Sunday's Notes

Peter Applebome,"John Hope Franklin, Scholar and Witness," NYT, 28 March, recalls the historian's life and work.

At Legal History, Christopher Capozzola blogs the OAH convention in Seattle: Day One, Day Two & Day Three.

Fernando Gouvêa,"Things that Teach," American Scientist, March/April, reviews Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings and David Lindsay Roberts, Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000.

Caleb Crain,"Brother, Can You Spare a Room?" NYT, 26 March, is an essay occasioned by new editions of Thomas Butler Gunn’s The Physiology of New York Boardinghouses (1856).

David Oshinsky,"They Dug It," NYT, 27 March, reviews Julie Greene's The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal.

Peter Galison,"Sons of Atom," NYT, 26 March, reviews Louisa Gilder's The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn.

Greg Grandin,"Green Acres: Lost in the Amazon," The Nation, 26 March, reviews David Grann's The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon.

Chris Cillizza,"Youngest Son, Last Survivor," Washington Post, 29 March, reviews Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy.

Finally, in"Join or Die," Justine Lai paints herself having serial-sex with the American Presidents. Rumor has it that James Buchanan was not enjoying himself. Hat tip.