Modern History Notes

Art History Carnival for June 2011 is up at The Earthly Paradise. The most recent Biblical Studies Carnival is up at Joel Watts's Unsettled Christianity.

Gal Beckerman, "Empty trash. Buy milk. Forge history.," Boston Globe, 5 June, looks at the uses to which Sheilagh Ogilvie, Kris Inwood, Tracy Dennison, and Leigh Shaw-Taylor have put archived lists of things.

James M. Lundberg, "Thanks a Lot, Ken Burns," Slate, 7 June, considers the ways in which Burns has changed the way we think about the American Civil War.

Alberto Manguel, "Return to Wonderland," Three Penny Review, Summer, revisits the miraculous birth of Alice in Wonderland.

Donald Worster, "The Transcontinental Travesty," Slate, 6 June, reviews Richard White's Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. Jonathan Yardley for the Washington Post, 3 June, and Patrick Cooke, "Interstate Highways as a Long-Haul Project, WSJ, 4 June, review Earl Swift's The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways.

Chris Lehmann, "Little Churches Everywhere: California's Evangelical Conservatism," Nation, 27 June, reviews Darren Dochuk's From Bible Belt to Sun Belt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism and Matthew Avery Sutton's Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America.

Jed Perl, "The Evolution of Desire," TNR, 8 June, reviews "Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'Amour Fou," an exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan.

Timothy Snyder, "A New Approach to the Holocaust," NYRB, 23 June, reviews Peter Longerich's Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews, Longerich's Heinrich Himmler: Biographie, Catherine Epstein's Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland, and Andrej Angrick's and Peter Klein's The "Final Solution" in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941–1944, translated by Ray Brandon.

Adam Kirsch, "Her Own Light," Tablet, 7 June, reviews Gail Levin's Lee Krasner: A Biography.

Isaac Chotiner, "Bigness," The Book, 6 June, Dwight Garner, "A Biography of Millions," NYT, 8 June, and Richard Rayner for the LA Times, 12 June, review Patrick French's India: A Portrait. French, "5 Things We Get Wrong About India," Daily Beast, 7 June, draws on his research for the book.