A review of Jori Diez's The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina Chile, and Mexico (Cambridge University Press) is now available.So too is a review of Louis Masur's Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (Oxford University Press).More Civil War history is found in the review of collected volume The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War (University of Georgia Press), edited by… [read post]

The book originated from papers presented at a conference in Dublin in June 2010 organized by the Equality Authority, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Geary Institute, University College Dublin. [read post]

Inasmuch as 60% of the starting rotation is getting bashed regularly, that is putting too much pressure on the bullpen, which is already depleted due to injuries to Valverde, Doug Brocail and Geoff Geary, who were the three best relief pitchers on the 2008 club. [read post]