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November 2008 Roundup

HISTORY BUZZ:

US POLITICS:	POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS: This Week's Political Highlights
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: 45TH ANNIVERSARY KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: Michael Smith"Can Obama eclipse Kennedy legacy? The anniversary of JFK assassination takes on fresh meaning as new era dawns":"This year is different, and seemingly for good,'' says Purdue University history professor Michael Smith."America may have a truer successor to the Kennedy legacy, meaning that maybe we can once and for all give up some of our national obsession with who else besides Lee Harvey Oswald might have murdered president Kennedy and focus instead on the best, not the worst, of the early 1960s.""Our generation and our parents' generation remember that day so well because of the shock of total news coverage for four days in a row," he said."We are, largely, the audience and market still reading and watching and listening for the echoes of that day, a strange nostalgia." - Toronto Star, 11-22-08 Douglas Brinkley:"Can Obama eclipse Kennedy legacy? The anniversary of JFK assassination takes on fresh meaning as new era dawns": "The Kennedys are in the air," says author and historian Douglas Brinkley."Their mystique is still with us.""It remains the great American murder mystery," says Brinkley, whose forthcoming book"The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and The Crusade For America," focuses on another American hero."Nobody really knows what really happened beyond Lee Harvey Oswald."A lot of history we can now shut down. We even know who Deep Throat is."But this remains the great whodunit." Michael G. Smith:"On 45th Anniversary of JFK Assassination, Lingering Conspiracies Tarnish History, Professor Says": "Historians have pretty much ignored the assassination as a historical event, and they need to weigh in against the excesses of conspiracy theory as false history," says Michael G. Smith, an associate professor of history who will teach a spring semester course on the Kennedy assassination."We need to begin to respect the dead rather than distort their memory." "It might take a new generation of scholars, those born after the 'Baby Boom,' who did not live through the event and who do not have a personal or political stake in President Kennedy's loss, to come to grips with his assassination. We need to mark it as a simple crime, a murder solved and closed, as well as understand it as a complex event that has been manipulated and misread.""There are more than a thousand major books and articles devoted to the Kennedy assassination, but hardly any of them are by history professors," Smith says."High school and college history textbooks, for many years, entertained some of the leading conspiracy theories, and still flirt with them today, oddly enough. My profession has forfeited its responsibility, but this is an opportunity to change that." - Newswire Ascribe, 11-19-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: U.S. Census Bureau issues Facts for Features in observance of Black (African-American) History Month: February 2009 To commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week. The first celebration occurred on Feb. 12, 1926. For many years, the second week of February was set aside for this celebration to coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist/editor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, as part of the nation's bicentennial, the week was expanded into Black History Month. Each year, U. S. presidents proclaim February as National African-American History Month. - IBI Times, 12-2-08 Frank de la Teja: A different take on the first Thanksgiving: Many Texans, however, prefer to claim that El Paso held the first Thanksgiving 23 years earlier. That's when Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate arrived with about 600 people at El Paso del Norte after a harrowing trek across the northern Mexican desert and a successful crossing of the Rio Grande. - Dallas News, 11-22-08
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 04/12/1619 - America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va) 04/12/1816 - James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King 04/12/1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila 04/12/1836 - Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa 04/12/1844 - James K Polk elected 11th president of US 04/12/1851 - Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France 04/12/1918 - Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office 04/12/1943 - -Dec 6] 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish pres Inonu 04/12/1981 - Pres Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence, Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) 04/12/1985 - Pres Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser 05/12/1349 - 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots 05/12/1792 - George Washington re-elected US pres 05/12/1804 - Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres 05/12/1831 - Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps 05/12/1832 - Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US 05/12/1837 - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada 05/12/1955 - Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks 06/12/1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected 06/12/1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland 06/12/1862 - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians 06/12/1865 - 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery 06/12/1876 - US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won) 06/12/1877 - Washington Post publishes 1st edition 06/12/1904 - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) 06/12/1923 - 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge) 06/12/1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew 07/12/1808 - James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres 07/12/1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president 07/12/1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I 07/12/1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) 07/12/1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting 07/12/1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC, Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Conrad Bladey: Historian proposes toast for Linthicum: J. Charles Linthicum's family provided the name of the Anne Arundel County community, and he did his hometown proud, serving in Congress from 1911 until his death in 1932. The Democrat is best remembered for his role in the adoption of"The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem. But he made a possibly more significant contribution to American history, according to a local historian: paving the way for the repeal of Prohibition. - - AP, 11-29-08 In American Heritage Magazine North and South Clash Again: James M. McPherson, a history professor at Princeton and author of"Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief," said that many saw the Confederate flag as an incendiary symbol of slavery and that he would have protested the ad had he been aware of it before publication. Eric Foner, a Columbia University professor and fellow essayist in the Lincoln issue, said he thought that the ad was more incongruous than illicit."The Confederate flag is insulting to a great number of Americans, not just African-Americans, but it is legal," he said. - NYT, 11-30-08 Bernard Lugan: French historian, threatens to walk away from Rwandan court where he's an expert witness - http://allafrica.com, 11-27-08 Middle-East Scholars Hear of Academic Repression in Iraq and Iran - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 11-24-08 History Employment — Public and Private - Inside Higher Ed, 11-21-08 Conrad Black: Seeking clemency from President Bush - CBC News, 11-20-08 Richard L. McCormick: Rutgers' McCormick on the hot seat - Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 11-20-08 Joel Beinin creates a skirmish over academic freedom - Willamette Week, 11-19-08 Muhammad Sven Kalisch: Professor Hired for Outreach to Muslims Delivers a Jolt - WSJ, 11-15-08 Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore: Historians turn to writing a novel Boston Globe, 11-16-08
QUOTES:	QUOTES: Phillip Kay"Historian says Romans faced credit crunch":"The essential similarity between what happened 21 centuries ago and what is happening in today's U.K. economy is that a massive increase in monetary liquidity culminated with problems in another country causing a credit crisis at home." - UPI, 11-28-08 Jan Shipps: Renowned historian speaks about LDS Church PR problems ABC4 (SLC, Utah), 11-18-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Juan Cole: State Universities versus State Prisons - Informed Comment (Blog run by Juan Cole), 12-4-08 Julian Zelizer: Why Obama's picks will make Bill Clinton smile - CNN, 12-1-08 Jonathan Zimmerman: A New Face for Change - Philadelphia Inquirer, 12-1-08 Donald Ritchie: Why Does the Transition Take So Long? - Oxford University Press blog, 12-2-08 Robert Hormats & David Kennedy: Economic policy and foreign policy are not two distinct domains - NYT Editorial, 11-29-08
