Scattered Endnotes

Jack Rakove,"The Ring and the Crack," The Book, 2 July, reviews Gary B. Nash's The Liberty Bell.

Here is rare video footage of Leo Tolstoy, his household, and his burial, ca 1908-1010.

Marc Grossberg,"Brave Soldier," The Tablet, 2 July, is recommended reading for July 4. What's not to like about a widowed Jewish grandmother who grabs an American flag and an iron skillet to coldcock a Klansman on her property in Texas?

The Smithsonian Magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary with a special issue. Among other things, it looks ahead forty years and surveys manuscript collections that have been closed, but will be opened in the next forty years. In print, the article is immodestly titled"The Future of History".