Things Noted Here & There

Scott Jaschik,"'Becoming Historians'," IHE, 18 May, interviews the editors of a new volume of essays by senior historians about the path to becoming one.

G. W. Bowersock,"The Scholar of Scholars," NYRB, 14 May, reviews Anthony Grafton's Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West. The review is fully available only to subscribers, but it is a worthy tribute to one of the most widely admired contemporary historians.

Jennifer Howard,"From 'Once Upon a Time' to 'Happily Ever After'," CHE, 22 May, reviews Ruth B. Bottigheimer's Fairy Tales: A New History.

Simon Schama,"America's phobia of banks," Financial Times, 15 May, tracks the targeting of monied interests in American political rhetoric. Hat tip.