REVIEWS:	REVIEWS: Gordon M. Goldstein: 'The Doves Were Right':LESSONS IN DISASTER McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam - NYT, 11-30-08 Susan Pinkard: The Sophisticated Table: A REVOLUTION IN TASTE The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 - N"YT, 11-30-08 Robert J. Samuelson: Cycles of DoomTHE GREAT INFLATION AND ITS AFTERMATH The Past and Future of American Affluence - NYT, 11-30-08 Sarah Vowell: Mayflower Power THE WORDY SHIPMATES - NYT, 11-30-08 Philip Jenkins: Historian explores Christianity's lost age, land The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and How It Died Reuters, 12-1-08 Alan Wolfe on Thomas J. Sugrue: Uncommon Ground: SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North - NYT, 11-9-08 Thomas J. Sugrue:SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, First Chapter - NYT, 11-9-08 Thomas J. Sugrue: The other battlefield The struggle for civil rights in the North, often overshadowed, gets a comprehensive review SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North - Boston Globe, 11-30-08 Gordon M. Goldstein: 'The Doves Were Right' - LESSONS IN DISASTER McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam - NYT, 11-28-08 WaPo, 11-26-08 James McPherson: Looking at Lincoln Through a Prism of War - NYT, 11-21-08
BEST SELLERS:	BEST SELLERS (NYT): Jon Meacham: AMERICAN LION #4 -- (2 weeks on list) - 12-7-08 THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF BARACK OBAMA, by the editors of Life magazine. #13 -- (3 weeks on list) - 12-7-08 Niall Ferguson: THE ASCENT OF MONEY #19 12-7-08 Pete Souza: THE RISE OF BARACK OBAMA #27 12-7-08 James M. McPherson: TRIED BY WAR #29 12-7-08 Doris Kearns Goodwin: TEAM OF RIVALS #32 - 12-7-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Juan Cole: Historian joining a high profile group in backing a new approach to Iran - Juan Cole at his blog, Informed Comment, 11-20-08
PROFILES:	PROFILES: Garry Wills: Profiled, praised as America's leading presidential historian - John Allen, Jr. at the website of the National Catholic Reporter, 11-28-08 Budding historian (age 10!) could be TV presenter of the future (UK) - http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk, 12-1-08 Thomas Spencer:"Professor digs deep to uncover Missouri's past" - St. Joseph News-Press, 11-20-08
INTER VIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Yury Borisyonok"A Historian's Thankless Work": For the past twenty years, the staff of the Rodina Magazine, an illustrated history journal, has been dissecting archived historical materials for fragments of the truth to bring into the public domain. - Russia Profile, 11-30-08 Niall Ferguson's study of the financial history of the world made him prescient about today:"Many professional historians would say that I have no business talking about the present or even the recent past, much less the future. I don't really understand what the point of that self-denial ordinance is because if historians can't illuminate the future, I don't know who can. There's all sorts of bogus futurology out there, but in my experience most of what people say about the future is implicitly based on some understanding of the past. My caveat is simple: There is no such thing as the future, singular. There are futures, plural. And the historian is quite well-placed to offer plausible scenarios based on past analogies." - http://www.thestar.com, 11-23-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr."Obama as Hoover: The Importance of Storytelling": As the Obama era takes shape, the roles of both Schlesinger and Michelson deserve attention. Particularly as Americans are seeing newsmagazines with cover stories comparing the President-elect who campaigned on a dour vision of scarcity with Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, a considerable leap to understate. - American Spectator, 12-2-08 The focus is on Samuel de Champlain - Burlington Free Press, 12-1-08 Gordon S. Wood"The Housing-Bubble and the American Revolution": Gordon S. Wood, a professor at Brown University and perhaps the pre-eminent living historian on the subject, counters:"There was a great deal of instability, but that is hardly an explanation for the Revolution. I don't think you can make a strong argument for an economic interpretation of the Revolution." - NYT, 11-30-08 What if Hitler had a love child? Historian A.N. Wilson's"Winnie and Wolf" is a chilling fictional tale of a clandestine affair. - Salon, 11-26-08
HONORS:	HONORS &APPOINTED: Peter Brown: Historian selected to share $1 million Kluge Prize - http://www.princeton.edu, 12-3-08 Stuart B. Schwartz"Yale history prof wins inaugural McGill award": Schwartz receives $75,000. Largest prize of its kind in the world - Montreal Gazette, 11-26-08 Gabor S. Borritt, Richard Brookhiser and Harold Holzer: President Bush Awards 2008 Humanities Medals to 3 historians - Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH), 11-20-08 Harold Holzer: Wins National Humanities Medal for 2008 - Robert Messenger at the website of the NEH, 11-17-08 Gabor Boritt: wins National Humanities Medal for 2008 - Esther Ferington at the website of the NEH, 11-17-08 Annette Gordon-Reed: Hemings Saga Wins National Book Prize - WaPo, 11-20-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Cambridge conference investigates the fate of heritage in the wake of war - http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk, 11-25-08
NEW ON THE WEB:	New Web Sites: West Point Oral-History Project Will Make Soldiers' Stories Available Online - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 12-3-08
EVENTS:	EVENTS: April 3-4, 2009:The Obama Phenomenon: Race and Political Discourse in the United States Today, University of Memphis
ON TV:	ON TV: Lincoln Symposium to air on C-SPAN: On Saturday, December 6th at 8 p.m., selections from"Lincoln in His Time and Ours," a symposium held on November 22nd at Columbia University, will air on C-SPAN. - Gilder Lehrman Institute, 12-4-08 History Channel:"Last Stand of The 300," Friday, December 5, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Barbarians: Goths," Friday, December 5, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Surviving History: 07 - Surviving History," Friday, December 5, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Weapons of Mass Destruction," Friday, December 5, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Shadow Force: Ghost Ship," Friday, December 5, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Next Nostradamus," Saturday, December 6, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," Saturday, December 6, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"01 - The Wehrmacht: 01 - Attack on Europe," Sunday, December 7, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"02 - The Wehrmacht: 02 - The Turning Point," Sunday, December 7, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"03 - The Wehrmacht: 03 - The Crimes," Sunday, December 7, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"04 - The Wehrmacht: 04 - Resistance," Sunday, December 7, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"05 - The Wehrmacht: 05 - To the Bitter End," Sunday, December 7, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"70's Fever," Sunday, December 7, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"History Rocks: The '70s, Part 1," Sunday, December 7, @ 10pm ET/PT
COMING SOON BOOKS:	COMING SOON BOOKS: Scout Tufankjian: Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History Making Presidential Campaign, December 1, 2008 Gary May: John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845, December 9, 2008 Jonathan Brent: Inside the Stalin Archives, December 9, 2008 Time Magazine: Time President Obama: The Path to the White House, December 16, 2008 George S. McGovern: Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865, December 23, 2008 Rudy Tomedi: General Matthew Ridgway, December 30, 2008 Anthony S. Pitch: "They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance, December 30, 2008 William E. Leuchtenburg: Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933 (REV), January 6, 2009 James J. Sheehan: Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe, January 13, 2009 Gwen Ifill: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, January 20, 2009 Daniel Mark Epstein: Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries, January 27, 2009
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: John North has died ...: Historian of science who made spectacular raids into archaeology, art and literature - Independent (UK), 11-24-08 James Heitzman has died - http://www.thehindu.com, 11-23-08

