On Being Expansively Self-Referential ...

Luker,"Were There Blog Enough and Time," Perspectives, May, is up over on the AHA's site, but it happily shares space there with Manan Ahmed,"Blogging: It's Easier Than You Think!" Perspectives, May, and we honestly tried to mention as many of the usual suspects as Perspectives would allow!

"Consulting All Sides on ‘Speech Codes'," History News Network, 10 May, is up over on HNN's mainpage, but David Beito and KC Johnson co-authored it.

Over at Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee's"Information Please" denigrates a reference work that features one of the least significant articles I've ever published – but I'm not telling you which one of his denigrations it is!

Finally, Edward Blum reviews Paul Harvey's Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005) for H-South; and Harvey responds to Blum here. Theirs is the model of a civil and thoughtful academic conversation and Paul Harvey is a fine scholar, even if he was raised a Baptist in Oklahoma and did his Ph. D. at U.C., Berkeley. Oh – I almost forgot -- and I peer reviewed the book for UNC Press.