20th Century Notes

The University of Chicago Library's online exhibits feature historical subjects, including Darwin, Lincoln, and book, Jewish, and women's history."Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago, 1870-1940" is a fascinating one.

Jonathan Yardley reviews Christopher Browning's Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp for the Washington Post, 24 January.

Janet Maslin,"Exclusive!!! Gossip Has a History!" NYT, 24 January, reviews Henry E. Scott's Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, ‘America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine'.

You've probably seen the"HNN special: Liberals Respond to Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism". A conservative, Michael Ledeen, responds to the book here; and the convener of the liberals' criticism, David Neiwert, prompts more extensive discussion at Neiwert,"Historians vs. Jonah Goldberg," Huffington Post, 25 January.