Posted On:: Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 09:03

November 10 & 17, 2008

HISTORY BUZZ:

US POLITICS:	POLITICAL HIGHLIGHTS: This Week's Political Highlights
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 11-10-1954 - Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington 11-10-1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened 11-11-1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws) 11-11-1918 - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front) 11-11-1938 - Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David 11-12-1998 - Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. 11-13-1789 - Ben Franklin writes"Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes" 11-13-1956 - Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 11-13-1986 - US president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran 11-14-1906 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country (Panama) 11-14-1968 -"National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning 11-15-1763 - Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland 11-15-1777 - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress 11-15-1864 - Union Major General William T. Sherman burns Atlanta 11-15-1969 - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War 11-16-1973 - President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline 11-17-1800 - John Adams is the 1st president to move into the White House 11-17-1800 - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building 11-17-1973 - President Richard Nixon tells AP"...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook" 11-18-1805 - Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent 11-18-1961 - JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam 11-19-1861 - Julia Ward Howe committed"Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper 11-19-1863 - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg;"4 score and 7 years..." 11-19-1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Allan Macinnes: BBC hit by row over 'History of Scotland' Advisers on landmark new television series quit in protest against its 'anglocentric bias' - Independent, UK, 11-13-08 TOM WHEELER: Will oversee science, technology, space and arts for the Obama transition - AP, 11-12-08 Uzbekistan historian harassed and intimidated - Network of Concerned Historians, 11-12-08 ROM's Dead Sea Scrolls: 2000 years old, always controversial - National Post, Canada, 11-12-08 CHNM Releases Omeka -- web publishing platform - Press Release--Center for History & New Media, 11-11-08 Glyn Harper: WWI historian backs Keating on Gallipoli stance - ABC News, AU, 11-11-08 George Mason U. Responds to Citation Software Lawsuit - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 11-5-08
QUOTES:	QUOTES: Andrew Roberts: "Prince Charles turns 60 waiting for throne":"It can't be easy. Most of us can look forward to our new jobs, but the circumstances under which her reign comes to an end means that he can't, emotionally and psychologically.... AP, 11-13-08 Robert Lacey"Milestone for a prince whose life has been a waiting game":"I think he is finally coasting home, perhaps coming to the realisation that he will never be king or, if he does, he'll be like one of those elderly leaders at the end of the Soviet era - a sort of royal Andropov, with only a few years. His significance will lie in what he has accomplished as Prince and what he does to get the next king ready." - Guardian, UK, 11-13-08 Eric Hobsbawm: Global financial crisis is the"end of the era" for capitalism:"The present crisis is certainly the end of the era in the development of the global capitalist economy." - http://money.uk.msn.com, 11-3-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Timothy Garton Ash: Obama must show the way to a goal set by Russell, Einstein - and Reagan - Guardian (UK), 11-13-08 Alonzo Hamby: Why liberals now call themselves progressives Conservativenet, 11-12-08 Max Holland & Kenneth R. Scearce: 11 Seconds in Dallas Redux ... Filmed Evidence - WashingtonDecoded (website run by Max Holland), 11-11-08 Julian Zelizer: What Obama should do with Biden CNN, 11-10-08 Beverly Gage: Do Rookies Make Good Presidents? - Time Magazine, 11-5-08
REVIEWS:	REVIEWS: Jack Fischel on Samuel S. Kassow: Forget us not: memorializing the Warsaw Ghetto: Who Will Write Our History? Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, The Warsaw Ghetto and The Oyneg Shabes Archive - NJ Jewish News, 11-13-08 Jon Meacham: Elites and Rivals, Beware: He’s Tough as Old Hickory - AMERICAN LION Andrew Jackson in the White House NYT, 11-9-08 Thomas J. Sugrue: Uncommon Ground SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North - NYT, 11-9-08 Thomas J. Sugrue:SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, First Chapter - NYT, 11-9-08 Peter Ackroyd: Troubled Water THAMES The Biography - NYT, 11-9-08 Carlo D'Este: An Officer and a Bulldog WARLORD A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 - NYT, 11-9-08 Tricia Starks: University of Arkansas Historian Publishes Book on Soviet Health and Hygiene - University of Arkansas Daily Headlines, AR, 11-13-08 The new book, Wartime Courage, confirms that the British PM's dogged desire to keep his old craft skills as a historian alive - Independent (UK), 11-7-08 Douglas Brinkley on Jon Meacham, David S. Reynolds, Robert V. Remini: HISTORY The Warrior President Andrew Jackson fought the British, the Indians and the bankers. AMERICAN LION Andrew Jackson in the White House, WAKING GIANT America in the Age of Jackson, ANDREW JACKSON - WaPo, 11-2-08 H.W. Brands: HISTORY Overcoming Privilege Polio crippled FDR physically but strengthened him morally TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt WaPo, 11-2-08 Fred Kaplan: Jonathan Yardley on 'Lincoln' The Literary Preparation of a Great President LINCOLN The Biography of a Writer - WaPo, 11-2-08 James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds: HISTORY \| BIOGRAPHY Commander-in-Chief How Lincoln learned the art of war. TRIED BY WAR Abraham Lincoln as Commander In Chief, LINCOLN AND HIS ADMIRALS Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War - WaPo, 11-2-08 Harold Holzer: The Travails of Lincoln's Transition LINCOLN PRESIDENT-ELECT Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 - WaPo, 11-2-08
BEST SELLERS:	BEST SELLERS (NYT): James M. McPherson: TRIED BY WAR #15 -- (4 weeks on list) - 11-16-08 Andrew Bacevich: THE LIMITS OF POWER #23 - 11-16-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Rick Beard, Lincoln Library director, on paid leave after 2nd arrest for shoplifting - Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 11-7-08
INTER VIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Interview: Elizabeth Perry of Harvard University is the outgoing president of the Association for Asian Studies China Beat, 11-11-08 Harold Holzer & James McPherson ask: WWLD? (What would Lincoln Do?) - Chicago Tribune, 11-9-08 Andrew Doyle: 2-minute Tuesday: Andrew Doyle, Associate professor of history at Winthrop University - Herald Online, 11-4-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: U.S. history a hot topic for publishers - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11-11-08 James Gregory"UW project sheds light on Klan history":"People in Washington state really have not known about the strength or impact of the KKK here during the 1920s. Historians focus on the Klan as a powerful force in places like Oregon, in Midwest states and of course in the South. But the Klan had tens of thousands of members right here in Washington." - Bellingham Herald, WA, 11-13-08
HONORS:	HONORS &APPOINTED: Charles Postel: Awarded the President's Award for Research and Creative Activity for book on Populists - StateHornet.com, CA, 11-12-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: W. Fitzhugh Brundage: UNC professor speaks on South's differing racial perceptions: "It seems especially relevant in the aftermath of the election...and the way in which many Southerners voted.... These struggles...draw our attention to the profound transformation at work in the contemporary South... Southerners can no longer assume that their version of the past will be promoted in public places.... We could turn to an era where the culture wars become extremely political." - Tennessee Journalist, TN, 11-12-08
EVENTS:	EVENTS: November 15, 2008: FDR-Obama Comparison Is Theme of Columbia Conference"Restoring America Through a New New Deal: Policy Priorities for the First 100 Days" - Press Release, 11-11-08 November 18, 2008: HOWARD ZINN, At Back Pages Books - Back Pages Books, 289 Moody St., presents a post-election State of the Union discussion with acclaimed historian, professor, and activist Howard Zinn, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. Zinn is the author of"The People's History of the United States of America" and the recently published graphic work"The People's History of the American Empire." Cost is $12. - Daily News Tribune, 11-13-08 April 3-4, 2009:The Obama Phenomenon: Race and Political Discourse in the United States Today, University of Memphis
ON TV:	ON TV: PBS, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Oswald's Ghost - Monday, November 17 at 9pm on PBS -- American Experience Mondays at 9pm on PBS (check local listings.) History Channel:"The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth," Friday, November 14, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives: The Civil War: Antietam," Friday, November 14, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Horrors at Andersonville Prison: The Trial of Henry Wirz," Friday, November 14, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Battlefield Detectives: The Civil War: Gettysburg," Friday, November 14, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Civil War Tech," Friday, November 14, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Antichrist," Saturday, November 15, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon," Saturday, November 15, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Quest for the Lost Ark," Sunday, November 16, @ 3pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hell: The Devil's Domain," Monday, November 17, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries: Hell's Angels," Monday, November 17, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Einstein," Monday, November 17, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Violent Earth: Nature's Fury: New England's Killer Hurricane," Tuesday, November 18, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Wrath Of God: Buffalo Blizzard: Seige and Survival," Tuesday, November 18, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem," Wednesday, November 19, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Organized Crime: A World History: Colombia," Wednesday, November 19, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"The True Story of Charlie Wilson," Thursday, November 20, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Stalking Jihad," Thursday, November 20, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries: Ship of Gold," Thursday, November 20, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: Secret Sin City," Thursday, November 20, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Street Gangs: A Secret History," Saturday, November 22, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy," Saturday, November 22, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Kennedys: The Curse of Power," Saturday, November 22, @ 8pm ET/PT
COMING SOON BOOKS:	COMING SOON BOOKS: Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008 Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, November 11, 2008 Michael Burlingame: Abraham Lincoln: A Life, November 14, 2008 Peter W. Kunhardt: Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon, November 18, 2008 Scout Tufankjian: Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History Making Presidential Campaign, December 1, 2008 Gary May: John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845, December 9, 2008 Jonathan Brent: Inside the Stalin Archives, December 9, 2008 Time Magazine: Time President Obama: The Path to the White House, December 16, 2008 George S. McGovern: Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865, December 23, 2008 Rudy Tomedi: General Matthew Ridgway, December 30, 2008 Anthony S. Pitch: "They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance, December 30, 2008 William E. Leuchtenburg: Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933 (REV), January 6, 2009 James J. Sheehan: Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe, January 13, 2009 Gwen Ifill: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, January 20, 2009 Daniel Mark Epstein: Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries, January 27, 2009
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Studs Terkel's Legacy: A Vivid Window on the Great Depression - NYT, 11-8-08

