Things Noted Here & There

Nick Poyntz is your host for an early modern edition of Carnivalesque. It's #68,"A New Almanack and Prognostication For the Yeare of our Lord God 2010. Setting forth the great changes, mutations, and revolutions in Early Modern Blogges in October and November".

In the Financial Times, 19 November, David Kynaston argues that historians should"Just Say No."

thonyc,"Galileo's great bluff and part of the reason why Kuhn is wrong," The Renaissance Mathematicus, 12 November, prompts a rethinking of both Galileo and Kuhn.

Michael Kenney,"Rebellion in Boston Harbor," Boston Globe, 16 November, reviews Benjamin L. Carp's Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & the Making of America and Jill Lepore's The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History.

A. N. Wilson,"Tolstoy: Russia's thunderous prophet," Financial Times, 19 November, reviews Rosamund Bartlett's Tolstoy: A Russian Life, Cathy Porter, trans., The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy, R. F. Christian, ed. and trans., Tolstoy's Letters, 2 vols., and Tolstoy's War and Peace, Richard, Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, trans.

Nicholas Basbanes reviews Edmund Morris's Colonel Roosevelt for the LA Times, 21 November. Thanks to Mary Dudziak for the tip.

Janet Maslin,"Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert," NYT, 21 November, reviews Michael Korda's Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

Sheri Parks,"Black women's cries that roused the world," Washington Post, 21 November, reviews Danielle L. McGuire's At the End of a Dark Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance, A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power; and Eric Hoover,"'Diverse in the Heart'," CHE, 21 November, reviews Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice.

David Margolick,"Zamparini's War," NYT, 19 November, reviews Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.