Sunday Night Odds and Ends

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

The end of wikipedia?

Louis Menand: The Ph. D problem.

Historians evaluate Obama’s first year.

Jill Lepore reviews Randolph Roth’s American Homicide.

Nancy Hawkins reviews Kathy Sprows Cummings’s New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era.

Robert Kunzman reviews Milton Gaither, Homeschool: An American History.

Hannah Rosin reviews Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Bruce Springsteen is writing an autobiography.

Sesame Street turns 40.

Jon Rowe on Peter Marshall and the Texas American history standards debate.

Stan Katz: Can colleges teach teachers?

New York Times interview with Woody Holton.

RECOMMENDED READING

“Sing a Song!” Bob McGrath and American music Sometimes the “robber barons” and “greedy thieves” bring “death” to our hometown. Backstreets magazine closes shop. Springsteen is going on tour. I don’t think I can afford to see him In 1970, Mississippi banned Sesame Street