The AHA invites all members to read the"Final Report and Recommendations of the Working Group on the Future of the AHA" and send responses to Assistant Director Robert Townsend here. Both SterlingFluharty and MillsKelly have two-part posts in response to the committee's report.

clioweb's Jeremy Boggs has launched a new series of posts on the"Digital Humanities Design and Development Process."

Richard Brookhiser,"Religious Intent," NYT, 13 April, reviews Steven Waldman's Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America.

Gordon Wood,"Praying with the Founders," NYRB, 1 May, reviews Stephen Mansfield's Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since and Forrest Church's So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle over Church and State.

William J. Broad,"In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic's Doom," NYT, 15 April, reviews new evidence about why the ship sank.

Adam Kirsch,"The Stern German," NY Sun, 9 April, reviews Detlev Claussen's Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius.

John Rosenthal,"The Mufti and the Holocaust," Policy Review, April/May, reviews Klaus Gensicke's Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten. Hat tip.