Weak Endnotes

Holland Cotter,"The Many Voices of Enlightenment," NYT, 11 June, reviews"Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam," an exhibit at New York's Brooklyn Museum.

Tim Burke,"Colonial Africa: A List of Questions," Easily Distracted, 12 June, reorganizes a course around key questions. Can you add to his list?

Michael Kazin,"What So Proudly He Hails," Washington Post, 14 June, reviews Simon Schama's The American Future: A History.

Michael Dirda,"Literary Promise Unfulfilled," Washington Post, 11 June, reviews Steven J. Zipperstein's Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing.

Chris Bray,"The Stuff of Which Movies Are Made," Washington Post, 14 June, reviews Doug Stanton's Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan.