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Jun 15, 2008

Friday's Notes




In case you hadn't yet noticed -- erm, there's this and there's this ------------------------------------------------------------------->
-- History News Network's Rick Shenkman has a new book out, Just How Stupid Are We? This week, Rick appeared on Jon Stewart's"The Daily Show." In case you missed it, the show is here. Rick appears at 14:29. Or, you can just look here.

Progressive Historians is sponsoring a summer symposium:"What is a Historian?" The details are here.

Sarah Churchwell,"America: the missing years," Guardian, 7 June, reviews Tony Horwitz's A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.

Barry Gewen,"In Postwar Britain, the Grim Face of Victory," NYT, 12 June, reviews David Kynaston's Austerity Britain: 1945-1951.



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