Additionally Noted
Sasha Volokh,"Everything Old is New Again," The Volokh Conspiracy, 9 March, notes the anguish of a fifty-something who joins Facebook:"I provided a photograph and minimal information for my profile ... and waited for the 'friending' to begin. (You can try to resist, but friend is a now a verb.)""I did once try to resist," says Volokh,"but then, in the early 13th century, the Guide for Anchoresses said: ‘Make no purses, for to friend yourself therewith.'" Rebuffed again in the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Volokh succumbed to the verb"friend" several centuries ago.
Jonathan Jones,"American Beauty," Guardian, 8 March, reviews the British Museum's exhibit,"A New World," which features the work of Jonathan Jones, the first British artist to feature subjects from the western hemisphere; and UNC, Chapel Hill's North Carolina Collection presents its an online exhibit,"Picturing the New World: The Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590. Browse here. Hat tip: Manan Ahmed and Sally Greene.
Clive James,"Lewis Namier: The Eccentric Historian Who Changed British Postwar Culture," Slate, 8 March, reassesses the legacy of Sir Lewis Namier.
Gregory McNemee,"Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock ‘n' Roll," Britannica Blog, 8 March, searches out the origins of the music; and Michael C. Moynihan,"Red Elvis: The Strange Tale of the Soviet's Favorite Rock ‘n' Roll Star," Reason, March, reviews Reggie Nadelson, Comrade Rockstar: The Life and Mystery of Dean Reed, the All-American Boy Who Brought Rock ‘n' Roll to the Soviet Union. Hat tip.