Military History Carnival #26 goes up here at Cliopatria on Monday 28 February.History Carnival XCVI goes up at Nell Darby's Cotswold History on Tuesday 1 March. Use the form to nominate the best in February's history blogging.Finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize are: Pauline Maier's Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, and Alan Taylor's The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies. Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Mt. Vernon, and Washington College, it is one of the largest of all literary prizes.Dave Stone,"Saif Gaddadi, Ph.D, and the London School of Economics," The Russian Front, 27 February, tracks substantial plagiarism in Saif Gaddafi's LSE dissertation. See also:"Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi Thesis Wiki: Plagiarism." The LSE must convene a committee of inquiry to consider revoking its award of the degree to Saif Gaddafi.Hoping to keep Cliopatria's History Blogroll useful, we've divided the two largest categories of history blogs. Pre-modern History has become Medieval History and Early Modern History. United States History has given birth to United States Local History. If your grandmother was arrested for armed robbery in New Castle, PA, between 1930 and 1960, you can expect to find her mug shot and a biographical sketch at Small Town Noir.Wesley Yang,"Brittle Odessa," Tablet, 24 February, reviews Charles King's Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams.
Mark Mazower,"Only Don't Call Me Comrade," National Interest, March/April, reviews Jonathan Haslam's Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall and Silvio Pons and Robert Service, eds., A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism.
Edward Glaeser,"Do Mayors Matter?" The Book, 25 February, reviews Samuel Zipp's Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York, Sam Roberts, ed., America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, and Jonathan Soffer's Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City.
"Design and History of Tahrir Square," Dwell, 21 February, is a conversation with Nezar AlSayyad, Cairo-born professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban History, chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC, Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming book Cairo: Histories of a City.
