Modern History Notes

Paul Basken,"College Students Show Poor Knowledge of History, Civics," CHE, 18 September, brings another report of our students' underperformance on a test of historical knowledge.

Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan,"Jefferson's Concubine," NYRB, 9 October, reviews Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.

David Martin,"Have Pentecostalism, will travel," TLS, 17 September, reviews Randall J. Stephens's The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South, Michael Burgunder's The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century, Asonzeh Ukah's A New Paradigm of Pentecostal Power: A study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, and Ogbu Kalu's African Pentecostalism: An Introduction. Stephens is featured as HNN's Top Young Historian of the Week and blogs at Religion in American History.

Peter Campbell,"At the Wallace Collection," LRB, 25 September, previews"Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster," an exhibit of his cartoons, drawings, illustrations and costume and set designs at London's The Wallace Collection.

Finally, I've recently made dozens of additions to Cliopatria's History Blogroll. See, for example, its lists for World History, Women's History, United States History, Military History, Material Culture & Public History, and Primary Sources. Among other things, Primary Source blogs, like The History Movies and Weirdo Video, offer hundreds of period video selections. The list in United States History is very rich in local history blogs. New York City is featured in some of the best of them: The Bowery Boys, Greater New York, Kinetic Carnival, Local History, Lost City, New York History, NYC Snapshot, Vanishing New York, and Whitman's Brooklyn.