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4 billion In 1998 Richard Fortey
published "Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of
Life on Earth.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, BR p.7)
35-10,000 The Upper Paleolithic Period. There was
considerable variation in the types of tools that were used and
according to prehistorian J.D. Clark, a new self-awareness or concern
for matters that had no relation to fulfilling biological needs. This
is shown by the burial of the dead together with food and weapons.
(NG, Oct. 1988, p. 447) (Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.165)
3,500BC Sumerians and Babylonians use sexigesimal
(base 60) number system according to historian Eric Temple Bell.
(V.D.-H.K.p.27)
c1600BC Egypt, beginning of the Hyksos rule. Taking
advantage of the unsettled state of Egypt, Asiatic invaders from
Palestine entered Egypt and set themselves up as kings, even adopting
Pharaonic titles and customs... The Jewish historian Josephus claims to
quote the words of an Egyptian chronicler, Manetho, in describing this
period of foreign rule... The Hyksos, whoever they were, had a
'blitz-weapon' - the horse drawn chariot which they had copied from the
horse-rearing Mitanni of northern Mesopotamia. And the Mitanni in turn
got the horse from Persia, together with the art of riding it.
(L.C.-W.P.p.55-56)
600BC-600AD In 1999 Arthur Cotrell published "From
Aristotle to Zoroaster," an A to Z companion to the classical world
over this period.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, Par p.6)
923 Feb 16, Abu Dja'far Mohammed
Djarir al-Tabari (83), Islamic historian, died.
(MC, 2/16/02)
975 Jul 25, Thietmar bishop of
Merseburg, German chronicler, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1332 May 27, Ibn Khaldun, Arab
historian, was born.
(HN, 5/27/98)
1469
May 3, Nicolo Machiavelli (d.1527), political advisor and author, was
born. He was a historian and author of "The Prince." He saw in Cesare
Borgia, the bastard son of Pope Alexander VI, the prospect of an Italy
free of foreign control. "Men are more apt to be mistaken in their
generalizations than in their particular observations."
(V.D.-H.K.p.109)(AP, 11/15/98)(HN, 5/3/99)
1480 "The Spanish Inquisition," a
history of the Inquisition was later written by Henry Kamen and a new
edition was published in 1998.
(WSJ, 4/16/98, p.A1)
1511 Jul 30, Giorgio Vasari
(d.1574), Italy, painter, architect and art historian (Vasari's Lives),
was born. He wrote "Lives of the Artists."
(WUD, 1994, p.1582)(MC, 7/30/02)
1516 The first published account
of the discovery of North America appeared in "De Rebus Oceanicus et
Novo Orbe" by the Italian historian Peter Martyr.
(TL-MB, p.11)
1551 May 2, William Camden,
English historian (Brittania, Annales), was born.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1630 May 29, Gov. John Winthrop
began his "History of New England."
(SC, 5/29/02)
1660 May 29, Peter Scriverius
(44), lawyer, historian, died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1685 May 28, Pieter de la Court
(~67), economist, historian, died.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1705 Nov 23, Thomas Birch, English
historian (d.1766), was born.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1737 Apr 27, Edward Gibbon
(d.1794), historian, writer of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,"
was born. [see May 8, 1737]
(HN, 4/27/98)
1737 May 8, Edward Gibbon, English
historian, author of "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire," was born. [see
April 27, 1737] "All that is human must be retrograde if it does not
advance."
(HN, 5/8/98)(AP, 2/27/00)
1748-1813 Alexander Fraser Tytler. He wrote "The
Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic." He stated that democracy
collapses when voters begin selecting candidates who promise the most
financial benefits.
(SFEC, 10/25/98, p.D6)
1756-1763 The Seven Years War. France and Great
Britain clashed both in Europe and in North America. In 2000 "Crucible
of War" by Fred Anderson was published. France, Russia, Austria,
Saxony, Sweden and Spain stood against Britain, Prussia and Hanover.
Britain financed Prussia to block France in Europe while her manpower
was occupied in America.
(V.D.-H.K.p.223)(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.7)(WSJ, 2/10/00,
p.A16)
1773 Apr 6, James Mill (d.1836),
English philosopher, historian (Hist of British India) and economist,
was born in Scotland.
(V.D.-H.K.p.253)(WUD, 1994 p.909)(MC, 4/6/02)
1776 Feb 17, Edward Gibbon
(1737-1794), English historian, published his 1st volume of " The
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." He completed the
6-volume classic in 1788.
(WUD, 1994 p.596)(WSJ, 5/26/07, p.P6)
1786 Mar 22, Joachim Lelevelis was
born in Warsaw. He became a renowned historian and Prof. at Vilnius
Univ. He died May 29, 1861 in Paris.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1794 Jun 18, George Grote, British
historian, was born.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1795 May 10,
Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian, was born.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1796 Jul 15, Thomas Bulfinch,
historian and mythologist (The Age of Fable), was born.