Posted On:: Friday, November 14, 2008 - 04:30

September 8, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights Republican Convention Roundup Republican Convention Day 4: September 4, 2008 Republican Convention Day 3: September 3, 2008 Republican Convention Day 2: September 2, 2008 Republican Convention Day 1: September 1, 2008 Democratic Convention Roundup Democratic Convention Day 4: August 28, 2008 Democratic Convention Day 3: August 27, 2008 Democratic Convention Day 2: August 26, 2008 Democratic Convention Day 1: August 25, 2008 Meena Bose: Bush and Clinton legacies are at stake in election - Meena Bose at the CNN website, 8-2-08
CHICAGO 1968:	Chicago 1968: On This Day in History....
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: 9/11 McCain, Obama Arrive for 9/11 Anniversary - NY Sun, 9-10-08 Gil Troy: 9/11 and the race for the White House - Jerusalem Post, 9-10-08 David McQuilkin on"Sept. 11 leaves confused legacy on college campuses": David McQuilkin, a history and political science professor at Bridgewater, says the 9/11 attacks are no longer the major discussion topic that they once were in his classroom, and students rarely raise the issue. From his perspective as a historian, this is to be expected, because McQuilkin thinks 9/11 will not figure as prominently into the American story as the bombing of Pearl Harbor 60 years earlier. The difference, McQuilkin said, has been the response. After Pearl Harbor, America's immediate, unified, sustained reaction saw the country through World War II and established it as a world power (this, at least, is the generally-accepted narrative)."We haven’t seen 9/11 reach that kind of visceral level within the American experience," said McQuilkin. - Rocktown Weekly, VA, 9-11-08
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Richard L. CravattsL:"How to Get the World To Hate Israel" - - 8-4-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: Wendy McElroy: "The Police Worry About Your Health" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 7-28-08 Hottest Topic: About the History of Iraq Most Popular Feature: Rob Alford:"What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?" 12-08-03 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: On This Day in History.... 10/09/1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 10/09/1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 10/09/1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 10/09/1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 10/09/1861 - -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 10/09/1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities 10/09/1939 - In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany 10/09/1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb 10/09/1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf 10/09/1943 - German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City 10/09/1993 - Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements 11/09/1557 - Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm 11/09/1649 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland, Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists 11/09/1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes"There never was a good war or bad peace" 11/09/1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 11/09/1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs 11/09/1943 - Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated 11/09/1944 - FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference 12/09/1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties 12/09/1862 - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA 12/09/1953 - Sen John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24 12/09/1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate 13/09/1556 - Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain 13/09/1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 13/09/1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US 13/09/1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City 13/09/1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate"Colorado" sinks privateer"Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 13/09/1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe 13/09/1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 13/09/1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 13/09/1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st secretary-general of USSR 13/09/1993 - Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 14/09/1862 - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia 14/09/1872 - Britain pays US $15« M for damages during Civil War 14/09/1917 - Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed 14/09/1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) 14/09/1948 - Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters 14/09/1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary 14/09/1983 - US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Critics assail quality of new State Department histories - Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists, 9-10-08 Joel Beinin: Campus Watch assails his views (again) but praises his candor - Campus Watch, 9-10-08 New posting to curriculum board reignites history wars in Australia - Australian, 9-10-08 House Panel Fully Funds NHPRC; Increases Funding for NARA - Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH), 9-9-08 National Security Archive and Historians Secure Long Secret Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony - National Security Archive, 9-9-08 Ann M. Little: Historian complains she was a victim of bullying in her department - Piper Fogg in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, 9-12-08 Historians Fight Bush-Cheney to Stop Destruction of Presidential Records - ThinkProgress, 9-8-08 John Y. Simon: Continuing fallout from charges made against the late editor of the Grant papers - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 9-2-08 American literary prize blacklists Random House - Guardian, 8-29-08 Pete Daniel: OAH president forcefully condemns Smithsonian practices - Pete Daniel in the newsletter of the Organization of American Historians (August), 8-1-08 Frederick Kagan: NYT says he played key role in designing the surge - NYT, 8-31-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Suze Rotolo: ’61 Revisited A FREEWHEELIN' TIME A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties - N"YT, 9-7-08 Suze Rotolo: A FREEWHEELIN' TIME A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, First Chapter - N"YT, 9-7-08 Bob Woodward: A Leader Beyond Denial, as War Plans Flounder The War Within - NYT 9-6-08 Tom Fels: Tune in, Turn on, Sell Out FARM FRIENDS From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond - - NYT, 9-7-08 Bob Woodward: Yes Men What happens when the president's advisers don't speak up. THE WAR WITHIN A Secret White House History 2006-2008 - WaPo, 9-7-08 Curtis Sittenfeld: Laura's Story The author of"Prep" imagines a modest librarian becoming first lady of the United States. AMERICAN WIFE - WaPo, 9-7-08 William Styron: 40 years later, how shall we think about the Confessions of Nat Turner? - Jess Row in the NYT Book Review, 9-7-08 Noah Andre Trudeau: Insists in new book that Sherman's March wasn't as destructive as claimed - Christian Science Monitor, 9-4-08 Andrew Warnes: His new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism - Andrew Leonard at Salon.com, 8-30-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs & LETTERS: STEVEN J. KEILLOR: Playground politics: A fable for adults - International Falls Daily Journal, MN, 9-9-08 Jonathan Zimmerman: A focus on diversity is keeping us apart - Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-7-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Joseph Lane: McCain's Closing of the"Enthusiasm Gap" (Thanks to Palin) - Britannica Blog, 9-10-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Charles Arnade: USF professor stood up for human rights EDUCATION: Experiences shaped Charles Arnade's approach to big issues - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL, 9-10-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Seven Questions: Bernard Lewis on The Two Biggest Myths About Islam - Foreign Policy, 8-1-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Gabor Boritt: College professor gives Bush tour of battlefield - The Evening Sun, PA, 9-6-08 Christopher Gennari: Digital camera digitizes historic papers - UPI, 9-10-08 Robert Forbes: Torrington professor leads project promoting local history"Locally Grown History – It's In Your Backyard" - UConn Advance, CT, 9-5-08 Matthew Pinsker: Lincoln's Home Away From The White House - NPR, 8-31-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Leonid Petrov on"Kim rumours provide a wake-up call": For Leonid Petrov, North Korea historian at Australian National University, this tug of war over reforms is key to how North Koreans will respond to the demise of Kim Jong-il. He says the population was badly traumatised by the death of Kim Il-sung - partly because of the personality cult which surrounded him, but partly also because it heralded a period of intense isolation and impoverishment in which more than a million people may have died. Dr Petrov suggests any internal candidate able to preserve short-term stability would probably be more conservative than Kim Jong-il. But he warns against any such candidate attempting to roll back the economic reforms that have allowed North Koreans a little more room to make an independent living. - BBC News, 9-10-08 Niall Ferguson: Leading historian issues warning of a new cold war Global threat is from geopolitics, not the credit crunch:"I believe that Russia's prime minister Vladimir Putin is about to have his Molotov-Ribbentrop moment. He's going to realise that Moscow and Beijing can have a new and meaningful partnership.... The more Russia and China establish that they have common interests, which could include Iran, the more powerful the SCO is going to become. The strengthening of the SCO has profound implications. If the countries which belong to that organisation decide they are going to defy the rules of the World Trade Organisation, then a fundamental shift has occurred in the nature of our international order, and that would have implications for all of us. The real threat to globalisation today is not the subprime crisis. The real threats are geopolitical...." - Sunday Herald, UK, 9-6-08 Orlando Figes on"Why we should look to history for Russia's future": Figes, who is Professor of History at the University of London, said the clash in Georgia had been coming for a long time."I've been saying for years that the Putinites believe and fear a sort of encirclement by American-backed regimes. This stand-off between Russia and Georgia is something that is being stacked up by both sides for political interests, and the Georgians have put themselves in the middle of this." - The Age, Australia, 8-28-08
AWARDED / APPOINTED:	AWARDED, APPOINTED: Charles Tilly: Conference held in his honor - Social Science Research Council, 9-1-08
EXHIBITS / WEBSITES:	EXHIBITS / WEBSITES: Museum Of Jewish Heritage Announces Public Programming Schedule - HULIQ (press release), NC, 9-9-08 Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina Museum Exhibition Design Team Announced - Carolina Newswire (press release), NC, 9-8-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Thurston Clarke: Recalls"turmoil" of JFK era in Yale talk - Yale Daily News, 9-9-08 Mark Scherer: Historian, First Amendment lawyer discuss conflicting rights - First Amendment Center, TN, 9-5-08 Lerone Bennett, Jr; Lincoln not hero of legend - http://www.theithacajournal.com, 9-4-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: September 15, 2008: Douglas Brinkley at Open VISIONS Forum (OVF) season at Fairfield University. OVF, the lecture series presented by University College at Fairfield University, which presents political pundits, historians, actresses and activists with diverse, provocative and lively views of current and historical topics, will start out with historian Douglas Brinkley on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. - Redding Pilot, CT, 8-2-08 September 17, 2008: Princeton historian Barbara Oberg, general editor of"The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," will deliver a Constitution Day lecture on"Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Citizens" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University - Princeton University, NJ, 9-10-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week The Weather Channel's original program:"When Weather Changed History": Season 2 debuts October 5 with an episode dedicated to the Chicago Fire of 1871. Repeats of Season 1 are on Every Sunday at 9pmET with re-airings through out the week. - When Weather Changed History Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 History Channel:"The Day the Towers Fell. ," Thursday, September 11, @ 12pm ET/PT History Channel:"The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon," Thursday, September 11, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Countdown to Ground Zero," Thursday, September 11, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Day the Towers Fell: The Day the Towers Fell," Thursday, September 11, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Man Who Predicted 9/11: The Man Who Predicted 9/11," Thursday, September 11, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"102 Minutes that Changed America / Witness to 9/11," Thursday, September 11, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Nazi America: A Secret History," Friday, September 12, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History," Friday, September 12, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Gangland: Death in Dixie," Friday, September 12, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Last Days on Earth," Saturday, September 13, @ 5pm ET/PT C-Span2, BookTV: History Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield Author: Kenneth Ackerman - Sunday September 14 @ 12:15 AM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History How the States Got Their Shapes Author: Mark Stein - Sunday September 14 @ 2:30 AM ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960 Author: David Kyvig - Sunday September 14 @ 3:00 PM ET - C-Span2, BookTV History Channel:"Mega Disasters: Earthquake in the Heartland," Monday, September 15, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Journey to 10,000 BC," Monday, September 15, @ 9pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #2 -- (5 weeks on list) - 9-14-08 David Freddoso: THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA #5 -- (4 weeks on list) - 9-14-08 Andrew Bacevich: THE LIMITS OF POWER #8 -- (4 weeks on list) - 9-14-08 Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway: WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL #16 -- (1 week on list) - 9-14-08 Thomas Frank: THE WRECKING CREW #10 -- (4 weeks on list) - 9-14-08 Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway: WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL #16 -- (1 week on list) - 9-14-08 Noah Andre Trudeau: SOUTHERN STORM #20 - 9-14-08 T. J. English: HAVANA NOCTURNE #30 - 9-14-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Paul Douglas Lockhart: The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army, September 9, 2008 Jeffry D. Wert: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart, September 23, 2008 Tom Chaffin: The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy, September 30, 2008 James M. McPherson: Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief, October 7, 2008 Jeff Belanger: Who's Haunting the White House?: The President's Mansion and the Ghosts Who Live There, October 7, 2008 David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Joe Hilley: Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader, October 16, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 21, 2008 Laurence Bergreen: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, October 21, 2008 H. W. Brands: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 4, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008 Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, November 11, 2008 Gary May: John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845, December 9, 2008 George S. McGovern: Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865, December 23, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Philip Secrist: Civil War historian was 80 - Atlanta-Journal Constitution, 9-9-08 Dean of historians in Sierra Leone dies - http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com, 9-2-08

