Ross Mahoney will host Military History Carnival XII at Thoughts on Military History on Thursday 20 March. Send nominations of the best in military history blogging since 17 February to him at mahoneyross*at*hotmail*dot*com.

Lara Feigel,"Look back and learn what's bright and good...," Guardian, 9 March, reviews Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Roads to Modernity, a study of the American, English, and French enlightenments.

In"The Truth? I Can't Handle the Truth!" IHE, 19 March, our colleague, Scott McLemee, reviews The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by our colleague, David Kaiser.

Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer,"The Incomplete Revolution," CHE, 21 March, finds the current malaise in the Republican Party implicit in the conservative coup of the 1970s.

Don't take my word on the Speech: Timothy Burke, David Corn, Henry Farrell, Russell Arben Fox, Todd Gitlin, Sally Greene, David Kaiser, Ari Kelman, David Kuo, John McWhorter, Charles Murray, Peggy Noonan, Ogged, Taylor Owen, Jeff Pasley, Leo Ribuffo, Andrew Sullivan, Abigail Thernstrom, Michael Wreszin, Jeremy Young, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

Finally, farewell to Alan Dawley of The College of New Jersey. He is remembered here, here, and here. I will remember him as Editor of the Mississippi Free Press in 1963-64.