Saturday Notes

Carnival: Rebecca Goetz will host History Carnival LIV at Historianess on Sunday 1 July. Send your nominations of the best in history blogging since 1 June to her at rebecca_goetz*at*hotmail*dot*com or use the form.

Authors and Publishers:
Claire Potter,"Ever Wondered How to ... Find a Publisher?" Tenured Radical, 25 May; and Rachel Toor,"No Bad Author," CHE, 29 June.

Bill Bennett, American Historian: William J. Bennett,"Our National Alienation & Amnesia," National Review, 29 June. Bennett has recently published America: The Last Best Hope, 2 volumes. At The American Scene, Daniel Larison challenges Bennett's triumphalism.

Foursquare Sister Aimee: Caleb Crain's"The Miracle Woman," NYRB, 19 July, reviews Matthew Avery Sutton's Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. It isn't online, but it's supplemented by Crain's"Notebook: Aimee Semple McPherson," Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, 29 June. There, he comments on other biographies of McPherson, has excellent links to Vanity Fair's Aimee Semple McPherson cut-out doll, recordings of her voice, and the news that Aimee's second husband apparently hit the revival circuits in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania with the paternal grandparents of former Attorney General John Ashcroft.