Modern History Notes

Art History Carnival for August is up at The Earthly Paradise.

Charles S. Dameron, "A Free Mind, An Unfree Man," WSJ, 3 August, reviews the only North American slave narrative composed in Arabic, A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said, Ala Alryyes, editor and translator.

Tera W. Hunter, "Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest," NYT, 1 August, challenges persistent misconceptions of the slave family.

A. W. Purdue reviews Zara Steiner's The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 for the THE, 28 July.

Ronald Kessler, "Hoover's Secret Files, Daily Beast, 2 August, is an excerpt from his new book, The Secrets of the FBI.