Thanks to Kevin Murphy at Columbia and Caleb McDaniel at Johns Hopkins, I've updated the list of history graduate student blogs. Caleb suggests that you may want to have a look at fellow Johns Hopkins student, Jason Kuznecki's Positive Liberty, and at UCLA student, Linus Kafka's Snoblog. Kevin vouches that four anonymous or pseudonymous blogs, Baldanders Simplicius Simplicissimus, The Naked Tree, Peasants Under Glass, and Pickle in the City, are done by Columbia graduate students in history. The Life & Times of a History Ph. D. Student is the blog of a woman who studies Modern Near Eastern and British imperial history. Jeremy Boggs, a graduate student in American history at George Mason University, blogs at Clioweb.

Congratulations are in order for my colleagues, Timothy Burke and Jonathan Dresner. Professor Burke has expanded his portfolio in geeks and games by joining the Terra Nova group blog. He will continue posting primarily at Easily Distracted. Professor Dresner has recently been appointed an Assistant Editor at History News Network. Fortunately, both Burke and Dresner will continue to blog at Cliopatria.

Congratulations also to Political Animal's Kevin Drum for his first New York Times book review. It is of Arthur Schlesinger's War and the American Presidency. Kevin is rather tough on a book which makes an argument that would be close to his own. Yes, at 87, Schlesinger is past his prime. We should all have had such a prime. The other thing to be said here is that this review is another sign that excellent blogging can open other avenues. His blog's record is Drum's sole credential for this plum assignment in book reviewing.

Finally, you may want to join in or view the Chronicle of Higher Education's live colloquy with Tariq Ramadan here. You recall that this distinguished Muslim scholar was to have begun teaching this fall at Notre Dame. His books and furnishings had already been shipped from Switzerland to South Bend, when DHS asked INS to revoke his visa. My own sense is that this is very foolish and that Ramadan should be welcomed in the United States. We have much to learn from him and our lack of hospitality only reassures the enemies of freedom that we are one of them. CHE's colloqy begins live at 2:00 p.m. EST today. Your questions are welcomed in advance here.