Welcome to the 82nd History Carnival at The Lay Scientist | History! We've only recently branched into history blogging, and we're always on the look out for guest bloggers, so if you want to contribute anything to our fledgling site, let me know - we can't promise you money, but we do have a big, new audience for you to reach. You can follow our history RSS feed, or say hello on twitter at @mjrobbins. But enough shameless self promotion... on with the posts!