Posted On:: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 03:19

June 23, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: NEW BLOG: : A complete roundup of what Historians are saying about the campaign this week. Allan Lichtman: The (Non-Electoral) Case for the Obama-Clinton Ticket - Britannica Blog, 6-17-08 John Hope Franklin Calls Obama Success"Amazing" - NPR, 6-20-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Allan R. Millett has been selected to receive the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation, will be presented at the Library's annual Liberty Gala on October 4, 2008 at Chicago's Drake Hotel. - Pritzker Military Library, 6-23-08 Robert Dallek: Weighing Bush's View of His Own Legacy - 6-17-08
TOP YOUNG HISTORIANS:	TOP YOUNG HISTORIANS: This week... Marina Rustow
HNN STATS THIS WEEK:	HNN STATS THIS WEEK: Most Popular Article: Robert S. McElvaine:"HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst" - - 4-1-08 Most Popular Blog Entry: David T. Beito: "The Masses are Asses: 49 Percent Want to Regulate the Internet" Liberty & Power: Group Blog, 6-21-08 Hottest Topic: Election 2008: General 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: On This Day in History.... 06-23-1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and never seen again 06-23-1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty"not sworn to, nor broken" 06-23-1776 - Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to US Congress 06-23-1860 - Congress establishes Government Printing Office, US Secret Service created 06-23-1888 - Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president 06-23-1919 - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Assn (UNIA) incorporates 06-23-1947 - Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress 06-23-1972 - Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate 06-24-1509 - Henry VIII was crowned king of England. 06-24-1647 - Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body. 06-24-1675 - King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Mass.) settlement. 06-24-1908 - The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J. 06-24-1947 - Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as"saucers skipping across the water," hence the term"flying saucers" was born. 06-24-1948 - The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year. 06-24-1997 - The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies. 06-25-1788 - Virginia became the 10th state in the Union. 06-25-1876 - Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana. 06-25-1950 - Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War. 06-25-1951 - The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC. 06-25-1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war. 06-26-1819 - The bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson. 06-26-1843 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony. 06-26-1906 - The first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France. 06-26-1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, was opened 06-26-1963 - President John Kennedy gave his,"Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) speech in West Berlin. 06-26-1976 - The CN tower in Toronto opened, the world's tallest free-standing structure. 06-27-1844 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill. 06-27-1898 - Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, R.I., a 46,000-mile trip. 06-27-1950 - President Harry S. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War. 06-27-1954 - The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow. 06-27-1969 - Police and gays clashed at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, fostering the gay rights movement. 06-27-1985 - The legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., was decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System. 06-28-1836 - The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate. 06-28-1894 - Labor Day became a federal holiday by an act of Congress. 06-28-1914 - Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated, setting off World War I. 06-28-1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. 06-28-1978 - The Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible. 06-28-2000 - Elian Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba. 06-28-2001 - Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic over to the UN war crimes tribunal. 06-28-2004 - In Iraq, the United States transferred power back to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Quentin Skinner: Historian claims prospects of a generation 'blasted apart' by PhD cuts - Telegraph, UK, 6-22-08 Kentucky Officials Charge Ohio Historian in Case of the Pilfered Rock - NYT, 6-20-08 Veteran Exam Reader Is Rejected for Not Having Enough Forms of ID WaPo, 6-19-08 Historians invited by Gordon Brown (himself a historian) to dinner in honor of Bush - Times (UK), 6-17-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: Richard Holbrooke on Michael Dobbs: Real W.M.D.'s ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War - NYT, 6-22-08 Robert Whitaker: 12 Innocent Men ON THE LAPS OF GODS The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation - NYT, 6-22-08 Gil Troy: MIDDLE GROUND Hail compromise! Huzzah negotiation! Purple power! Leading From The Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents - NY Post, 6-22-08 Edward Dolnick: The Lying Dutchman THE FORGER'S SPELL A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century NYT, 6-22-08 'Not My Fault': Essay on Presidential Memoirs - NYT, 6-22-08 Pittsburg native Joel Rhodes, Ph.D., has a new book titled 'A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck' - Morning Sun, KS, 6-21-08 James G. Hershberg on Michael Dobbs: COLD WAR Tick Tock Toward Armageddon A gritty, suspenseful retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War - WaPo, 6-19-08 Michael Hastings, Kimberly Dozier: IRAQ \| MEDIA Under Fire Three reporters recount the highs and lows of covering the war I LOST MY LOVE IN BAGHDAD A Modern War Story, BREATHING THE FIRE Fighting to Report -- and Survive -- the War in Iraq 6-19-08 Arthur Herman, Patrick J. Buchanan, John Lukacs, Robert Lloyd George: HISTORY Winston Churchill: Hero or Fool? New books argue that he should have let Hitler go -- and India, too. GANDHI & CHURCHILL The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, CHURCHILL, HITLER, AND"THE UNNECESSARY WAR" How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT The Dire Warning, DAVID & WINSTON How the Friendship Between Churchill and Lloyd George Changed the Course of History - 6-19-08 Rick Perlstein: The NY Sun can't decide whether to be pro or con about his Nixonland book - HNN Staff, 6-19-08 Rick Perlstein & Sean Wilentz: Face-off over Nixon and Reagan (exchange) - Two powerhouse political historians battle it out in The New Republic, 6-19-08 Gil Troy: Summer books releases"Leading From The Center": News & Observer, 6-15-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: Scott Romine: Walter Hines Page and his 1909 call for Southern reform - News Record (NC), 6-22-08 Michael Oren: Says the price of the ceasefire with Hamas may be war - WSJ, 6-19-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Julian Zelizer: Russert's Most Important Legacy - Huffington Post (Blog), 6-18-08 Lawrence Freedman: Discusses his new book, an indictment of US foreign policy - Lawrence Freedman at the website of the Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH blog), 6-19-08 Blog Symposium: What is a historian? - ProgressiveHistorians (blog), 6-11-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Vanessa Toulmin: Ride of a lifetime: From the fairground to a university career She was brought up on a fairground, and called a 'gypsy' and 'tinker' at school. Now Vanessa Toulmin is using her early experiences to forge a glittering academic career - Independent, UK, 6-22-08 Daniel Yakes: After 42 years, Muskegon Community College professor closing the book - The Muskegon Chronicle, 6-22-08 Demetrio Tupac Yupanqui: Scholar's not-impossible dream: To preserve the language of the Incas - http://www.startribune.com, 6-14-08 Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Saul David, historian and broadcaster 'At my school, 20 of us were cousins' - Independent, UK, 6-11-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Alexander Keyssar: A"Popular" Idea: Abolish the Electoral College, Replacing with Direct Election of U.S. Presidents - www.voiceofthevoters.org, 6-18-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Lost in translation Native Americans rally to save endangered languages - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 5-22-08 87th Anniversary Commemoration 1921 Tulsa Race - Black Voice News, 6-19-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Rivka Shpak-Lissak: Jewish Towns Populated by Arab Late-Comers:"The goal of all the rulers of the Holy Land, from the times of the Romans and onward, was always to rid the Land of the Jews," she said."Finally, they succeeded. Many Jews simply left the Land rather than convert to Islam." - http://www.israelnationalnews.com, 6-16-08
HONORED / AWARDED / APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Charles Taylor awarded Kyoto Prize McGill philosopher 1 of 2 Canadians to win 'Japan's Nobel' - Eureka Alert, 6-20-08 Air Force history award winners announce - http://www.af.mil/news, 6-17-08 Tzvetan Todorov wins Spanish social sciences prize - IHT, 6-18-08
EXHIBITS / WEBSITES:	EXHIBITS / WEBSITES: Journal of Ventura County History: Newly renamed history journal has first issue - Ventura County Star, CA, 6-22-08 National History Education Clearinghouse launched - George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, 6-3-08 Center for History and New Media launches new website: Gulag - George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, 6-3-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Gil Troy: Presidents, Politics, and Moderation Do Moderates Make the Best Presidents? - New America Foundation, 6-18-08 CSI lecture sheds light on Abraham Lincoln's life - Times-News, Idaho, 6-22-08 Jonathan Spence: West's view of China is too simplistic, he suggests in Reith Lectures - Graham Earnshaw at China Beat (Blog), 6-15-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: June 24, 2008: Michael Dobbs will be online on the WaPo Tuesday, June 24 at 3 p.m. ET to discuss his new book about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro On the Brink of Nuclear War - WaPo, 6-19-08 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 The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour Author: Andrei Cherny - Sunday, June 22 @ 8:00pm ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History Yeltsin: A Life Author: Timothy Colton - Sunday, June 22 @ 10:00pm ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960 Author: David Kyvig - Monday, June 23 @ 1:00am ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy - from the Revolution to the War of 1812 Author: George Daughan - Monday, June 23 @ 4:00am ET - C-Span2, BookTV C-Span2, BookTV: History The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder and the Search for Justice in the American South Author: Gilbert King - Monday, June 23 @ 5:00am ET - C-Span2, BookTV PBS: American Experience: Summer of Love PBS - Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 9pm ET History Channel:"Surviving History: 01 - Surviving History," Sunday, June 22, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Surviving History: 02 - Surviving History," Sunday, June 22, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Breaking Vegas," Monday, June 23, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Making a Buck", Monday, June 23, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Silver Mines", Monday, June 23, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Gold Mines", Monday, June 23, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Lost Pyramid", Monday, June 23, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Wake Island: The Alamo of the Pacific," Tuesday, June 24, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Man, Moment, Machine: Doolittle's Daring Raid," Tuesday, June 24, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries: Ancient Chinese Super Shipse," Tuesday, June 24, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Antichrist," Wednesday, June 25, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Tsunami 2004: Waves of Death," Wednesday, June 25, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Da Vinci Tech," Wednesday, June 25, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Ghosts," Wednesday, June 25, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Andrew Jackson," Thursday, June 26, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"The States: 08 - Virginia, Ohio, Idaho, Alabama, North Dakota," Thursday, June 26, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"The States: 09 - Michigan, Tennessee, Maine, Missouri, South Dakota," Thursday, June 26, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"The States: 10 - Georgia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maryland/DC," Thursday, June 26, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Civil War Tech," Thursday, June 26, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Surviving History: 02 - Surviving History," Thursday, June 26, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"American Eats: History on a Bun," Friday, June 27, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Life After People," Saturday, June 28, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Lost Pyramid," Saturday, June 28, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Quest for Dragons," Saturday, June 28, @ 8pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Patrick J. Buchanan: CHURCHILL, HITLER, AND"THE UNNECESSARY WAR," #10 -- (3 weeks on list) - 6-29-08 Thurston Clarke: THE LAST CAMPAIGN #16 (2 weeks on list) - 6-29-08 Ted Sorensen: COUNSELOR #23 - 6-29-08 Kenneth C. Davis: AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY #27 - 6-29-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: Gerald M. Carbone: Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution, June 24, 2008 Contstance Aerson Clark: God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age, June 28, 2008 Lewis Lehrman: Lincoln at Peoria, July 4, 2008 Linda Porter: The First Queen of England, July 8, 2008 William Marvel: Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862, July 16, 2008 Lorri Glover: The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, August 5, 2008 Fred E. Haynes: The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History, August 5, 2008 Patrick Desbois: The Holocaust by Bullets, August 19, 2008 Robert Dallek: Harry S. Truman (REV), September 2, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Jane Acomb Leake: Historian who championed women's rights, was 79 - http://news.enquirer.com (Cincinnati), 6-17-08

