Friday's Notes

Daisy Banks interviews"Jeremy Black on the History of War" for The Browser, n.d. Black offers a different perspective in military history.

Michael Dirda reviews Ann M. Blair's Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age for the Washington Post, 12 January.

David Eltis and David Richardson,"The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Civil War," Opinionator, 13 January, argues that America's civil war was crucial to abolishing the transatlantic trade.

Steven Hahn,"Discovering Equality," TNR, 13 January, reviews Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

Boston's John F. Kennedy Library and Museum has digitized and put 200,000 pages of documents, 1,200 telephone conversations, speeches, meetings and 1,500 photos online. They are at jfklibrary.org.

Akiva Gottlieb,"Skidding on Polished Glass," The National, 14 January, reviews Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory.