Off to Keele: Self Indulgence Alert

In a matter of a couple of hours I will be heading off to England (solo, alas) where I will be spending a month as a visiting fellow at the University of Keele's David Bruce Centre for American Studies. In addition to working on my next book(s) I will be giving a research seminar, will be participating in a couple of the program's graduate seminars, and am participating ina roundtable on President Obama's first one hundred days. I also will be giving talks at other universities across the country. For the next four weeks, then, you will be getting what I will sim[ply call "England Blogging," which will be the same thing but I hope somewhat more frequent (given the time to write and think) and 25% more Anglotastic!