(HN, 7/15/01)
1798 Aug 21, Jules Michelet,
French historian who wrote the 24-volume "Historie de France," was born.
(HN, 8/21/98)
1800 Oct 3, George Bancroft,
historian, known as the "Father of American History" for his 10-volume
A History of the United States, was born.
(HN, 10/3/98)
1805 Jul 29, Alexis de
Tocqueville, French historian who wrote "Democracy in America," was
born.
(HN, 7/29/98)
1814 Apr 15, John Lothrop Motley,
US historian, author (Rise of Dutch Rep), was born.
(MC, 4/15/02)
1818 May 25, Jacob Christoph
Burckhardt (d.1897), Swiss cultural historian, was born. "The people no
longer believe in principles, but will probably periodically believe in
saviors." "Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind
is it desirable to know the future."
(AP, 5/6/98)(AP, 6/11/98)(SC, 5/25/02)
1820 Jun 19, Joseph Banks, English
natural historian (Cook, Australia), died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1824 The book “History of the
Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year
1812” by Count de Segur, a general in Napoleon’s army, was first
published. An English translation edited by Gerard Shelley was
published in 1928.
(WSJ, 8/25/07, p.P9)
1828 Apr 21, Hippolyte Taine,
French philosopher, historian (Voyage in Italy), was born.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1832 May 5, H.H. Bancroft,
historian, publisher (History of Pacific States), was born.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1834 Jan 10, Lord Acton [John E.E.
Dalberg], English historian and editor of The Rambler, a Roman Catholic
monthly, was born.
(HN, 1/10/99)
1842 May 15, Emanuel ADMJ Count de
las Cases (76), French historian (Napoleon), died.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1843 William Hickling Prescott
(1796-1859), American Historian, authored "History of the Conquest of
Mexico."
(ON, 10/00, p.5)(WSJ, 8/16/08, p.W6)
1844 Friedrich Nietzsche (d.1900),
German philosopher, was born. "No one is such a liar as the indignant
man."
(AP, 3/19/98)
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups,
parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
(AP, 12/3/98)
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to
play."
(AP, 9/14/99)
"The final lesson of history: ‘Let’s never go back
there again!"’
(AP, 8/25/00)
"We seek a past from which we may spring, rather
than that past from which we appear to have derived." ("The Use and
Abuse of History")
(WSJ, 9/12/02, p.D8)
1849 Jul 19, F.A. Alphonse Aulard,
French historian, was born.
(MC, 7/19/02)
c1849 Numerous Tennesseans went to
California for the gold rush. In 1998 Tennessee historian Walter T.
Durham wrote "Volunteer Forty-Niners," an account of the Tennesseans
experiences in California.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.E5)
1874 Nov 27, Charles A. Beard,
distinguished American historian who wrote "History of the United
States," was born.
(HN, 11/27/98)
1876 Aug 5, Mary Ritter Beard,
American historian and writer, was born.
(HN, 8/5/00)
1877 May 29, John Lothrop Motley
(63), (History of United Netherlands), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1880 May 29, Oswald Spengler,
German philosopher of history, was born. He maintained that every
culture grows, matures and decays. He wrote the book "The Decline of
the West."
(HN, 5/29/99)
1881 Feb 5, Thomas Carlyle
(b.1795), Scottish essayist and historian, died in London.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carlyle.htm)
1881 Jul 22, The first volume of
"The War of the Rebellion," a compilation of the Official Records of
the Union and Confederate Armies, was published.
(HN, 7/22/99)
1885 Sep 10, Carl Clinton Van
Doren, historian and critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography
on Benjamin Franklin, was born. His work included “9th Wave.”
(HN, 9/10/98)(MC, 9/10/01)
1886 May 16, Douglas Southall
Freeman, journalist, historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, was
born.
(HN, 5/16/01)
1887 Apr 5, British historian Lord
Acton wrote, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts
absolutely."
(AP, 5/5/97)
1887 Jul 9, Samuel Eliot Morison
(d.1976), American biographer and historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea),
was born. "If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the
Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile."
(AP, 7/4/97)(HN, 7/9/01)(MC, 7/9/02)
1889 Apr 14, Arnold Toynbee
(d.1975), English historian, was born. He wrote the 12-volume "A Study
of History." "The history of almost every civilization furnishes
examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in
quality." "Of the 20 or so civilizations known to modern Western
historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when
we diagnose each case ... we invariably find that the cause of death
has been either War or Class or some combination of the two."
