More Noted Things

Sharon Howard and Cliopatria's other friends at The Long Eighteenth are holding a book event on Michael McKeon's The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge. It begins here, includes several following posts, a response by McKeon, and discussions in comments.

The Historianess, Rebecca Goetz, posts the syllabus for HIST 487,"Sex, Lies, and Depositions (Microhistories of Virginia County Court Records)," which she'll offer next semester at Rice and invites the Weakly Standard's scrutiny. Tim Burke'sWhole Enchilada may have been more than the poor fellows could digest. It's hard to imagine better, more intense introductions to macro- and micro-history.

Elie Wiesel,"Why Memory?" Washington Post, 8 October, reviews Primo Levi, Auswitz Report and Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.

Eliana Johnson's report in the New York Sun on the disruption of talks by spokesmen for the Minutemen at Columbia University is disturbing.

Kevin Drum suggests that Fareed Zakaria's"Iraq's Dark Day of Reckoning," Newsweek, 16 October, may be the signal that moderate American conservatives can now recognize that withdrawal from Iraq is the United States' only reasonable option.

The University of Wisconsin's Brian Ulrich has been traveling in the Caucasus and has interesting reports from Baku and Quba.

Finally,"Even the thieves have disappeared," says Antonina Makarova. Kim Murphy,"A Dying Population," LA Times, 8 October, is an extraordinary report on the population crisis in Russia. Thanks to Richard Jensen at Conservativenet for the tip.