An early modern edition of Carnivalesque goes up at Mercurius Politicus on Saturday 16 February. Send nominations of the best in history blogging between ca 1450 and 1800 CE since 17 December to mercuriuspoliticus*at*googlemail*dot*com or use the form. The next Military History Carnival goes up at Battlefield Biker on Sunday 17 February. Send nominations of the best in military history blogging since 7 January to tj*at*battlefieldbiker*dot*com or use the form.

On teaching with blogs: Timothy Burke and Mills Kelly.

Robert Messenger,"The German Way of War," Weekly Standard, 18 February, reviews Chris Bellamy's Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War, Rodric Braithwaite's Moscow, 1941: A City and Its People at War, and Andrew Nagorski's The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II.

David L. Ulin reviews Jimmy Breslin's The Good Rat: A True Story for the LA Times, 10 February. See also: Mary Dudziak's excellent"Sunday Book Review Round-up," Legal History Blog, 10 February.

I thought that Paul Krugman's"Hate Springs Eternal," NYT, 11 February, was way off base, but Eric Rauchway's"I have already been there with that bastard, and I am a better person for it," The Edge of the American West, 11 February, says it so much better than I would have.