History Carnival no. 23 is up over at Old is the New New, which is a blog by Rob MacDougall, an expert on the history of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. (His doctoral work was on “The People’s Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876-1926″.)

Among the links there is one to a batch of new history-related blogs connected with the Centre for History and New Media. He also links to Histomats’ list of top ten marxist historical works. G.E.M. de Ste Croix’s The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World (1981) appears there alongside classic E.P. Thompson and Christopher Hill, whose The English Revolution of 1640 (1940) is now available online here. I still remember reading Hill’s books for courses in my undergrad days. His works were among the ones that made quite an impression on me and got me into social history (or “history from below”) in the first place. Among the more exciting of Hill’s works are The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, and Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England. I bet you never thought this one would come around to the history of Satan and his minions again.