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Feb 18, 2010

20th Century Notes


by Cliopatria


  • The Carnival of Genealogy, 90th Edition, is up at Creative Gene.
  • The Giant's Shoulders #20, the history of science carnival, is up at Skulls in the Stars.

    • Kevin Schultz and Paul Harvey,"Everywhere and Nowhere," IHE, 18 February, comments on the uneven coverage of religion in post-bellum America.

    Jenna Weissman Joselit,"‘Here's to You, Mrs. Feitlebaum'," The Book, 17 February, reviews Ari Kelman, ed., Is Diss A System? The Milt Gross Comic Reader.

    Piers Brendon,"What Winston Really Wanted," Literary Review, February, reviews Richard Toye's Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made.

    Adam Kirsch,"Axis of Evil," Tablet, 16 February, reviews Jeffrey Herf's Nazi Propaganda in the Arab World.

    Mark Walhout,"Il Caso Silone," Books & Culture, January/ February, reviews Stanislao G. Pugliese's Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone. John Gray,"Life of a Giant," Literary Review, February, reviews Michael Scammell's Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual.

    Steve Weinberg,"Generosity and heroics of the Berlin airlift," Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 February, reviews Richard Reeves's Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949.

    Kevin Boyle reviews Rawn James, Jr.'s Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation for the Washington Post, 14 February. Stuart Taylor, Jr.,"A Bad Place To Be," The Book, 16 February, reviews Abigail Thernstrom's Voting Rights--And Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections. You wouldn't expect a critical review of Abigail Thernstrom from Stuart Taylor, Jr., would you?

    Stephen Holden,"Is This a Man Who Sheds Light, or Simply Sets Fires?" NYT, 11 February, previews a documentary film,"American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein."


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    David M Fahey - 2/19/2010

    Yes, there is a growing scholarly interest in religion, not just among American historians but also in other disciplines such as sociology. The age in which they live often influence the questions or at least the topics for historians. Particularly since the Iranian revolution, militant Islam has caught the attention of scholars. Closer to home for American scholars, the evangelical "religious right" has been hard not so see and hear. A few scholars are aware of the rise of the pentecostal and charismatic movement in the "global south." Years ago I showed to a class "God Strikes Back," as film in the "Twentieth-Century-World" series. It shifted back and forth between Shia in Iran and Christians in America, with occasional visits to militant Hindus and Jews.