Spinning Clio

John Harwood and Gerald F. Seib, Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power , (New York, Random House, 2008). Pennsylvania Avenue...

Douglas Feith's War and Decision has been reviewed by National Review , The Wall Street Journal and NPR ( h/t ). Now, I know that--es...

Wow, almost a month, huh? Well, since my beloved Sawx are back in action tonight against the Athletics, why not a shout out to the Library ...

USA Today reports that " Archivists block release of Clinton papers ": Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are...

Welcome to the 62nd History Carnival. It only seems like yesterday that I hosted History Carnival #10 (the Aluminum and Tin anniversary) b...

History Carnival 62 will be up tomorrow. Stay tuned!

For my money, National Review's John O'Sullivan does a better job explaining the historical reasons for electing Obama than do the ...

Manan Ahmed points to both Danah Boyd's decision to publish in only Open Access Journals and Harvard's decision to require that all...

That popular conceptions of history tend to lag scholarly thought by a couple decades is nothing new. Witness this article in The Independe...

This column by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward Larson is pretty much in the Spinning Clio wheelhouse. In it, Larson attempts to a...

Ralph Luker points to a USA Today stor y about the 10 "most famous" Americans according to our high schoolers. According to the ...

The 61st History Carnival is up at Historia i Media and covers a lot of fertile ground for history bloggers looking for something to read ...

When he first ran for President in 2000, John McCain overtly compared himself to Teddy Roosevelt. And in that pre-9/11 world, at the ...

I’m every person you need to be I’m the cult of personality Look into my eyes, what do you see? Cult of personality I know your anger, ...

I can't help it, I'm a sucker for "lost cities". I'd never heard of Dunwich or that it was once considered a rival to...

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne “Many of the biggest movements in ...

Michael Bowen : As a national organization and the most powerful entity in the historical job market, the AHA has done surprisingly little t...

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David W. Blight A Slave No More is many...

File under * yech *: What is most striking about Medieval cooking instructions is the often massive use of sugar in what seems to be otherwi...

The 2007 Cliopatria Award winners have been announced : Best Group Blog : In the Middle Best Individual Blog : Civil War Memory Best New ...