Midweek Notes

History Carnival XCI goes up at Katrina Gulliver's Notes from the Field on Friday 1 October. Use the form to nominate the best in August's and September's history blogging or send them to historycarnival*@*sharonhoward*.*org. History Carnival needs hosts for November and thereafter. If you're interested, email historycarnival*@*sharonhoward*.*org .

Janet Maslin,"Dusting Off an Elusive President's Dull Image," NYT, 27 September, reviews Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life.

Aaron Thier,"Art and Ugliness," The Book, 27 September, reviews Ingar Sletten Kolloen's Knut Hamsun: Dreamer and Dissenter, trans. by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik.

Dwight Garner,"The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician," NYT, 28 September, reviews Mark Feldstein's Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's"U. S. Religious Knowledge Survey" prompts discussion at Tim Burke's Easily Distracted and Religion in American History.

The"Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States" prompts discussion at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, the Edge of the American West, and Leiter Reports.

Finally, congratulations to Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University's Law School, who has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2010. See also: AHA Today, Historiann and Legal History.