Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

Can you Twitter the Bill of Rights?

Winning is a family tradition at Messiah College.

History lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Are the humanities in decline?

David Waldstreicher reviews Thomas Allen’s Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War.

Daniel Philpot on Robert Orsi.

Kelly Baker reviews Michael Pasquier, Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United states, 1789-1870.

Richard Hughes: The Christian Right in Context: The Obama Years.

The Washington Post is tweeting the Civil War.

Faces of the Christian Right.  (With some odd choices).

Latest issue of Public History News.

Modern Santa Claus–circa 1910.

Can Wal-Mart stop global warming?

The liberal arts and the knowledge of God.

A lazy ass.

Inside American evangelicalism.

Christian missionaries and endangered languages.

In defense of the public.

Get 50% off at Superior LTD Jewelers “Second Coming Sale.”

For $500 you can go to Rep. Eric Cantor’s Festivus party.

Michelle Boorstein reviews Robert Putnam and David Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and United Us.

RECOMMENDED READING

FORUM: The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse The Author’s Corner with John Rogers Haddad David Barton spreads blatant falsehoods about the AP US History course, state history standards, and a bunch of other stuff. Are humanities scholars engaged in too much activism?