More Noted Things

William Amelia,"Machiavelli's Daring 'Gift'," WSJ, 30 August, and Claudia Roth Pierpont,"The Florentine," New Yorker, 15 September, review Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince and Peter Constantine, ed., The Essential Writings of Machiavelli.

Scott McLemee,"Prospero's Island?" IHE, 10 September, reconsiders the location of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Allen C. Guelzo,"Whiggish History," Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.

David Darlington's"Ghosts of Elections Past," AHA Today, 3 September, recently introduced us to the University of Richmond's remarkable site: Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008. Sterling Fluharty's"Voting America Web Site," PhDinHistory, 3 September, checks a sample of its data against the record and finds some problems. They could be known as Ed Ayerors.