New York Times follows our lead

The New York Times Book Review picks historian Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton as one of 2015's ten best books. We had it here as one of the best... at the end of 2014, just sayin'.

(Okay, in fairness, I think it was a NYT review that brought it to my attention.)

Upcoming: A look at history books of 2015 should be up here just before the blog goes dark for the holidays.