A few things on the web that caught my eye this week:
The Library of Congress has a YouTube channel.
Kevin Mattson on Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise Speech.”
Ross Douthat on Easter and Good Friday.
African Pentecostal missionaries in America.
New York Times review of John Richard Neuhaus’s American Babylon.
Elements of Style is 50 years old.
Do you review academic monographs? If so, you should read this.
Walter Isaacson reviews Richard Beeman’s Plain, Honest, Men.
The other preacher in Lynchburg.
The New Republic on baseball.
Polite interest does not always translate into a book contract. Rachel Toor explains.
Controversy at Vanderbilt over Doris Kearns Goodwin as a commencement speaker. (HT).
Jared Farmer wins Parkman Prize for On Zion’s Mount. (Also, three cheers for my alma mater: the History Department at SUNY-Stony Brook).
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