History Buzz March 9, 2012: Controversial “Game Change” based on the 2008 Presidential Election & GOP Candidates John McCain & Sarah Palin Premieres on HBO Saturday, March 10 @ 9PM

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. Ms. Goodman has also contributed the overviews, and [...]

History Buzz February 17, 2012: American Experience’s ‘Clinton’ on PBS: That was then …

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP PBS’s ‘Clinton’: That was then … Source: WaPo, 2-17-12 Clinton on PBS’s American Experience Premiering February 20th and 21st, a biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and [...]

History Buzz September 9, 2011: New C-Span Series “The Contenders” Profiling Failed Presidential Candidates that Changed and Impacted Political History

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Associated Press William [...]

History Buzz August 28, 2011: National Geographic Channel Presents George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview — 10th Anniversary of the Terror Attacks on the US

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY ON TV: [...]

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Black in Latin America, Important Latino History Lesson

Source: My Latino Voice, 4-18-11 Beginning on April 19th, PBS will air the four part series “Black in Latin America” hosted by Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates explores the cultural, religious, artistic and musical influences of Africa on the Caribbean and Latin America. Historian Gates said that between 1502 to 1867, 12.5 [...]

Niall Ferguson: why the West is now in decline

Source: Telegraph UK, 3-6-11 For 500 years Western civilisation was full of self-belief, but now, historian Niall Ferguson argues in his new Channel 4 series, its dominance is coming to an end. Niall Ferguson in his new Channel 4 series, Civilization: is the West History? Photo: Channel 4 …Yet any history of the world’s civilisations that [...]

Niall Ferguson: My modest mission? To change the world

Source: Independent UK, 3-6-11 As his series ‘Civilisation’ – an echo of Kenneth Clark’s renowned television epic – begins tonight, celebrity historian Niall Ferguson tells Matthew Bell about the sacrifices he has had to make to build his empire JUSTIN SUTCLIFFE There’s no doubt Ferguson is capable of hard work: ‘Civilisation’ is his ninth book [...]

Robert E. Lee PBS special airs on Jan. 3, 2011 @ 9pm

Source: Washington Times, 1-20-11 The local PBS stations will present a 90-minute documentary on the life of Robert E. Lee tomorrow evening at 9:00 p.m.,  the first of a series of three programs in the “American Experience” series, kicking off the Sesquicentennial observance which begins this year. The program was duly dissected by Washington Post [...]