Posted On:: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 03:04

October 13, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH:	CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights Gil Troy"Stuck In the Muck Mudslinging Isn't New. Here's the Messy Truth":"Everybody always assumes there was a golden age of presidential campaigning that occurred 20 years ago," says Gil Troy, an American history scholar at McGill University."Almost from the start, American politics had its two sides -- it had its Sunday morning high church sermon side, and it had its Saturday night rough-and- tumble ugly side."... Oh,"John Quincy Adams was accused of pimping for the czar," Troy says. Really. The czar of Russia. The press backing Jackson labeled Adams"The Pimp." - Washington Post, 10-13-08 David A. Hollinger: Palin Distorts Small-Town America - New West Politics, 10-12-08 David S. Tanenhaus: Barack, Bill, and MeThe Bill Ayers that Barack Obama and I worked with was no"domestic terrorist." - Slate, 10-10-08 Julian Zelizer"Palin Abused Power in Trooper Case, Alaska Probe Says":"It's one more blow to a deeply troubled campaign," said Julian Zelizer, a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University in New Jersey."The report on Palin raises more questions about why McCain made this choice and how much he really cares about fighting corruption." - Bloomberg, 10-11-08 Dewar MacLeod"A lesson for WPU students in making every vote count":"Democracy is not something that happens only once every four years; democracy needs to happen every single day. While this year's ongoing presidential election promises to bring millions of new voters, especially the young, I hope students will also explore and participate in the ongoing process of civic engagement. Our democracy is only as strong as citizens are willing to make it." - NorthJersey.com, NJ, 10-11-08 Peter Kastor"If history is guide, path to White House is through Missouri":"Missouri is in the middle of the country geographically but also the center of the country politically," Washington University history professor Peter Kastor said."It is a state where various regional political cultures all exist." - AFP, 10-10-08
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Larry Schweikart"Is History Repeating Itself?": A Professor of History at the University of Dayton says it may very well be. Prof. Larry Schweikart said as far as the economy goes, history does tend to repeat itself in 20-year cycles. However, Schweikart said, just as 20 years ago, well will probably see lower fuel and energy costs, which will mean lower food costs. - WHIOTV.com, 10-11-08 David Moss"Bernanke vows to learn from Great Depression":"We're incredibly lucky we have a Fed chairman at this moment who has looked so closely at the Great Depression," said David Moss, a professor of economic history at Harvard Business School."He has an appreciation for the complexities and reality of what was going on then, as much or more than any other scholar. He is not afraid to be aggressive and believes it is his role to try to stem the crisis; that is a huge advantage." - San Fransico Chronicle, 10-11-08 Scott Nelson: Is This 1929 Or 1873? William And Mary Professor Compares Today's Situation To A Previous Economic Panic - WRVA 1140, 10-9-08
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History....
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Curriculum to scale back Aussie history THE emphasis on teaching Australian history in recent years will be scaled down in the national curriculum, as its initial draft, to be released today, outlines a course that places the national story in the context of broader global events - The Australian, 10-13-08 Alan Kraut: Getting the Nation’s Story Straight The true tale of America involves far more than teeming masses yearning to be free — a story well told at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York Harbor - NYT, 10-12-08 Shlomo Sand’s latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo - Middle-East Online, 10-11-08 David McDonald: Growing emphasis on academics is helping athletes at UW-Madison - Wisconsin State Journal, 10-11-08 Simon Schama argues that Barack Obama's emergence as presidential candidate represents a profound change in the American psyche - BBC, 10-9-08 Chinese historian slapped in the face for pro-Manchu views - http://www.danwei.org, 10-7-08 Andrew Roberts: The Anglosphere's greatest modern mythologist, may be perfectly suited to sanitize the Bush presidency - R.J. Stove in the American Conservative, 9-22-08 Kyle Volk: History professor's deal with burrito joint went against school policy - http://missoulian.com (10-2-08) Howard Zinn taken to task for giving Rosenbergs a pass - New Criterion editorial, 10-3-08 Chandra Manning will not come to Princeton - Daily Princetonian, 10-1-08 Five held guilty of professor Papiya Ghosh's murder - Hindustan Times, 9-18-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: John Demos: Crucibles THE ENEMY WITHIN 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World - NYT, 10-12-08 Barton Gellman: The Shadow President ANGLER The Cheney Vice Presidency - NYT, 10-12-08 Charles D. Ellis: Rich Bank, Poor Bank THE PARTNERSHIP The Making of Goldman Sachs - NYT, 10-12-08 Mark Mazower: HISTORY \| WORLD WAR II Axis of Incompetence Lessons from the Nazis on how not to run an empire HITLER'S EMPIRE How the Nazis Ruled Europe - WaPo, 10-12-08 Hilda Gadea: Rebel Wife MY LIFE WITH CHE The Making of a Revolutionary WaPo, 10-12-08 New in Paperback History and Chutzpah - WaPo, 10-12-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs: David Kaiser says historians have been grossly biased in writing about Truman's decision to drop the bomb - David Kaiser at the website of H-Diplo, 10-10-08 Gerald Early: The victimization of blacks is America’s original sin, and privileged blacks have milked it without shame - Chronicle of Higher Ed, 10-10-08 Howard Zinn taken to task for giving Rosenbergs a pass - New Criterion editorial, 10-3-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Randy Saunders, 50th Space Wing Historian: Deployment invigorates historian's pride in tradition, history - http://www.schriever.af.mil, 10-6-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: John Merriman: College kiddies call courtyards their backyards - Yale Herald, 10-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: Neve Gordon talks about his new book: Israel's Occupation - Neve Gordon interviewed by Chris Spannos, 10-7-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: Holocaust survivors tell love story - AP, 10-13-08 Susan J. Matt: Brownsville's back story (UT) History talks at Weber State compilied in book - Standard Examiner, 10-12-08 Throwing Incaution to the Wind, Stone Paints Bush - NYT, 10-12-08 Lonnie G. Bunch: Smithsonian historian visits Birmingham in search of idea for National Museum of African American History and Culture - http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews, 10-3-08
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Dimitry Anastakis: Professor's pick Tory majority - Peterborough Examiner, 10-11-08 Patricia Nelson Limerick: Where the buffalo roamed Wind power is the new cash crop for a money starved native land - NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, 10-12-08 Bryant Simon: History Professor Compares/Contrasts Current Economic Crisis with Great Depression - Temple University Newswise, 10-10-08 Michael Beschloss: Presidential historian calls candidates vulnerable:"One reassuring thing is that both candidates realize that this is a country that needs to be healed. Whoever is president is going to have to reach across the aisle." - http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com, 10-5-08
AWARDED - APPOINTED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Washington State University provost Steven Hoch will return — but as a professor - Seattle Times, 10-10-08 William Cook: Recently earned a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities that will fund a seminar he will teach in Siena, Italy in the summer of 2009. - Lamron, NY, 10-9-08 FIU History professor Darden Asbury Pyron was this year's recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award - Miami Herald, 10-5-08 Stephanie E. Smallwood: UW professor wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize University of Washington professor Stephanie E. Smallwood has won a prestigious prize for her groundbreaking history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade - Seattle Times, 10-1-08 Julian Bond: University of Virginia History Professor, NAACP Leader Julian Bond Is Named Living Legend. Bond was one of seven honored at the Library of Congress.- Media Newswire, 9-26-08 Bobby H. Johnson: Oral history professor receives Lifetime Achievement Award - Pine Log, Stephen F. Austin University Mark Carey: W&L History Professor Receives NSF Grant to Study Natural Disasters and Climate Change - Rock Bridge Weekly
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: Wilfred M. McClay: 'We are in a difficult moment in our history' inaugurated Thomas College's Distinguished Lecture series - Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME, 10-10-08 Junius Rodriguez: Eureka College professor talked about Reagan's economics - Pantagraph, 9-28-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: Jackson Center Hosts Civil Rights Symposium - Jamestown Post Journal, NY, 10-12-08 October 18, 2008: History buffs and students alike are encouraged to attend"The Legacy of Stones River: Pathways to Freedom" in Murfreesboro, an Oct. 18 symposium focusing on the demise of slavery during the Civil War and feature distinguished speakers. - Murfreesboro Post, TN, 9-15-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week The Weather Channel's original program:"When Weather Changed History": Season 2 debuts October 5 with an episode dedicated to the Chicago Fire of 1871. Repeats of Season 1 are on Every Sunday at 9pmET with re-airings through out the week. - When Weather Changed History Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 PBS, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: NIXON, Monday, October 13 at 9 pm on PBS -- As this year's political campaigns heat up, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE continues to showcase THE PRESIDENTS Mondays at 9pm on PBS (check local listings.) PBS, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: LBJ Part One, Monday, October 20 on PBS -- As this year's political campaigns heat up, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE continues to showcase THE PRESIDENTS Mondays at 9pm on PBS (check local listings.) History Channel:"MonsterQuest," Marathon Monday, October 13, @ 2-6pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Ghosts," Monday, October 13, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Ancient Discoveries: 12 - Machines of the Gods ," Monday, October 13, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Hippies," Tuesday, October 14, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"In the World Of...Jack the Ripper," Tuesday, October 14, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Book of Nostradamus," Wednesday, October 15, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past: Doomsday 2012: The End of Days," Wednesday, October 15, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden," Wednesday, October 15, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Jurassic Fight Club: Raptor vs. T-Rex," Wednesday, October 15, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"UFO Files: The Day after Roswell," Wednesday, October 15, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lincoln," Thursday, October 16, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mysteries of the Garden of Eden," Thursday, October 16, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: Mob Underground," Thursday, October 16, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: A-Bomb Underground," Thursday, October 16, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Universe: Beyond the Big Bang," Friday, October 17, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Next Big Bang," Friday, October 17, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Band Of Brothers," Marathon, Saturday, October 18, @ 2-7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Black Blizzard," Saturday, October 18, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"A Global Warning?," Saturday, October 18, @ 10pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Bob Woodward: THE WAR WITHIN #4 -- (3 weeks on list) - 10-12-08 Andrew Bacevich: THE LIMITS OF POWER #7 -- (7 weeks on list) - 10-12-08 Barton Gellman: ANGLER #14 -- (2 weeks on list) - 10-12-08 David Freddoso: THE CASE AGAINST BARACK OBAMA #18 10-12-08 Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #26 -- (8 weeks on list) - 10-12-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: David Hackett Fischer: Champlain's Dream, October 14, 2008 Joe Hilley: Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader, October 16, 2008 Harold Holzer: Lincoln: President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Winter of Secession, 1860-1861, October 21, 2008 Laurence Bergreen: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, October 21, 2008 H. W. Brands: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 4, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008 Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, November 11, 2008 Gary May: John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845, December 9, 2008 George S. McGovern: Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865, December 23, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Longtime state senator Allan Spear dies - Star Tribune, 10-12-08

