Weak Endnotes

Dominic Sandbrook,"History Books of the Year," Telegraph, 26 November, takes a crack at naming the best of a year's books in history. See also:"100 Notable Books of 2009: Non-fiction," NYT, 6 December; and Benjamin Schwarz,"Books of the Year," Atlantic, December.

Randall Stephens,"Rebunking the Pilgrims?" Religion in American History, 24 November, reviews Jeremy Bangs's Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners.

Alexander Nazaryan,"How to Digest a Historic Feast," Washington Post, 25 November, reviews James Baker's Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday.

Laila Lalami,"The New Inquisition," The Nation, 24 November, reviews Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West.

Finally, farewell to H. C. Robbins Landon, a music historian, who made major contributions to our appreciation of Handel, Haydn, and Mozart.