Things Noted Here and There

The Military History Carnival for March is up at Jennie's American Presidents Blog. The Giant's Shoulders #9, the history of science carnival, is up at The Evilutionary Biologist. Wynken de Worde's Sarah Werner will host an early modern edition of on 21 March. Use the form to nominate the best in early modern history blogging since 25 January.

Danielle Allen,"A More Perfect Monument," TNR, 18 March, reviews Josiah Ober's Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens.

Steve Coates,"Under the Volcano," NYT, 12 March, reviews Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found.

John F. Burns,"Is This a Shakespeare Which I See Before Me?" NYT, 9 March, and Adam Gopnik,"Look Here, Upon This Picture," New Yorker, 12 March, cast skeptical eyes on the portrait thought to be of William Shakespeare.

Michiko Kakutani,"An Explorer Drawn to, and Eventually Swallowed by, the Amazon," NYT, 16 March, reviews David Grann's The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.

Ronald A. Wells,"The Emergency," Books & Culture, March/April, 13 March, reviews Clair Wills's That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War.

Norman Birnbaum,"The Half-Forgotten Prophet: C. Wright Mills," The Nation, 11 March, reviews John H. Summers, ed., The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills.

James Traub,"The Bad Old Days," NYT, 12 March, reviews Rashid Khalidi's Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East.

Mark Danner,"US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites," NYRB, 9 April, reviews the International Committee of the Red Cross's ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen"High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody.