Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week:

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David Sehat reviews Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788.

Adam Goodheart reads Walt Whitman at the Library of Congress.

Bill Kauffman reviews Leigh Eric Schmidt’s Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman.

Selling degrees at UMass-Amherst.

Great primary stuff on the Boston Tea Party from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Victor David Hanson defends the liberal arts. 

Interesting debate on Peter Leithart’s Defending Constantine.

Philip Luke Sinitiere interviews Daniel K. Williams, author of God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right.

Jill Lepore on Paul Revere, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the American Civil War.

Edward Ball on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

Here’s one way to study for your comps.

Patricia Cohen’s latest article on digital humanities.

Amid much controversy, the President’s House in Philadelphia is open.  Edward Rothstein reviews it.

A cynical look at the male undergraduate.

The American Revolution as a civil war.

Pauline Maier reviews Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Madison and Jefferson.

Right-wing children’s books.

Andrew Wulf reviews Virginia Scharff, The Women Jefferson Loved.

RECOMMENDED READING

David Barton spreads blatant falsehoods about the AP US History course, state history standards, and a bunch of other stuff. Why do Republicans call it the “Democrat Party” How Did the Establishment Party Become the Party of Insurrection? Was Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty Refreshed on January 6th?