratic nominations were going to insurgents like George McGovern, Jimmy Carter. So why not have a big Super Tuesday with a lot of states on one day that would favor someone who was well-financed, nationally known, well-organized? Of course, it hasn't always worked out that way....
Absolutely, and so as a way of sort of getting some geographical balance in the process. But, you know, the irony is that things don't always turn out the way that you expect them to. And looking at it this year, this was something that was almost perfectly designed for a Hillary Clinton, assuming that no one could raise money or organize on the scale that she has been able to do. Of course, that was forgetting the possibility that you could have a Barack Obama. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

RICHARD NORTON SMITH: If you look at 1988, which most people regard as the first Super Tuesday, he's absolutely right. The desire was to include not only African-Americans, but also white southerners at a time -- remember, Ronald Reagan's popularity was at its peak. The Democrats have lost two elections, so offset, dilute the sort of liberal leanings of the early states. So who did they nominate that year? Who won on Super Tuesday? Michael Dukakis. On the other hand, four years later, it worked perfectly. We forget today that Bill Clinton really didn't compete in Iowa, and he came in second in New Hampshire. And yet he really recovered on Super Tuesday. And that really was the making of his candidacy. So whatever you expect as a result of careful, calibrated reasoning, the odds are you may very well get the opposite....
In '88, that's a good point, because Dole had come roaring out of Iowa. For about four days, he thought he was going to be president of the United States, lost in New Hampshire and then, of course, went on to Super Tuesday. And that's where the first George Bush nailed it down. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS: Because they make money off the process. So, therefore, if you've got something like Super Tuesday, with 22, 24 states, that's basically TV, money spent on TV, organization, all sorts of other things. Consultants, professional politicians benefit from that. And the downside of this is that when you have essentially sort of a semi-national primary, you're screening out almost anyone who cannot raise $100 million before the election year. That may not be the best thing for choosing a president. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

BEVERLY GAGE: Well, the thing about the primary system is that nobody actually set out and said,"OK, let's design a system that's going to be totally rational. And we're going to, you know, sit down, figure this all out ahead of time." It sort of gets cobbled together each time. And so what you've seen more and more is this race for influence, the push by different states, right? You have Iowa and New Hampshire. Southern states feel left out. They make their move, as they did in the 1980s, to have some more influence. Then you see,"OK, well, why should the big states be left out?" Big states make their move to come in, as well. And then what happens to our regional diversity? So western states and others come in, as well. And so I think you've got really a competitive process at work that is almost impossible to stop in its tracks unless, you know, there's a convention and the process itself is changed almost from the top down. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

RICHARD NORTON SMITH: One prediction, and that is I don't know whether people will take a second look at Super Tuesday after this. One thing I suspect the Democrats may take a look at, though, is proportional representation, which is another reform they wrote into the books in the 1970s and, up until now, it's worked. It's never burned them. But because of the fact that you can get 40 percent of the vote, 41 percent, I guess, in most states, and get a significant number of delegates, that tends to prolong the campaign and with all the divisiveness and everything else that this whole system was set up to eliminate. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

RICHARD NORTON SMITH: You go back to 1968, when they had this tumultuous convention on national television, and the party tore itself apart. And coming out of the '60s when the country tore itself apart, a whole lot of people were brought in from the margins, people who'd been left out of the political process. And so the McGovern Commission was created so that the rules were rewritten to make the Democratic process democratic, to make it more representative, more inclusive, and ultimately a certain element of chaos. - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, 2-5-08

McGill University professor Gil Troy told Newsnet that the polls find Obama to be surging,"but the polls have been consistently wrong in this campaign, so you have to be careful about that." Today, Clinton has a bare lead in California and New Jersey, where she had double-digit leads only two weeks ago, he said. Troy said he'll be particularly interested in California's results and how the two candidates do with the important Hispanic community. - CTV, 2-5-08

Some"Super Tuesday" thoughts from a Gerald Gamm, Associate Professor of Political Science and History. - 13WHAM-TV, NY, 2-5-08

Stephen Wayne: Super Tuesday: Voters Head to Polls in Biggest-Ever One-Day White House Nominating Contest - Democracy Now, 2-5-08

Linda Gordon on"US voter faces race-gender dilemma":"It is terribly difficult still in the US and in most countries for a Woman to be a political leader. In the public eye she has to be strong and at the same time not unfeminine to the conservative. Hillary has done extremely well walking that tightrope." - NDTV.com, India, 2-5-08

Alan Epstein, a historian and the vice president of Democrats Abroad in Rome said he was expecting a high turnout (Democrats Outside U.S. Savor New Political Clout):"I'm seeing tremendous excitement. So far we've seen unprecedented primary participation in the U.S. and there's even more excitement here." He said the reaction was understandable:"Americans who live abroad feel the sting of U.S. policies that have been viewed unfavorably in the rest of the world." - RedOrbit, TX, 2-5-08

Historian Allan Lichtman says, Super Tuesday can make or break a candidate's campaign, as they're fighting battles from coast to coast of the country:"You need a lot of money to compete on Super Tuesday, you can't campaign personally in 22 states and you have a real strong on the ground operation all over the country. It makes it real challenging, particularly on the democratic side, where we have such a hard-fought, closely contested campaign." - Euro News, 2-5-08

Presidential historian Allan Lichtman said:"This is the most exciting Super Tuesday, certainly on the Democratic side. Rarely do you have two candidates, so strong, so different, so evenly matched, and with the outcome uncertain." - WWAY TV3, ABC, 2-4-08

Julian E. Zelizer: Sure, an ex-senator would take hard-won alliances and friendships with him or her to the White House, points out Julian E. Zelizer, congressional historian at Princeton. But so too would he or she take built-up animosities. McCain and Clinton in particular should not expect a honeymoon."The personal back-and-forth would start right away," Zelizer said."I think senators would be very comfortable testing these people in the White House." - Kasas City Star, 2-4-08

On Super Tuesday, Presidential Candidates Aim for a Huge Prize Twenty-four states will be awarding delegates toward the Democratic and Republican nominations. A look at the campaign, the candidates and the system - VOA, 2-3-08

Posted On:: Thursday, February 7, 2008 - 19:05

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