Sunday Night Odds and Ends

Things on the web that caught my attention this week:

Gordon Wood’s five favorite books on American history.

Stephen Carter on Eric Holder’s “cowards” speech.

Review of Alan Wolfe’s The Future of Liberalism.

This book looks interesting: A family moves to Portugal to avoid Vatican II.

Susan Jacoby does not like faith-based initiatives.

It’s Boston Massacre week.

Andrew Koppelman reviews Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age

Kevin Mattson on John Patrick Diggins

What happened to the values voter?

Courage: The theme of the new edition of In Character.

Presidential pooches.

Brad Hart on “seed spilling” in early New England.

Myron Magnet on Alexander Hamilton as the “modern founding father.”

Scott Casper on his book Sarah Johnson’s Mt. Vernon.

Abraham Lincoln and Hawaii

RECOMMENDED READING

Blogging the 12th vote for Speaker of the House Are evangelical scholars prospering from “the scandal of the evangelical mind”? Penn Today features Emma Hart, new director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies