A few things on-line that caught my attention this week.
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Myron Magnet on John Jay
Historians and tobacco.
Art Remillard on Southern Irreligion.
George Schulman on civil religion
Student reflections on C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History
Jon Rowe: Misusing the American Founding for political purposes.
Religion and foreign policy.
Jenell Williams Paris on excellent professors.
Stephen Prothero: A Buddhist moment in America
Springsteen was the second biggest money-maker in 2009.
Apply for the American Antiquarian Association's Summer Seminar in the History of the Book.
Was Robert Livingston a scoundrel?
Harold Holzer on Lincoln's Cooper Union address.
Gerald Russello reviews Theodore Malloch, Thrift: Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue.
Catherine Allgor on Dolley Madison's kindness.
Congrats to the Canadian men's curling team.
Anthony Grafton reviews Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas
The ugly side of the Olympics.
Did Washington and Lincoln lie in office? Most Americans think so.
Did John Brown's house have secret slave tunnels?
Matthew Battles reviews Robert Darnton, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
The best-read presidents.
Henry Jaffa on Lincoln in Peoria.
Jean Bethke Elshtain reviews Jon Shields, The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right
Pete Hamill reviews James S. Hirsch, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend. A podcast of the review can be found here.
What a Gold Medal does for a community.
2 comments:
John,
What do you think of these posts?
Glenn Beck: The Stormin’ Mormon’s Credentials to Teach History: Christians believe that Glenn Beck is a legitimate historian of American history? Really?
An Example of the Stormin' Mormon (Glenn Beck)'s Mode of Operation: Glenn Beck and Historical Inaccuracies
Bob: Thanks for sharing this. I will definitely take a look at them when I get the chance. I was unaware Beck was spewing this stuff out.
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