(AP, 3/24/98)(AP, 8/24/98)(HN, 4/14/99)
1893 Francis Parkman (b.1823),
American historian, died. His work covered in part France's struggle
for possession of North America.
(WUD, 1994, p.1049)(WSJ, 2/10/00, p.A16)
1895 Jan 13, J.R. Seeley (b.1834),
English essayist and historian, died. His essay Ecce Homo, published
anonymously in 1866, and afterwards acknowledged by him, was widely
read, and prompted many replies, being deemed an attack on Christianity.
(WSJ, 12/8/08,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Seeley)
1896 Apr 28, Heinrich von
Treitschke, German historian, died.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1896 May 25, Jan N. Bakhuizen van
den Brink, theologist, church historian, was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1898 May 10, Ariel Durant, writer
(Story of Civilization), was born.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1899 Oct 9, Bruce Catton, U.S.
historian and journalist, famous for his works on the Civil War, was
born.
(HN, 10/9/98)
1900-1933 The first volume of "A History of the
Twentieth Century" by Sir Martin Gilbert was published in 1997.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, Par. p.6)
1901-1969 This period is covered in the 1998 book "A
Thread of Years" by John Lukacs.
(WSJ, 4/13/98, p.A20)
1902 Jun 19, John E E Dalberg,
baron van Acton (69), English historian, died.
(MC, 6/19/02)
1902 Aug 24, Fernand Braudel
(d.1985), French historian, was born. He was one of the most important
historiographers of the 20th century: "History may be divided into
three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears
not to move at all."
(AP, 9/5/97)(DT internet 11/28/97)
1902 Oct 25, Henry Steele Commager
(d.1998), American historian was born in Pittsburg, Pa. He wrote the
fifty-five volume "Rise of the American Nation."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Steele_Commager)
1906 Mar 25, Alan John Percivale
Taylor, English historian, was born. He pioneered the presentation of
the history lecture on British television.
(HN, 3/25/99)
1907 The Organization of American
Historians was founded as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.
(www.oah.org/members/mbrinfo.html)
1908 Oct 15, John Kenneth
Galbraith, economist, writer and diplomat, was born in Canada. His work
included "A History of Economics" and "Affluent Society" (1958). He won
the Hillman Award in 1958. In 2005 Richard Parker authored the
biography “John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His
Economics.”
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R50)(HN, 10/15/00)(WSJ, 2/22/05,
p.D10)
1910-1997 Dame C.V. Wedgwood, English historian: "An
educated man should know everything about something, and something
about everything."
(AP, 12/1/97)
1913 Charles Beard (1874-1948),
American historian, authored “An Economic Interpretation of the
Constitution of the United States.” It argues that the structure of the
Constitution of the US was motivated primarily by the personal
financial interests of the Founding Fathers.
(WSJ, 4/28/09,
p.A11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Beard)
1915 May 6, Theodore H. White,
historian, writer (Making of President), was born.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1920 Jun 5, Cornelius Ryan, US
historian, writer (The Longest Day), was born.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1922 Apr 1, William Manchester,
historian (Death of a President), was born in Attleboro, Mass.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1922 Carter G. Woodson
(1875-1950), black historian, authored “The Negro in Our History.”
(WSJ, 5/19/05, p.D8)
1927 Jun 2, Phillip Burton,
historian (Vanishing Eagles), was born.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1927-1949 The films of this period were covered in
the 1998 book: "You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The American Talking Film,
History and Memory," by Andrew Sarris.
(SFC, 4/898, p.E3)
1928 Mar 22, Dmitri Antonovitch
Volkogonov, soldier, historian, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Oct 23, Francois V.
Alphonse Aulard (b.1849), French historian, died.
(www.fact-index.com/f/fr/francois_victor_alphonse_aulard.html)
1929-1945 In 1999 David M. Kenney published his 110
page history: "Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and
War, 1929-1945."
(SFEC, 5/16/99, Z1 p.4)
1929 Renzo De Felice, scholar and
historian of Italy’s Fascist period, was born. He authored more than a
dozen books on Fascism and Mussolini. His other books explored the
political and economic history of Italy. He died May 25, 1996, in Rome.
(SFC, 5/28/96, p.A15)
1931 Historian James Truslow Adams
published "The Epic of America." here he coined the term ‘the American
Dream."
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.E5)
1931 Henry Steele Commager (d.
1998 at 95), American historian, wrote "The Growth of the American
Republic" with Samuel Eliot Morison.
(SFC, 3/3/98, p.D8)
1939 E.H. Carr, British scholar,
authored “The Twenty Years’ Crises: 1919-1939.” It became a seminal
work on the realism that instructed US and British Cold War statesmen.
