May 1, 2009
Friday's Notes
History Carnival LXXVI is up at Penny Richards's Disability Studies.
Bob Blaisdell reviews Barry Schwartz's Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America for the THES, 30 April. This second volume follows Schwartz's first, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (2000).
Michael Dirda,"Giving Us the Pieces, but Not the Prose," Washington Post, 30 April, reviews Mark Twain's Who Is Mark Twain?
Tony Mann reviews Loren Graham's and Jean-Michel Kantor's Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity for the THES, 30 April.
Fred Inglis,"Values of Homo unacademicus," THES, 30 April, reviews Michele Lamont's How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.