A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet by Natalie Zemon Davis is taken up in The Book (New Republic).
THE MOST POWERFUL IDEA IN THE WORLD A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen is discussed in the New York Times, as is THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOMBS: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons by Richard Rhodes, THE KING'S BEST HIGHWAY: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America by Eric Jaffe, and THE EYES OF WILLIE MCGEE: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard.
Finally, baseball histories are discussed this weekend in the Washington Post.