Some recent calls for papers:

Some interesting conferences coming up; please excuse the plug for my own conference, but what's life without a little self-promotion?

“Twenty Years in Iraq: RAF Operations in the Gulf since 1990”

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172082

The Forty Years' Crisis: Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=172028

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘Fighting Religion’: Expressions of Violence and Resistance

(University of Toronto)

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171996

Coalition Warfare from the Early Modern Era until today

(Royal Danish Defense College and the Danish Commission for Military History)

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171982

Call for Papers: War and the Body

(University of Portsmouth, held at the IWM)

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171924

Dissent and History

(Graduate Conference, University of Rochester)

http://www.rochester.edu/College/HIS/Dissent/cfp.html

The Lost Persian Army...Found?

Sooooo...it looks like Herodotus may well have been right again, if this story from MSNBC is accurate. I'm always pleased when the old fellow is vindicated in one way or another.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science?GT1=43001