Feb 3, 2010

More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

Biblical Studies Carnival XLX is up at Abnormal Interests.

Four Stone Hearth #85, the anthropology/archaeology carnival, is up at A Very Remote Period Indeed.

History Carnival LXXXIV is up at Frog in a Well/Japan.

Carnivalesque needs a host for February's Ancient/Medieval edition. If you're interested, contact sharon*at*earlymodernweb*dot*org*dot*uk.

Rob Lyons,"A foodie's guide to the history of humanity," Spiked Review of Books, 31 January, reviews Tom Standage's An Edible History of Humanity.

Howell Raines,"The Counter Revolution," NYT, 31 January, pays his due to the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. Marian Wright Edelman,"SNCC, Fifty Years Later," Huffington Post, 31 January, remembers. The scene of the sit-in has re-opened as a civil rights museum. See: Edward Rothstein,"Four Men, a Counter and Soon, Revolution," NYT, 31 January.

Bruce J. Shulman,"House should pass Senate bill," Politico, 31 January, looks at the legislative history of social security to argue for a resolution of the health care impass.