Sunday Night Odds and Ends

Here a few things on the web and elsewhere that have caught my attention over the past week.

The July 2008 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly has a nine article forum on the legacy of Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum’s 1974 classic Salem Possessed. Authors include John Demos, Mary Beth Norton and Carol Karlsen, with a retrospective piece by Boyer and Nissenbaum and an excellent introduction to Salem and witchcraft studies by Jane Kamensky.

In CT Direct, Collin Hansen reviews John Turner‘s Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America (North Carolina, 2008).

Wifred McClay takes on Stanley Fish on the usefulness of the humanities.

Ernie Freeberg‘s new book on Eugene Debs is out. See his recent article at History News Network and a review in today’s Chicago Tribune.

What it’s like to teach at Harvard.

Garden State Legacy looks like a promising new on-line magazine of New Jersey history.

A new short story by Wendell Berry in this month’s Atlantic.

RECOMMENDED READING

What Would Ernie Think? Eugene Debs: “We never hear of Capital Day, not because Capital has no day, but because every day is Capital Day.” Are humanities scholars engaged in too much activism?