Modern History Notes

The winners of the Cliopatria Awards for 2010 will be announced at a gathering of blogging and twittering historians this evening at Tupelo restaurant in Cambridge, MA. You'll need to have made a reservation to attend. For the rest of us, the winners of this year's Cliopatria Awards will be announced here at Cliopatria tomorrow.

"In the name of godlessness," Economist, 28 October, Michael Burleigh,"The Zealotry Of Free Thinkers," WSJ, 11 November, and Delano Lopez,"Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons," e-history, January, review Philipp Blom's A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (in England, Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-Revolutionary Paris).

Brian Doherty,"The First War on Terror," Reason, January, reviews Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents.

Neil Caplan,"Public intellectuals and the Arab-Israeli conflict," TLS, 5 January, reviews Victor Kattan's From Coexistence to Conquest: International law and the origins of the Arab–Israeli conflict, 1891–1949, Jonathan Schneer's The Balfour Declaration: The origins of the Arab–Israeli conflict, and Efraim Karsh's Palestine Betrayed.

Benjamin Ivry,"Forgotten Witness to the Gulag," Jewish Daily Forward, 7 January, reviews Yuli Margolin's Voyage au pays des Ze-Ka, a memoir of the Holocaust, translated by Luba Jurgenson.

Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors,"The Newly Complicated Zora Neale Hurston," CHE, 2 January, discuss three heretofore unknown short stories by Hurston.

Kate Merkel-Hess,"The making of Charlie Chan," TLS, 5 January, reviews Yunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The untold story of the honorable detective.

Michael O'Donnell,"Solitary Confinement," Washington Monthly, Jan/Feb, and Margaret Soltan,"The Three Solipsisms of Tony Judt," review Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet.