More Noted Things

Looking toward the AHA's annual job market orgy in January, one of our colleagues suggests Colonial Williamsburg's listing as a commentary on the state of our profession. CW wants a doctorate in early American Studies, with experience in museum-related historical research, and expertise in a half dozen or more programming technologies and languages. Must be both a self-starter and a collegial builder of community. Bring all of that to the job and you could hope to make up to $40 K.

Roderick Conway Morris,"The Great Rustici Emerges From the Shadows," NYT, 13 December, reviews"The Great Bronzes of the Baptistery: Giovanfrancesco Rustici and Leonardo," an exhibit at the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy.

Caleb Crain,"Tea and Antipathy," New Yorker, 20 December, reviews Richard Archer's As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution, T. H. Breen's American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People, and Benjamin L. Carp's Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. At his Steamboats are ruining everything, Crain recommends that you read the review first and, then, the bibliographic supplement at his blog.

Kerry Howley,"Arrested Development," bookforum, Dec/Jan, revisits Paul Goodman's New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative and reviews Drawing the Line Once Again: Paul Goodman's Anarchist Writings and The Paul Goodman Reader.

Laura Miller,"Is the Internet due for a takeover?" Salon, 12 December, reviews Tim Wu's The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.