Modern History Notes

Lucy Wooding reviews Elizabeth Evenden's and Thomas S. Freeman's Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' for the THE, 14 July.

Eve M. Kahn, "Condemning Slavery With a Paintbrush," NYT, 14 July, previews "Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedmen's Sons," an exhibit of the work of a 19th century African American painter at Cedar Grove, a museum in Catskill, NY.

Charlotte Mitchell, "Thackeray's inheritance, 200 years on," TLS, 13 July, reviews John Aplin, ed., The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family, 5 vols., and Aplin, A Thackeray Family Biography, Vol. I: The Inheritance of Genius, 1798–1875 and Vol. II: Memory and Legacy, 1876–1919.

Keith Grieves reviews Jeremy Black's The Great War and the Making of the Modern World for the THE, 14 July.

In Garry Wills, "Edmund Burke Against Grover Norquist," NYRBlog, 14 July, the 18th century conservative teaches 21st century Republicans about binding oaths.