(WSJ, 12/29/07, p.W8)
1941 Siegfried Giedion, a Swiss
art historian, published his influential book: "Space, Time and
Architecture."
(TL, 1988, p.112)
1944 Mar 7, Emanuel Ringelblum
(b.1900), Jewish historian, died in the Warsaw ghetto. He is known for
his “Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto,” “Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn”
chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyń, and the
so-called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. In 2009 Samuel D.
Kassow authored “Who Will Write our History? Rediscovering a Hidden
Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto.
(Econ, 3/14/09,
p.84)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ringelblum)
1944 Apr 8, Anthony Farrar
Hockley, military historian, was born.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1947 Feb 14, Donna Halper,
Boston-based historian, author, educator and radio consultant, was
born. Since 1984, Halper has been the advocate for an adult with
autism. She continues to do presentations on such topics as media
history, women’s history, and popular culture at museums, schools, and
historical societies.
(www.donnahalper.com/dlh.htm)
1948 Oral history was founded as
an academic field at Columbia Univ.
(SFC, 10/28/08, p.B5)
1948 Constantine Jurgela (b.1904),
Lithuania-born historian, authored “History of the Lithuanian Nation.”
(http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1635910)
1949 May 18, James T. Adams, US
historian (Pulitzer 1921), died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1950 May 1, Lothrop Stoddard
(1883), American political theorist, historian, eugenicist, and
anti-immigration advocate, died. He wrote a number of prominent books
of early 20th-century scientific racism including “The Rising Tide of
Color Against White World Supremacy” (1920).
(WSJ, 1/4/08,
p.W5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothrop_Stoddard)
1954 Sir John Hale published
"England and the Italian Renaissance."
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A26)
1958 Forrest McDonald, historian,
authored “We the People,” an argument against Charles A. Beard’s 1913
book “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United
States.”
(WSJ, 8/12/04, p.D8)
1959 William Appleman Williams
(1921-1990), American historian, authored “The Tragedy of American
Democracy,” in which he blamed the Cold War on the US. Historian Robert
James Maddox provided a devastating critique of Williams’ shoddy in
“the New Left and the Origins of the Cold War” (1973)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Appleman_Williams)(WSJ, 4/28/09,
p.A11)
1960s Lawrence Henry Gipson wrote
his multi-volume work: "The British Empire Before the American
Revolution."
(WSJ, 2/10/00, p.A16)
1962 Jul 20, George Macaulay
Trevelyan (86), English royal historian, died.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1965 Apr 8, Erik A. Blomberg (70),
Swedish art historian, poet, author, died.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1966 Prof. Alan Heimert (d.1999 at
70) of Harvard published "Religion and the American Mind: From the
Great Awakening to the Revolution." It had a significant impact on
understanding the American culture of the 18th century.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.D7)
1970 Oct 24, Richard Hofstadter,
US historian, died at 54. In 2006 David S. Brown authored “Richard
Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.”
(http://tinyurl.com/f9ty4)(WSJ, 5/13/06, p.P8)
1970 Lewis Mumford (1895-1990),
American historian of technology and science, published "The Myth of
the Machine."
(Wired, 8/96,
p.168)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford)
1971 May 3, John Toland
(1912-2004), American author and historian, won a Pulitzer prize
for “Rising Sun” (1970) which chronicles Imperial Japan from its
Manchurian involvement following World War I to the end of World War II.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Toland_(author))
1974 Aug 22, Jacob Bronowski
(b.1908), British mathematician, cultural historian, died in East
Hampton, NY.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski)
1974 Nov 23, Cornelius Ryan
(b.1920), war reporter, historian, author, died. His books included "A
Bridge Too Far."
(HC,
12/12/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Ryan)
1974 The US National History Day
project began as a yearlong program for junior and senior high school
students. NHD started as a small contest in Cleveland. Members of the
history department at Case Western Reserve University developed the
initial idea for a history contest to make teaching and learning
history a fun and exciting experience.
(SSFC, 12/17/00,
p.17)(www.nationalhistoryday.org/NHDHistory.htm)
1975 Oct 22, Arnold Toynbee
(b.1889), English historian (A Study of History) and cultural
sociologist, died. He held that civilizations proceed from bondage to
spiritual faith, then to courage, then to liberty, then to abundance,
then to selfishness, then to apathy, then to dependency and then back
to bondage.
(AP, 3/24/98)(http://tinyurl.com/yoserm)(Econ,
3/31/07, p.63)
1975 Dec 4, Hannah Arendt
(b.1906), German-born American historian and philosopher, died. Her
books included "The Origins of Totalitarianism." In 2001 Lotte Kohler
edited "Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and
Heinrich Blucher 1936-1938."
