Wednesday's Notes

Pragati: The Indian National Interest Review, June, is a special issue devoted to history. Thanks to Manan Ahmed for the tip.

common-place, the American Antiquarian Society's e-journal of early American history and culture, has begun publishing interim issues, reviewing books, films, and exhibits. See: IX, 3.5.

Louis Bayard,"Love -- The Scientific Way," Washington Post, 7 June, reviews Thomas Maier's Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters And Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love.

Tom Murray,"My Professor, the Spy," Daily Beast, 9 June, looks back at the academic career of Walter Kendall Myers.

Walter Pincus,"After Critical Report, State Dept.'s Historian Is Reassigned," Washington Post, 8 June, reports on a resolution of conflict in the State Department's Office of the Historian.

Finally, farewell to Philip D. Curtin (1922-2009), a distinguished historian of Africa's Atlantic world.