A few things on-line that caught my eye this week:
Adam Kotsko defends the lecture.
Sean Wilentz reviews Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent.
Jon Rowe offers and interesting commentary on an interesting debate on whether or not America is a Christian nation.
U.S. presidents and the Mormons.
Johan Neem wants to revive the academic library. I think he is right.
Tenured Radical: Should you blog before you get tenure?
Randall Stephens interviews Elaine Maisner, senior editor at the University of North Carolina Press.
A short history of the Internet.
Support the Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship Endowment
Gina Barreca: Five things professors don’t know. Part One. Part Two.
Oxford word of the year: “unfriend.”
Charles Wilson Peale’s “Staircase Group.”
New York Times on the Manhattan Declaration.
Lucas Morel reviews three new books on Lincoln in Books and Culture.
Paul Nagel of the Boston Globe reviews Woody Holton, Abigail Adams
Four centuries of immigrant writing.
John Gross reviews Ben Yagoda, Memoir: A History
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