More Noted Things

Susan Dominus,"Holocaust Classes Are Seldom Easy on Children," NYT, 25 February, looks at teaching the Holocaust to Jewish children; and Michael Kimmelman,"No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real," NYT, 27 February, looks at teaching it in Europe when direct memory is passing.

You can access Frederick M. Hess's"Still at Risk: What Students Don't Know, Even Now," American Enterprise Institute, 26 February, which is featured in Sam Dillon,"Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History and Literature Questions," NYT, 27 February, and Greg Toppo,"Teens losing touch with common cultural and historical references," USA Today, 26 February.

Drew Hansen,"The rules on plagiarism, (with full credit to MLK)," Houston Chronicle, 24 February, proposes three rules for evaluating charges of plagiarism in public speech. Thanks to David Garrow for the tip. See also: Timothy Noah's"Doris Goodwin on Obama's Borrowings: One of these two people has committed plagiarism, and it isn't Obama," Slate, 26 February.

Jennifer Howard,"Landmark Digital History Monograph Project Goes Open Access," CHE, 26 February (free link to non-subscribers), fleshes out the announcement in Rob Townsend's"Gutenberg-e Books Now Available Open Access and through ACLS Humanities E-Book," AHA Today, 12 February.

Finally, farewell to the late, great George M. Fredrickson. At The Edge of the American West, Eric Rauchway pays fitting tribute to his mentor.