Weak Endnotes

Ahoy, mateys! Mills Kelly has taught his course,"Lying about the Past." As required, his students created and set a hoax afloat, with its own website, wikipedia entry, and youtube channel. USA Today and others bought into the hoax; CHE exposed it.

Holland Cotter,"The Glory That Was Greece From a Female Perspective," NYT, 18 December, reviews"Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens," an exhibit at Manhattan's Onassis Cultural Center.

Roberta Smith,"Seeing History in the Eye of a Needle," NYT, 18 December, reviews"English Embroidery From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature," an exhibit at Manhattan's Bard Graduate Center.

Anthony Gottlieb,"Particle Man," NYT, 19 December, reviews Ingrid D. Rowland's Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic.

At Mercurius Politicus, Nick Poyntz looks back at the work in early modern history that's made the strongest impression on him this year.

Ted Vallance,"Oliver Cromwell and the original PC brigade," FirstPost, 21 December, looks at an earlier"war on Christmas."

Michael Sims,"Dr. Johnson and His Many Maladies," Washington Post, 21 December, reviews Peter Martin's Samuel Johnson: A Biography and Jeffrey Meyers' Samuel Johnson: The Struggle.

Finally, happy holidays to tf smith from all"THOSE RW hosers AT CLIOpaTRIA," from our LW hosers, and from those of us who hose not.