William Grimes,"Beyond ‘Moby Dick': When America went A-Fishin' for the Whale," NYT, 20 July, reviews Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America.

Nicholai Ouroussoff,"Lost Vanguard: The Silent Radicals," NYT, 20 July, reviews a new exhibit,"Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32," at the Museum of Modern Art.

Michael Nelson,"Nixon's Last Campaign," CHE, 20 July, is an essay review of recent work about Richard Nixon.

Congratulations to Waskar Ari, the Bolivian historian, who has won a two year struggle for a visa that will allow him to teach at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Thanks to both its history department and the AHA for their steadfast support of his visa application. Hat tip.

Finally, at the Gawker, you can vote for"America's Most Annoying Liberal Arts College." Antioch might have won, hands down, but it's thrown in the towel. Current leading contenders: Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore, Oberlin, and Wesleyan. Hat tip.

chris l pettit - 7/21/2007

my alma mater doesn't even make the cut? How sad...I will have to get my students to express their indignation at the snub.

CP