Around the Blogosphere: Recent Posts of Interest

A round-up of some recent blog posts, including some from sites not specifically focused on business and economic history:

• The Junto has a recap of the recent PEAES Conference, "Ligaments: Everyday Collections of Colonial Economies"
• The Legal History Blog has a plug for Ajay Mehrotra's recent Making the Modern American Fiscal State
• New Books in Business/American Studies has an audio interview with Sharon Ann Murphy, discussing her Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America [see here for a list of all the subjects covered by the New Books Network]
• The NEP-HIS blog (reviews of recent papers of interest); and
• Andrew Smith, in his blog "The Past Speaks," writes about one of these paper commentaries in "The Business Historian and the Archive in the Post-Snowden Era"
• The Page 99 Test looks at Jonathan Rees' Refrigeration Nation
• Howell Harris, in his blog "A Stove Less Ordinary," posts many examples of and commentary on early stove advertisements in America; many other posts are also of interest
• The Historical Society is running a series of posts by Benjamin Railton extrapolating from Newport, Rhode Island, mansions
• At the History News Network site, Jessica Lepler writes "America Owes a Debt to the National Debt"
• On the Winthrop Group blog, "Intersections," Linda Edgerly talks with Richard Sylla about "Six Fed Leaders Who Have Made an Impact"