History Today

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Articles in September 2001 issue of History Today

• The archives of one of Britain's most important post-war architects have been sold to the Canadian Centre for Architecture.(Sir Jim Stirling)(Brief Article)
• Russian and German archaeologists have uncovered a 2,500-year-old burial mound that could shed new light on the nomadic confederation who forced the Ch'in dynasty into building the Great Wall of China.(Brief Article)
• REVISITING THE MOUND-BUILDER CONTROVERSY.(pre-Columbian North America)
  by Garlinghouse, Thomas S.
• Assassination of President McKinley.(assassin Leon Czogolz)(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition.(Review)
  by Brewer, David
• The Tudor Palace at Somerset House.(Brief Article)
  by Wilson, Duncan
• Fine wine, rich food and beautiful tableware recovered from a wreck discovered off northwestern Scotland have shown how the Spanish Armada appears to have been more concerned about how to celebrate its conquest of Britain than how they would achieve it.(B
• A collection of Persian manuscripts detailing the Manichean religion has been reassembled for the first time in 70 years at Dublin's Chester Beatty Library.(Brief Article)
• Lonely Planet publishers have launched a new guidebook presenting Australia's history and politics from an Aboriginal point of view.(Brief Article)
• Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
  by Pflederer, Richard
• Round and About: September 2001.
• Charles II Hides in the Boscobel Oak.(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The Last Years of James II 1690-1701.
  by Corp, Edward
• Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement.(Review)
  by Rubinstein, William D.
• SUBURBIA AND PARTY POLITICS.(political influence)
  by Clapson, Mark
• Mercury in anti-depressant medication could have caused Abraham Lincoln's bad tempered outbursts.(Brief Article)
• The Mad-house Keepers of East London.(nineteenth century asylum proprietors)
  by Murphy, Elaine
• The Rebellion of Earl Godwin.(Edward the Confessor's England)(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Correction.(Correction Notice)
• An exceptionally well preserved Stone Age campsite, dating back 12,500 years to the end of the last Ice Age, has been unearthed in Hampshire.(Brief Article)
• A gallery of prehistoric cave paintings has been found in south-west France at Cussac, in the Dordogne valley, rivalling the Lascaux cave paintings discovered nerby in the 1930s.(Brief Article)
• Obituaries.
• South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung has spoken of his dismay at Japan's refusal to make changes to controversial new history textbooks.(Brief Article)
• Prize Historic Gardens.(Brief Article)
  by Mawrey, Gillian
• The Legacy of the Gujarat Earthquake.(Brief Article)
  by Charan, Anubha
• ROBERT PAXTON: THE OUTSIDER.
  by Evans, Martin
• The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings.(Review)
  by Saul, Nigel
• Charles Booth Online Archive.(Brief Article)
  by Jones, Felicity
• LETTERS.
• An iconic Stalinist-era monument is to be relocated to a new retail and leisure centre in Moscow.(Brief Article)
• A 12th-century English monk may have made the earliest known drawing of a sunspot.(Brief Article)
• Fragments of Masaccio's great altarpiece of 1426 are to be pieced back together in an exhibition to mark the 600th anniversary of the artist's birth.(Brief Article)
• THE THRONE OF ZOG.(Albania's King Zog)
  by Tomes, Jason
• OLD CONFLICTS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES.(Catholic-Orthodox divide)
  by Soteri, Nicholas
• Other September Anniversaries.(Brief Article)
• Athens of the North.(Isabel Hariades, Miller Publishing Company)
  by Hariades, Isabel
• The Private Life of Henry VIII.(Review)
  by Walker, Greg