Modern History Notes
Robert B. Townsend,"Troubling News on Job Market for History PhDs," AHA Today, 4 January, and Scott Jaschik,"No Entry," IHE, 4 January, feature the deteriorating academic job market in history.
Joan Anderman,"Finding out about Founders," Boston Globe, 2 January, is an interview with Joel Richard Paul, the author of Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution.
John Ferling,"Myths of the American Revolution," Smithsonian, January, considers seven popular myths.
Kevin J. Hamilton,"The enduring influence of a progressive judge," Seattle Times, 3 January, reviews Melvin I. Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. Hat tip.
Tim Rutten reviews Christopher Andrew's Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 for the LA Times, 30 December.
Michael Kenney,"Tracking the protest movements that had roots in New England," Boston Globe, 30 December, reviews Robert Surbrug's Beyond Viet Nam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990.