Things Noted Here and There
Blake Gopnik,"Buried Treasure," Washington Post, 8 December, reviews"Wine, Worship & Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani," an exhibit at Washington, DC's Sackler Gallery.
Benjamin M. Friedman,"Industrial Evolution," NYT, 9 December, reviews Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Cliopatria's August Symposium in anticipation of Clark's book, with a response by Clark, is here (scroll down).
At Reading Room, Jill Abramson, Gary Hart, Thomas Mallon and Jennifer Schuessler discuss and debate Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams.
Lee Siegel,"The Fixer-Upper," NYT, 9 December, reviews Philip Davis's Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life.
David Cohen,"An Unusual (and Fitting) Teaching Gig," IHE, 10 December, reports on the remarkable experience of David Katz, a Jewish historian of Europe, who teaches the history of Christianity at Israel's Tel Aviv University one semester and Turkey's Koç University the next.
Anthony Swofford,"Stories Behind the Story," Washington Post, 9 December, reviews Mike Hoyt, John Palatella, et al., eds., Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It.
Finally, only 15 months ago, Trillwing at The Clutter Museum complained that she couldn't find women blogging about history on the net. I thought then that she simply hadn't found them. Now, thanks to Jon Dresner, we have a new category, Women's History, on Cliopatria's History Blogroll. Inspired by the blogroll at Scandalous Women, it includes blogs doing women's history generally. You'll find many more specialized blogs, both women doing history and women doing women's history elsewhere on the History Blogroll, such as A Don's Life and Zenobia: Empress of the East in Ancient History, Early Modern Notes and Everything Early Modern Women in Pre-Modern History, or Break of Day in the Trenches and Civil War Women in Wars and Warriors.