Yonatan Eyal,"George Bancroft, Brief life of a public historian: 1800-1891," Harvard Magazine, May/June, sketches a central figure in Eyal's recent book, The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861.

Claire Cohen,"Revealed: The amazing pictures of Britain in colour for the very first time," Daily Mail, 27 April, reproduces colour photographs of London, Cornwall, St. Ives, and Oxford, 1913-1924. Hat tip.

James Marson,"Speak, Nabokov," Moscow Times, 16-23 May, reviews Nina Khrushcheva's Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics. Hat tip.

Edward Miguel, Is it Africa's Turn?, Boston Review, May/June, reports positive economic news from east Africa. Hat tip.