Modern History Notes

Congratulations to the historians who yesterday were named winners of the National Humanities Medal: Bernard Bailyn, Jacques Barzun, Stanley N. Katz, Arnold Rampersad, and Gordon S. Wood.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Deborah Lutz's Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism for the Washington Post, 27 February.

Adam Kirsch,"Dreams of Zion," Tablet, 1 March, reviews George Bornstein, The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews and Irish from 1845 to 1945.

David Reiff,"Where Hunger Goes: On the Green Revolution," Nation, 7/14 March, reviews Nick Cullather's The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia.

Nicholas Carr,"Drowning in Beeps," Daily Beast, 1 March, reviews James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood.

Niall Ferguson,"Un-American Revolutions," Daily Beast, 27 February, v. Daniel Larison,"Ferguson's Fantasy," Eunomia, 28 February.