Mar 1, 2011

More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

Military History Carnival #26 is up at Cliopatria.

History Carnival XCVI is up at Nell Darby's Cotswold History.

February's Biblical Studies Carnival is up at Matthew Crowe's A Fistful of Farthings.

Women's History Carnival will celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month on 8 March.

Scott Jaschik,"'Stuff Academics Like'," IHE, 1 March, calls attention to the blog, Stuff Academics Like. It is"an ongoing celebration of the academically obscure, pretentious, and bizarre" by"a Ph.D. student in history in a ‘top five or so' program."

Steve Coates,"Paths of Glory," NYT, 25 February, reviews James Romm, ed., The Landmark Arrian. The Campaigns of Alexander: Anabasis Alexandrou. Trans. by Pamela Mensch.

Miranda Seymour,"Behind Every King," NYT, 25 February, reviews Helen Castor's She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth.

Jennifer Homans,"Arts Czars, NYT, 25 February, reviews Solomon Volkov's Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars. Trans. by Antonina W. Bouis.

Kevin Boyle reviews Lawrence Goldstone's Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 for the Washington Post, 27 February.

David Wise reviews Douglas Waller's Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage for the Washington Post, 27 February.

Thomas Mallon,"The Wonderer," NYT, 25 February, and Kirk Davis Swinehart,"The Enigmatic Nomad," Daily Beast, 26 February, review Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, eds., Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin.

Michiko Kakutani,"With a Few Tweaks, Shaking Up History," NYT, 28 February, reviews Jeff Greenfield's Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan.