More Noted Things

Scott Jaschik,"The Depressed History Job Market," IHE, 5 January, and Stan Katz,"The State of History and the History of State," Brainstorm, 6 January, report on the AHA's history job market. Katz also updates developments on the Foreign Relations of the United States.

Medieval Thought:
Shaul Magrid,"The Great Islamic Rabbi," Washington Post, 4 January, reviews Joel L. Kramer's Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds.

Military History:
Derek Leebaert,"Do Unto Others," Washington Post, 4 January, reviews Edwin G. Burrows's Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, Norman Bussel's My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW's Journey, and Kevin Dockery's Operation Thunderhead: The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW Rescue Mission -- and the Last Navy SEAL Killed in Country.

Robert Asahina,"The Other Suicide Bombers," Washington Post, 4 January, reviews Maxwell Taylor Kennedy's Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her.

Interviews:
You can hear H. W. Brands and Louis R. Harlan on NPR's Morning Edition,"White House to Break Another Color Barrier in Jan.," 26 December, about Theodore Roosevelt's invitation to Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House.
You can hear Eric Rauchway on NPR's Planet Money,"If FDR Had Done Nothing," 5 January.

Mortuary: Farewell to Christopher Hibbert.