Carnivalesque LXXVI, an early modern edition of the festival, goes up at Madame Guillotine on 23 July. Use the form to nominate the best in early modern history blogging since mid-May.

Joshua Kendall, "America's First Great Global Warming Debate," Smithsonian, 15 July, finds the early debate in Jefferson v Webster.

Kathryn Hughes reviews Rachel Campbell-Johnston's Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer for the Guardian, 15 July.

Paul Collins, "How To Get Ahead in Tabloid Journalism," Slate, 19 July, argues that Murdoch's hirelings have nothing on those of Hearst and Pulitzer.

Archie Brown, "Russia's Cold War," History Today, 19 July, reviews Jonathan Haslam's Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall, Stephen Lovell's The Shadow of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the Present, and David Hoffman's The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race.

Finally, farewell to Allen W. Trelease, a distinguished American historian, who taught at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.