Posted On:: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 02:10

October 27, 2008

CAMPAIGN 2008:	CAMPAIGN 2008 WATCH: Campaign 2008 Highlights
BIGGEST STORIES:	BIGGEST STORIES: Halloween John Demos: At Halloween: Every witch way to Salem - Boston Herald, 10-26-08 John Demos"Historian examines witch hunts past and present":"Connecticut would have been the leader in witch hunting if it hadn't been for Salem," historian John Demos told a full house the Windsor Historical Society. - Windsor Journal, 10-23-08
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY:	THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: On This Day in History.... 25/10/1492 - Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic 25/10/1825 - Erie Canal opens, linking Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean 25/10/1881 - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Clanton engage in"Shootout at OK Corral" 25/10/1923 - Senate committee publishes 1st report on Teapot Dome scandal 25/10/1940 - US Army Gen Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general 25/10/1951 - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom 25/10/1963 - Anti-Kennedy"WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas 25/10/1983 - US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins) 26/10/1682 - William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York 26/10/1749 - Georgia Colony reverses itself and rules slavery is legal 26/10/1774 - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia 26/10/1774 - Minute Men organized in colonies 26/10/1787 -"Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution 26/10/1795 - Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi 26/10/1810 - US annexes western Florida 26/10/1863 - Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva 26/10/1881 - Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az 26/10/1900 - After 4 years of work, 1st section of NY subway opens 26/10/1916 - Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) 26/10/1919 - President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden 26/10/1950 - Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India 26/10/1955 - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres 26/10/1962 - Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected 26/10/1962 - JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba 26/10/1972 - Henry Kissinger declares"Peace is at hand" in Vietnam 26/10/1973 - President Nixon released 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal 26/10/1994 - Jordan and Israel sign peace accord 27/10/1864 - Siege of Petersburg, VA 27/10/1871 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption 27/10/1913 - Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country 27/10/1920 - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva 27/10/1954 - Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem 27/10/1962 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba 28/10/1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded 28/10/1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ 28/10/1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin 28/10/1858 - Macy's Dept store opens in NYC 28/10/1863 - Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured 28/10/1864 - Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties 28/10/1867 - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US 28/10/1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC 28/10/1919 - Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto 28/10/1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary 28/10/1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted 28/10/1949 - Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark) 28/10/1962 - Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis 29/10/1929 -"Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers"Great Depression" 29/10/1956 - Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran 29/10/1966 - National Organization of Women founded 29/10/1969 - Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation"at once" 29/10/1929 -"Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers"Great Depression" 29/10/1956 - Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran 29/10/1966 - National Organization of Women founded 29/10/1969 - Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation"at once" 30/10/1270 - 8th and last crusade is launched 30/10/1697 - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War 30/10/1864 - The city of Helena, Montana, is founded after miners discover gold 30/10/1893 - Senate approves repealing Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 30/10/1896 - Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah becomes 1st female senator 30/10/1905 -"October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties 30/10/1914 - Allied offensive at Ypres (Belgium) begins 30/10/1941 - FDR approves Lend-Lease aid to the USSR 30/10/1954 - US Armed Forces end segregation of races 31/10/0834 - 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints 31/10/1517 - Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation 31/10/1541 - Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints"last judgement" in 16th Chapel 31/10/1846 - Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp 31/10/1918 - Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week 31/10/1922 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy 31/10/1940 - Battle of Britain: Germany and Britain control of English Channel, ends 31/10/1941 - Prior to US in WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James 31/10/1963 - Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles and their fans at London Airport 31/10/1968 - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam 01/11/1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited 01/11/1765 - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies 01/11/1783 - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's"Farewell Address" 01/11/1800 - 1st president to live in white house (John Adams) 01/11/1861 - Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 01/11/1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes 01/11/1878 - Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) 01/11/1917 - In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat 01/11/1954 - US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign 01/11/1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK says USSR is dismantling missile bases 01/11/1983 - Pres Reagan established Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday 02/11/1772 - Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms 02/11/1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen Jackson vs indians 02/11/1824 - Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams 02/11/1852 - Franklin Pierce elected as president of US 02/11/1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 02/11/1948 - Pres Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey 02/11/1954 - JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC) 02/11/1962 - JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
IN THE NEWS:	IN THE NEWS: Shlomo Sand: Israeli best seller breaks national taboo - Israeli academic and historian says Jewish Nation myth - Atlantic Free Press, 10-26-08 Historian Steven Hoch loses provost job but is rewarded with $245 K salary as prof! - Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria, 10-18-08 Historian Bob McElvaine given credit for encouraging Obama to run - Phil Krone in the Clarion Ledger, 10-21-08 Teachers: Don't rush to make History compulsory (Malayasia) - http://thestar.com.my, 10-20-08 History teachers launch campaign against textbook revisions (South Korea) - http://english.hani.co.kr, 10-20-08 Wisconsin hopes to hire military historian - http://www.jsonline.com, 10-17-08 Mystery solved: How Joseph Persico dreamed up a whopper about TR - HNN Staff, 10-13-08
REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS:	REVIEWED AND FIRST CHAPTERS: JAY WINIK on DAVID S. REYNOLDS: Young America's Wild Side Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson - NYT, 10-26-08 DAVID S. REYNOLDS: Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, First Chapter - NYT, 10-26-08 John D. Gartner: Jonathan Yardley on 'In Search of Bill Clinton' Putting Bill Clinton on the couch IN SEARCH OF BILL CLINTON A Psychological Biography - WaPo, 10-23-08 Timothy W. Ryback: Michael Dirda on 'Hitler's Private Library' The Führer loved his library, but what good did it do? HITLER'S PRIVATE LIBRARY The Books That Shaped His Life - WaPo, 10-26-08 Treasure Trove of Newsreels Rediscovered by Film Historian - Press Release, 10-21-08 Annette Gordon-Reed's new book on the Hemingses called valuable but flawed - Eric Foner in the NYT Book Review, 10-3-08 Pierre Berton: Canadian historian Berton had his own secrets - Vancouver Sun, 10-13-08
