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Tim’s Light Reading (7/30/09)

1. This might qualify as a bit dated, but I’m not sure anyone here noted the new autobiographical collection of essays, titled Becoming Historians and published by the University of Chicago Press. Here is an e-mail interview between InsideHigherEd’s Scott Jaschik and the book’s editors, James M. Banner Jr. and John R. Gillis. The collection includes essays from Rhys Isaac, Joan Wallach Scott, Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Linda Gordon, David A. Hollinger, Maureen Murphy Nutting, Franklin W. Knight, Temma Kaplan, Paul Robinson, and the editors. 2. A few weeks ago I learned of a new print publication, The POINT Magazine. It Read more