A few things on-line that caught my eye this week:
New York Times “Most Notable Books of 2008”
“Lincoln in His Time and Ours.” (Scroll down at the site for a video of this event).
Barack Obama is not a socialist. Historian Robert Shaffer explains.
Fascinating short piece on how Obama carried the 1860s southern “Cotton Belt”
The comeback of the layaway plan.
Joseph Epstein on America’s “valedictocracy.”
Historians on gay marriage. Also, African Americans and Proposition 8.
Oprah Winfrey: False prophet?
Interesting article about the remnants of a Jewish agricultural colony in Utah.
James Srodes reviews Ira Stoll’s Samuel Adams: A Life and Merideth Mason Brown’s Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America.
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