More Noted Things
William Grimes,"Land of Lincoln," NYT, 22 June, reviews Andrew Ferguson's Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America.
Evan Thomas,"Band of Brothers, Team of Rivals," Washington Post, 17 June, reviews Stanley Weintraub's 15 Stars -- Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals who Saved the American Century and Mark Perry's Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace.
Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus,"CIA to Air Decades of its Dirty Laundry," Washington Post, 22 June, covers CIA director Michael V. Hayden's announcement at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) yesterday that the Agency will release top secret documents from the 1950s to the 1970s next week.
Orlando Patterson,"Thomas Agonistes," NYT, 17 June, reviews Kevin Merida's and Michael A. Fletcher's Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas.
There is no more highly respected historian of religion in America than Mark Noll. Mariem Qamruzzaman,"An Evolving Relationship," South Bend Tribune, 21 June, interviews him, as he moves from the evangelicals' Wheaton College to Notre Dame. Hat tip.
Finally, newly noted in the ‘sphere:
Anamnesis, the blog of Greg Afinogenov, a"fledgling historian" with pre-modern, American colonial, and philosophical interests.
Ancient Japan, by Nagaeyari,"an amateur historian with an interest in early Japanese history."
Bay Radical, the blog of an amateur historian, whose interest is the history of radicalism in the San Francisco Bay area.
Historic Battlefields, by a graduate student at the University of Birmingham, is primarily interested in 20th century British military history.
Logographer, is the blog of Craig Schamp, a graduate student in ancient and medieval history at San Jose State.
Paper Cuts is Dwight Gardner's blog for the NYTBR.
Religion and American History is the new blog of my friend, Paul Harvey, who is in the history department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Both Nagaeyari's Ancient Japan and Paul Harvey's Religion and American History indicate an interest in becoming group blogs, so if your interested in their fields, contact their founders.