Robert Skidelsky,"Imperialism Reclaimed," Project Syndicate, 23 March, reviews Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The West and the Rest.

Chris Mullin reviews Francis Beckett's The Prime Ministers Who Never Were: a Collection of Counterfactuals for the New Statesman, 31 March.

Chloe Schama,"After Dark," The Book, 6 April, reviews Deborah Lutz's Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism.

Kathryn Hughes reviews Mary S. Lovell's The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History, from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill for the Guardian, 2 April.

Adam Hochschild,"Explaining Congo's Endless Civil War," NYT, 1 April, reviews Jason K. Stearns's Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa.

I want to call attention to some blogs you may not have seen yet. World History on Tumblr and Women's History on Tumblr list relatively new blogs that commonly feature striking visuals. Two fairly new digital history blogs are Ben Schmidt's Sapping Attention and an all star cast's With Criminal Intent. In the group blog, Dan Cohen, Bill Turkel and a half dozen other cognoscenti build on the Old Baily Proceedings, Zotero virtual collections, and TAPoR and Voyeur analytics to do state-of-the-art digital history. If you've missed your Rob MacDougall fix since he put Old is the New New to rest, Rob can still be found at Play the Past. Yet a third of our former colleagues, Caleb McDaniel, has returned to blogging at Offprints.

Finally, farewell to Edwin Scott Gaustad, a distinguished scholar of American religious history.