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November 27, 2005

History Buzz

By Bonnie Goodman
Ms. Goodman is a graduate student at Concordia University and an Assistant Editor at HNN.

This Week

Incarcerated:	David Irving: Denied bail in Austria. International Herald Tribune, Europe, (11-25-2005) David Irving arrested in Austria for denying the existence of the Holocaust. (Reuters U.K., 11-23-2005)
Spotted:	John Hope Franklin speaking at Duke University symposium. (The Chronicle Online, 11-21-2005) Eric Foner speaking about"The Meaning of Freedom in American History" at the University of Nevada at Las Vagas. (The Rebel Yell, 11-7-2005)
Awarded:	Robert Conquest: The Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George Bush. (Stanford Report, 11-17-2005)
Reviewed:	Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln making headlines on CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and the Christian Science Monitor Sean Wilentz's The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln reviewed in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and the American Prospect.
Interviewed:	Doris Kearns Goodwin with NPR
Selling Big:	Doris Kearn Goodwin: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, #2 (3 weeks on list). David McCullough: 1776, #10 (25 weeks on list). New York Times Non-Fiction Best-Sellers List
Appointed:	Diane Ravitch: Educator and historian appointed Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution. (Business Wire, 11-18-2005)
Launch:	Allen Weinstein: New National Archives program"American Conversations." (U.S. Newswire, 11-21-2005)
Main Selection:	Thomas Fleming's Washington's Secret War, The Hidden History of Valley Forge: the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club.
Departed:	Joseph Thorndike: 92, Editor at Life and American Heritage. (NYT, 11-24-2005) Peter Brunt: Camden Chair of Ancient History at Oxford. (Independent (London), 11-25-05)