American History Notes

Jill Lepore,"Tea and Sympathy," New Yorker, 3 May, tracks the current Tea Party movement to origins in the Bicentennial of the American Revolution.

Michael Lind,"The Yellow Peril," bookforum, April/May, reviews Evan Thomas's The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898, James McGrath Morris's Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, and Alan Brinkley's The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.

Michael Pasquier,"An Interest in Women," Killing the Buddha, 26 April, presents the evidence of the interest of two brothers – the older one a photographer, the younger one a Roman Catholic priest – in the women of Storyville in New Orleans. Hat tip to Paul Harvey at Religion in American History.

Christopher Benfey,"Fights," The Book, 26 April, reviews James Lord's My Queer War.

Robert Creamer,"The Arizona of 2010 is the Alabama of 1963," Huffington Post, 25 April, bids to top the month's bad history carnival. Creamer should tell us how many churches were dynamited in Phoenix this year. How many Sunday School children have died as a result? Thanks to Chris Bray for the tip.