Tom Scheinfeldt,"Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?" Found History, 13 March, argues that new methods rather than new theories are the cutting edge in doing history in the 21st century. Hat tip.

On HBO's John Adams, see: Michael Nelson,"John Adams, in Brilliant Colors," CHE, 21 March (subscriber only); and Steven Waldman and John Patrick Diggins,"Exchange: HBO's 'John Adams' (Parts 1 and 2)," TNR, 17 March. Hat tip.

At Amazon's Omnivoracious, the author of Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker, takes questions from readers.

Anna Jane Grossman,"Left Behind," Washingon Post, 16 March, looks at 209 things that once were common and are now either or near obsolete.