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At Ambiguous Adventure, Kenya Hudson calls attention to three new films and two new books on the attempted genocide in Rwanda. Both of the books, she notes, are also expected to by reworked as film.
The Apocalyptic Historian is new to history blogging and has a fascinating post up about what brought her to it. In case you missed it, she did a tough review of Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons for HNN. Compared with AH, Kelly in Kansas is a veteran history blogger. After her presentation on academic blogging at the AHA convention and a good meal with other history bloggers, she offers a few tips for beginners. Cliopatria is mystified, however, by Kelly's preference for individual over group blogs. She knows that Luker, for instance, is much improved by associating with historians of a higher class.
At Early Modern Notes, Sharon Howard does a recap on Valentine's Day in history. I can't say that there's a whole lot of love there. And, threatened with the wrath of her grace, the Cliopatriarch of Wales, Sepoy at Chapati Mystery offers up a few man-eating tigers.
In"Shilling for Hitler" at Salon, Charles Taylor reviews Deborah Lipstadt's History on Trial, her account of the libel suit brought against her by David Irving. The trial destroyed all reputation Irving might have had as a historian. Taylor's concluding sentence is fairly blunt:"... Deborah Lipstadt has managed to scrape a major piece of shit off the boots of history." The story Lipstadt and Taylor tell in the aftermath of the trial also seriously embarrasses the reputations of British historians Sir John Kegan and Donald Cameron Watt, as well as the judgment of Christopher Hitchens. Thanks to Alan Allport at Horizon for the tip.