Friday's Notes

You are most likely to find reports on San Diego's American Historical Association convention at: AHA Today, CHE, The Edge of the American West, Historiann, History News Network, IHE, Notes from the Field, Nothing Recedes Like Success, Religion and American History and THS Blog.

Evan R. Goldstein,"The Trials of Tony Judt," CHE, 6 January, is a rich interview with the European historian afflicted with Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Christopher McDougall reviews Thor Gotaas's Running: A Global History for the Guardian, 3 January.

James McConnachie reviews Thomas Asbridge's The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land for the Sunday Times, 3 January.

Martti Pärssinen, Denise Schaan and Alceu Ranzi,"Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in the upper Purús: a complex society in western Amazonia," Antiquity, December, and David Grann,"Under the Jungle," New Yorker, 7 January, discuss an extra-ordinary archaeological find in the Amazon valley.

Max Hastings reviews Hannah Pakula's The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China for the Sunday Times, 3 January.

Dwight Garner,"Tune In, Turn On, Turn Page," NYT, 7 January, reviews Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered In a New Age for America.

Finally, farewell to Margaret Wade-Lewis, the chair of Black Studies at SUNY, New Paltz.