Wednesday Notes

Adam Kirsch,"Those Who Do Know the Past," NY Sun, 2 April, reviews John Burrow's A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century.

Keith Thomas,"When England Turned Orange," Guardian, 5 April, reviews Lisa Jardine's Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory.

Wendy Doniger,"The Land East of the Asterisk," LRB, 10 April, reviews M. L. West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth.

Scott McLemee's"In Search of Max Faber," IHE, 9 April, takes a prominent contemporary Afro-intellectual out behind the woodshed and gives his book a beating.

Finally, our colleague, Manan Ahmed, recommends that you have a look at Everything I Know About Hyman Victor. It's an impressive example of well done family and genealogical history, using archival, oral and digital history tools.