(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A22)(SSFC, 4/15/01, BR
p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt)
1976 May 15, Samuel Eliot Morison
(b.1887), US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison)
1978 Aug 28, Bruce Catton
(b.1899), US historian, died in Frankfort, Michigan. He won a 1954
Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “A Stillness at Appomattox,”
his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Catton)
1979 Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford
history professor, published "The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in
American Law and Politics."
(SFC,12/18/97, p.C16)
1980 Frederick Turner published
"Beyond Geography," a look at US cultural restlessness underlying
Manifest Destiny.
(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.12)
1980 Howard Zinn (b.1922)
published "A People's History of the United States."
(SFEC, 8/22/99, BR
p.3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn)
1981 Jonas Barish (d.1998 at 76)
wrote "The Antitheatrical Prejudice," a survey of the history of
hostility to theater from the time of Plato to the present.
(SFC, 4/4/98, p.A24)
1981 Geoffrey de Ste. Croix
(1910-2000), British Marxist historian, authored "The Class Struggle in
the Ancient World, From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests."
(SFC, 2/15/00, p.A21)
1981 The Univ. of Wisconsin began
a multivolume History of Cartography. In 2004 editor David A. Woodward,
British-born geographer, died at age 61.
(SFC, 9/1/04, p.B7)
1981-1996 Stanford Chen (d.1999 at 51), reporter and
op-ed for the Oregonian, wrote "Counting on Each Other: A History of
the Asian American Journalists Association from 1981-1996."
(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.D8)
1982 Sir John Hale published
"Renaissance War Studies."
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A26)
1987 Paul Kennedy, British
historian, authored “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.”
(Econ, 5/24/08, p.108)
1987 Patricia Limerick published
"The Legacy of Conquest." She realigned standard history to account for
minorities and women in the unbroken settlement of the US West.
(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.12)
1989 Caroline Reynolds Milbank,
fashion historian, authored "New York Fashion."
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R40)
1990 Sep 7, Alan J.P. Taylor,
British historian (Origins of WW II), died.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1990 Sir John Hale published
"Artist and Warfare in the Renaissance."
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A26)
1991 Christopher Lasch (1932-1994)
authored “The True and Only Heaven,” in which he pushed the
conventional concepts of left and right.
(WSJ, 4/28/09,
p.A11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lasch)
1993 Sir John Hale (d.1999 at 95)
published "The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance."
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A26)
1993 John Keegan published "A
History of Warfare."
(WSJ, 6/17/99, p.A24)
1994 Feb 2, Marija
Alseika-Gimbutas (b.1921), Lithuanian archeologist and pre-historian,
died in LA, Ca.
(LHC, 1/23/03)
1994 Apr 7, Angelus Gottfried
"Golo" Mann (85), German-US historian, died.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1995 Aug 26, John Costello (52),
historian, died.
(MC, 8/26/02)
1995 The Encyclopedia of New York
City was published.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par p.20)
1996 May 17, D. Pipes reviewed
"The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years" by Bernard
Lewis.
(WSJ, 5/17/96,p.A-12)
1995 Rev. Albert Chan (1915-2005),
Jesuit priest, linguist and Chinese history scholar, became senior
research fellow at the Ricci Institute of the University of SF.
(SFC, 3/19/05, p.B4)
1996 May 25, Renzo De Felice (67),
scholar and historian of Italy’s Fascist period, died in Rome.
(SFC, 5/28/96, p.A15)
1996 Aug 12, Stephen Kuttner
(1907-1996), Prof. of medieval church law, died. His life study
involved tracing the evolution of law from Roman to modern times.
(SFC, 8/15/96, p.C4)
1996 Greg Wallace: Historian for
the Cadillac company.
(SFC, 12/14/96, p.D1)
1997 Apr 1, The US Library of
Congress began its Today in History web site @ http://www.loc.gov.
(SFEC, 7/20/97, Par p.8)
1997 Iris Chang (1968-2004)
authored "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WW II."
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A1)
1998 Jan 3, Peter Christoff, prof.
of Russian history at SF State Univ., died at age 86. His dissertation
was on Alexander Herzen and Mikhail Bakunin and he later specialized on
the Slavophil movement, which attempted to reinforce Orthodox Christian
values and Slavic cultural traditions in the former USSR. His main work
was a 4-volume "History of Russian Slavism."
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.A19)
1998 Jan 12, Time Image Archive of
London signed a joint venture with the George Eastman House Int’l.
Museum of Photography and Film located in Rochester N.Y.
(WSJ, 1/13/98, p.B6)
1998 Jan 18, "Ships of the World:
An Historical Encyclopedia" by Lincoln P. Paine was reviewed.
(SFEC, 1/18/98, Par p.16)
1998 Mar 2, Henry Steele Commager
(b.1902), American historian and champion of the Constitution, died in
Amherst, Mass. He and R.B. Morris edited the 40-volume series "The Rise
of the American Nation."
