Jul 17, 2010

Weak Endnotes

by Cliopatria

The Giant's Shoulders #25, the history of science carnival, is up at The Dispersal of Darwin. It's the 2nd anniversary edition of the history of science festival.

Carnivalesque LXIV, an early modern edition of the festival, goes up at Dainty Ballerina's Fragments on Sunday 18 July. Send nominations of the best in early modern history blogging since 22 May to DaintyBallerina*@*gmail*.*com or use the form.

Thomas Bender,"Historians in Public," Transformations of the Public Sphere, 12 July, argues that affixing"public" to either"historian" or"intellectual" is redundant.

Darrin M. MacMahon,"Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote," WSJ, 15 July, reviews Fred Inglis's A Short History of Celebrity.

Finally, Alexandra Topping,"Historian Orlando Figes agrees to pay damages for fake reviews," Guardian, 16 July, reports on his acceptance of responsibility.