More Noted Things

H. W. Brands,"A Revisionist's Burden," National Interest, 30 June, reviews Margaret MacMillan's Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History.

Ryan Patrico,"You Say You Want a Revolution," Books & Culture, 29 June, reviews Mike Rapport's 1848: Year of Revolution.

Sean Wilentz,"Who Lincoln Was," TNR, 15 July, reviews Michael Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald Yacovone, eds., Lincoln on Race & Slavery, Harold Holzer's Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 and Holzer, ed., The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, Fred Kaplan's Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, John Stauffer's Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald White's A. Lincoln: A Biography.

Finally, if, like me, you admire the pseudonymous blog, Curious Expeditions, and miss The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, check out the new joint venture of their founders, Atlas Obscura, A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities and Esoterica.