A few things online that caught my attention this past week:
Good bibliography on history education
Nathan Schneider on the “memory theater” that the bookshelf provides.
Peter Lawler defends the Puritans.
Michael Kazin: Obama needs stronger unions.
A very brief history of the beard.
Michael Sean Winters on Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
National Humanities Advocacy Day.
Picturing Eisenhower’s religion.
Richard Hughes on the Christian Right.
William Cheever’s diary is online.
Pilgrims and the political agenda.
Thomas Friedman on nation-building in America.
Fred Kaplan reviews Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
The Backstory guys on Thanksgiving.
The end of the coin toss?
A short history of information overload.
Ronald Sider on evangelicals and gay marriage.
Michael O’Donnell reviews Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies.
Enjoyed your links as always John.
This paragraph from Richard Hughes made me chuckle however:
“While this new wave of immigration was not the immediate catalyst for the revival of American fundamentalism, it formed an important backdrop to that revival. At the very least, it spoke loudly to fundamentalists that the diversity they found so objectionable 50 years before had now come to their shores in ways they could never have imagined. And it alerted them to the fact that any hope they may have had for the renewal of Christian America was now at risk. If they intended to recreate the Christian nation their forebears from the 19th century had constructed, time was running out.”
The Christian Right arose in reaction to immigration? That's a new one.
Paul: I just finished God's Own Party by Daniel Williams and do not remember him making this argument 🙂