A few things on-line that caught my eye this week:
Peter Mancall: Why a fourth grader knows more about Henry Hudson than you do.
Why writers are bad at speeches and interviews.
Review of Ken Burns’s “National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” Here is another one.
A new college dedicated exclusively to the study of history.
Heather Cox Richardson: What is historiography?
“Born (Again) in the USA: Jim Cullen’s plenary address at the Bruce Springsteen Symposium.
Why we need journalists, not ideologues.
Damon Linker on conservatism. Eric Miller on conservatism.
Was Teddy Roosevelt a gun-toting St. Francis?
A new literary history of America.
David Greenberg on the meaning of Richard Hofstadter’s “paranoid style.”
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