Weak Endnotes
Claire Potter is your host at the Policy History Conference in Columbus, Ohio: Day One, Day Two.
Randall Stephens is your host at The Historical Society Conference in Washington, DC: Day One, Day Two, Day Three.
Edward Rothstein,"Cleopatra's Underwater Kingdom," NYT, 3 June, and Stacy Schiff,"Cleopatria's Comeback," Daily Beast, 3 June, review"Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt," an exhibit at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute.
Robert Bartlett,"Lords of ‘Pride and Plunder'," NYRB, 24 June, reviews Thomas N. Bisson's The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government.
Gillian Tindall reviews Jeffrey H. Jackson's Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 for the TLS, 2 June.
Barry Schwabsky,"Black is Also a Color," Nation, 2 June, reviews"Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917," an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Johann Hari,"The Parable of Prohibition," Slate, 3 June, reviews Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.