Mar 7, 2007
More Noted Still
At AHA Today, Elizabeth Grant has two link-rich posts on Women's History Month and Teaching the Next Generation of History Teachers.
Trachtenberg's information and reasoning can't be encouraging news for Jeffrey Herf's call for a new American Review of Books. At Steamboats are ruining everything, Caleb Crain is skeptical for other reasons.
Congratulations to Jacques Le Goff, a medieval Europeanist and editor of Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, who is one of six winners of the $1 million Dan David Prize.
Nicholas Wade,"A United Kingdom? Maybe," NY Times, 6 March, is rather thoroughly fisked by Sally Thomason,"Nutty Journalists' (and Others') Language Theories," Language Log, 6 March. Hat tip.
Ann Applebaum,"Dying to Know," Slate, 6 March, calls for opening the Holocaust archive known as the International Tracing Service. Odd name for an archive that's been closed for 62 years.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg,"Scarcity of Ads Endangers Newspapers' Book Sections," Wall Street Journal, 6 March:
Sometime this spring, the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce that it is folding its highly esteemed Sunday book review into a new section that will combine books with opinion pieces. That would reduce to five the number of separate book-review sections in major metropolitan newspapers still published nationwide, down from an estimated 10 to 12 a decade ago. The reason: not enough ads.
Trachtenberg's information and reasoning can't be encouraging news for Jeffrey Herf's call for a new American Review of Books. At Steamboats are ruining everything, Caleb Crain is skeptical for other reasons.