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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)
1956 Kenneth Stampp
(1913-2009), US Berkeley historian, authored “The Peculiar
Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South.”
(SFC, 7/22/09, p.D5)
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)
1967 Robert Katz (d.2010 at
77), American writer and historian, authored "Death in Rome." It was
a meticulous reconstruction of an infamous 1944 Nazi massacre. A
subsequent movie based on it, called "Massacre in Rome," stirred
controversy because it suggested Pope Pius XII did not intervene to
stop the massacre even though he knew about the Nazis' plans.
(AP, 10/21/10)
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)
1987 Greg Wallace opened up
Cadillac Historical Services as a service for the vintage Cadillac
owner and began serving as a historian for the Cadillac company.
(SFC, 12/14/96, p.D1)(http://tinyurl.com/4f9s9cr)
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)
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 Jan 29, In China Xu Zerong
(David Tsui), a Hong Kong-based historian, was sentenced to 13 years
in prison for providing classified historical documents, pertaining
to Chinese operations during the Korean war, to unspecified overseas
parties. Zerong (57) was released on June 23, 2011, from Guangzhou
Prison in southern Guangdong province's capital city.
(SSFC, 2/3/02, p.A17)(AP, 6/23/11)
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. In 2010 Adam Sisman authored “Hugh Trevor-Roper: The
Biography.”
(SFC, 1/27/03, p.B4)(WSJ, 7/26/08, p.W8)(Econ,
7/24/10, p.81)
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 Jul 10,
Kenneth Stampp (b.1913), US Berkeley historian, died. His books
included “The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South”
(1956) and “The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877” (1965).
(SFC, 7/22/09, p.D5)
2009 Jul 17, Leszek Kolakowski
(b.1927), Polish-born Oxford philosopher and historian of ideas,
died in Oxford. “We Learn history not in order to know how to behave
or how to succeed, but to know who we are.” His work included the
3-volume series “Main currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and
Dissolution” (1976).
(Econ, 8/1/09,
p.76)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Ko%C5%82akowski)
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)
2010 Jan 27, Howard Zinn
(b.1922), Massachusetts-based historian, teacher and activist, died
of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Ca. His work included “A People’s
History of the United States” (1980).
(SFC, 1/28/10, p.A8)
2010 Mar 7, Sir Kenneth Dover
(89), a distinguished British historian of Greek culture, died. He
gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a fellow historian
Trevor Aston (d.1985). His books included commentaries on
Thucydides, Theocritus and Aristophanes; "Ancient Greek Literature"
(1980), "Greek and the Greeks" (1987), "The Greeks and Their Legacy"
(1989), "Greek Popular Morality in the Times of Plato and Aristotle"
(1994), "The Evolution of Greek Prose Style" (1997) and a popular
history, "The Greeks" (1981) written in conjunction with a
television series for the British Broadcasting Corp.
(AP, 3/9/10)
2010 Apr 12, Winners of the
Pulitzer Prize were announced. Liaquat Ahamed won the history
category for his book “Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the
World” (2009).
(SFC, 4/13/10, p.A8)
2010 Oct 20, Robert Katz (77),
American writer and historian, died in Italy. His meticulous
reconstruction of an infamous Nazi massacre in Rome brought him fame
and sparked a trial over whether he defamed the pope. His book
"Death in Rome" (1967) and the subsequent movie based on it, called
"Massacre in Rome," stirred controversy because it suggested Pope
Pius XII did not intervene to stop the massacre even though he knew
about the Nazis' plans.
(AP, 10/21/10)
2011 Jan 17, John Ross (72), US
poet, author, journalist and political activist who lived in Mexico
and wrote extensively on its leftist political movements, died of
liver cancer. His books included "Rebellion from the Roots:
Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas."
(AP, 1/18/11)
2011 Francesca Beauman
(b.1977), British historian, authored “Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A
History of the Lonely Hearts Ad.”
(Econ, 2/12/11, p.92)
2011 Robert Bickers authored
“The Scramble For China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire,
1832-1914.”
(Econ, 2/19/11, p.92)
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