Friday Notes

Scott Jaschik's"New Way to Rank Ph. D. Programs," Inside Higher Ed, 30 March, looks at Geoff Davis's serious alternative to the U.S. News & World Report rankings. It avoids absolutizing any rank order and allows you to weight the importance of particular data. The site for phds.org is here. You can set priorities for a ranking of history departments here. It does not yield rankings of particular fields within history.

Yale's Sage Ross looks at the recent history of Wikipedia and thinks he sees a watershed.

Jackson Lears,"Money Changes Everything, TNR Online, 29 March, reviews David Nasaw's Andrew Carnegie and David Cannadine's Mellon. Hat tip.

The Organization of American Historians is meeting in Minneapolis. Here's the convention program. HNN's Rick Shenkman reports on Day One.