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• Mar 6, 2012
  

  Farewell to Cliopatria

  by Cliopatria

  And so, after 8 1/4 years and over 1,100,000 visits, we bid farewell to Cliopatria. Before going, she wishes to thank her hosts at History News Network, Rick Shenkman and David Walsh, for their hospitality.

  

• Mar 4, 2012
  

  Things Noted Here & There

  by Cliopatria

  History Carnival CVII is up at Kelly Hignett's The View East. David Silbey hosts Military History Carnival XXX at Cliopatria.

  

• Mar 3, 2012
  

  Military History Carnival #30

  by Cliopatria

  Welcome to the March 3, 2012 edition of the military history carnival. This is the 30th edition of the military history carnival, something of a minor landmark. Once again, we have a good range of submissions this Carnival, ranging from the ancient to the modern.

  Ancient

  Lafayette C. Curtis presents Borobudur reliefs as a source for military history(?) posted at An Armchair General's Diary.

  

• Feb 29, 2012
  

  More Noted Things

  by Cliopatria

  For the latest on the Irish Republican Army/Boston College oral history scandal, see: "Called to Account," Chris Bray, 26 February; Questions over exactly who made money from the book ‘Voices from the Grave'," RTE radio, 25 February; transcript, Boston College Subpeona News, 26 February; Travis Anderson, "2 at BC profited from book based on Troubles tapes," Boston Globe, 27 February; and Ed Moloney, "RTE Exposes Shenanigans And Falsehoods At Boston College," The Broken Elbow, 28 February.

  

• Feb 27, 2012
  

  Noted Things Here & There

  by Cliopatria

  Edward Luttwak, "Homer, Inc.," LRB, 23 February, reviews Stephen Mitchell, trans., The Iliad by Homer.

  Jonathan Lopez, "Bed, Bath, and Before," WSJ, 25 February, reviews Lucy Worsley's If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home.

  Charles Nicholl, "Death in Florence," LRB, 23 February, explores a 15th century mystery.

  

• Feb 24, 2012
  

  Things Noted Here & There

  by Cliopatria

  Kelly Hignett hosts History Carnival CVII at The View East on Thursday 1 March. Send nominations of the best in February's history blogging to thevieweast*at*gmail*dot*com or use the form. David Silby hosts Military History Carnival XXX here at Cliopatria on Thursday 1 March. Use the form to submit nominations of the best in military history blogging since 1 December 2011.

  

• Feb 22, 2012
  

  Modern History Notes

  by Cliopatria

  "A Most Welcome Development," Chris Bray, 21 February, and Ted Folkman, "Breaking: BC Appeals In The Belfast Project Case," Letters Blogatory, 21 February, have the latest on the legal issues in the Boston College/Irish Republican Army oral history controversy. See also: Peter Monaghan, "'Our Storehouse of Knowledge About Social Movements ... Is Going to Be Left Bare'," CHE, 19 February; and "Statement by the Council of the American Sociological Association on the Protection of Human Subjects from the Subpoena of Confidential Belfast Project Research Data," 21 February. Where is the AHA's statement?

  

• Feb 17, 2012
  

  Still More Noted Things

  by Cliopatria

  Paula Findlen, "Galileo's Credo," Nation, 14 February, reviews John L. Heilbron's Galileo and David Wootton's Galileo: Watcher of the Skies.

  Brian Vickers, "Ben Jonson, Britain's first literary celebrity?" TLS, 15 February, reviews Ian Donaldson's Ben Jonson: A Life.

  John Barrell reviews Faramerz Dabhoiwala's The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution for the Guardian, 10 February.

  David A. Bell reviews Piers Paul Read's The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History for the Guardian, 16 February.

  

• Feb 15, 2012
  

  More Noted Things

  by Cliopatria

  James Romm, "The Greeks' Daring Experiment," WSJ, 11 February, reviews Christian Meier's A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe.

  Mike Dash, "The Monster of Glamis," Past Imperfect, 10 February, looks at the history of the castle's mystery.

  Jeffrey Wasserstram, "The Battle for China's Soul," WSJ, 11 February, reviews Stephen Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War.

  

• Feb 13, 2012
  

  A historian’s place in (current) politics

  by Cliopatria

  After the grinding pessimism of my previous post, I think it rather behoves me to also look at the question, what can we do, and specifically for this audience, what's the role of the historian in this? I'm much less certain I have any answers here, but I have some thoughts so I thought I would put them up to be shot at.

  I suspect, myself, that the morally correct response for the committed democrat in a situation like this is to quit his or her job, whatever it may be, start and then manage and fund-raise for a new party eschewing the principles they'd actually like to see mattering in politics. It wouldn't work, probably, but it would be ethical, and I honestly think that's what I should do. But I really really don't want to, I want to pay someone else to run the country for me so I can get on with my research, which is what I'm actually passionate about. So hopefully there is a rôle for a historian in this, right?

  

• Feb 13, 2012
  

  Things Noted Here & There

  by Cliopatria

  Stacey Patton, "Historians Face New Pressures to Track Ph.D.'s," Thomas Bender, "What's Been Lost in History," and Leonard Cassuto, "Making a Public Ph.D.," CHE, 12 February, look at the prospect for change in graduate programs in history.

  William Fitzgerald, "Gods, emperors and insects," TLS, 23 January, reviews Andrew Feldherr's Playing Gods: Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and the politics of fiction.

  Miranda Seymour, "If It Pleases Her Majesty," NYT, 10 February, reviews Trea Martyn's Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens.

  

• Feb 11, 2012
  

  Weak Endnotes

  by Cliopatria

  Michael Schapira interviews "Chris Lehmann," Full Stop, 7 February, about the peculiarity of studying history at Rochester with Christopher Lasch.

  Vladimir Shiltsev, "Mikhail Lomonosov and the dawn of Russian science," Physics Today, February, features the Russian pioneer in physics, chemistry, and astronomy. Little known in the West, Lomonosov also wrote poetry and history.

  Charles Rosen, "The Super Power of Franz Liszt," NYRB, 23 February, reviews Jonathan Kregor's Liszt as Transcriber.

  

• Feb 10, 2012
  

  The Next Military History Carnival

  by Cliopatria

  Will be here at Cliopatria on March 1. The deadline for submissions is February 27. Submit here.
  

• Feb 9, 2012
  

  More Modern Notes

  by Cliopatria

  William H. McNeill, "The Doges of War," WSJ, 4 February, reviews Roger Crowley's City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas. Marina Warner, "Monsters, magic and miracles," TLS, 8 February, reviews Wes Williams's Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture: Mighty magic.

  

• Feb 4, 2012
  

  Notes Ancient & Modern

  by Cliopatria
• Jonathan Dresner hosts History Carnival CVI at Frog in a Well, Japan. An excellent carnival, Jon!
• Art History Carnival for February 2012 is up at Margaret's The Earthly Paradise.
• Biblioblog Carnival for February 2012 is up at Amanda's Cheese-Wearing Theology.
• Alec Ash interviews "Geoff Dyer on Unusual Histories," The Browser, 3 February, for his recommendation of five examples of excellent innovative history.
"The Oldest Modernist Paintings," Smithsonian, February, has a slide show of ancient Egypt's Fayum portraits. Willis G. Regier, "Siege of the ‘Iliad'," CHE, 27 January, reviews Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer, Stephen Mitchell, trans., The Iliad by Homer, and Anthony Verity, trans., The Iliad by Homer.