Some Modern History Notes

Jeffrey R. Young,"When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom," CHE, 20 July, v. Eric Rauchway,"Bullet points don't bore people, people do," Edge of the American West, 21 July.

John Summers reviews Jackson Lears's Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 for bookforum, 17 July.

Mark Mazower,"The Evil That Men Do," TNR, 1 July, reviews Grigoris Balakian's Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, translated by Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag, Ryan Gingeras's Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923, and Fethiye Cetin's My Grandmother: A Memoir.

Christopher Hitchens,"A Sense of Historical Irony: Leszek Kolakowski, 1927-2009," Slate, 20 July, recalls Poland's philosopher of democratic socialism.