Mid-Week Notes
Peter Schmidt,"An Angry Professor Mounts His Own Labor Protest in Alabama," CHE, 12 July, reports the struggle of UAB's labor historian, Glenn Feldman, with the University's administration.
Michael Kimmelman,"Old Masters and Modern Science," NYT, 12 July, reviews"Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries," an exhibit at London's National Gallery.
Last week's the Library of Congress announced that its technicians had discovered that Thomas Jefferson had changed the word"subject" to" citizen" in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence. It failed to note that Julian P. Boyd had pointed that out in his edition of the Thomas Jefferson Papers many years ago. See footnote #10.
Isaac Chotiner,"The Lamp and The Fog," The Book, 13 July, revisits George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914.
Claire Dederer,"Why Americans Love Yoga," Slate, 12 July, reviews Stefanie Syman's The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga and Robert Love's The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America.
Tristram Hunt reviews Adam Sissman's Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography for The Telegraph, 10 July.