Feb 1, 2011

More Modern Notes

by Cliopatria

History Carnival VC is up at Heather Monroe Prescott's Knitting Clio.

Heather Cox Richardson,"Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Lies," THS, 31 January, asks why the press focused so heavily on Thomas Lowry's changing of the date on a Lincoln document while largely ignoring Stephen Ambrose's making up interviews de novo.

Marc Olivier Baruch,"A French New Deal?" books & ideas.net, 21 January, reviews Philip Nord's France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. The review appeared originally in La Vie des idées.fr.

Blake Bailey,"For Salinger, With Love," Slate, 31 January, reviews Kenneth Slawenski's J. D. Salinger: A Life.

Kerri MacDonald,"Cairo's Ornate (or Odd) Portals to the Past," Lens, 31 January, features the Egyptian city's quirky museums. Al Jazeera English: Live Stream for coverage of the crisis in Egypt.