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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  June 14, 2009 Leave a Comment

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

An Oregon ghost town for sale.

Selling faith, selling security systems.

Jenell Williams Paris on the faith of her fathers.

Praying for the Stanley Cup.

Beverly Gage reviews Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation. LA Times review here.

Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure.

Michael Kazin reviews Simon Schama, The American Future: A History.

Allen Guelzo: Is there an American mind?

Obama may be a bad bowler, but he is not “Bowling Alone.” Click here to read about Obama’s participation in Robert Putnam’s Saguaro Seminar.

Historiann on access to archives.

Are you cut out to be an academic? Or maybe you are an academic bore?

Top 100 books about New England or written by New England authors.

ADDENDUM: Here are a few more things:

Nathan Hatch on friendship.

Should Catholic Supreme Court judges recuse themselves on certain cases? Joyce Appleby thinks so.

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