OP-EDs:	OP-EDs & LETTERS: Simon Schama: Reveals how a teenage fantasy developed into a real and lasting romance Times (UK), 10-19-08 Conrad Black scores McCain for his terrible campaign - Conrad Black at the Dailybeast.com (blog), 10-17-08 Historians complain to the NYT about McCain's campaign - NYT Letters to the Editor, 10-9-08
BLOGS:	BLOGS: Ron Radosh starts a blog - Ron Radosh at his new blog at pajamasmedia.com, 10-15-08 Is Rashid Khalidi Obama's pal? - Martin Kramer at his blog Sandbox, 10-20-08
PROFILED:	PROFILED: Richard Evans: Cambridge's new Regius Professor, Richard Evans, had an unusual start to his post – he applied for it. - Independent (UK), 10-23-08 Dan Snow: My family's dark Somme secret, by UK TV historian - Guardian (UK), 10-19-08 Simon Schama doesn't just write history, he wants to star in it - Raymond Seitz in the Telegraph (UK), 10-12-08
INTERVIEWS:	INTERVIEWS: The Tuesday Ten: Retiring History Professor Thomas Burns - Emory Wheel, 10-20-08 Me and Mao: How Xinran got China talking about the Cultural Revolution - Independent (UK), 10-19-08 Sarah Vowell fills history with zingers - Rocky Mountain News, 10-16-08 John Dean: The Questions Raised By Mary Hershberger About McCain's Record - John Dean at Findlaw.com, 10-17-08 Kevin Mattson interviewed about his new book on the Conservative mind - Jamie Glazov at frontpagemag.com, 10-13-08
FEATURES:	FEATURES: H-SHEAR running a forum on Daniel Walker Howe's recent Pulitzer-prize winning book, What Hath God Wrought - Caleb McDaniel at H-SHEAR, 10-23-08 Online Memorial to Charles Tilly - The presentations and papers of the Hirschman Prize ceremony and memorial conference in honor of Charles Tilly (Oct. 3-5, 2008)
QUOTED:	QUOTED: Robert Caro"Former JFK, LBJ aide Nicholas Katzenbach remembers years in Washington":"He is a central figure in so many of the pivotal episodes of American history of the 1960s," says Robert Caro, who has interviewed Katzenbach for the fourth and final volume of his series of books on Lyndon Johnson."And he has the ability, which not every participant has, to see the larger implications of their actions." - Canadian Press, 10-24-08 Sean Wilentz"Former JFK, LBJ aide Nicholas Katzenbach remembers years in Washington":"Nick has been a truly noble public servant," says historian Sean Wilentz, who praises Katzenbach as a model for a time when government officials were"honest pursuers of justice, without ideological axes to grind." - Canadian Press, 10-24-08 Alan Kraut says it's time to get the immigrant story right - Francis X. Clines in the NYT, 10-11-08 David Fowler: Historian says Beatles were just capitalists, and not youth heroes - Guardian (UK), 10-9-08
HONORED / AWARDED:	HONORED, AWARDED, APPOINTED: Michael Beschloss receiving NY award for promoting history - Newsday, 10-22-08 Middle East historian Colin Shindler's appointment hailed by conservatives - Campus Watch, 10-12-08
SPOTTED:	SPOTTED: John Demos"Historian examines witch hunts past and present":"Connecticut would have been the leader in witch hunting if it hadn't been for Salem," historian John Demos told a full house the Windsor Historical Society. - Windsor Journal, 10-23-08
CALENDAR:	CALENDAR: October 30, 2008: Columbia University Historian to Lecture on Illegal Immigration - Mae Ngai, the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history at Columbia University will give the talk,"Illegal Immigration to the United States: Origins and Consequences," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 in the Wailes Lounge at the Elston Inn & Conference Center. - Sweet Briar College, 10-23-08
ON TV:	ON TV: History Listings This Week The Weather Channel's original program:"When Weather Changed History": Season 2 debuts October 5 with an episode dedicated to the Chicago Fire of 1871. Repeats of Season 1 are on Every Sunday at 9pmET with re-airings through out the week. - When Weather Changed History Ken Burns: PBS to air his national parks series next year - AP, 7-13-08 PBS, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: LBJ, Part Two Monday, October 27 at 9pm on PBS -- As this year's political campaigns heat up, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE continues to showcase THE PRESIDENTS Mondays at 9pm on PBS (check local listings.) History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: City of Blood," Sunday, October 26, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Extreme Marksmen," Monday, October 27, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Halloween Tech," Monday, October 27, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Primal Fear," Monday, October 27, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree," Monday, October 27, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Nostradamus: 500 Years Later," Tuesday, October 28, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds: The Pagans," Tuesday, October 28, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Decoding The Past: Mayan Doomsday Prophecy," Tuesday, October 28, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Chocolate," Tuesday, October 28, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Snackfood Tech," Tuesday, October 28, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: More Snackfood Tech," Tuesday, October 28, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"History's Mysteries: Amityville: Horror or Hoax? ," Tuesday, October 28, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Special: An Alien History of Planet Earth," Wednesday, October 29, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"UFO Files: The Day after Roswell," Wednesday, October 29, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Monster Spiders ," Wednesday, October 29, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed," Thursday, October 30, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"Star Wars Tech," Thursday, October 30, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"Lost Worlds: The Real Dracula," Thursday, October 30, @ 5pm ET/PT History Channel:"Mega Movers: Strange Structures," Thursday, October 30, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Castles & Dungeons," Thursday, October 30, @ 7pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Candy," Thursday, October 30, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: City of Blood," Thursday, October 30, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"Cities Of The Underworld: 11 - Dracula's Underground," Thursday, October 30, @ 11pm ET/PT History Channel:"Exorcism: Driving Out the Devil," Friday, October 31, @ 2pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Vampire Beast," Friday, October 31, @ 4pm ET/PT History Channel:"MonsterQuest: Vampires in America," Friday, October 31, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Haunted History of Halloween," Friday, October 31, @ 6pm ET/PT History Channel:"Modern Marvels: Halloween Tech," Friday, October 31, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents: 1789-1825," Saturday, November 1, @ 8pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents: 1825-1849," Saturday, November 1, @ 9pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents: 1865-1885," Saturday, November 1, @ 10pm ET/PT History Channel:"The Presidents: 1913-1945," Saturday, November 1, @ 11pm ET/PT
SELLING BIG (NYT):	SELLING BIG (NYT): Sarah Vowell: THE WORDY SHIPMATES, #8 -- (2 weeks on list) - 11-2-08 Bob Woodward: THE WAR WITHIN #11 -- (6 weeks on list) - 11-2-08 Andrew Bacevich: THE LIMITS OF POWER #13 -- (10 weeks on list) - 11-2-08 James M. McPherson: TRIED BY WAR #15 -- (2 weeks on list) - 11-2-08 Jerome R. Corsi: THE OBAMA NATION #26 - 11-2-08
FUTURE RELEASES:	FUTURE RELEASES: H. W. Brands: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 4, 2008 Carlo D'Este: Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945, November 11, 2008 Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, November 11, 2008 Gary May: John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845, December 9, 2008 George S. McGovern: Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865, December 23, 2008
DEPARTED:	DEPARTED: Albert Boime dies at 75; leading art historian taught at UCLA for 30 years - LAT, 10-23-08 Peter Avery, distinguished orientalist, dies Guardian (UK), 10-18-08

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