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Scott Jaschik, "Empty Chair No More," IHE, 2 July, features the filling of Wisconsin's chair in military history and the relative health of the field.

Masolino D'Amico, "Rebuilt Rome," TLS, 1 July, reviews David Watkin's The Roman Forum.

Andrew Butterfield, "Venice: The Masters in Boston," NYRB, 16 July, reviews "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice," an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, March 15–August 16, 2009, and the Louvre, Paris, September 14, 2009–January 4, 2010.

Sean Carroll, "Newton, P.I.," Cosmic Variance, 1 July, reviews Thomas Levenson's Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist.

Two remarkable digital sources: Northwestern University's "Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs, 1860-1960," a collection of over 7,000 photographs; and "Hidden Lives Revealed," case files, photographs, and publications of the UK's The Children's Society, 1881-1918.

Jack Shafer, "Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz," Slate, 30 June, puts the recent decline of print journalism in historical perspective.

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