Weak Endnotes
Claire Potter's"What Would Natalie Zemon Davis Do? A Few Meditations on Women's History and Women in History" Cliopatria and Tenured Radical, 19 June, is a must read. Brett Holman,"The Great Stoush," Airminded and Revise and Dissent, 19 June, contrasts two styles of discussion in blogging and has a good roundup of posts in re the late gender war in history.
Robert Knox,"He's got a whale of a tale to tell," Boston Globe, 24 June, reviews Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America.
Ari Kelman declares the War of 1812"America's Most Boring War," Edge of the American West, 18 June. But it led to America's most obscure war, The Canadian-Michigan War of 1843, in which Michigan declared its secession from the United States and declared war on Canada. It ended when American troops marched into Detroit, seized the state's governor, Epaphroditus Ransom, and executed him for treason. Hoax alert.
Olivia Judson,"Darwinmania!" The Wild Side, 17 June, anticipates an 18 month party celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversaries of the announcement of his claim that natural selection was the primary driving force in evolution and the publication of On the Origin of the Species.
Lawrence Hill,"Voices Carry," BookForum, June/August, reviews Andrew Ward's The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century.
Shaila Dewan,"When Images Galvanized the Nation," NYT, 20 June, reviews"Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement 1956-1968," an exhibit at Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
With that, I'm taking a weekend break from Cliopatria. My colleagues will, undoubtedly, know what needs to be said here in my absence. I'll be back on Monday.