OK–It is not Sunday NIGHT, but I am not sure I will be able to get to a computer tonight so here are your “Odds and Ends” for this week.
Campaigning for McCain at Liberty University
William Hogeland chides the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for failing to embrace neo-progressive views of the Constitution in their interpretive exhibits.
And speaking of progressive historians of the Constitution, here is a piece on how ten years of political activism helped Woody Holton write Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.
A report on the evangelical left.
Douglas Brinkley reviews three new books on Andrew Jackson.
Jon Meacham on how to read like a president.
Max Boot reviews David Hackett Fischer’s latest, Champlain’s Dream.
This week H-SHEAR is running a forum on Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America: 1815-1848. Participants include Mary Ryan and Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
Ah, another round of good posts. Look forward to following some of these.