Richard J. Evans reviews Frank McDonough's Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler for the THES, 9 April.

Congratulations to historians who have won Guggenheim Fellowships for 2009:

Robert Beachy, Goucher College

Jeffrey Bortz, Appalachian State University

Kate Brown, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University

Pierre Force, Columbia University

Peter Galison, Harvard University

Risa L. Goluboff, University of Virginia Law School

Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School/ Rutgers University

Amy Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University

Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California

Benjamin Carter Hett, Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY

Noel Lenski, University of Colorado

Theodore J. Lewis, Johns Hopkins University

Charles Marsh, University of Virginia

Roderick A. McDonald, Rider University

Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University

Tara Nummedal, Brown University

Leslie Peirce, New York University

Carla Gardina Pestana, Miami University

Jacob Soll, Rutgers University

Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University

That would be three Guggenheims to Rutgers historians.