Tuesday Notes

PhDinHistory has earned the respect of Robert Townsend at AHA Today and Tim Lacy at History and Education. An anonymous abd, PDH has won their attention by looking afresh at the evidence and finding in it new ways of thinking about graduate education in history.

Merrell Noden,"What's the Big Idea?" Princeton Alumni Weekly, 6 June, reports on the unlikely co-conveners of a freshmen seminar and unlikely friends, Robert P. George and Cornel West.

Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya,"The Mystery of Ales," American Scholar, Summer, is the most recent contribution to the on-going discussion of whether Alger Hiss was a spy for the Soviet Union. Hat tip.

Finally, humor alternatives:
a) At"I Can Hath Cheezburger," Geoffrey Chaucer has"Sum of the Pilgrimes of Canterburye transformed to LolPilgrims, ymaad by Galfridus Chaucer, Justice of the Pees, Clerke of the Kinges Workes"; and
b) if you have the stomach for them, have a look at World War II jokes! Fox hole humor at its best and worst. Hat tip.