Modern History Notes

Cliopatria's History Blogroll continues to grow rapidly. Recently, we've had major additions in Material Culture & Public History, Women's History, and Premodern History. You might want to scan your fields of interest there for new blogs in it.

Joanna Lewis reviews Ronald Hyam's Understanding the British Empire for THE, 22 July.

Daphne Spain,"Voltairine (and other twentieth-century feminists)," TLS, 21 July, reviews Sheila Rowbotham's Dreamers of a New Day: Women who invented the twentieth century.

Dwight Garner,"Carpet-Bombing Falsehoods About a War That's Little Understood," NYT, 21 July, reviews Bruce Cummings's The Korean War.

Conrad Black,"Escape from ‘Nixonland'," NY Sun, 19 June, reviews Rick Perlstein's Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.