More Noted Things
AHA Today announces the results of the recent election of American Historical Association officers. Is this the first time that women have won all three of the top positions at issue?
Sharon Waxman,"How Did That Vase Wind Up in the Metropolitan?" NYT, 1 December, calls on Thomas Campbell, the new director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a new policy that frankly acknowledges how artefacts were acquired.
Stanley Fish,"‘Paradise Lost' in Prose," Think Again, 30 November, comments on Dennis Danielson's new rendition of John Milton's Paradise Lost in modern English prose.
Adam Gopnik,"Man of Fetters: Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale," New Yorker, 8 December, reviews Peter Martin's Samuel Johnson and Jeffrey Meyers's Samuel Johnson: The Struggle.
Ruth Scurr,"Bloodstained Ghosts: The Children of Revolutionary France," The Nation, 24 November, reviews Robert Gildea's Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914. Hat tip.
Caleb McDaniel,"'Old ossawatomie Brown to be hanged at Charlestown for murder and insurrection'," a guest-post at The Edge of the American West, 2 December, is a tonic for those of us who miss our former colleague and his Mode for Caleb.
Tobias Grey,"Diary of a Propagandist," Washington Post, 30 November, reviews art historian Agnès Humbert's Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are literally puppets in"The Very Sad Story of Ethel & Julius, Lovers and Spyes, and About Their Untymelie End While Sitting in a Small Room at the Correctional Facility in Ossining New York," which is now playing at the Theater for the New City on the lower east side.