More Modern Notes

Congratulations to the winners of Guggenheim Awards for 2010. The Tenured Radical has filtered out the list of historians among them.

Ruth Scurr,"Thomas Carlyle at the barricades," TLS, 14 April, is an abbreviation of her introduction to her new edition of Carlyle's French Revolution.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa,"Call Him Andean Jones," WSJ, 10 April, reviews Christopher Heaney's Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu.

Christine Kenneally,"The Mystery of the Messy Notebooks," Slate, 12 April, reviews John Curran's Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making.

Peter Berkowitz and Joan Wallach Scott debate the French ban of the burqa.

Veterans reunions:

Liberators of World War II-era concentration camps

Organizers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)