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Sunday Night Odds and Ends

John Fea   |  August 16, 2009 Leave a Comment

A few things on-line that caught my attention this week:

Jim Cullen reviews Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation.

Theologians and Harry Potter

Daniel Ben-Ami reviews Neal Lawson’s All Consuming.

Lauren Winner reviews three books on the history of cleanliness.

Jon Wiener reviews yet another book on Wal-Mart.

Sean Wilentz responds to his critics.

The enduring legacy of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.

Should the AHA do away with job interviews at its annual conference?

Bald Blogger on some new books on W.E.B. DuBois.

Serena Zabin reviews Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America.

Another “for-profit” Christian college.

Finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

Should you put your syllabus on-line?

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