Weak Endnotes

Caroline Alexander,"Two of a Kind," NYT, 1 September, reviews Janet Soskice's The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels.

Matthew Shaer,"Getting Attached to the Past," Washington Post, 6 September, reviews Marina Belozerskaya's To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology.

Caroline Weber,"Undercover Queen," NYT, 1 September, reviews Veronica Buckley's The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon.

Sam Roberts,"New York's Coldest Case: A Murder 400 Years Old," NYT, 4 September, looks at what we know of NYC's first murder.

Jacqueline Trescott,"Piecing Together a People's History," Washington Post, 4 September, features Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Ben Schwarz,"So You Want to Write a Presidential Biography," The Atlantic, 28 August, offers a formula for success.

Gerard DeGroot,"When the Iron Curtain Unraveled," Washington Post, 6 September, reviews Michael Meyer's The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind The Fall of the Berlin Wall.