(WSJ, 3/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/3/98, p.D8)
1998 Apr 28, The American
Historical Association had 15,000 members. The Organization of American
Historians had 9,000 members. A new group, the Historical Society, was
announced as a back-to-basics professional organization.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A6)
1998 Douglas Brinkley published
his 628-page work: "American Heritage History of the United States."
(WSJ, 12/31/98, p.A8)
1998 Harry Evans published "The
American Century."
(WSJ, 12/31/98, p.A8)
1998 Peter Jennings and Tod
Brewster published "The Century."
(WSJ, 12/31/98, p.A8)
1998 Paul Johnson published
"History of the American People."
(WSJ, 12/31/98, p.A8)
1998 Howard R. Lamar edited "The
New Encyclopedia of the American West."
(SFEC, 11/8/98, BR p.3)
1998 Roy Porter published "The
Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from
Antiquity to the Present."
(WSJ, 4/3/98, p.W10)
1998 Gloria Steinem edited "The
Reader’s Companion To U.S. Women’s History." Writers included Steinem,
Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro and Barbara Smith.
(SFEC, 4/19/98, BR p.2)
1998 Ronald Weber published "Hired
Pens: Professional Writers in America’s Golden Age of Print," that
covered professional writing in the US from Edgar Allen Poe to the
present.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, Par p.8)
1998 Los Angeles A to Z was
published by Leonard and Dale Pitt.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, Par p.20)
1999 Jan 7, The new Encarta
Africana contained 3,000 scholarly articles on black culture and
history as part of a 2-CD ROM set by Microsoft. It included a timeline
that combines events in Africa and America.
(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A13)
1999 "America and the Sea: A
Maritime History" was published by Mystic Seaport and written by 6
affiliated authorities.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, Par p.12)
1999 The Billboard Encyclopedia of
Rock was published.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, Par p.6)
1999 Christopher Andrew and Vasili
Mitrokhin published "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive
and the Secret History of the KGB."
(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.5)
1999 James Elkins, art historian,
published "Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of
Pictorial Complexity."
(SFEC, 8/22/99, BR p.3)
1999 John Mack Faragher edited
"The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History."
(SFEC, 1/17/99, Par p.6)
1999 David Fromkin published "The
Way of the World," in which he covered the past, present and future
from the Big Bang to the modern world.
(WSJ, 1/14/99, p.A18)
1999 Martin Gilbert published
Volume II of his "A History of the Twentieth Century."
(SFEC, 5/16/99, Z1 p.4)
1999 Manuel Gonzales published
"Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States."
(SFEC, 8/22/99, BR p.10)
1999 Peter Irons published "A
People's History of the Supreme Court."
(SFEC, 8/22/99, BR p.3)
1999 Mark Mazower, British
historian, published "Dark Continent" in which he suggests that there
is nothing inevitable about liberal democracy.
(WSJ, 1/19/98, p.A20)
1999 Walter Nugent authored "Into
the West: The Story of Its People."
(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.12)
1999 Marvin Olasky authored "The
American Leadership Tradition," a survey of American statesmen.
(WSJ, 2/8/99, p.A21)
1999 Nicole and Hugh Pope
published "Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey."
(WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A24)
1999 Michael Raeburn authored "The
Chronicle of Opera" with events covered month by month from 1589.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, Par p.6)
c1999 Richard Robinson authored
"Business History of the World."
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R50)
1999 The Shengold Jewish
Encyclopedia was edited by Mordecai Schreiber.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, Par p.6)
1999 Ann Taves authored "Fits,
Trances and Visions." It was a history of religious experience in the
evangelical tradition and covered from 1740-1910. It also provided a
history of the psychology of religion.
(WSJ, 1/4/00, p.A20)
2000 Mar 28, Prof. Adam B. Ulam of
Harvard Univ., died at age 77. His 18 books included "Stalin: The Man
and His Era" (1973).
(SFC, 4/1/00, p.A26)
2000 A.E. Jeffcoat authored
"Spirited Americans," a history that celebrates the American spirit.
(WSJ, 1/17/00, p.A16)
2000 David Frum authored: "How We
Got Here--The 70s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better
or Worse)."
(WSJ, 1/27/00, p.A20)
2000 Alvin M. Josephy Jr.,
historian authored "A Walk Toward Oregon: A Memoir."
(SFEC, 2/13/00, p.5)
2001 Donna Halper, Boston-based
historian and radio consultant, authored “Invisible Stars: A Social
History of Women in American Broadcasting.”
