Sunday, March 10, 2013

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Historians and their problems

Andrew Sullivan with some insightful thoughts about a debate over gay marriage.

Acknowledgement pages and a very funny book dedication

It is not easy being a slave interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg

These guys have revived American intellectual history

Jonathan Den Hartog finds his way to the Jersey shore (or at least gets close) and meets the Orthodox Jews of Lakewood

New York Times Book Review interview with Marilynne Robinson

Writing on a plane.  (Nice idea, but it is nearly impossible if you are 6' 8" tall).

Post offices for sale 

Joel Osteen and Arthur Schopenhauser: optimist vs. pessimist

Amy Bass on teaching with sports and teaching W.E.B. DuBois

Suzanne Fischer is against nostalgia

The shortlist of papal candidates.

Writing for exposure without being paid

Joyce Goodfriend reviews Evan Haefeli, New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty

Photos that capture 1970s America 

Pentecostal scholars and the intellectual marketplace 

2 comments:

L.D. Burnett said...

John, I''m guessing your link to revived American intellectual history was going to go to the blog interview with my colleagues at S-USIH. But it's a duplicate link to the WaPo article.

kevin smith said...
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