History Carnival X

The History Carnival X has been posted by Marc at Spinning Clio, a blog run by one of the more unusual species of academic, a historian who is conservative politically. Once again, as usual, there's lots of great writing about history from the blogosphere is gathered into one place. This carnival has really blossomed in its previous editions to become one of the ones I most look forward to. Unlike the song, these guys do "know much about history," although, given that, I'm still not sure why they post my contributions...