The 24th History Carnival is up at The Elfin Ethicist. Jonathan Wilson has spread a marvelous feast for your enjoyment. If I were running a graduate program in history, I'd want to recruit him now.

When Glenn Reynolds promoted his new book, An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, at Instapundit, pre-orders of the book jumped from 23,719th into the top 50 titles at Amazon. Not to be crass about it or anything -- but I'd invite you to peruse Cliopatria's Bookshelf, where you'll find hot links to over 80 works of history by the Cliopatricians. I know of no other academic group blog on the net that has been so prolific. You could begin your collection of our work today.

"‘Live' with David Hackett Fischer," The American Enterprise Online, 2006, is an interview with Fischer. Thanks to Alfredo Perez at Political Theory Daily Review for the tip.

Carlin Romano,"Drawn and Quartered: A Short History of E. M. Cioran (1911-1995)," CHE, 3 February, reviews the recent biography of the Romanian philosopher. Yet another major European intellectual apparently had a Nazi youth.

Rebecca Anne Goetz - 2/1/2006

Ralph--thanks for the interview with David Hackett Fischer. I've just sent it to a friend who's teaching Washington's Crossing this semester.