Thursday's Notes

Scott Jaschik,"Empty Chair No More," IHE, 2 July, features the filling of Wisconsin's chair in military history and the relative health of the field.

Masolino D'Amico,"Rebuilt Rome," TLS, 1 July, reviews David Watkin's The Roman Forum.

Andrew Butterfield,"Venice: The Masters in Boston," NYRB, 16 July, reviews"Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice," an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, March 15–August 16, 2009, and the Louvre, Paris, September 14, 2009–January 4, 2010.

Sean Carroll,"Newton, P.I.," Cosmic Variance, 1 July, reviews Thomas Levenson's Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist.

Two remarkable digital sources: Northwestern University's"Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 1860-1960," a collection of over 7,000 photographs; and"Hidden Lives Revealed," case files, photographs, and publications of the UK's The Children's Society, 1881-1918.

Jack Shafer,"Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz," Slate, 30 June, puts the recent decline of print journalism in historical perspective.