Things Noted Here & There

Congratulations to the winners of the Bancroft Prize for 2011: Sara Dubow for Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America, Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery and Christopher Tomlins for Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America.

Russell Jacoby,"Bloodlust," CHE, 27 March, is an essay adapted from his new book, Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence From Cain and Abel to the Present.

Bernard Porter reviews Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The West and the Rest for the Guardian, 25 March.

Ann Finkbeiner,"What Newton Gave Us," NYT, 25 March, reviews Edward Dolnick's The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World.

David Waldstreicher,"How the Indians Lost Washington Territory," NYT, 25 March, reviews Richard Kluger's The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America.

Andrew Delbanco,"Was the Civil War Necessary?" NYT, 25 March, reviews David Goldfield's America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation.

Ben Shepherd,"Britain's War Machine," Guardian, 27 March, reviews David Edgerton's Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War.

Michelle Goldberg,"Quiet Desperation," The Book, 28 March, reviews Stephanie Coontz's A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s; and J. Courtney Sullivan,"Being Gay on the Left," NYT, 25 March, reviews Martin Duberman's The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds.

Scott Martelle reviews Stanley Meisler's When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years for the LA Times, 23 March.

Joshua Hammer,"African Tyrant," NYT, 25 March, and Martin Meredith for the Washington Post, 27 March, review Peter Godwin's The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.