History Carnival XI is up at Siris! Go have a look and linger over it. While you are there, tell Brandon Watson what a fine job he did.

Jonathan Dresner will host Carnivalesque, the early modern festival, here at Cliopatria on Tuesday 5 July. Send your nominations of posts appearing in the last two months about the period from roughly 1450 to 1850 C. E. to Jonathan, dresner*at*Hawaii*dot*edu, by Monday.

Caleb McDaniel will host the next History Carnival XII at Mode for Caleb on 15 July. You can send your nominations to him at calebmcd*at*gmail.com.

At Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee tosses out the challenge of a meme to several of the Cliopatricians.