(www.amazon.com/Invisible-Stars-American-Broadcasting-Communication/dp/0765605813)
2002 Mar 4, Roy Porter (b.1946),
British historian, died. He had recently published "Madness: A Brief
History." His other books included “The Greatest Benefit to Mankind”
(1997), a survey of the history of medicine.
(www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/mar/05/guardianobituaries.obituaries)(SSFC,
4/21/02, p.M3)(WSJ, 10/4/08, p.W8)
2002 Oct 23, Lady Antonia Fraser
(96), the Countess of Longford, a historian who wrote biographies of
Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington, died. She was born as
Elizabeth Harman and wrote under the name Elizabeth Longford.
(AP, 10/23/02)(SFC, 10/28/02, p.A17)
2002 Dec 1, Prof. Saburo Ienaga,
Japanese historian, died at age 89. He had led battles against the
government screening of textbooks.
(SFC, 12/2/02, p.A19)
2002 Dec 4, John Weaver,
historian, died in Las Vegas. His books included "Los Angeles: The
Enormous Village" (1980).
(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A25)
2002 Philip Bobbit, American
professor of Law, authored “The Shield of Achilles: War peace and the
Course of History.”
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.87)
2002 R.F. Foster authored "The
Irish Story."
(WSJ, 9/12/02, p.D8)
2002 John Lewis Gaddis authored
"The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past."
(SSFC, 12/15/02, p.M7)
2003 Jan 26, In England historian
Hugh Trevor-Roper (b.1914) died. His books included "The Last Days of
Hitler" (1947), "The Rise of Christian Europe" (1965), and "The
European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries." His final work
“The Invention of Scotland” was published posthumously in 2008.
(SFC, 1/27/03, p.B4)(WSJ, 7/26/08, p.W8)
2003 Feb 24, Historian
Christopher Hill (91), a Marxist whose reinterpretation of the 17th
century changed the way Britons regard the English revolution, died.
His books included "The World Turned Upside Down" (1972).
(AP, 2/26/03)(SFC, 2/27/03, A20)
2003 Mar 17, Herbert Aptheker
(87), historian, died. His work included a multi-volume "Documentary
History of the Negro People," and the editing of 3 volumes of letters
from W.E.B. DuBois.
(SFC, 3/21/03, p.A21)
2003 Apr 26, David Lavender (93),
American Western historian, died in Ojai, Ca. His books included "The
Great Persuader," a biography of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington
(1970).
(SFC, 4/28/03, B4)
2003 Jul 8, Lewis Coser (89),
leftist sociologist, died. His books included "American Communist
Party: A Critical History (1919-1957)" (1958), and "Men of Ideas: A
Sociologist's View" (1966).
(SSFC, 7/13/03, p.A27)
2003 Jul 26, John Higham (82),
historian, died. His books included "Hanging Together: Unity and
Diversity in American Culture."
(SSFC, 12/28/03, p.E9)
2003 Oct 31, Richard E. Neustadt
(84), the noted presidential adviser, scholar and historian who was a
founder of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, died in England. His
1960 book "Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership," offered
insight into government decision-making.
(AP, 11/2/03)
2003 Eric Hobsbawm, British
historian, authored "Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life."
(SSFC, 8/10/03, p.M1)
2003 Jackson Lears authored
"Something for Nothing," a view of history as a conflict between a
"culture of chance" and a "culture of control."
(WSJ, 1/28/03, p.D6)
2003 Joseph E. Stiglitz authored
"The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous
Decade."
(SSFC, 12/21/03, p.M5)
2004 Jan 4, John Toland (91),
historian, died in Danbury, Conn. His books included "The Rising Sun"
(1971), an account of Japan from 1936-1945, and "Adolph Hitler: The
Definitive Biography" (1976).
(SFC, 1/6/04, p.A19)
2004 Jan 7, Gunther Barth (78), UC
Berkeley history professor, died. His book included "Bitter Strength: A
History of the Chinese in the United States 1850-1870."
(SFC, 1/22/04, p.A17)
2004 Feb 3, Alan Bullock (b.1914),
British historian, died. His books included "Hitler: A Study in
Tyranny" (1952). He also wrote a 3-volume biography of union leader and
former foreign sec. Ernest Bevin.
(SFC, 2/4/04, p.A21)
2004 Feb 10, Edward Jablonski
(81), writer, died in NYC. Noted for his biographies of composers, his
over 2 dozen books also covered aviation and aerial warfare.
(SFC, 2/14/04, p.A22)
2004 Feb 28, Daniel Joseph
Boorstin (89), author, historian and 12th librarian of Congress, died
in Washington DC. His 2 dozen books included The Americans trilogy:
"The Colonial Experience" (1959), "The National Experience" (1966), and
"The Democratic Experience" (1973).
