Modern History Notes

Richard Posner,"The Race Against Race," The Book, 29 January, reviews Peggy Pascoe's What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America and Paul A. Lombardo's Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell.

Michael Williams reviews Adam Zamoyski's Chopin: Prince of the Romantics for the Telegraph, 26 January.

Andy Beckett reviews Perry Anderson's The New Old World for the Guardian, 23 January.

Our colleague, K. C. Johnson, has published an essay on"Obama and American Foreign Policy," SHAFR, 26 January.

"Obama at One," the Nation's symposium on the highs and lows of Barack Obama's first year as POTUS includes responses by Andrew Bacevich, Robert Caro, Adolph Reed, Jr., Howard Zinn and many others.

Farewell to Howard Zinn, activist and author of A People's History of the United States. Michael Kazin's"Howard Zinn's History Lessons," Dissent, Spring 2004, remains the most powerful critique of Zinn's most popular work. Yet had I been at Spelman College from 1956 to 1963 or at Boston University from 1964 to 1988, Zinn and I would have been allies.