Nov 2, 2009

The History Blogosphere's Weekend

by Cliopatria

Friday: History Is Ephemeral, Issue #7, is up at Kitsch Slapped.

Saturday: Carnivalesque LV, an Ancient/Medieval All Hallow's Eve Edition, is up at Bavardess. Boo ...!

Sunday: Here at Cliopatria, nominations are open for the Cliopatria Awards, 2009. Throughout November you can make nominations for the six awards. Teams of judges will select the winning nominees in December and, in conjunction with the meeting of the American Historical Association, they will be announced in early January.

Sunday: History Carnival LXXXI is up at Natalie Bennett's Philobiblon.

Michael Sims,"Mind over monsters: Peering into the dark corners of the psyche," Washington Post, 27 October, reviews Stephen T. Asma's On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears. See also: Asma's"Monsters and the Moral Imagination," CHE, 25 October.

Adam Kirsch,"Ayn Rand's Revenge," NYT, 29 October, and T. J. Stiles for the San Francisco Chronicle, 1 November, review Anne C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made.

Ronald Grigor Suny,"Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989," Nation, 28 October, reviews Stephen Kotkin's Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment, Constantine Pleshakov's There Is No Freedom Without Bread! 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism, and Victor Sebestyen's Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire.