Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things on the web that caught my eye this week:

Scholarly societies and the recession.

Philip Dray reviews Jacqueline Jones’s Saving Savannah

A reminder about e-mail etiquette in the academy.

Historians on the Lincoln-Obama comparison.

A generous plug from Lindsey Schuman at American Creation. Thanks!

Have you seen this: Bad Writing Contest

Civil War Memory’s Best of 2008.

Cameron Blevins of Progressive Historians on the National Museum of American History.

Robert Westbrook reviews Charles Taylor, A Secular Age.

The Saint Nicholas tradition.

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