Thursday's Notes

History Carnival LXXXVI goes up tomorrow at Sharon Howard's Early Modern Notes. Send nominations today of March's best in history blogging to sharon*at*earlymodernweb*dot*org* dot*uk or use the form. The Giant's Shoulders #22, the history of science festival, will go up at The Lay Scientist on 15 April. Use the form to nominate the best in history of science blogging since mid-March. Military History Carnival #23 goes up at The Edge of the American West on 17 April. Send nominations of the best in military history blogging since mid-March to hwar*at* comcast*dot*net by 15 April.

Martha C. Nussbaum,"A Passion for Truth," TNR, 1 April, pays her tribute to Sir Kenneth Dover.

Ed Yong,"Tree rings reveal two droughts that sealed the fate of Angkor," Not Exactly Rocket Science, 29 March, probes the evidence about the fall of Angkor and the Khmer empire. Hat tip.

David Wallace-Wells,"American Movements," The Book, 31 March, reviews Ira Berlin's The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations.

A graduate student in history at Duke, Julia Gaffield, has found the only known print copy of Haiti's original constitution. Its location had been unknown for 200 years.

Christine Stansell,"Mrs. Adams' Big Adventure," Slate, 31 March, reviews Michael O'Brien's Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napolean.