Midweek Notes

Richard Beck interviews Robert Darnton in "A bookshelf the size of the world," Boston Globe, 24 July.

Patricia Cohen, "Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land," NYT, 26 July, looks at scholars' use of "Geographic Information Systems — software that displays and analyzes information related to a physical location — to re-examine real and fictional places like the villages around Salem, Mass., at the time of the witch trials; the Dust Bowl region devastated during the Great Depression; and the Eastcheap taverns where Shakespeare's Falstaff and Prince Hal caroused."

Miri Rubin reviews Nigel Saul's For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 for the Guardian, 22 July.

Emma Mustich interviews "John Morrill on Oliver Cromwell," The Browser, 25 July, for his recommendation of the five best books on Cromwell.

P. D. Smith reviews David Coke's and Alan Borg's Vauxhall Gardens: A History for the Guardian, 22 July.

The new Common-Place is up, with new studies of ante-bellum American history.

Andrew Salmon, "Progress in Paradise," The Book, 26 July, reviews Nicholas Thomas's Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire.

Adam Kirsch, "Ordinary People," Tablet, 26 July, reviews Konrad Jarausch, ed., Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters From the Eastern Front and Dieter Schlesak's The Druggist of Auschwitz: A Documentary Novel.

Timothy Snyder, "Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust," NYRBlog, 25 July, looks at the resurgence of anti-Semitism on the Eastern Front. See also: Marc Tracy's "Lithuanian Holocaust Memorial Vandalized: Why this corner of the Shoah is often overlooked," Tablet, 26 July.