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.A2)(Econ, 3/20/04, p.94)
2004 Mar 8, Keith Hopkins (69), a
historian who brought an innovative sociological approach to the study
of ancient Rome, died in Cambridge, England. His books included
"Conquerors and Slaves" and "Death and Renewal."
(AP, 3/15/04)(SFC, 3/16/04, p.B7)
2004 Apr 5, Pulitzer Prize winners
were announced. Edward P. Jones won the fiction award for "The Known
World." Steven Hahn won the history award for "A Nation Under Our Feet"
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great
Migration." Anne Applebaum won the general non-fiction award for
"Gulag: A History."
(SFC, 4/6/04, p.A2)
2004 Jun 1, William Manchester
(82), historian and biographer, died in Middletown, Conn. His work
included “The Arms of Krupp” (1958) and “The Death of a President”
(1967), an account of the Kennedy assassination.
(SFC, 6/2/04, B7)
2004 Nov 4, John H. Waller
(b.1923), CIA official and historian, died. His books included “Beyond
the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War”
(1990).
(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A23)
2004 Nov 9, Iris Chang (b.1968),
author of the 1997 book "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust
of WW II," died by suicide in California.
(Econ, 11/27/04, p.91)(SFCM, 4/17/05, p.5)
2004 Fred Anderson and Andrew
Cayton authored “The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North
America (1500-2000).”
(WSJ, 1/4/05, p.D8)
2004 Terrence Ball and Richard
Bellamy edited "The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political
Thought." It was the 6th volume of a 6-volume world history.
(Econ, 1/17/04, p.72)
2004 Arthur Herman authored “To
Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World.”
(SSFC, 1/2/05, p.E3)
2004 Theodore Friend authored
"Indonesian Destinies," a history of Indonesia since independence.
(WSJ, 3/11/04, p.D7)
2004 Forrest McDonald (b.1927),
American historian, authored his memoir “Recovering the Past”
(WSJ, 8/12/04, p.D8)
2004 Maria A. Ressa authored
"Seeds of Terror," a focus on the last ten years of Indonesia.
(WSJ, 3/11/04, p.D7)
2004 Jean Gelman Taylor authored
"Indonesia," a history or the archipelago and its various cultures.
(WSJ, 3/11/04, p.D7)
2005 Jan 23, Sir William Deakin
(91), a historian who founded St. Antony's College at Oxford
University, helped Winston Churchill write about World War II, and led
the first British mission to Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia,
died in Var, France.
(AP, 1/25/05)
2005 Mar 17, George F. Kennan
(101), former US diplomat and historian, died. In 1947 Kennan wrote an
article that would guide US postwar policy (containment) for decades.
He proposed in the piece signed "X" that the US stop the global spread
of Communism through ideology and politics, not war. His books included
"Russia Leaves the War" (1956).
(AP, 3/18/05)(SFC, 3/18/05, p.A2)(Econ, 3/26/05,
p.85)
2005 Jun 27, Shelby Foote
(b.1916), novelist and historian, died in Memphis. His books included
the multi-volume “The Civil War: A Narrative” (1958-1974).
(SFC, 6/29/05, p.B7)
2005 David McCullough authored
“1776,” an account of the American Revolution.
(WSJ, 5/20/05, p.W10)
2005 Martin Meredith authored “The
State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence.”
(Econ, 7/2/05, p.76)
2007 Jul 31, Norman Cohn (92),
English historian, died. He studied the links between apocalyptic
Medieval sects and 20th century totalitarianism and genocide. His 1957
book: "Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and
Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages" drew parallels between
millenarian movements in the Middle Ages and the rise of 20th-century
totalitarianism.
(AP, 8/27/07)
2008 Philip Bobbit, American
professor of Law, authored “Terror and Consent: The Wars for the
Twenty-first Century.”
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.87)
2008 John Burrow authored “A
History of Histories,” a survey of history writing.
(WSJ, 4/19/08, p.W9)
2008 Gordon S. Wood authored “The
Purpose of the Past: Reflections of the Use of History.”
(SFC, 3/15/08, p.E3)
2008 Dec 21, Christopher Hibbert
(1924), a British historian, died. His over 50 books covered subjects
from the medieval Battle of Agincourt to the American Revolutionary War.
(AP, 1/6/09)
2008 Dec 29, Lt. Gen. Victor H.
Krulak (b.1913), Marine commandant (1995-1999), died. His book “First
to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps” (1984), examined the
history and culture of the US Marine Corps.
(WSJ, 1/3/09, p.A5)
2009 The English version of "The
Last Eunuch of China," by amateur historian Jia Yinghua, told the story
of Sun Yaoting (d.1996). Only two memories brought tears to Yaoting's
eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day
his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a
whole man again at death.
(Reuters, 3/16/09)
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