More Noted Things
For historical maps on the net, our colleague, Manan Ahmed, recommends: Google Earth in 4D, Google Maps Mania, and Topographic Map Archive. Click around at each of those sites to see how rich the resources are.
Who wouldn't want to take Tim Burke's History 62:"The History of Reading"? And I second Alan Jacob's suggestion of adding Jonathan Rose's Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes to the reading list.
Isis and the University of Chicago Press are temporarily lifting access restrictions on the winners of their Derek Price/Rod Webster and Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science awards: K. Maria D. Lane,"Geographers of Mars: Cartographic Inscription and Exploration Narrative in Late Victorian Representations of the Red Planet," Isis, 96 (December 2005): 477-506; and Arleen Marcia Tuchman,"Situating Gender: Marie E. Zakrzewska and the Place of Science in Women's Medical Education," Isis, 95 (March 2004): 34-57. Thanks to H-Scholar for the tip.
Fred Ruhlman, Adjunct Instructor in History, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga: Your career teaching historyin American higher education is over. Who the f**k hired you in the first place? [Ed.: Sorry, Jim. Long time, no see.] Hat tip to Margaret Soltan at University Diaries, whose fair and balanced cup of cheer is raised to Robert L. Dietle of the history department at Western Kentucky University.
When they speak of the monument to Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Mall in Washington, DC, as a"Stone of Hope," I hope they don't attribute those words to him. King's rhetoric resonated with us in large part because he wove the words of others into his own. He assumed that you knew those words came from I Samuel 7:12-14, from the Hebrew word, ebenezer, which his church in Atlanta was named.
Finally, since we count over 500 history blogs now, we can't acknowledge all anniversaries. Some of the older ones, however, are pretty special. The elder statesman of the history blogosphere, Kevin C. Murphy, celebrates the 7th anniversary of his Ghost in the Machine on Wednesday, the 15th; Josh Marshall, surely one of the most energetic of history bloggers, celebrated the 6th anniversary of his Talking Points Memo yesterday. Congratulations to both of them.