Published (online, anyway): Review of Jeff Kisseloff, Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s: An Oral History (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007), Oral History Review.

Pamela Scott reviews The Great Society Subway (and two other books) in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians:

In clear and engaging prose, Schrag interweaves facts with a wide range of pragmatic, political, and aesthetic matters with discussions of those who posed and resolved the issues . . .

Schrag tames an enormous body of manuscript and printed documentation, weighing the contributions of each [group] within the evolving political context to reach cogent conclusions, a feat he repeats throughout the book. Particularly notable is his handling of differing areas of expertise accompanied by a changing cast of characters . . . .

Today’s Washington Post features Robert Thomson’s Dr. Gridlock column in which I am quoted extensively. I am particularly happy with the headline: “Before Overhauling Metrorail, Be Aware Of System’s History.”

I spoke about Metro on the “Kojo Nnamdi Show on Wednesday, June 25.

The Journal of Policy History has accepted my article, “How Talking Became Human Subjects Research: The Federal Regulation of the Social Sciences, 1965-1991,” drawn from my book-in-progress on the history of IRB review of the social sciences and humanities. The article is tentatively scheduled to be published in spring 2009, but in the meantime you can read a draft at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1124284. I welcome feedback.

I’ve been awarded a 2008-2009 Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress to work on my book on the history of American riot control.

Ariel Schrag, Awkward and Definition. A reissue of two of my cousin’s autobiographical graphic novels about her high school years. Thank heaven, I appear in neither.

David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag, Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America. My father’s latest. I contributed two words: the title.