Carnivalesque LVII, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, should be up later today at Judith Weingarten's Zenobia: Empress of the East. Weingarten's "Just the potion to needle a republic," THE, 17 December, reviews Adrienne Mayor's The Poison...

The Giant's Shoulders #18, the history of science carnival, is up at Jost A Mon. Jamie James reviews Christopher Betts's translation of Charles Perrault's The Complete Fairy Tales (first published in French in 1697) for the LA Times, 13...

Last year, I wrote a piece about the widespread tendency to treat each decade as if it had a distinct character or quality, and about the problem this causes given the lack of a commonly accepted way to refer to the present decade. The discussion...

Indian History Carnival #24 is up at varnam. The Giant's Shoulders #18, the history of science carnival, should be up later today at Jost A Mon. Jamillah Knowles, "Time machines," BBC Radio 5 Live's Pods and Blogs, 15 December, links to its podcast...

The House of Representatives' Office of History and Preservation has just made posted its oral history website, which contains the first batch of staffers' and families' oral histories (a highlight is a discussion with Cokie Roberts, both of whose...